BREAKING: Global central bank gold purchases surged +36 tonnes in Q1 2026, to 244 tonnes, the highest since Q4 2024.

This significantly exceeds the 5-year average of ~228 tonnes.

By comparison, the 5-year average in 2016-2020 was ~115 tonnes, or less than half the current level.

Central banks have now bought over +200 tonnes of gold in 10 out of the last 11 quarters.

Poland led Q1 purchases at +31 tonnes, bringing its total reserves to a record 582 tonnes, heading closer to its 700 tonnes target.

Uzbekistan followed at +25 tonnes and China at +7 tonnes.

World central banks are acquiring gold at an accelerated pace.

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NEW: US Joint Chiefs of Staff released an image confirming Iran attacked US warships yesterday

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The US census just put out the most common interracial couples in the country. Thoughts⁉

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Secret recipe

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It’s a Narcan gun for Section 8 apartments

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This and a mysterious source of income

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BREAKING: The UK's 30Y Government Bond Yield surges to 5.79%, the highest level since May 1998.

Inflation is back and interest rates are surging.

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India: On Monday, May 4, at 2:24 p.m., two women were run over by a Faraca Express train while crossing the tracks at platform 1 of Bakhtiarpur station in Patna

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For those who don’t like numbers

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The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)

A young man writes letters to his friends about his depressing life. Honestly I couldn’t care less. I think I have too much of the American Protestant work ethic to care about this fop crying about his life. Couldn’t finish it, and it’s a short book.

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Apache Junction, Arizona — A 69-year-old man was shot and killed by police during a domestic disturbance call on February 14.

Officers responded to reports of a woman yelling inside a residence. When they arrived, the man exited the home holding what appeared to be a handgun and ignored commands to drop it.

Police opened fire after he raised the weapon toward them. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities later determined the gun was a realistic BB gun replica.

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Thanks to Trump, direct flights from the U.S. to Venezuela are BACK!

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"Women suffer sexist violence online"

Yeah...

It's the same no matter what country you look at; men always suffer more attacks and insults online, it's just that women always whine more about it

The whole equality thing there, like, doesn't quite fit...

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$460,000,000,000 has been added to US stocks at market open

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BREAKING: Intel stock, $INTC, extends gains to +12% on the day and hits its highest level on record.

The Trump Administration is now up +420% on their investment since August 2025, with an unrealized gain of over $40 billion.

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BIG: Turkey has shocked the world: a non nuclear country has built an ICBM.

Turkey has announced it has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile named YILDIRIMHAN.

The YILDIRIMHAN Long Range Missile, developed by the MSB R&D Center, was unveiled for the first time at SAHA Expo 2026.

Specifications:

◽ Range: 6,000 kilometers

◽ Speed: Mach 9 to Mach 26

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Record gap between median and average new home price, as high-end skews distribution

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"The closeness of the Arab and Islamic peoples is more valuable to me than all the wealth in the world" — Syria's al-Jolani

Is that the case?

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