Bessent Promises Bigger Buybacks While Gold Prints Record High
MSM scores a relief rally the debasement trade refuses to believe; Treasury promised bigger intervention hours after its first round failed and gold answered at a record.
Economy
Iranian Oil Offers to Chinese Buyers Collapse as Blockade Bites
Reuters counts Iran's China-bound offers draining while X fights over whether Beijing blinked, and readers who pick a side miss that barrels, not politics, decided first.
Gold Hits Record $4,666.70 in a Down Week for Stocks
X screenshots the gold record as fiat doubt while Wall Street desks sell a stabilizing week, and neither prices the war premium hiding inside the metal.
Hormuz Crossings Halve to Seven Ships With No Tankers
X tracks dark-fleet workarounds while the counted ledger shows the strait carrying almost no oil at all.
Dow Rebounds 1 Percent Friday but Ends Week Lower
Wall Street bought the bounce and refused the week, Europe mirrored the split, gold set a record on the doubt — and X calls Treasury's bigger buybacks a confession.