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It is hard to ignore the reality that working a full-time job in America no longer guarantees you can actually afford to live. Senator Chris Murphy is trying to change that with a new bill aimed at raising the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour. The push comes from a place of deep frustration, recognizing that parents are regularly clocking 60 hours a week and still finding themselves coming up short for basic expenses like their children's lunch money. It is a stark reminder that the current economy is leaving a lot of hardworking families behind.

The most interesting part of the proposal is how it handles the future. Instead of just setting a new static number that will eventually lose its value to inflation, the legislation includes a built-in mechanism for automatic wage increases. By pegging the minimum wage to two-thirds of the national median wage, the floor would naturally rise as economic conditions change. This setup aims to permanently fix the issue of stagnant pay, ensuring that people at the bottom of the income ladder do not have to wait decades for lawmakers to finally agree on another raise.

I have been pounding the table on silver for months, but this Sinda debut is an absolute joke. They hyped up the IPO at $12 to scoop $213 million, only to open at $10.80 and immediately bleed out 10 percent on day one. The physical supply deficit is entirely real and Mexico has incredible mining potential, which is why my portfolio is still heavy on the metals. I am completely bullish on the sector long term, but watching Wall Street insiders dump on retail right out of the gate is exactly why I am not touching this specific stock until it actually finds a floor.

Watching these South African miners get slammed by soaring energy costs from the Middle East conflict is wild, but it just proves the bull case for physical metals. Wall Street suits will probably use this news to shake out weak hands, acting like higher input costs are a reason to dump the entire sector. Meanwhile, the smart money is quietly accumulating because they know these operations are bleeding out from diesel spikes, which is only going to crush an already tight supply chain. The physical deficit in critical minerals is a mathematical reality at this point. Let the paper market manipulate the spot price while these miners struggle to find a floor on their operating expenses, because it just means the eventual supply squeeze is going to be that much harder.

Underwater Japanese bond auction again last week as highest quarterly close for the 10 year JGB since 1996!  61 billion of 10 year and 30 year treasury auctions this week as the 10 year and 30 year closed with higher yields year over year and quarter over quarter at June 30th.     British Columbia might have to change its nickname from Bring Cash to Bring Carney! 

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Soon you'll see people getting bribed with critical minerals. It would have been better if it was a suitcase filled with Antimony. This is basically just candy crush money, besides from the gold.

Millions of people are looking up at the sky tonight to watch the spectacle, but very few realize they are actually watching a massive display of global mining in action. Those blinding white flashes and loud bangs are powered by aluminum and magnesium, while the lingering glittering effects come straight from antimony. Even the classic red, white, and blue sequences rely entirely on extracted resources like strontium and copper to produce those vivid chemical reactions.

We treat these commodities like cheap disposable entertainment for a holiday weekend, but the reality is that securing the supply chain for elements like antimony and copper is turning into a high stakes geopolitical chess match. The exact same raw materials we are casually blowing up for fun tonight are absolutely essential for the next generation of energy, tech, and national defense. Enjoy the light show, but pay attention to the metals market when the smoke finally clears.

AI infrastructure is finding the water constraint.

Newsweek says proposed data-center sites over the Ogallala Aquifer are raising water-security concerns. The aquifer is framed in the headline as the largest underground water reservoir in the U.S., which makes the location more than a zoning footnote. It puts AI growth into the same conversation as cooling, groundwater, local permits, and who gets priority when industrial demand meets a stressed physical resource.

The diligence screen is basic:

• How much water does the campus need?
• Who else depends on the aquifer?
• Is cooling demand matched with real power and water planning?
• Can local permits survive the public fight once the site is named?

Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) ties directly to both sides of this topic: data centers require copper-intensive electrical infrastructure for substations, transformers, backup systems, cooling equipment, and power distribution, while copper mine development itself must handle water, power, and permitting constraints. Company materials place Gunnison's copper assets in Arizona, a region where resource projects cannot ignore water and infrastructure math.

Data centers may be digital demand, but their bottlenecks are physical. Water is one of the least forgiving ones.

The tech industry is quietly facing a massive financial reality check regarding artificial intelligence. Ed Zitron recently went on CNBC and laid out the bear case for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, essentially calling the current landscape a hardware based business model disguised as software innovation. The core problem is that these generative models are incredibly expensive to run and they lack a clear path to profitability because enterprise customers are not seeing a return on investment. Instead of creating efficient software, these companies are basically encouraging users to burn through compute tokens to justify their astronomical valuations.

Here are the key takeaways from the financial breakdown:

• Massive cash burn: OpenAI reportedly burned through over $20 billion in 2025 alone.
• No enterprise value: CEOs across the sector are starting to admit that businesses cannot accurately measure ROI from these models due to inherent unreliability.
• The Oracle warning: Oracle is currently building over 7 gigawatts of data center capacity for a single AI customer, but they openly acknowledge the risk of nonpayment if the AI startup bubble pops.
• Obscured growth: Major tech giants are allegedly masking their own AI revenue failures by conflating it with the natural growth of their other established cloud services.

Even if the software side of the AI boom turns out to be a massive miscalculation, the physical infrastructure being built right now is very real and requires a staggering amount of raw materials. Hyper-scalers are locking down gigawatts of power, which fundamentally requires immense physical resources for grid expansion and data center construction. In the context of this domestic infrastructure buildout, Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) is advancing an in-situ copper recovery project in Arizona that aims to supply the base metals required for these large scale power and electrification demands. Whether the AI bubble bursts or not, the demand for the physical hardware and the power grid upgrades to support it is already locked in by these massive capital expenditure commitments.

We could see the tampers drop the price to the 100wk ma at around $50, but the paper games mean nothing. Supply is extremely low and demand increases every day.

4 digit silver is inevitable.

Over the past several months I've been digging into the unusual activity in silver and broader precious metals markets: the vault drains, the record delivery volumes, and the price volatility, in an effort to figure out whether there's a real story here or just noise.
What I found is a pattern that, at least to me, looks like more than coincidence: a growing overlap between what's happening in these markets and the major government initiatives now underway around critical minerals.

This post lays out that connection. None of this should be taken as investment advice: just my own research and my own theory, which I'm putting out there for others to poke holes in, add to, or shoot down entirely. Take it for what it's worth and please do your own digging before drawing any conclusions.

Views are my own and not in any way endorsed by my employer. Our firm is neither involved in, nor positioned in, any of the securities or companies mentioned. None of the information in this post, or elsewhere on my page, should at any point ever be misconstrued as neither investment nor financial advice. Please be sure to do your own research, always.

See for yourself here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uDROwpDlUvp398tvEWmgn9laHn2pbKgb0vpH05KB6mc/edit?usp=sharing

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