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One bitcoin bought 25.7 ounces of gold in 2021. Today it buys about 19.7. Digital gold lost nearly a quarter against the real thing. $IBIT

Price the S&P 500 in gold and it fell from 2.55 ounces to 1.80 in five years. That's a 29% loss hiding behind record highs. $SPY

Five years from Sept. 2021: gold up about 145%, bitcoin 88%, the S&P 500 73%. The pet rock finished first, and it wasn't close. $GLD

About 60 ships crossed Hormuz on Wednesday, the most crude through the strait since early July. Same day, the Houthis claimed a hit on Aramco facilities at Yanbu, the outlet built to avoid Hormuz. The detour is now the risky route. $BNO

China's crude imports are running near a ten-year low. The biggest buyer on earth did not quit oil. It cut refinery runs and leaned on the stockpile it built last year. Stockpiles run out. The buying comes back at whatever price is left. $USO

Investors pulled 3.3 billion dollars out of the Russell 2000 ETF last week, one of its biggest exits in nine years. Small caps borrow at floating rates. With the 10-year above 5%, that is not a rotation. It is an interest bill. $IWM

The Fed hiked last week. The 10-year kept climbing anyway, now above 5.15% for the first time since 2007. The Fed sets the overnight rate. The long end sets its own price, and it has stopped taking instructions. $TLT

The Greenland deal curbs Chinese buyers of strategic mineral assets. It does not speed permits or pay for roads, ports and power. $REMX

Energy Fuels already runs the White Mesa Mill in Utah. New Greenland miners would spend years building what it already owns. $UUUU

Critical Metals already holds an exploitation license for Tanbreez. In Greenland, a license is a starting line, not a finish line. $CRML

MP Materials produced 840 tons of NdPr oxide in Q2 and booked $108.5M in revenue. That is what a working rare earth mine looks like. $MP

Greenland Mines jumped 230% on a deal that granted zero new mining permits. Headlines move stocks faster than drills move rock. $GRML

The US exports roughly 1.3 million barrels a day of diesel. Pull that from the world and global prices spike, not fall. $USO

About 55% of US refining sits on the Gulf Coast and the pipes out are near full. Trapped diesel can't reach New Jersey or California. $PSX

Ban diesel exports and Gulf refiners cut runs. Fewer runs means less gasoline and jet fuel too. The fix raises prices across the barrel. $MPC

Diesel crack spreads blew past $100 a barrel, above the 2022 peak. Refiners got paid because they could sell to whoever paid most. $VLO

Congress banned crude exports in 1975 to fight high prices. Prices barely moved and domestic output suffered. A diesel ban rhymes badly. $XLE