Gold Is National Security on a Balance Sheet🟡����
Gold is more than a metal.
It is trust, liquidity, and financial insurance.
The US still holds the largest official gold reserves by far:
United States: 8,133 tonnes
Germany: 3,350 tonnes
Italy: 2,452 tonnes
France: 2,437 tonnes
China: 2,313 tonnes
Russia: 2,305 tonnes
That matters because central banks are not buying gold for yield.
They buy it for resilience.
No counterparty risk.
No default risk.
No sanction risk if held domestically.
In a world of debt, currency pressure, and geopolitical fragmentation, gold is becoming strategic again.
🚨 Que nadie lo olvide: Maduro envió 127 TONELADAS DE ORO a Suiza durante 5 años. En secreto. Para hacerse una idea, el Imperio Español extrajo 180 toneladas en 3 siglos. Ahora los mismos que claman al cielo con ese tema olvidan a la velocidad del rayo.
IMAGENES INEDITAS
🚨🇺🇲🇻🇪ASI ESTÁ EL ESTADO BOLIVAR
Toda esta zona, era controlada por el tren de Aragua y militares del régimen
No estaba permitido el sobrevuelo de drones ni avionetas x la zona, para q ningún vzlano viera el saqueo.
Top 20 Best Cities For Food in 2026
1. 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru
2. 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
3. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
4. 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
5. 🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain
6. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
7. 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
8. 🇨🇳 Beijing, China
9. 🇬🇷 Athens, Greece
10. 🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal
11. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
12. 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan
13. 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, India
14. 🇮🇹 Naples, Italy
15. 🇺🇸 New York, United States
16. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
17. 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
18. 🇫🇷 Marseille, France
19. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
20. 🇨🇴 Medellín, Colombia
Source: Time Out Survey
Nos decían: “los problemas de los venezolanos lo deben resolver los venezolanos”
Y nos enfrentábamos a:
🔴China
🔴Rusia
🔴Cuba
🔴Irán
🔴Nicaragua
🔴FARC
🔴ELN
🔴Hezbolá
🔴Zapatero
🔴Lobby’s petroleros
🔴Mafias económicas de todo el mundo
🔴Petro
🔴Lula
🔴Prensa de izquierda
🔴Senadores de EE.UU
🔴BRICS
🔴ONU
Gold traded off after the May jobs print on June 5th, as markets freaked out over a potential Fed rate hike.
But the bigger supply-demand story did not change.
The ECB just confirmed gold overtook U.S. Treasuries as the world's #1 reserve asset. 27% of global official reserves, vs. 22% for Treasuries. First time since 1971. And, central banks kept buying through pullbacks.
🥇 ECB: Gold Is Now the #1 Reserve Asset - What Happens Next https://t.co/PRxqQAgcRM
Asian Countries With the Most Skyscrapers
1. 🇨🇳 China - 3,567
2. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 346
3. 🇲🇾 Malaysia - 327
4. 🇯🇵 Japan - 284
5. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 281
6. 🇹🇭 Thailand - 146
7. 🇮🇩 Indonesia - 139
8. 🇮🇳 India - 133
9. 🇵🇭 Philippines - 130
10. 🇸🇬 Singapore - 100
Note: (Completed skyscrapers 150m+ tall)
Source: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
Un excursionista vio un brillo bajo las raíces de un árbol derribado por una tormenta en Noruega. Acababa de encontrar una pieza de oro que perteneció a un poderoso líder hace 1.500 años https://t.co/HkWzlSzosV
ExxonMobil called Venezuela "uninvestable" in January.
It's now in advanced talks to return as operator across 6 fields.
The same war that closed Hormuz just reopened Venezuela🛢️
Nearly 20 years after walking away rather than accept nationalization, Exxon is negotiating production contracts with the post-Maduro government.
Deal could be announced this month.
The package:
→ Up to 6 fields across multiple regions
→ Including the extra-heavy Orinoco Belt project Exxon ran before expropriation
→ Technical teams already on-site under US government escort
→ New contracts with international arbitration, improved fiscal terms, operational control
→ Existing arbitration claims effectively swapped for new resource access 💰
Why Washington is pushing this hard?
USGC refineries are built for heavy sour crude.
Venezuela's Orinoco Belt is one of the few places on earth that produces it at scale.
Venezuela, under new government, is the fastest available answer for USGC coking capacity.
This is strategic supply chain insurance 🌍
The signal that reprices everything:
If ExxonMobil the CEO who said Venezuela was uninvestable 4 months ago signs a 6 field production contract, it resets country risk for the entire basin.
ConocoPhillips has expropriation claims too.
TotalEnergies, Eni, repsol have legacy stakes.
They're all watching this deal closely.
Exxon's return is the template.
If it works, the broader IOC comeback follows.
Silver coin and bar demand is rising again
- 2024: 191mt
- 2025: 218mt up 14%
- 2026: 258mt up 18%
Meanwhile:
- silver is in a deficit for 6 consecutive years
- China is draining global silver inventories
- silver supply peaked in 2016
Ignore short-term volatility. Over the longer term, the future for silver is bright.