Every day, members of the Blind Spot Discord dutifully sift through the noise of the news cycle in search of rough diamonds of signal. What emerges is a wide-ranging collection of links and insights that surface stories the mainstream either overlooks entirely or fails to examine with sufficient depth — especially across high finance, business, geopolitics, and media.
Discord is a powerful tool for discovery, but not always for digestion. To make this material easier to absorb, we’ve automated the ability to gather all the links shared over the past 24 hours and to reorganize them into a cleaner, more streamlined format. What follows is the result: aggregation as OSINT — unpolished, high-signal, and often ahead of the curve. It is devoid of broader analysis, but it provides a good counter overview to headlines dominating elsewhere.
We may, however, end up publishing the linkfest exclusively on the Substack site as a free post (another incentive to migrate over there).
Commodities
Platinum Soars to Highest Price in More Than 17 Years
BREAKING: Gold Futures Surge to a New Record High of $4,415/Oz, Up 67% This Year
Another Remarkable Move in Silver as Structural Forces Reassert Themselves
Markets
Treasury Bond Volatility Plunges to Lowest Level in More Than Four Years
JUST IN: Japan’s 2-Year Bond Yield Jumps to Highest Level Since Pre-GFC Run-Up
Investors Pile Into Equity ETFs at a Record Pace as VOO Sees $40.5B Inflows
BREAKING: US Margin Debt Jumps $30B in November to Record $1.21 Trillion
Active Fund Managers Struggle as Record $605B Withdrawn From Global Equity Funds
Stocks
Canada’s Shrinking Stock Market Is Having Real Economic Consequences
Finance
Cash Now Exceeds 7% of Total Household Financial Assets, Highest Since 1950
JUST IN: Federal Reserve to Inject $6.8B This Week, $38B Over the Last 10 Days
Global Money Supply Hits Record $45 Trillion as Liquidity Surges Worldwide
WW3-OSINT
Trump to Make Major Announcement With Defense and Navy Leadership
US Air Force Strikes Suspected ISIS Targets in Central and Eastern Syria
Third Tanker Boarded by US in International Waters Near Venezuela
Media Matters
Leaked CCP Speech on Shaping Western Social Media Narratives
Politics
EU to Pay €3B Per Year in Interest on Ukraine Loan
BREAKING: Trump Appoints Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as Special Envoy to Greenland
Part 2: The Land of Milk and “No, Honey”
Economics
Vail Ski Prices Reach $329 Per Adult Day Pass at Whistler
Even the Top of the K-Shaped Economy Is Complaining About Affordability
San Francisco’s Formerly Premier Westfield Mall Before Christmas
Blame Crime, Drug Dealing, Lax Enforcement, and Political Failure
Germany’s 5-Axis CNC Machines Set New Industrial Standards
UAP/Space
Blue Origin Breaks Accessibility Barrier by Sending First Wheelchair User to Space
ESG
University Threatened With Legal Action After Protest at Event
Banking
BREAKING: US Banks Sit on $337B in Unrealized Losses
Artificial Intelligence
Pilot Incapacitated as Plane Auto-Lands and Saves His Life
AI Will Kill All the Lawyers
Elections
NEWS: DNC Kills Its 2024 Election Autopsy
COVERUP: Democrats Furious After DNC Buries 2024 Election Autopsy
Spooks
Son of British Woman Detained in Iran Reveals ‘Dire’ Prison Conditions
