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@Cypherpunk69 @Hedgeye thought you were gonna say Tesla

@Hedgeye You know what else starts with a capital T and is an accurate description? "Trash"

Trillion with a "T"

@mike_daddino FIFA changed the rules after Argies v Germany 1990 final...thats how bad it was: back-pass rule and 3pts for a win. Seems Argentina turned the clock back

@mike_daddino No one should be suprised. Followed football for 5 decades...this is not out of character for Argentina.

Classless behavior by Argentina after they got taken behind the woodshed for 120 minutes

@IronHorsey2000 @mike_daddino absolutely - the infamous red card in the first minute against Scotland. I was just remembering how everyone said their would never be a worse World CUp final than the 1990 Argentina v Germany... think again!!! common denominator being Argies

@blubbadafish @mike_daddino What about 1986 Uruguay, friend? That was worse.

@cremieuxrecueil Please stick to charts etc... I think you really good at those.

Watching the replay and that Spanish player basically launched himself into a flip to give Fernandez a red card. That was the most intense moment of the entire 90+4 minutes so far.

@cremieuxrecueil What was that you wrote..."Worst part about mentioning soccer online is that it's a globally popular sport, so 99% of the interactions will be with illiterate, irate third-worlders with very strongly held opinion"

@GoldTelegraph_ interesting

The Gold Goes Home People forget how quickly the world can change. In February 1965, Charles de Gaulle stood in front of hundreds of journalists at the Élysée Palace and said the one thing no Western leader was allowed to say. He called for the world to return to gold. Not to the dollar. Not to promises. To the one asset, he said, that "has no nationality" and is "eternally and universally accepted." Washington laughed at the old general. Then France stopped laughing and started converting. Through the mid-1960s, the Banque de France redeemed hundreds of millions of American dollars for American gold, ship after ship, drawdown after drawdown. And de Gaulle's economist, Jacques Rueff, kept telling the world exactly what the game was: America could spend more than it earned, forever, without consequence…  a "deficit without tears," he called it, because it paid its bills in paper only it could print. Finance minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing gave the arrangement the name that stuck: America's "exorbitant privilege." The pressure worked too well. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon closed the gold window rather than keep paying out metal. The last link between the dollar and gold was severed on a Sunday night, on television, precipitating a period of confusion and shock. France asked for its gold. The world got the fiat era instead. Keep that story in mind. Because sixty years later, France just did it again and almost nobody noticed. The quietest repatriation in history Starting in July 2025, the Banque de France began unwinding its position at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. But there were no armoured convoys. No transatlantic flights. No diplomatic incident. Instead, across 26 separate transactions over seven months, France sold 129 tonnes of old bullion sitting in the New York Fed's vault, bars so old some dated to the late 1920s, cast before modern purity standards existed and bought back the identical tonnage in Europe. Newer bars. Higher standard. Stored in Paris. Repatriation without a single bar crossing the Atlantic. And here's the part that should make every treasury official weep: They got paid to do it. By selling old New York stock at record prices and repurchasing in Europe, the Banque de France booked a realized gain of roughly €11–13 billion, nearly $15 billion, enough to swing the entire central bank back to profit for the year. All 2,437 tonnes of French gold, the fourth-largest hoard on Earth, now sit in La Souterraine, the vault carved into the rock beneath Paris. Governor Villeroy de Galhau insists the move was "not politically motivated." Of course he does. Central bankers always say that. France is not alone. Watch what they do, not what they say. Germany repatriated 674 tonnes from Paris and New York, a program announced in 2013 after German politicians grew tired of being told their gold was fine, trust us, no you can't audit it. Turkey pulled 220 tonnes out of the Federal Reserve. The Netherlands brought home 122 tonnes. Poland repatriated 100 tonnes from vaults in England. And the vaults themselves tell the story in aggregate. The share of central bank reserve gold stored in London has fallen from 64% to 57%. The New York Fed's share has dropped from 17% to 14%. Percentage point by percentage point, decade by decade, the metal is migrating home. Onto sovereign soil. The bigger picture This is not happening in isolation. It's happening inside the largest shift in reserve behaviour in a generation. Gold now exceeds US Treasuries as a share of global reserves for the first time since 1996. Read that again. The world's central banks,  the issuers of fiat currency, the operators of the printing presses, collectively hold more of their reserves in a 5,000-year-old metal than in the debt of the United States government. And a record 45% of them say they plan to buy more gold in the next twelve months. Ask them why, and you'll get the paragraph about diversification. But diversification doesn't explain the geography. You don't move gold out of London and New York to diversify. You move it because possession has started to matter again. Because you watched $300 billion of Russian reserves get frozen with a keystroke. Because you've realized that gold in someone else's vault is not gold. It's a claim on gold. And a claim is just another word for credit. The lesson? Countries are beginning to think differently, not only about how much gold they own, but where they hold it and in what form. Old bars are being upgraded to modern standards. Foreign custody is being converted to domestic possession. Claims are being converted to metal. But strip away the financial engineering, and it's the same instinct that sent French ships across the Atlantic in the 1960s. The same instinct that has moved men and nations for five thousand years. When nations lose confidence... They ask for their gold. The last time France asked, the entire monetary system broke within six years. This time, nobody's even pretending the window is open. If you enjoy stories like this, please share it. Last week I wrote a story about JPMorgan. I will continue writing stories like this every weekend. — GT

@FabrizioRomano @MickyJnr__ @LeBatardShow one of the worst aspects of this world cup has been the 'casuals' from USA who have no historical perspective and have also fallen for the messi goat narrative. You have no idea.

🚨🥊 Full scenes after final whistle. @MickyJnr__ 🎥

@ColdBloodShill Ive followed football for 5 decades. None of what Argentina have done this whole tournament suprised me one iota. They have odd dash of rare brilliance but are mostly sore losers and filthy.

Thoughts from that final: Argentina absolutely pathetic, both in behaviour and in performance. Messi a little snitch rat. Couldn't have been happier to see Enzo sent off. Disallowed goal was a joke (same happened to Spence in the semi) To not have a shot on target in a Final is absolutely awful. Tried the same old tactics, batter the opponents, try to hurt them, wind them up, foul to break up any momentum, Spain rose above it all. Complete domination of the game from back to front from Spain, taught them a lesson. As soon as the game switched, they started throwing themselves to the floor. The worst losers I've ever seen in a final, a full taste of their own medicine. The aftermath is shameful and shows you exactly the mentality of that team. Embarrassing for them, you could have played all night and you weren't scoring a goal. Football won, and rightly so. Rat cunts, fuck off back home with fuck all to show for it.

@farzyness Stick to tesla pumping

Congrats to Messi on a SPECTACULAR career. The GOAT 🐐🇦🇷

@totalcristiano Why is anyone suprised !!??? They have always been filth

Argentina players showing zero class. Disgusting.

@craigsclarke @KentMurphy @CloseCallSports The quickest way to tell me your game has some asinine rules is this example.

@KentMurphy Great video from @CloseCallSports explaining why this was the correct call and umps got it correct

This might be the worst ending to a game I've ever seen

@The_8thWonder_ @georgia_barone Your 'good authority'??

@georgia_barone I have it on good authority that Salmon made a comment about Twal’s family. Deserves to get dropped.

For someone who had a cry when called a weak gutted dog by the dad of a girl he allegedly bullied, Salmon sure loves running his mouth to the point he gets dropped by one of the calmest players

@BorisMacro Hey Boris, eos.ax certainly fell outside of the channel this last week (or are you operating on the weekly?) - but do you give it a pass because of the broader market sell off. I saw as dip and added as all the catalysts are still relevant.

@blubbadafish I always buy this around the diagonal and take profit near the top of the channel or when support breaks. Below the diagonal and daily S/R zone marked on the chart would be good.

So far so good for $EOS.AX as the price respected the diagonal support and made a nice 32% move again within the same channel. I'm looking for the Fibonacci around 9.80 AUD to hold in the short term, while bearing in mind my side notes from my last posts.

@mike_daddino Didnt disappoint. Gold

There is no team in MLB that drops for fly balls than the Mets

@JomboyMedia @mike_daddino i cannot wait for your commentary on this

Red Sox score two runs after Juan Soto drops a fly ball

@ShamsCharania Did he know they would spend it on Tobias Harris??!!

Spurs chairman Peter J. Holt, CEO RC Buford, GM Brian Wright and coach Mitch Johnson traveled to Paris to meet and spend time with Victor Wembanyama and his family and reps Friday. Wembanyama was essentially a lock to earn a $303M supermax if he played 65 games next season -- but he opted for a significant sacrifice at a flash point for the Spurs' rise. In the Spurs championship past, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker had a history of taking less for the betterment of team-building.

@ShamsCharania And you spend it on Tobias Harris. Wtf

Wembanyama decided on the 25% maximum instead of the 30% supermax escalators to $303M, after he and the Spurs went through multiple frameworks. A major decision for the All-NBA star and Defensive Player of the Year entering his fourth season. San Antonio worked in close partnership with Wembanyama and his representatives, offering the full super max and different variations of extensions. But Wembanyama ultimately chose a contract sacrifice rooted in giving him and the organization increased ability to build a sustained title contender around him.

@J0RDANM1LL3R @TCraig14 Dont give this person a hard time for double post, scroll his previous posts... he clearly special needs.

@TCraig14 Chablo munchers coming into to save him 😂

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@ChapoGrimey Im blocking you. You're either special needs or actively spreading fud to get cheaper entry.

Don’t get the dilution on $bb and the ceo selling shares of the stock when not appointed or needed to.. weird man.. If he’s so bullish why sell.