The American dream now costs $5.32 million over a lifetime, per a new Investopedia analysis reported by Fox Business. That’s up 4.1% in a year, faster than wages, which rose 3.1%. The lifetime price tag: Homeownership: $1.28M (+7.7%) Two new cars: $1.21M (+0.5%) Retirement: $1.21M (+2.2%) Kids and college: $954K (+8.9%) Healthcare: $413K (-0.2%) Yearly vacations: $187K (+3.5%) Pets: $41K (+3.5%) Wedding: $39K (+1.6%)

The short silver trade is becoming crowded. Silver's 3-month silver put-call skew is up to -3 points, its highest level since early July. This metric measures the relative cost of put options to call options and is up +10 points over the last 4 weeks, signaling growing demand for bearish bets on silver prices. Over the last 12 months, this metric has been higher only 2% of the time. Meanwhile, speculative investors, including hedge funds and commodity trading advisers (CTAs), sold -$2.2 billion in silver futures over the 3 weeks ending October 13th. As a result, their net long positioning is down to just +$1.7 billion, the lowest in at least 2 years. For perspective, this metric stood at +$8.5 billion in December 2025. Investors are extremely bearish on silver.

The first tanker of Russian diesel is now on its way to the US after President Trump’s deal with Vladimir Putin. But Oliver Wyman Global Anti-Financial Crime Leader @dantannNYC tells @EenaRuffini and @davidgura, “it is illegal to import Russian diesel… and this OFAC license to buy Russian diesel doesn't overtake that. So there is a question that, technically, customs should be turning away this vessel when it shows up in the US unless they do something to try and bypass it.”