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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
Ukraine has a military presence in Libya and was behind the attack on the Russian tanker Arctic Metagaz in the Mediterranean in early March, the French broadcaster RFI reported, citing sources.
Russia’s Interior Ministry has added Andrei Pertsev, a correspondent for the independent Russian outlet Meduza, to its federal wanted list, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.
A Moscow magistrate has dismissed the case against former Russian national soccer team player Fyodor Smolov over a brawl at a Moscow cafe, after the two sides reached a settlement, RIA Novosti reported.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has ordered a legal review of journalist Yury Dud’s interview with Denis Kapustin, the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps.
Russia’s Federal Security Service said it had foiled a plot to assassinate a senior law enforcement official using a bomb hidden in an electric scooter.
2026.04.02
Canada’s three northern territories represent ~40% of Canada’s landmass, but less than 0.1% of its population, or approximately 135,000 residents. That’s the size of a small city in southern Canada.
The desolation and far-flung nature of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut — and we can add sparsely populated northern BC — has always presented huge development challenges.
These include a restricted transportation infrastructure, limited energy resources, and the significant expenses involved in operating within remote Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
Continue reading Funding the Canadian North – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.
2026.04.01
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
Marc, can you introduce yourself, give us a brief background on what you’ve been doing, what your qualifications are and what’s motivating you?
Marc Blythe – Founder & CEO, Au Gold Corp (TSX.V:AUGC):
Yes, my grandparents met on a gold field in New Zealand in the 1930s in the Depression era and that’s kind of how my family got into the gold mining business.
2026.03.28
Phase 1 of exploration has begun at Orestone Mining’s (TSXV:ORS) Francisca Gold Project in Salta province, Argentina.
The program will consist of detailed mapping and sampling of a 200 by 500-meter grid covering the surface exposure of the South Zone. Sampling will consist of 600 rock chip, channel and grab samples including the resampling of the 11 existing trenches which crosscut the zone along its 500-meter strike length.
Adam Hamilton, CPA
The violent gold-stock swings in these past couple months have been breathtaking. This wild sector crashed, soared to records, cratered, then surged again, whipsawing jarringly. But this tempestuousness looks to have paved the way for another nice run higher. Fittingly with spring underway, gold stocks are showing technical, seasonal, and fundamental green shoots. They have real potential to grow into big gains.
For speculators who crave action, it’s hard to beat gold stocks’ year-to-date roller coaster.
Continue reading Gold-Stock Green Shoots at Ahead of the Herd.
By John Dodge – CBR
While Gary Larson’s The Far Side has always been an absurdist gem amidst a sea of less subversive, more grounded comic strips, it has also leaned into a handful of recurring characters and tropes that have come to exemplify its specific stylings. Among these are familiar families, conniving chickens, and many highly intelligent bovines.
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Continue reading 10 Funniest The Far Side Comics with Cavemen at Ahead of the Herd.
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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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