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[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Donald Trump has quietly admitted defeat and privately signalling he's willing to end the Iran war without a nuclear deal if the Strait of Hormuz simply opens, a humiliating retreat from his demand for "unconditional surrender," per WSJ.

Trump privately told aides he would declare victory based on reopening the Strait — a far cry from his promises to "decimate" Iran's nuclear program. But Iran just raised the price of that exit: $300 billion** in compensation, **$100–123 billion in frozen assets, U.S. troop withdrawal, and an end to the naval blockade.

Trump wanted out. Iran is making him pay for it.

U.S. officials say Trump sees the Strait as his only viable exit. But Iran's new demands mean even that is now in doubt. Tehran knows Washington is desperate to leave — and is holding the waterway hostage until Trump surrenders on every point.

[AST SpaceMobile @AST_SpaceMobile]

A milestone worth lighting up New York City.🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

BlueBirds 8, 9, and 10, the largest commercial communications arrays ever in LEO, are now successfully orbiting Earth.

#ASTSpaceMobile #ConnectingTheUnconnected #Nasdaq

[Abel Avellan @AbelAvellan]

Successful launch!🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
All satellites were captured within minutes and already orbiting Earth with all systems nominal.

Congratulations to the incredible AST SpaceMobile team! 250Y U.S.A. 🌎📶 🤠

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

🚀🛰

[AT&T @ATT]

Happy National Space Day 🛰️ - but IMO, it feels more like "National Sp🅰️ceMob Day", ya know? 🧇 $ASTS

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

Lfg! 🚀

[AST SpaceMobile @AST_SpaceMobile]

AST SpaceMobile Announces BlueBird 7 Launch Date of Sunday, April 19, Invites Retail Investors to Attend Live Launch Event at Cape Canaveral
https://t.co/qrGbqA4cD0

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Vote out every single member of Congress who votes yes this week to extend FISA 702 unconstitutional, warrantless surveillance of Americans.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

BlueBird is on board! @AST_SpaceMobile's satellite is now integrated with our NG-3 launch vehicle. Next up: rollout for hotfire.

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@geoananotes @PeterSchiff TACO

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Our national debt is the greatest threat to our national security. The Iran war costs $1-2 billion a day. Farmers need billions to offset tariff losses. Storm damage needs billions more. None of it is paid for. All of it is borrowed. And Washington just keeps spending.

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@PeterSchiff @StockStormX @PeterSchiff currently US Yield is offering a higher return in the short term, rather than gold hedge. You know this.

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@KirillTalai @WSJ @jmackin2 The Fed also kept rates unchanged last week and the yield spiked. Why hold gold when your parked money can earn 3- 4%?

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@Turko9669 @themotleyfool $GDXJ $RGLD $FNV all solid and on sale today.

[rabbitholebot @rabbitholebot]

Voting is the adult version of writing a letter to Santa Claus.

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@Cobb_XRPL delulu. @saylor try and get some rest

[Bloomberg @business]

EXCLUSIVE - Chinese regulators advised financial institutions to limit their holdings of US Treasuries.

The People’s Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment https://t.co/gnPPcvfPCK

[offbeatryan @offbeatryan]

@PeterSchiff @Strategy Listening only? No clarifying questions for @saylor, @PeterSchiff ?

[Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel]

SIMPLE EXPLANATION ON YESTERDAY'S GOLD/SILVER "CRASH"

As I have been saying, the western central banks are FUBARRED. They have been shorting SILVER & GOLD for years and the repo man came a calling...

But he came calling with tricks of the trade all to help bail out the banks......AGAIN.....

The "crash" was not the market saying they wanted to cash in on silver and gold. If that were true, Asian physical prices would not be $40/oz higher than the paper prints in the U.S.

The margin calls and Western banks forcing price suppression are all totally engineered...

EVEN THE CME was complicit. They dropped the circuit breaker designed to stop trading when the market moves 10% in either direction in one day. (And for convenience they claimed they fixed the circuit breaker this morning when they don't trade on wkds --> LOL)

This violent downdraft gave the banks room to buy back in and close exposure. Cheap metals on paper, real metal still tight and physical very scarce. Check March deliveries on Comex because the HAVE NOTHING in the vaults to deliver----again look to Asian pricing.... (The fix is already in - Comex will financially settle contracts instead of delivering the physical silver)

Don't confuse paper pricing with physical pricing...THEY ARE NOT THE SAME.

Watch what happens next week....

BOOMERANG BABY

[Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762]

Former World Bank Director, Erik Bethel, breaks down a US dollar collapse scenario.

“How are they buying it? Well they buy it by printing money. The artificial demand for dollars around the world is largely due to the fact that 60% of central banks have the dollar sitting in reserves. If the dollar isn’t there because nobody wants to use the dollar, we’re screwed. All that artificial demand for dollars disappears and we crater. We’re not going to be able to pay Medicare. And we’re adding $1 trillion of debt every hundred days. You know our government is paying more in interest on our debt, like over $1 trillion in interest alone. We’re paying more in interest, just in interest to service the debt than we are paying for the Defense Department. People start losing faith in the dollar. We see huge amounts of inflation, perhaps hyperinflation.”

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Gold has so dramatically outperformed the S&P this century that you’d think CNBC would be recommending it to investors. But they’re not. Peter Schiff explains why.

(0:00) Why Schiff Decided to Start Buying Gold
(10:45) You're Being Lied to About Inflation
(23:39) How the Government Secretly Rigs the Economy
(25:25) The Unemployment Rate Is Much Higher Than You Think
(27:27) What Was the Result of the Big Beautiful Bill?
(30:10) Is the Housing Bubble About to Pop?
(36:20) The Real Reason College Got So Expensive
(40:30) The Real Reason Healthcare Got So Expensive
(43:50) Crypto vs. Gold
(58:11) Will Bitcoin Be the New Global Reserve Currency?
(1:02:11) Why Corporate Financial Channels Hate Gold
(1:15:04) The Secret Gold Scam Stealing From Americans