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Perhaps ironically, one of the most famous 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse paintings is by a Russian:
- Pestilence (on a White Horse -> COVID !?)
- War (on a Red Horse -> PUTIN !?)
- Famine (on a Black Horse -> HYPERINFLATION !?)
- Death (on a Pale Horse -> TOO LATE !?)
- Meduza
- DW
- Ahead
In early February, a Moscow court sentenced stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin to five years and nine months in prison for “inciting hatred” and “insulting the feelings of religious believers.” In March 2025, a district court remanded him to a pretrial detention center over remarks he made during the filming of the show “60 Seconds” in Moscow in December 2024. Ostanin joked about Jesus Christ and a legless man in the subway who had “blown himself up on a landmine.” Pro-Kremlin activists pounced on the routine, viewing it as a mockery of a soldier who lost his legs in Ukraine, though the comedian did not explicitly mention the war. Ostanin was not originally scheduled to perform but was invited onto the stage after the show had already begun. In court, he stated that during his arrest, he was beaten, his spine was broken, he was tortured with electric shocks, and his captors “tried to stab [him] several times.”
The release of files related to financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has revealed the names not only of his associates but also of the beneficiaries of his estate. A trust agreement drafted by Epstein two days before his death, identifies Karyna Shulyak, a dentist from Belarus, as his primary intended heir. She is the woman Epstein planned to marry and the last person to speak with him before he died. Epstein willed her tens of millions of dollars. Yet it remains unclear whether she ever received the money — or if she ever will.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, the first deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, was hospitalized Friday after being shot multiple times inside a residential building in Moscow, Russian investigators said.
Russia’s Belogord region saw a record number of reported rapes in 2025 — more than any other Russian region. According to the data project To Be Precise, Belgorod police registered 199 such cases, three times more than the year before.
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, the first deputy head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, was hospitalized Friday after being shot multiple times inside a residential building in Moscow, Russian investigators said.
2026.02.05
Torr Metals (TSXV:TMET) has expanded the mineralization at its Kolos Copper-Gold Project in south-central British Columbia.
Results from a geochemical program completed in late 2025 from the undrilled Sonic Zone have nearly doubled the anomalous footprint from 4.5 square kilometers to about 8 square kilometers.
Map showcases Kolos extent for 2023, for spatial reference only
A total of 1,572 samples were collected from Sonic, located adjacent to Highway 5, part of Torr’s 100%-owned 275 km² land position within the 332 km² Kolos Copper–Gold Project.
2026.02.03
Gold mines have been mining at a higher grade than the reserve grade for much of the last decade. Purposely mining areas of the orebody with the highest-grade material is known as high grading.
Mining the high-grade accessible areas of their deposits was one way for operations to bolster margins when facing low metal prices.
Small wonder the #1 risk identified for mining companies over 2026 is rising operational complexity which is being driven by more complex ore bodies, much deeper mines and significantly declined ore grades.
Continue reading Peak gold – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.01.31
Golden Goose Resources (CSE:GGR) is adding to its land package in Argentina by signing a deal to acquire the Gran Esperanza Project.
The company has entered into a Definitive Agreement with Valcheta Exploraciones S.A.S. to acquire up to a 100% interest in the epithermal gold-silver property located in Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
Under the option agreement, Golden Goose would acquire 100% of Gran Esperanza through a series of cash payments and exploration expenditures totaling USD$4.448 million.
By John Dodge & Christopher Raley – CBR
Gary Larson’s The Far Side has always managed to take the most mundane aspects of life and put them through an absurdist lens, and the trappings and tropes of pop culture are no different. Among the many recurring gags in Larson’s long-running comic strip are cops, detectives, and career criminals. This includes those from The Far Side‘s jokes about mobsters.
Continue reading 15 funniest Far Side about the Mafia at Ahead of the Herd.
By Eleanor Pringle – Fortune
Analysts’ favorite gauge of the U.S. economy’s health comes from data. And at the moment, the numbers look okay…ish. Hiring is down, but unemployment hasn’t spiked. Inflation isn’t ballooning (as feared) because of tariffs, and consumer spending is holding up remarkably well.
So why does reality feel so gloomy?
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- Number of national elections to be held in 2024 18 of 68
- Overall turnout (based on registered voters) 63%
- Total number of ballots cast in 18 elections 467,094,737
Pulled conclusions from pooled data compilations
Using some of the world’s largest companies by market cap & some of the most quoted indices + two most sung alternatives: data for this millennia where available
- At 134x, Apple is the absolute stock price growth winner; with Amazon at 45x and Google at 32x
- Despite the lack of interest or dividends, gold at 6.6x looks good compared to any other stock or index!
- Barrick Gold on the other hand seems to be poorly correlated to anything including the gold metal itself!?
- But Barrick is the only stock producing negative correlations with most of the indices including a relatively high -0.77 with the Euronext100 index
- If one wast trying to get something totally uncorrelated on purpose- it would be hard to beat: gold and the Euronext100 index at -0.03; or Barrick and the Hang Seng index at 0.04; or gold and Merck at 0.16; or BTC and the FTSE index at 0.19
- Correlation against a basket of indices & alternatives is best in Disney and Google (0.81-0.82), albeit at different growth multiples
- If an average historical P/E is somewhere in the 20x range, then the current S&P quoted average which is in high 30s is as warned high, BUT: only Amazon and Visa seem to be widely out of range (justified by growth in online transactions?), with many below current & historical averages
- In the current world of no interest & no inflation, maybe the higher P/E averages are justified..? For how long, that is a different question…
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