BREAKING: Several whistleblowers say that Axios coordinated news with market insiders, leaking CME order information via phone calls up to 30 minutes before market open and close prints. Crude oil short positions were also taken just before today's Axios report on a "US-Iran deal" and "14-point deal," gaining substantially as oil dropped sharply on the news.
Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi also says Trump, Witkoff, Kushner, and their close associates profited heavily in the past hours from fake news provided to Axios.
Are you still sleeping on oil & friends?
A chart like this is worth way more likes & retweets than any click baiting posts with crazy, biased, non objective price targets.
Hint: Bitcoin pumpers.
Everyone let the #CME know how you feel about them having server issues before every delivery month of #silver when the open interest is multitudes bigger than the registered supply they have in their vaults!
Article I, section 8, clause 11
[The Congress shall have Power] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water
Which means, to initiate war requires Congress.
There’s no imminent threat from Iran to invoke 1973 WPA.
Interestingly, people get upset by opinions. Too bad…Fact: Rock n Roll, Jazz, Blues & Hip Hop all had roots in black music. No question about that. My question however is, when are Led Zeppelin & AC/DC being inducted into the Hip Hop Hall of Fame?
Here is another clip in honor of Grammy Awards tonight that hits WAYYYYYY DIFFERENT now! @rickygervais called them out to their faces at the Golden Globes and the viewers were made to believe he was nuts! He wasn’t!
HOLY SH*T 🚨 Ricky Gervais was absolutely right and is going massively VIRAL again for saying it:
“A big year for ped*phile movies. Shut up. I know Jeffrey Epstein was your friend but I don’t care. You’re in no position to lecture anyone”
MIC DROP 🔥
Wow! These two ladies are going viral for refusing to stand with the rest of the audience after an artist shouted “ICE OUT” at the Grammys.
“I’m gonna sit down. We love our law enforcement.”
God bless them.
CME MARGIN HIKE ALERT ON ALL PRECIOUS METALS
A Second MARGIN increase in 3 days.
Maintenance increases
A 33% increase for gold futures
A 36% increase for silver futures
A 25% increase for platinum futures
A 14% increase for palladium futures
This is going into effect Monday Feb 2, 2026
yes there is volatility, however does the exchange expect renewed price interest in trading their contracts with these hikes or is this protecting the clearing firms from a player who may be in trouble?
The move in prices today felt like forced liquidation vs fundamental selling
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As the dollar’s reserve currency status diminishes, so does our ability to tax the world by creating more money.
When reserve status is lost, maintaining current spending levels and servicing the debt will be even more painful for Americans who will bear the full inflation tax.
Tim, please don’t hate me for saying this publicly.
Please abandon the federal government and come home to protect our state. We need to be proactive before it’s too late.
The federal government is gone.
Our last hope is the states.
If this isn't a rigged system designed to protect the elite, I don't know what is, facts that should make these @cftc bureaucrats squirm in, knowing they've sold out the public trust for a fat industry paycheck.
The crooks at the Crooked COMEX Casino run by @CMEGroup are desperately trying to stuff precious metals prices down again, jacking up margin requirements just like they did in 2011 when they hiked silver margins five times in nine days, an 84% spike that torpedoed the price from nearly $50 to $34, protecting their big-bank buddies from getting squeezed by the rally.
And now, in 2025, they're pulling the same slimy playbook, slamming silver and other metals with back-to-back margin increases in a single week to crush momentum and bail out the shorts.
Where are the worthless f#cks at the @CFTC in all this?
I'll tell you where: polishing their resumes for cushy gigs at JPMorgan, CME, or whatever crooked entity they've been protecting all along. It's the classic revolving door, take Brian Quintenz, Trump's CFTC nominee who deregulated like a fox in the henhouse, then cashed out by jumping to a crypto venture firm right after his term. Or Caroline Pham, outgoing CFTC Acting Chair, who couldn't wait to bolt to MoonPay, another crypto outfit, proving these "regulators" are just auditioning for their next payday in the industries they pretend to police.
Same old f#cking tricks from these corrupt scumbags, who let JPMorgan spoof and manipulate the silver market for years—raking in illicit profits through thousands of deceptive trades—before finally hitting them with a $920 million slap on the wrist in 2020, long after the damage was done. And don't forget how the CFTC "investigated" silver manipulation multiple times, including a five-year probe they conveniently closed in 2013 with zero findings, even as evidence piled up that big players were rigging the game.
IMHO, I hope this time they get it stuffed up their asses so hard they choke on their own bullshit—the problem is, they've got the government on their side, turning a blind eye while Main Street gets fleeced and the casino keeps rigging the odds for the house.
These so-called watchdogs at the CFTC have failed spectacularly to enforce real position limits under Dodd-Frank, letting speculators run wild and manipulate markets at will, all while lawsuits pile up against CME for giving high-frequency traders unfair data access to front-run everyone.
Thats my opinion, and the opinion of people much smarter than me, and if you agree and got some balls, please share.
BrianK
Fact Checked and Spell Checked By @grok