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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
Moscow’s Basmanny Court sentenced actor Artur Smolyaniov in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of spreading “false information” about the Russian military, a Mediazona correspondent reported.
A Moscow arbitration court declared Microsoft’s Russian subsidiary bankrupt on April 14 and opened liquidation proceedings, according to court documents.
Five people were killed in a Russian missile strike on Dnipro, regional military administration head Oleksandr Ganzha said.
Russia’s State Duma passed the first reading of a bill that would allow the Russian military to operate “extraterritorially” to protect Russian citizens abroad, the Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti reported.
Major Russian platforms have begun restricting their services for users with VPN enabled, the Russian Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti (Caution, News) reports.
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 Jessica Jalali – Screen Rant
At its best, The Far Side captures things readers know and love, and proceeds to twist those things on their head, making incredibly funny comics as a result – as exhibited by these Far Side comics set at the beach. Repeatedly throughout the years, Gary Larson managed to make a calm and tranquil location like the beach into a chaotic and totally Far Side place.
Continue reading 10 Funniest Far Side Comics At The Beach at Ahead of the Herd.
By Felix Richter – Statista
Largely driven by the ongoing conflict in Iran and its effect on energy prices, global food commodity prices increased in March. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the FAO Food Price Index climbed to 128.5 points last month, indicating a 28.5-percent increase in food prices compared to the 2014-2016 base period. While that’s far below the peak of 160.2 in March 2022, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s up 8 percent from March 2024 and roughly 35 percent from the 2019, i.e.
Continue reading Global Food Prices Creep Up Amid Middle East Escalation at Ahead of the Herd.
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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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