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November 8, 2023

EV Market’s Surge Toward $57 Trillion Sparks Global Flashpoints

By Bloomberg Economics The historic transition from the century-long era of the internal […]
November 7, 2023

5 reasons money will cost more – Richard Mills

2023.11.07 For more than three decades, the price of money has been falling. […]
November 7, 2023

The Interest Rate Shock Will Blow Up the Government’s Ponzi Game

By Thorsten Polleit In the international fixed-income markets, interest rates are rising, and […]
November 5, 2023

October’s Sobering Jobs Report Adds to Mounting Bad Economic News

By Ryan McMaken We find substantial evidence that the “strength” of the job […]
November 5, 2023

Central Banks May be Signaling a Plateau in Interest Rates

By Martin Armstrong Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said in a press conference: […]
November 4, 2023

Mining M&A in 2023 – Richard Mills

2023.11.04 Much of the M&A focus in 2022 was on Canada. In Q3 […]
November 3, 2023

Central Banks on Course for “Colossal” Year of Gold Buying

By Schiffgold After setting a record through the first half of the year, central […]
November 3, 2023

The future for fiat

By Alasdair Macleod The day of reckoning for unproductive credit is in sight. […]
November 3, 2023

Mounting Deficits Mark the US’s Road to Ruin

By Daniel Lacalle According to the U.S. Treasury, year-end data from September 2023 […]
November 2, 2023

The Specter of Hyperinflation Looms over the Economy

By Michael Matulef The threat of hyperinflation has haunted fiat money economies throughout […]
November 1, 2023

Hecla Mining invests $10M in Dolly Varden Silver, upping stake to 15.7% – Richard Mills

2023.11.01 The largest silver producer in the United States now has more skin […]
October 31, 2023

The dirty truth about why we need mining if we want a cleaner world

By Frank Giustra The mining industry has had its share of abuse over the […]
October 31, 2023

Max Resource unlocking the puzzle of a massive sedimentary basin – Richard Mills

2023.10.31 Max Resource (TXV: MAX, OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2) continues to advance its […]
October 28, 2023

Catastrophe bonds clobber government paper with 16.5% returns – Richard Mills

2023.10.28 It must suck to be a bond investor these days. Bond markets […]
October 27, 2023

Gold’s New Major Upleg

By Adam Hamilton A new major upleg is underway in gold, which should […]
October 27, 2023

Lifting the Lid on Antarctica: Ancient Landscape Revealed Beneath Antarctica

By Durham University An international research team has unveiled an ancient landscape hidden […]
October 27, 2023

A Better Biden-Xi Summit?

By Stephen S. Roach There is a real possibility that US President Joe […]
October 26, 2023

Why Copper Is Critical for Data Centers

By Elements Visual Capitalist Data centers are computer server hubs that collect, store, […]
October 26, 2023

The Dangers of a “Cashless” Economy

By Patrick Barron Your ability to hold real cash, not just bank balances […]
October 25, 2023

Graphite One drills 15m of 10.75% Cg at Graphite Creek, as China slams the door on flake graphite exports – Richard Mills

2023.10.25 China is once again using its dominance in the mining and processing […]
October 25, 2023

Gold – Richard Mills

2023.10.25 Oil has traded stronger on the threat of supply interruptions in the […]
October 25, 2023

Teck’s Copper Mine Cost Blowout Shows Challenges in Industry

By Jacob Lorinc, Thomas Biesheuvel, and James Attwood Rising costs to build Teck Resources Ltd.’s flagship copper project […]
October 25, 2023

China ups critical minerals heat with graphite controls

mining.com China is upping the critical minerals stakes by curbing exports of graphite, […]
October 24, 2023

Uranium at Inflection Point, Will Get Completely Out of Hand

By Goehring & Rozencwajg The uranium bull market is just getting started, but […]
October 23, 2023

Scandium – A Metal for a Green Future

By eResearch Scandium (Sc) is an important metal with many applications in various […]
October 23, 2023

EGR has an excellent risk-reward profile at it’s Detour West Project in Ontario’s Abitibi Gold Belt – Richard Mills

2023.10-23 Gold’s move higher amidst the latest turmoil in the Middle East continues […]
October 22, 2023

Why Uranium has Enormous Upside Potential

By Doug Casey International Man: What makes uranium attractive as a speculation? Doug […]
October 22, 2023

The illness industry depends on unhealthy people eating unhealthy food

By Ethan Huff  Big Food, Big Pharma responsible for creating DANGEROUS U.S. dietary […]
October 21, 2023

There will be a recession someday, there always is one eventually. But not yet.

By Wolf Richter Our recession-watch here started shortly after the Fed kicked off […]
October 20, 2023

More Mines Needed to Provide Enough Copper, the “Metal of Electrification,” for Green Energy Shift

By Sandra Wirtz  Gathering for the Financial Times’s Mining Summit both in person and […]
October 20, 2023

Beijing Ratchets Up Export Controls – In the Crosshairs This Time: Graphite, the “Unsung Player” in the Battery Supply Chain

By Sandra Wirtz  In keeping with its known penchant for weaponizing trade, Beijing is […]
October 20, 2023

Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?

By The Economist The country spends about $4.3trn a year on keeping citizens […]
October 20, 2023

China, world’s top graphite producer, to curb exports of key battery material

By Siyi Liu and Dominique Patton China is the world’s top graphite producer and exporter. It […]
October 19, 2023

Anti-obesity drugs are an investable “fountain of youth” for baby boomers – Richard Mills

2023.10.19 Despite living longer than previous generations, baby boomers in the United States […]
October 19, 2023

Dolly Varden Silver CEO Shawn Khunkhun: Letting The Project Speak

By CEO.ca Dolly Varden Silver has just completed 51,000 meters of drilling at […]
October 19, 2023

The Ozempic Effect Is Coming for Everything From Kidney to Heart Disease Treatments

By Bloomberg It could cut demand for big-money drugs targeting a wide range […]
October 19, 2023

The Focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

By Martin Armstrong,  In hosting its third Belt and Road Initiative Forum on Tuesday […]
October 18, 2023

Have central banks lost control over the gold price?

By Goldmoney Over the past few months, gold prices have completely detached from […]
October 18, 2023

Global Debt at Record Levels and the Free Lunch Is Over

By Schiffgold Global debt rose $10 trillion to a record $397 trillion in […]
October 18, 2023

Firmer jewelery and investment demand helped offset slower central bank buying in Q2

By Wold Gold Council Interesting breakdown chart on recent gold demand. “Gold is […]
October 16, 2023

Backed by up to $47.2 million in non-dilutive funding Graphite One poised to deliver 2023 drill results – Richard Mills

2023.10.16 America’s largest graphite resource, and one of the biggest in the world, […]
October 16, 2023

Top miners, academics partner to seek new ways to discover sedimentary copper

By Mining.com Getech, a locator of subsurface resources, announced it has joined a […]
October 16, 2023

5 Signs that Gold Will increasingly Flow to the East

By Ronni Stoeferle The reshaping of the world economy and the global (political) order […]
October 15, 2023

Paralysis in Congress makes America a dysfunctional superpower

By The Economist Robert gates, a former defence secretary who served Republican and […]
October 13, 2023

Geopolitics Stagflation and Gold – Richard Mills

2023.10.13 The crisis playing out in the Middle East has profound strategic and […]
October 13, 2023

Gold Stocks Clawing Back

By Adam Hamilton The battered gold miners’ stocks are clawing back from their […]
October 13, 2023

Don’t rely on GDP

By Alasdair Macleod An important error in statistical analysis is that mathematical economists […]
October 12, 2023

America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence

By The Economist The bond market is sending a hopeful message about the strength […]
October 12, 2023

The Stock Market Sits On The Edge Of The End Of The World

By Quoth the Raven There has never been a point in history like […]
October 12, 2023

Mapped: Investment Risk, by Country

By Dorothy Neufeld What is the risk of investing in another country? Given […]
October 11, 2023

Janet Yellen Suggests Much Lower For Much Longer

By Michael Lebowitz On October 5, 2023, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a […]
October 11, 2023

No Farmers, No Food, No Future

By Elizabeth Nickson Rationing, population control and reduced life expectancy beckon. All over […]
October 11, 2023

1970s-style stagflation may be at risk of repeating itself, Deutsche Bank warns

By Dow Jones A major Wall Street bank is warning about the risk that […]
October 11, 2023

A Government Shutdown Is not the Problem. Public Debt Is the Problem.

By Daniel Lacalle The Biden administration has signed a stopgap bill to prevent […]
October 10, 2023

IMF: Inflation to Remain Elevated Until 2025

By Felix Richter Despite inflation coming down notably from its 2022 highs in recent […]
October 7, 2023

Renforth bringing in experts to advance Surimeau battery metals project, based on Finland deposit analog and bioleaching process – Richard Mills

2023.10.07 The urgency to expand and diversify the world’s critical minerals supply chain […]
October 6, 2023

Unwinding the financial system

By Alasdair Macleod This article looks at the collateral side of financial transactions […]
October 6, 2023

Natural Gas Markets on the Verge

By Goehring & Rozencwajg  In our view, natural gas prices are reaching a […]
October 5, 2023

Ontario, NB’s nuclear ambitions vs BC’s LNG debacle – Richard Mills

2023.10.05 The nuclear-powered energy train has left stations in Ontario and New Brunswick, […]
October 5, 2023

Central Bank Gold Buying Continued to Sizzle in August

By Schiffgold Central bank gold buying continues to sizzle. Central banks globally added […]
October 5, 2023

A surge in global bond yields threatens trouble

By the Economist It is a brave investor who calls the end of a […]
October 4, 2023

AOTH Copper Road Resources overview with CEO John Timmons – Richard Mills

2023.10.04 Behind Ontario’s mineral wealth is the geological advantage offered by the Mid-Continental […]
October 4, 2023

Dolly Varden is Still Silver

By Bob Moriarty Dolly Varden is an interesting company in that it is […]
October 4, 2023

From Lead to Copper: Replacing America’s Aging Water Infrastructure

By Elements Visual Capitalist Water service lines, crucial for connecting buildings to the […]
October 3, 2023

Why I’m Paying Urgent Attention To Gold Miner Stocks

By Quoth the Raven As everybody knows, one of my favorite assets on […]
October 3, 2023

Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”

By The Economist For a while, after the end of the cold war, it […]
October 2, 2023

137 Trillion Reasons To Own Gold

By Quoth the Raven The FOMC and the Bank of England stood pat […]
October 2, 2023

American Tactics vs. Chinese Strategy

By Stephen S Roach The debate over the difference between tactics and strategy […]
October 1, 2023

The Timeline of U.S. Government Shutdowns

By Katharina Buchholz Government shutdowns aren’t all that rare: Since 1976, there have been […]
October 1, 2023

Chartbook of the In Gold We Trust Report 2023

By Ronald-Peter Stöferle & Mark J. Valek The annual gold study has been […]
September 30, 2023

The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance

By CARLA NORRLÖF Measuring dollar dominance requires a closer look at the many […]
September 30, 2023

How Tulips Became the Bitcoin of the 1600s

By Ancient Origins In the 1600s, before Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, Europe experienced a […]
September 30, 2023

GDX’s Chronic Undervaluation

By Adam Hamilton The major gold stocks dominating their sector’s flagship GDX ETF […]
September 29, 2023

Copper and silver: the electrical metals – Richard Mills

2023.09.29 Copper is one of the most important metals with more than 20 […]
September 29, 2023

The Silver State of the Union with Shawn Khunkhun, CEO of Dolly Varden

At the Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit we had the opportunity to catch […]
September 29, 2023

China’s grip on critical minerals draws warnings at IEA gathering

By Mining.com US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the world is up against […]
September 29, 2023

2023 officially the most costly destructive wildfire season on record in BC

By The Weather Networks According to the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS), a total […]
September 28, 2023

Global Nuclear Warhead Stockpiles Growing Again

By Martin Armstrong While nuclear powers such as the United States and France are […]
September 28, 2023

The trading opportunity that could create resilience in materials

By Marcus Cooper, Spencer Holmes, and Roland Rechtsteiner The market is characterized by a significant imbalance. […]
September 27, 2023

Timing (These Assholes) Is Everything

By Quoth the Raven “Probably the first bond market to crack up will […]
September 27, 2023

China engaging in largest conventional military buildup since World War II: Australian envoy

By The Tribune A top Australian envoy on Tuesday claimed China is putting […]
September 27, 2023

We need China’s critical minerals technology, not their metals – Richard Mills

2023.09.27 North America relies heavily on foreign supplies of critical minerals — the […]
September 26, 2023

Slowing human ageing is now the subject of serious research

By The Economist “All my possessions for a moment of time.” Those, supposedly, were […]
September 25, 2023

Ranked: The World’s Biggest Oil Producers

By Pallavi Rao In 2022 oil prices peaked at more than $100 per […]
September 25, 2023

EV Infrastructure

By Felix Richter Charging infrastructure plays a pivotal role in facilitating the global shift […]
September 25, 2023

Frank Holmes – Why junior gold stocks could be gearing up for a glittering performance

By Frank Holmes Investor appetite for junior gold miners—those that produce less than […]
September 23, 2023

Max discovers new copper-silver target at CESAR – Richard Mills

2023.09.23 The importance of copper exploration projects cannot be understated. In an era […]
September 23, 2023

Copper Road intersects broad zones of visible copper mineralization at its namesake project in Ontario – Richard Mills

2023.09.23 Copper Road Resources Inc. (TSXV: CRD) is encountering promising geology at its Copper […]
September 21, 2023

Graphite One gets huge financial boost from US government grant and Bering Straits Native Corporation – Richard Mills

2023.09.21 The US Department of Defense, the government of Alaska and Bering Straits […]
September 20, 2023

Where are we in the debt cycle? – Richard Mills

2023.09.20 The debt cycle is something many North Americans have become all too […]
September 19, 2023

Renforth concludes summer prospecting program, discovers new battery metals mineralization – Richard Mills

2023.09.19 The summer prospecting program at Renforth Resources Inc.’s (CSE: RFR) (OTCQB: RFHRF) […]
September 17, 2023
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Gold, copper miners could pay 8% Federal royalties under new Biden mining proposal

By Ernest Hoffman  The Biden administration is proposing a dramatic overhaul of a 151-year-old law […]
September 17, 2023

Europe Must Get Serious About Critical Minerals

By WERNER HOYER Access to strategically important raw materials has been a key […]
September 16, 2023

A Visual Guide to AI Adoption, by Industry

By Alan Kennedy As more and more businesses pour resources into artificial intelligence, […]
September 16, 2023

Fed Money Magicians Running Out of Rabbits

By Peter Schiff Most people think everything is fine. The Fed is getting […]
September 16, 2023
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Precious Metals Summit Presentation with Shawn Khunkhun

CEO Shawn Khunkhun presented this week at the 2023 Precious Metals Summit Beaver […]
September 15, 2023

U.S. Dollar Defends Role as Global Currency

By Katharina Buchholz The de-dollarization of the world economy has been thrust back into […]
September 15, 2023

EPOW Announces Its Partner Company Graphite One Awarded $37.5m From US Government

ZIBO, China, Sept. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Sunrise New Energy Co., Ltd. […]
September 15, 2023

What Electricity Sources Power the World?

By Chris Dickert In 2022, 29,165.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity was generated […]
September 15, 2023

Currency wars versus gold standards

Russia and the Saudis are driving up oil and diesel prices. But these […]