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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
By midday on February 4, roughly 1,100 apartment buildings in Kyiv remained without heating, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Nationwide rolling blackouts are now in effect, with emergency power cuts hitting specific areas.
A second day of trilateral talks aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine concluded in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The meeting, which involved representatives from Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv, marked the latest round of discussions in the Trump administration’s year-long push to broker a lasting truce.
At least 55,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed in Russia’s full-scale war, with many more considered missing, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Wednesday.
Last December, the newspaper Die Welt partnered with military researchers at Helmut Schmidt University to simulate a Russian invasion of NATO. The exercise involved 16 participants, including security experts and former senior German and NATO officials. From the European perspective, the outcome was alarming: Russian troops moved unchallenged through NATO territory for three days, capturing the Lithuanian city of Marijampole. Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, played Vladimir Putin in the exercise and spoke to Meduza about the experience.
Last week, Kazakhstan deported a dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen to Russia, where he was immediately arrested on treason charges. The 25-year-old IT specialist, Oleksandr Kachkurkin, moved from Crimea to Kazakhstan following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. He was initially detained on misdemeanor charges that human rights experts say were fabricated. Kazakh police then put Kachkurkin on a plane to Moscow, despite Russia not having formally requested his extradition. The entire deportation process, from filing the misdemeanor charges to obtaining a court ruling, took only a few hours. And Kachkurkin now faces 12 years to life in prison if convicted. According to human rights lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov of Department One, Kachkurkin’s story points to a new level of coordination between Russian and Kazakh authorities — one that allows the Kremlin to go after anyone it chooses in Kazakhstan.
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 Christopher Reynolds – Yahoo! Finance Canada
Tariffs and economic angst delivered a significant blow to Canadian National Railway Co. last year, as the question mark hanging over North American free trade continues to threaten profits in 2026.
“Tariffs, trade uncertainty and volatility impacted our full-year 2025 revenues by over $350 million,” chief commercial officer Janet Drysdale told analysts on a conference call Friday.
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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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