Singapore police appeared to confirm the arrest of Su Zhu, one of the founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital.

Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.

On a hard disk somewhere in the surveillance archives of Singapore's Changi prison is a video of Jolovan Wham, naked, alone, performing Hamlet. In 2017, Wham was arrested for organizing a small protest on a metro train and charged with holding an illegal public assembly.

When President Ronald Reagan identified the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire" and asked President Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," he gave the moral courage to millions of oppressed people to revolt against communism. Now, only 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, communism is once again on the rise in America.