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Don’t go there!
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
Security researchers have identified 213 vulnerabilities in Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max through a bug bounty program, Positive Technologies CTO Alexei Batyuk said at the international Svyaz-2026 exhibition, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported.
Twenty-two of Russia’s 30 most popular Android apps monitor whether users have a VPN service enabled, according to research by RKS Global. The Russian business news outlet The Bell first reported on the study (.pdf) on April 10.
A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of Oleg Roldugin, a journalist at the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, on charges of illegally using personal data.
Russia’s Justice Ministry has added Ivan Tolstoy, a philologist and literary historian who is a grandson of the Russian and Soviet writer Alexei Tolstoy, to its registry of “foreign agents.”
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, served as editor-in-chief of new social studies textbooks for grades 9 through 11, Deputy Education Minister Olga Koludarova announced at a presentation of the books.
2026.04.11
Metals prices are clawing their way back following the Iran war ceasefire called on April 7.
Gold is currently trading above $4,700, and while that is about $900 less than the record-high reached at the end of January, gold bull market fundamentals are arguably still in place.Part of the reason for that is central bank buying. In a new analysis published by EBC Financial Group, via Kitco News, central banks bought more gold in the past three years than at any point in modern history – and the concentration of bullion among BRICS+ members’ reserves is skyrocketing.
2026.04.08
Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd:
Last year, about this time, we started talking about gold, silver and copper and the junior resource companies focused on them. And it turned out we had a fantastic year. Our readers reaped the rewards of being ahead of the herd on where gold, silver and copper prices were going. Our predictions for many juniors to participate in our anticipated junior market revival after years of stagnation proved prescient.
2026.04.04
Drills could soon be turning at Rackla Metals’ (TSXV:RAK) Lentung (known previously as Lened) tungsten property in the Northwest Territories it acquired by claim staking in 2025.
According to the Vancouver-based company, an extensive historical dataset supports a high-grade tungsten project with district-scale potential to support a planned 10,000m drill program.
Before we get into Rackla’s Union Carbide’s now digitized data set I want to make clear to my readers that while the data set is extensive and, according to Rackla, appears to be of the highest quality it is historical, mostly internal to UC and pre 43-101 reporting requirements.
By Willem Middelkoop
When I wrote The Big Reset in 2013, I argued that the post-1971 dollar-based monetary system, built on the quicksand of endless debt, suppressed gold prices, and American financial dominance, was unsustainable. I predicted a coming reboot where gold would reclaim its role as a monetary anchor, the dollar would lose its exclusive reserve status, and powers like China and Russia would force a multipolar order. In the afterword, I warned that it could lead to war first.
Continue reading Resource Wars and the Accelerating Big Reset at Ahead of the Herd.
By Lachlan Brown – The Expert Editor
Here’s something I noticed about myself a few years ago that I didn’t want to admit. I’d spend an hour scrolling through Instagram and Facebook at the end of the day, and when I put the phone down, I’d feel like I’d just been social. Like I’d checked in with people. Like I’d had some version of human contact.
But I hadn’t. I’d watched other people’s lives.
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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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