Gold futures traded at a record high as the dollar plunged and concerns about the global economy boosted demand for havens, while a contract roll provided a further boost to the metal’s rally. Bullion’s move came as a gauge of the dollar fell to the lowest in more than a year amid negative real rates in the U.S. and bets that the Federal Reserve will keep policy accommodative when it meets this week. Inflows into gold-backed exchange traded funds this year have surpassed a record set in 2009, with total holdings at an all-time high of more than 3,300 tons. The contract roll is another fillip to prices. December overtook August as the contract with the highest open interest on Thursday, though final data wasn’t released until the Friday trading session was already underway in Asia. The December contract touched $1,927.10 an ounce Thursday, above the record for the most-active contract of $1,923.70 reached in 2011, and traded at $1,941.70 by 9:13 a.m. in Singapore on Monday. While December gold futures are at a record, August, which has the bigger volume, traded at $1,915.20. Spot gold was at $1,917.44, nearing the all-time high of $1,921.17 set in 2011. “Strong gains are inevitable as we enter a period much like the post-GFC environment, where gold prices soared to record levels as a result of copious amounts of Fed money being pumped into the financial system,” with a weak dollar and negative real rates providing further impetus, said Gavin Wendt, senior resource analyst at MineLife Pty. Bullion may consolidate above $1,920 an ounce, an important psychological level, “before setting sights on the $2,000 mark and above over the coming weeks,” he said. Investors have poured into gold as the coronavirus pandemic’s hit to global growth underpinned its status as a safe haven. But the metal’s getting support from a long list of factors: geopolitical tensions are rising, real rates have tumbled, the dollar is weaker, and government and central banks worldwide have unleashed vast stimulus measures to try and boost economies. The environment has even raised the specter of stagflation, a rare combination of sluggish growth and rising inflation that erodes the value of fixed-income investments. In the U.S., investor expectations for annual inflation over the next decade, as measured by a bond-market metric known as breakevens, have moved higher the past four months after plunging in March. U.S. bond markets have been a key metric to watch and a driving force behind the rush to gold, which is serving as an attractive hedge as yields on Treasuries that strip out the effects of inflation fall below zero. Traders are again eyeing record low yields, with dimming hopes for a sharp U.S. growth recovery fueling expectations that the Fed is ab ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeKieDlZ3M

In January 2018, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, had around two million subscribers. At the time of this writing, he has more than 40 million subscribers. The 22-year-old does not come from a rich family but has already donated more than a million dollars to random strangers, friends, and family. Having reached more than three billion views, he is known as the largest philanthropist on YouTube. He gives almost all of his money away. Here are the titles of some of his videos: Tipping Uber Drivers $10,000 Ordering Water Then Tipping $30,000 Tipping Pizza Delivery Guys $10,000 Giving $100,000 to a Homeless Person Giving a Homeless Man a Home So here are the 6 reasons why Mr Beast became so successful #6 START WHEREVER YOU ARE WITH WHATEVER YOU HAVE He did not have this type of success from the first day he started. He started making YouTube videos at the age of 13, and it took him six years to go viral and grab a lot of attention. He used to make Let’s play-type of videos, where he recorded himself playing Minecraft a few years ago. Those were his first videos, which only got around 1,000 views per month back at the time. Now he usually gets more than 11 million views per video in the first two or three days after they’re published. He started his channel on February 19, 2012, and got 20 million subscribers on June 18, 2019. This represents a period of seven years, three months and 20 days. #5 KEEP EXPERIMENTING UNTIL YOU FIND WHAT WORKS His content has changed over the years. From Let’s play-type of videos, he experimented with super-long videos with challenges like saying Keep Net Neutrality for ten hours straight and counting to 200,000. Some of the rare challenges that he has done to start his virality series were: Spin a fidget spinner for 24 hours straight. Say Pewdiepie 100,000 times non-stop Count to 100,000, which took 48 hours Watch paint dry for an hour. Read the entire dictionary in one sitting He explains in a video that after donating $10,000 to a homeless man, he realized he liked helping people, so he continued doing it. #4 KEEP IMPROVING YOUR CRAFT No matter how much success you have reached so far, you must continue learning, investing and improving. Mr. Beast is an example of that. “I used to make a dollar a day, so I didn’t even have a microphone. My mindset was just, reinvest everything I make’ — every time I got a paycheck, that was the month’s budget,” he says in an interview with the other popular YouTuber, Casey Neistat. “So I saved up a dollar a day to buy a microphone. When I made a few thousand, I just spent a few thousand. When I made ten thousand, I just spent ten thousand. As I made more videos, I was like ‘I want to spend it on videos somehow.’” #3 HELP OTHERS AS MUCH ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUdI04IJQE