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Greatest Hits Albums Dominate Billboard Top 200

17 Nov 2023 6 minute read 4 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! Although I didn't realize it at the time, I was among the last of the teenagers to walk into a record shop before CDs were even a thought. I was also among the first teenagers to be introdu...

Kevin Bacon The Actor Helps Find Kevin Bacon The Pig

13 Nov 2023 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! This morning, when sifting through the internet for the latest info, all I could find was bad news and more bad news and this obvious push to force feed us this pointless story that Taylor...

U.S. Gov. Now Pays $1 Trillion In Interest Payments

11 Nov 2023 5 minute read 6 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! I remember well as a teenager in the early 80s and my history teacher at the time lamenting that the U.S. debt had surpassed $800B for the first time ever. He was so distraught. I can still...

Bitcoin Erupts Higher!

9 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! At time of writing, Bitcoin went from a low of $35,278 twenty-four hours ago to climb to  $37,883 by 10 a.m. this morning, before retreating some $1,500 to $36,393 which is still an $1,100...

Gold At All-Time Highs Against Yuan

4 Nov 2023 4 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! I'm Going Down, Down, Down... The Australian dollar has hit a record low against gold recently. So has the Japanese Yen. Now, it's time for China's currency to face off against gold and yes...

The Gold Backed Digital Token Is Here!

3 Nov 2023 4 minute read 6 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! HSBC Launches Digital Token One of the largest banks in the world with more assets ($3T) than any European bank has announced it is launching Evolve, a distributed ledger technology trading...

November Historically Positive For Bitcoin

2 Nov 2023 3 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! A couple of days ago, the Bitcoin White Paper turned 15 years old. In the 15 years since, Bitcoin went from nothing to the powerhouse crypto asset it is today. Bitc...

Federal Reserve Leaves Rates Unchanged

1 Nov 2023 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! This month's FOMC meeting at the FED concluded this afternoon, leaving rates untouched at 5.25 to 5.5%. According to an article on Kitco News, not much forward guidance was provided regardi...

Gold Above $2,000 For The Week

27 Oct 2023 2 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! Gold jumped more than $20 per ounce this afternoon after news related to Israel / Gaza filtered through. The yellow metal has been steadily climbing since the Hamas incursion into Israel. U...

Modern Technology's Unprecedented Silver Demand

26 Oct 2023 5 minute read 0 comments SweptOverNiagara

Thanks for dropping by. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! Those Old Films Contain Something Of Value? At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, photography was taking the world by storm not much unlike the success of cell phones today. Imagery...