




Gold set an all-time record of $5,589.38 per ounce in January 2026 after gaining 64% in a single year, and J.P. Morgan now forecasts it reaches $6,000 by year-end — but the most important driver is not inflation or the Iran war. It's China quietly buying more gold every month than most countries hold in total reserves.

The SAVE plan is terminated, Parent PLUS loans face new borrowing caps, and over 7 million borrowers must choose a new repayment plan within 90 days — all starting July 1, 2026, in the most sweeping overhaul to federal student lending in decades.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court blocked Trump from removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, preserving central bank independence even as the same court expanded presidential power over nearly every other federal agency in a separate decision issued the same day.

May PCE inflation jumped to 4.1%, the highest print since early 2023, and a Minneapolis Fed official has now penciled in a rate increase for 2026 — a complete reversal of everything markets were pricing in at the start of the year.

Nvidia's market cap hit $4.67 trillion on June 28, making it the most valuable public company in history — worth more than the entire stock markets of Canada and the UK combined. The bull case is obvious. The three risks that could end it are not.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard struck US military facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain with missiles and drones on Sunday after the US launched fresh strikes on Iranian coastal targets, marking the most serious breach of the Versailles interim agreement since it was signed on June 18.

Two IAF C-17 aircraft carrying an Indian Army field hospital, two BHISHM portable surgical units, and 35 tonnes of relief supplies left for Caracas on Friday — part of a global response to the strongest earthquake to hit Venezuela in over a century.

GDP is growing, unemployment is steady, and prediction markets put recession odds at just 11% — but inflation is stuck at 3.8%, a legendary forecaster calls a downturn almost inevitable, and the Iran energy shock has quietly doubled the risks most Americans were expecting at the start of the year.