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July 15, 2024

Which Presidential candidate does gold prefer? – Richard Mills

2024.07.14 Gold loves chaos and should be hitting new highs, especially with inflation […]
July 15, 2024

Copper bull market buoyed by aging legacy mines, says analyst

From Mining.com You’re seeing as grades get lower, companies will have to increase […]
July 15, 2024

Vehicle electrification requires 55% more copper mines by 2050 – report

From Mining.com Electrification of the global vehicle fleet would require 55% more new […]
July 13, 2024

Putin Is Crushing the Arctic Ice While the US Is Barely Afloat

By James Stavridis – Bloomberg Ukraine was rightly the major focus at this week’s […]
July 13, 2024

Friedland warns of copper ‘crisis’ as mine costs soar

From Mining.com Copper in particular faces a forecasted supply chasm, mining mogul Robert […]
July 12, 2024

Gold, silver and copper had a banner first half – Richard Mills

2024.07.11 Silver is up 33% year to date (July 8), gold is up […]
July 12, 2024

Inflation Has Come Down, But High Prices Are Here to Stay

By Felix Richter – Statista While progress in the fight against inflation has […]
July 12, 2024

Visualizing Global Energy Production in 2023

By Bruno Venditti – Visual Capitalist Elements Global primary energy consumption reached a new […]
July 12, 2024

Overpopulation

By Aidan Grogan – American Institute for Economic Research Prince Philip once said, […]
July 12, 2024

Nuclear Energy Gets a Much-Needed Boost

From Bloomberg President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that could well […]
July 10, 2024

Inequality

By Anna Fleck – Statista While the Gini index is a useful tool […]
July 10, 2024

Coeur starts drilling at Silver North’s Tim CRD project – Richard Mills

2024.07.06 Silver North Resources (TSXV:SNAG, OTCQB:TARSF) is working with partner Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) […]
July 10, 2024

US Battery Belt Red states could be biggest losers in upcoming election – Richard Mills

2024.07.05 Roads, ports & bridges, transmission lines, power plants, airports, dams, buses, subways, […]
July 10, 2024

China’s presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically

From The Economist Its main breakwater is visible from a plane at 6,000 metres […]
July 10, 2024

Don’t Be Fooled by China’s Third Plenum

By Stephen S. Roach – Project Syndicate With a key gathering of senior […]
July 9, 2024

As Political Parties Fall, Gold and Silver Will Rise

By Egon von Greyerz – Von Greyerz Gold Many good reasons to buy gold […]
July 9, 2024

Canada Move to Limit Mining M&A Hurts Big Metals Producers, Scotia Says

By Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg Canada will only approve foreign takeovers of large domestic […]
July 9, 2024

2024 Hurricane Season Predicted to be Particularly Active

By Anna Fleck – Statista The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has […]
July 8, 2024

Are America’s giant armsmakers good investments?

From The Ecomomist Armsmaking is not like other businesses. It is impervious to macroeconomics […]
July 8, 2024

Are Americans Ready for the US-China Trade War?

By Kenneth Rogoff – Project Syndicate LONDON – It is hard to think […]
July 7, 2024

Commodities Halftime Report

By Frank Holmes – U.S. Global Investors Data supports the potential of commodities […]
July 7, 2024

Did the Supreme Court really just give U.S. presidents the power to assassinate opponents?

By Alexander Panetta  – CBC News Here’s what the decision clearly does: It […]
July 6, 2024

Nothing Matters

Weekly Commentary – Credit Bubble Bulletin The grossly imbalanced U.S. economy may be […]
July 6, 2024

The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

By Carla Norrlöf – Project Syndicate Could changes to the longstanding “petrodollar” system […]
July 6, 2024

Panic short-covering ignites Comex copper as shipments fail to arrive

From Mining.com Comex copper futures surged on Friday as some players bought back […]
July 5, 2024

Gold’s Doldrums Strength

By Adam Hamilton Gold has shown impressive strength weathering 2024’s summer doldrums.  Now […]
July 4, 2024

Cashed-up Sterling Metals focused on Ontario’s Copper Road – Richard Mills

2024.07.04 The Copper Road project formerly owned by Copper Road Resources (TSXV:CRD) has […]
July 3, 2024

AMOC collapse — a coming climate catastrophe – Richard Mills

2024.06.29 The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of water […]
July 3, 2024

Exceptional deposit, unprecedented financial and political support: G1 working on feasibility study 75% paid for by DoD – Richard Mills

2024.06.27 Graphite One’s (TSXV:GPH, OTCQX:GPHOF) CEO Anthony Huston recently traveled to Washington, DC […]
July 3, 2024

The next war

From The Economist A war is looming in Lebanon. For months, Israel and […]
July 1, 2024

Why big oil is wading into lithium

From The Economist BP and Shell, two British oil giants, have long sunk […]
July 1, 2024

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify from USD-Assets to Other Currencies and to Gold

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET It’s not that central banks are “dumping” their dollar-assets – […]
June 30, 2024

Charted: U.S. Wealth by Generation

By Bruno Venditti – Visual Capitalist In 2023, American Baby Boomers owned 52% […]
June 30, 2024

REE Stockpile

By Kelsey Baker – Yahoo News US stockpiles of the rare earth minerals […]
June 28, 2024

Commodities and Geo-Political Risks with Rozencwajg and Yra Harris

From Goehring & Rozencwajg Adam Rozencwajg and Yra Harris joined the Financial Repression […]
June 27, 2024

Who Needs the Fed?

From Mises Wire Perhaps nothing in financial news receives more attention than an […]
June 26, 2024

A meeting of the minerals? EGR Exploration’s Detour West and Agnico Eagle’s Detour Lake – Richard Mills

2024.06.25 In exploration, it’s important to be a nosy neighbor, almost as important […]
June 26, 2024

Why is the dollar rising as Treasury yields fall? – Richard Mills

2024.06.22 Generally speaking, the dollar and US bond yields rise and fall together, […]
June 26, 2024

Inflation in Canada Throws Another Curveball: Core CPI Spikes Month-to-Month by Most since 2022

By Wolf Richter –  WOLF STREET When the Bank of Canada cut its policy rates […]
June 26, 2024

AMOC Collapse is Closer than Expected: The Consequences

By Simone Fant – From Renewable Matter The Atlantic Current circulation is getting closer […]
June 25, 2024

Is Now Time To Buy This Graphite Stock?

From Streetwise Reports Technical Analyst Clive Maund examines Graphite One Inc.’s charts to […]
June 24, 2024

Who Holds the Recklessly Ballooning US National Debt of $34.7 Trillion?

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The US national debt – now $34.7 trillion, up from […]
June 24, 2024

Gold Sees Highest Delivery Volume in Nearly 2 Years

By Shiff Gold June is a major delivery month in gold and saw […]
June 23, 2024

Early-summer heat dome bakes Eastern Canada and the US – Richard Mills

2024.06.21 Thursday marks the first day of summer, but depending on where you […]
June 23, 2024

The mad scramble for copper – Richard Mills

2024.06.20 In 2017, the Chilean government approved a $2.5 billion expansion of BHP’s […]
June 23, 2024

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world

From The Economist To call solar power’s rise exponential is not hyperbole, but […]
June 23, 2024

Copper: An exclusive and unparalleled opportunity

By Phillip Streible – Kitco News Despite recent inflation slowdowns, we anticipate a new […]
June 23, 2024

Heroine of the gold rush

By Jackie McKay – CBC News In the common telling of the story, […]
June 23, 2024

There’s an old problem Canada’s new foreign-interference law won’t fix

By Alexander Panetta –  CBC New To understand Canada’s failure to criminally prosecute foreign […]
June 23, 2024
Planet earth

The dominant model of the universe is creaking

From The Economist In arizona, at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent […]
June 22, 2024

Agnico looks underground at Detour Lake pit

From Timmins Today Agnico Eagle is on a path to upsize its Detour […]
June 22, 2024

The Foreign Holders of the Ballooning US Debt

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The question that’s on everyone’s mind is how long foreign […]
June 22, 2024

China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic

From The Economist Four hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the […]
June 21, 2024

Gold’s Bull Run: Just Getting Started?

From Goehring & Rozencwajg During his interview with Jeremy Szafron of KITCO News, […]
June 21, 2024

Extreme heat kills hundreds, millions more sweltering worldwide as summer begins

By Gloria Dickie – Reuters Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as […]
June 19, 2024

More central banks to increase gold reserves within 12 months

From Mining.com More central banks plan to add to their gold reserves within […]
June 19, 2024

The Global Implications of EU Tariffs on Chinese EVs

By SHANG-JIN WEI – Project Syndicate The investigators sent requests for cooperation to […]
June 19, 2024

Canada Can’t Meet Goal of 100% EV Sales by 2035

By Monique Mulima – Bloomberg EVs are more expensive, batteries fade faster in cold […]
June 19, 2024

Why a Dow Peak Will Boost Silver

By Hubert Moolman During the Great Depression, both silver (1931) and the Dow […]
June 18, 2024

The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution

By Matthew Campbell and Annie Lee – Bloomberg Extensive review of Chinese, Indonesian, […]
June 17, 2024

5 reasons why we are entering the next copper super cycle – Richard Mills

204.06.15 A “commodity super cycle” is a period of consistent price increases lasting […]
June 17, 2024

Cooler inflation backs case for rate cuts, lower dollar and higher copper, silver and gold prices – Richard Mills

2024.06.14 Metals skidded lower on Wednesday, in reaction to a more hawkish-than-expected US […]
June 17, 2024

MAX Resource: Why a joint venture at Cesar with Freeport? Why DSO iron ore? – Richard Mills

2024.06.13 When a junior resource company’s project becomes too big or too expensive […]
June 17, 2024

The U.S. Drops Out of Global Competitiveness Top 10

By Felix Richter – Statista Social cohesion, adaptability and agility are qualities the […]
June 17, 2024

Canada Blocks Chinese Rare Earths Deal in Trudeau-Led Crackdown

By Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg The small Australian firm, which mines rare earths in […]
June 17, 2024

Nuclear Weapon Spending on the Rise

By Martin Armstrong – Statista Global spending on nuclear weapons rose by 13.4 […]
June 16, 2024

Vitamin D

By Mandy Taheri – Newsweek Researchers at Japan’s Osaka University published a new study […]
June 16, 2024

China has become a scientific superpower

From The Economist In 2019 The Economist surveyed the research landscape in the country and asked […]
June 16, 2024

Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life

By Michael Copley – npr Just for a minute, think about how much of […]
June 16, 2024

Deadly and Wildly Profitable, Uranium Fever Breaks Out

By Geoffrey Morgan and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg After the 2011 Fukushima disaster nuclear energy was […]
June 15, 2024

The US Needs More Nukes. Biden Finally Gets That

By Hal Brands – Bloomberg President Joe Biden has compiled, over the past four […]
June 15, 2024

Fed Holds Steady, Cuts Back on Expected Cuts

By Felix Richter – Statista As has been widely expected after the latest […]
June 15, 2024

Services are big, and that one-month outlier was massive, and it drove down Core CPI and overall CPI.

By Wolf Richter –  WOLF STREET The Consumer Price Index for May, on a month-to-month […]
June 14, 2024

Mineral Resources vs. Mineral Reserves: Key Mining Terms for Investors to Know

By Dean Belder – Investing News Investing in the mining industry comes with […]
June 14, 2024

A New Copper Supercycle Is Emerging

By Paul Wong and Jacob White – Sprott
June 14, 2024

Ten Classic American Brands Owned by Foreign Companies

By Pallavi Rao – Visual Capitalist Popular brands have an intangible effect on […]
June 12, 2024

Charted: America’s Shift to a Cashless Society

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist A cashless society is one in which […]
June 12, 2024

Silver Price Forecast: Time-Based Targets

By Hubert Moolman Previously, I presented the following long-term silver chart (only closing […]
June 12, 2024

The Six Choke Points That Can Upend Global Trade

By Alaric Nightingale – Bloomberg Drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants on […]
June 11, 2024

While G1’s CEO meets with US President Biden graphite elevated to equal rare earths critical mineral status- Richard Mills

2024.06.10 Anthony Huston, the CEO of Graphite One (TSXV:GPH, OTCQX:GPHOF), was at the […]
June 11, 2024

Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather than Fearing Change

By Matthew Piepenburg – Von Greyerz Gold There is much legitimate (as well as […]
June 11, 2024

Biden’s New Tariffs Should Raise Alarm Bells in Beijing

By Agathe Demarais – FP Live On May 14, Washington slapped new tariffs on China in […]
June 11, 2024

Mine capacity of copper worldwide from 2010 to 2023

By Madhumitha Jaganmohan – Statista In 2021, the global mine capacity of copper […]
June 11, 2024

Gold is getting harder to find as miners struggle to excavate more, World Gold Council says

By Lee Ying Shan – CNBC The gold mining industry is struggling to […]
June 10, 2024

Existing fossil fuel projects enough to meet energy demands while world transitions to net zero

From Mining.com Researchers at the University College London and the International Institute for […]
June 8, 2024

Merchants of Death & Destruction – Richard Mills

2024.06.07 When Israel bombed a refugee camp in Gaza on the premise that […]
June 8, 2024

Gold Summer Doldrums ‘24

By Adam Hamilton, CPA Gold, silver, and their miners’ stocks suffer their weakest […]
June 8, 2024

America’s War Machine Can’t Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough

From Bloomberg The Pentagon focused on high-tech weapons after the Soviet Union fell, […]
June 7, 2024

The World’s Biggest Miners

By Anna Fleck – Statitsta China was the world’s biggest extractor of domestic […]
June 7, 2024

Comparing the Economies of U.S. and China in 3 Key Metrics

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist In this graphic, we provide insight into […]
June 7, 2024

Bank of Canada Cuts by 25 basis points, to 4.75% as Economy and Inflation Slowed. QT Continues

By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street “With continued evidence that underlying inflation is […]
June 7, 2024

Visualizing Raw Steel Production in 2023

By Marcus Lu – Elemenets Steel is essential for the economy due to its […]
June 5, 2024

Storm Exploration: BIF gold in Ontario – Richard Mills

2024.06.05 In November, the Musselwhite mine in northern Ontario poured its 8,000th gold […]
June 5, 2024

Gold, Silver and Crypto | How Charts Look Before A Dollar Meltdown

By Hubert Moolman The US dollar is on the brink of a major […]
June 5, 2024

Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?

From The Economist Nothing has been able to stop American consumers. At first they splashed […]
June 5, 2024

Traders Gird for Weaker Canadian Dollar as First Rate Cut Eyed

By Nazmul Ahasan and Robert Fullem – Bloomberg The market is pricing in around an 80% […]
June 4, 2024

Max Resource’s Inks Earn-In Deal With Freeport-McMoRan – Richard Mills

2024.06.04 For many juniors, the goal is to find a deposit that’s good […]
June 4, 2024

China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

By ALICIA GARCÍA-HERRERO and ALESSIO TERZI – Project Syndicate China continues to treat only the […]
June 3, 2024

Silver North: the next pure silver play – Richard Mills

2024.05.29 The white metal is red-hot, moving from $21.29/oz on Jan. 2, to […]
June 3, 2024

Kodiak Copper – Right people, right project, right location, right time – Richard Mills

2024-05-28 Mineral exploration is as much a collection of data as a hunt […]