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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
A Moscow court has ordered the pretrial detention of Alexey Kostylev, founder of the pro-war news outlet Readovka. According to reports from the hearing, Kostylev is suspected of large-scale fraud involving a Defense Ministry contract for the supply of military drones. Investigators allege that he embezzled one billion rubles (nearly $13 million). RBC’s sources said Kostylev was detained on Wednesday, February 25, in connection with a criminal investigation launched against unnamed suspects last September. He has been remanded in custody until April 25.
The Russian Orthodox Church’s exarchate in Africa is involved in a scheme recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight in Ukraine, according to journalist Ksenia Luchenko, who covers the Russian Orthodox Church, and the independent investigative outlet iStories, which highlighted a mid-February report by Religion News Service.
Lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma have approved in the first reading a bill introducing amendments to the Criminal Code that would establish criminal liability for:
In mid-February, detectives from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) apprehended former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko as he attempted to cross the border on a Warsaw-bound train. Now facing charges of money laundering and involvement in a criminal network, Halushchenko is the latest high-profile official ensnared in the corruption scandal known as “Mindichgate.” According to NABU, the scheme’s architect was Timur Mindich, a former business partner of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Investigators allege that the officials behind the scheme collected more than $100 million in kickbacks from the state-owned nuclear operator, Energoatom, even as Russian strikes battered the country’s power grid. For Meduza, Ukrainian journalist Konstantin Skorkin explores the rise of Herman Halushchenko and his alleged role in Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption case.
Vladimir Putin has established a presidential commission on the development of AI technology, according to an executive order published online on Thursday.
2026.02.27
White Gold (TSXV:WGO, OTCQX:WHGOF, FRA:29W) in November published assays from the first hole of the 2025 drill program at its Golden Saddle deposit, part of the company’s flagship White Gold Project located in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
The 2025 program at Golden Saddle was designed to target three zones of mineralization: the hanging wall, main zone and footwall. At the Arc deposit, drilling was designed to test the down-plunge extent of gold mineralization below 120m vertical, as well as provide material for metallurgical test work programs as contribution towards a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA), expected to be published in Q2 of 2026.
2026.02.26
Mercado Minerals’ (CSE:MERC) flagship Copalito Project presents a district-scale opportunity with known and drilled silver — gold-low-sulfidation vein mineralization that is open for expansion.
Historical third-party high-grade silver and significant gold and base metal drill intercepts include 347 g/t silver, 0.22 g/t gold, 0.18% lead and 0.38% zinc over 13.10 meters at the 5 Senores Vein; and 125 g/t silver, 2 g/t gold, 0.34% lead and 0.58% zinc over 23m at the El Agua Vein.
2026.02.26
Kodiak Copper (TSXV:KDK, OTCQX:KDKCF, Frankfurt:5DD1) has filed the technical report on SEDAR+ for the initial mineral resource estimate (MRE) at its MPD Copper-Gold Project, located in a long-established mining region in the Quesnel Trough of southern British Columbia.
The Vancouver-based junior reported on Jan. 23 that the large, open-pit copper-gold resource estimate (MRE) for MPD includes seven deposits in total — West, Adit, South, Gate, Ketchan, Man and Dillard — shows the scale and potential of MPD and lays the foundation for future resource growth and development.
2026.02.25
Cassiar Gold’s (TSXV:GLDC; OTCQX:CGLCF) flagship project of the same name is a large orogenic gold property located in the Cassiar Mining District of northern British Columbia. The project has substantial upside potential for both bulk-tonnage resources in the Cassiar North area, and high-grade gold targets in the Cassiar South area.
The company’s 2025 drill program comprised 7,308 meters over 20 drill holes and concluded in early October.
Newcoast drill results
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By Adam Hamilton, CPA
Gold still looks unstoppable, a mighty juggernaut. After essentially tripling in about a couple years, gold inexorably continues grinding higher. Remarkably this great strength is defying gold’s own half-century-plus precedent of serious drawdowns following extreme gains and overboughtness. Interestingly gold’s latest monster record bull also had episodes of gold refusing to sell off substantially out of overbought extremes.
As I marvel at gold’s staying power, that word juggernaut keeps coming to mind.
Continue reading Gold Still Juggernaut at Ahead of the Herd.
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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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