December 20, 2023

On average, electric vehicles are less reliable than other cars and trucks, Consumer Reports finds

By Tom Krisher –  The Associated Press Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, […]
December 20, 2023

Canada needs hundreds of thousands of public EV charging ports.

By Katie Nicholson, Carly Thomas –  CBC News As part of the federal government’s net-zero […]
December 20, 2023

Funds less negative on copper as supply landscape shifts

By Mining.com Copper supply, once again, is turning out to be a lot […]
December 20, 2023

The Retreat of Glaciers in the 21st Century

By Anna Fleck – Statista A recent UNESCO study on protected glaciers around the […]
December 19, 2023

A Copper Bug asks ‘who got copper’? – Richard Mills

2023.12.19 The copper price has climbed to within spitting distance of 4 bucks […]
December 19, 2023

Dow Jones Still Far from Record When Priced in Gold

By Peter Schiff – SCHIFFGOLD  The Dow Jones index hit record highs last […]
December 19, 2023

Visualizing $97 Trillion of Global Debt in 2023

By Niccolo Conte – Visual Capitalist Global government debt is projected to hit $97.1 […]
December 19, 2023

Central banks brought excessive inflation. Now they bring stagnation

By Daniel Lacalle Although the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank’s message regarding interest rate cuts […]
December 19, 2023

US Frackers Return to Haunt OPEC’s Pricing Strategy

By Yahoo Finance (Bloomberg) — OPEC’s one-time nemesis — US shale — is […]
December 19, 2023

Visualizing the Demand for Battery Raw Materials

By Visual Capitalsist Metals play a pivotal role in the energy transition, as […]
December 18, 2023

Max Resource Corp. (TSXV: MAX): Unveiling Rich Resources in Colombia

By Brett MatichPresident & CEO As we approach the close of the year, […]
December 18, 2023

Will Powell’s Pivot Bail Out Biden?

By Tho Bishop – Mises Wire For the last few years, Jerome Powell […]
December 18, 2023

Canada to Announce 2035 All-EV Sales Mandate, Reports Say

By Christine Dobby – Bloomberg The Canadian government is poised to pass rules requiring […]
December 17, 2023

Americans Won’t Let Inflation Spoil Their Appetite

By Felix Richter – Statista Despite inflation causing financial headaches in many households across […]
December 17, 2023

How the Oil and Gas Industry Spends Its Profits

By Selin Oğuz – Visual Capitalist 2022 was a highly profitable year for […]
December 17, 2023

Agency founded to fight terrorism views mining and critical minerals as vital to economic, national security of the homeland.

By Metal Tech News For most Americans, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security […]
December 17, 2023

Russia Uranium Supplier Warns US Clients to Brace for Ban

By Ari Natter Tenex, a Russian state-owned uranium company, is warning American customers that […]
December 16, 2023

Graphite One Announces Made in America plan to fast track US synthetic graphite EV battery anode production – Richard Mills

2023.12.16 Graphite One (TSXV:GPH, OTCQX:GPHOF) is advancing its Graphite Creek property, situated along the […]
December 16, 2023

Billionaire Miner Friedland Warns of a Copper ‘Train Wreck’ as Supply Stalls

By James Attwood and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg Copper is poised to follow other commodities upended by […]
December 16, 2023

Billionaire Mining Magnate Friedland Says $15,000-a-Ton Copper Needed to Spur New Mines

By Alix Steel, Dani Burger, and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg Copper prices need to nearly double in […]
December 15, 2023
Planet earth

NASA Sensor Produces First Global Maps of Surface Minerals in Arid Regions

By NASA EMIT delivers first-of-a-kind maps of minerals in Earth’s dust-source areas, enabling […]
December 15, 2023

The State of Copper Recycling in the U.S.

By Visual Capitalist In 2022, the total copper scrap recycled in the U.S. […]
December 15, 2023

The Fed Surrenders to Inflation!

By Michael Maharrey The Federal Reserve just surrendered to inflation. Fed officials won’t call […]
December 14, 2023

Gold is the solution to currency debasement – Richard Mills

2023.12.14 I’ve been right in my prediction that the Fed would pause in […]
December 14, 2023

Keeping Chinese parts out of American EV’s – Richard Mills

2023.12.14 In this ‘Under the spotlight’ written interview Rick Mills, editor of the […]
December 13, 2023

Developing Countries Receiving the Most Loans from China

By Marcus Lu According to the IMF, the most indebted poor countries in […]
December 13, 2023

Streetwise Interview: Richard Mills talks Dolly Varden, Graphite One, Max Resources

By Streetwise Reports We’re gonna go back to printing money,” he said. “Democrats […]
December 12, 2023

The AI Revolution: How VERSES AI is Shaping the Future

By Momentum Letter As we navigate the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) […]
December 12, 2023

A Farewell to Cash

By Willem H. Buiter – Project Syndicate While proponents of central bank digital […]
December 11, 2023

Gold Strength Is Fiat Money Weakness

By Daniel Lacalle The year is ending with a significant level of optimism among […]
December 11, 2023

We followed an old-growth detective into the forest to fact-check B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees

By  Sarah Cox – The Narwhal When conservationist Eddie Petryshen learned BC Timber […]
December 11, 2023

Outflows of Gold from ETFs Slowed Significantly in November

By Schiffgold The flow of metal out of gold-backed ETFs slowed significantly in […]
December 11, 2023

The Question is Not “When” but “Why” the Fed Would Cut Rates with a Labor Market this Strong and Wage Growth Accelerating

By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street So this was not a rate-cut jobs report […]
December 9, 2023

Renforth completes in-fill drill program at its Surimeau Battery Metals Project, setting up for 2024 maiden resource – Richard Mills

2023-12-09 A junior resource company with a potentially district-scale battery metals property has […]
December 8, 2023

A new 66 million-year history of carbon dioxide offers little comfort for today

By Columbia Climate School – Phy.org A massive new review of ancient atmospheric carbon-dioxide […]
December 8, 2023

Jet stream will get faster as climate change continues, study finds

By Louise Lerner – Phys.org A new study in Nature Climate Change takes one of the first […]
December 8, 2023

Russian uranium import ban teed up for US House floor vote

By Ari Natter Legislation that would bar the import of enriched Russian uranium […]
December 7, 2023

Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove ocean microplastics can be swept inland as air pollution

By Kayla Hounsell –  CBC News As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students […]
December 7, 2023

COLOMBIA – Mining Authority Defines the Country’s New Strategic Minerals

With the intention of moving decisively forward in the materialization of the new […]
December 7, 2023

The Critical Minerals to China, EU, and U.S. National Security

By Bruno Venditti – Visual Capitalist Elements Governments formulate lists of critical minerals […]
December 7, 2023

“Spiraling Out Of Control”: The U.S. Debt Crisis Goes Parabolic

By Quoth the Raven Over the weekend I had the pleasure of talking […]
December 6, 2023

Behind the US manufacturing boom – Richard Mills

2023.12.06 Manufacturing has always been an integral part of American life. Paul Revere […]
December 6, 2023

Visualizing the Rise of the U.S. Dollar Since the 19th Century

By James Eagle As the world’s reserve currency, the U.S. dollar made up 58.4% of […]
December 6, 2023

US Joins 21 Other Countries in Pledge to Triple Nuclear Energy Capacity by 2050

By Aldgra Fredly – The Epoch Times The United States and 21 other countries […]
December 5, 2023

Gold not yet, copper will retest $4 – Richard Mills

2023.12.05 Gold and copper have both been on a tear lately for different […]
December 5, 2023

Regulators Hope You Don’t Notice The Massive Hidden Losses In The Banking System

By Paul H. Kupiec – AEI The Secretary of the Treasury and the Financial […]
December 5, 2023

Silver Looks Like a Real Bargain Right Now

By Shiffgold At the current price, silver is a real bargain. Gold went on a […]
December 5, 2023

A US Nuclear Revival – and Net Zero – Depends on Westinghouse

By Jonathan Ford – Bloomberg Climate change and geopolitics have restored the fortunes of […]
December 4, 2023

Will High Interest Rates Trigger a Debt Disaster?

By James K. Galbraith – Project Syndicate Once again, larger deficits and higher […]
December 4, 2023

China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country

By The Economist To wean their country off imported oil and gas, and in […]
December 4, 2023

The world’s strongest material could be used to make clean drinking water

By Rebecca Cairns – CNN Often referred to as a “miracle material,” graphene is one […]
December 2, 2023

Why commodities are sailing into a perfect storm of higher prices – Richard Mills

2023-12-02 While there is disagreement over its causes, the reality of global warming […]
December 2, 2023

The Critical Minerals to China, EU, and U.S. National Security

By Bruno Venditti Governments formulate lists of critical minerals according to their industrial […]
December 2, 2023

Is Earth’s Magnetic Field on The Verge of Flipping Over? An Expert Explains.

By Ofer Cohen – Science Alert The Earth’s magnetic field plays a big […]
November 30, 2023

$7.6 trillion of US government debt will mature in the next year, adding pressure on rates

By Business Insider Incentive to cut? $7.6 trillion of US government debt will […]
November 30, 2023

US Trade deficit 2024

By Alasdair Macleod No one is talking about the US trade deficit in […]
November 30, 2023

As the US Treasury Runs Out of Creditors, Its Options Dwindle

By Jonathan Newman – Mises Wire Are the chickens coming home to roost […]
November 30, 2023

Marc Faber: Inflation Is Here to Stay

By SchiffGold During a recent interview at the 2023 Precious Metals Summit Zurich […]
November 30, 2023

Real Interest Rates

By GoldPriceForcast  Gold prices tend to increase significantly only during the periods of […]
November 29, 2023

Hard landings Recession predictions wrong – Richard Mills

2023.11.29 For over a year now the main topic of discussion has been […]
November 29, 2023

The Panama Canal Is So Backed Up Ships Are Rerouting Through the Suez

By Peter Millard – Bloomberg The Panama Canal Authority, which normally handles about 36 ships […]
November 29, 2023

Gold surges, dollar declines on Fed official’s remark & geopolitical unrest

By Gary Wagner – Kitco A major component of today’s strong upside move […]
November 29, 2023

Stantec to design C$1 billion Li-ion battery plant in British Columbia

By Mining.com Bringing advanced manufacturing and hundreds of jobs to British Columbia, E-One […]
November 28, 2023

After Ukraine, Realpolitik Will Be the New Interventionist Status Quo

By Jeremy Powell – MISES WIRE From the onset of the current Israeli-Hamas […]
November 28, 2023

If QT Is Doing This, No Wonder Stocks Are Rallying

By Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge Quantitative tightening isn’t working. At least not in the […]
November 27, 2023

Lithium “Shortage” Bubble Implodes (Again), Price Collapsed 77% in a Year, as Demand and Production Both Surged

By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street Who needs fundamentals when you have rampant […]
November 27, 2023

Researchers create a new tectonic model of the Earth and it’s beautiful

By Mihai Andrei – ZME Science The Earth’s surface is a complex mosaic […]
November 27, 2023

Uranium sector ‘scrambling’ to fill supply gap

By Colin McClelland – Mining.com The price of uranium will hit triple-digits for […]
November 27, 2023

Two-State Solution

By Carl Bildt – Project Syndicate After more than a month of relentless […]
November 27, 2023

No, Don’t Do It!

By James Rickards – Daily Reckoning Almost 10 years ago, I sat in a […]
November 26, 2023

How China cornered the market for critical minerals and can the West break it’s near monopoly on these metals? – Richard Mills

2023.11.26 China is already gobbling up copper and copper ore at an incredible […]
November 26, 2023

When Does Federal Debt Reach Unsustainable Levels?

Penn Wharton University of Pennsylvania PWBM estimates that—even under myopic expectations—financial markets cannot […]
November 26, 2023

Fed Rate Cuts Will Not Save The Economy

By Daniel Lacalle – MISES WIRE Market participants who assume rate cuts will […]
November 26, 2023

The Shift to the Middle is Coming

 By Martin Armstrong – Armstrong Economics All the media is so anti-common sense […]
November 25, 2023

Global EV mandates would require 388 new mines: Fraser Institute

By Nelson Bennett – Mining.com Meeting the 2030 targets for electric vehicle mandates […]
November 24, 2023

Our Megathreatened Age

By Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate It is now common knowledge that economic, […]
November 24, 2023

Graphene’s Moment has Arrived

By Casey Luskin – Mind Matters In the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman […]
November 23, 2023

Max Resource samples high-grade copper-silver from newly discovered AM-08 target – Richard Mills

2023.11.23 In mineral exploration, a promising discovery can often be validated by the […]
November 23, 2023

Copper supply rethink as smelter treatment charges fall

By Andy Home – Reuters LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Chilean copper miner Antofagasta (ANTO.L) last […]
November 23, 2023

Exposing the copper surplus myth – Richard Mills

2023.11.22 Commodity analysts predictions are usually wrong about copper supply, often predicting a […]
November 23, 2023

Copper Inventory Not Signaling Recession

By Goehring & Rozencwajg Driven by concerns of an impending global recession, copper […]
November 23, 2023

Fed Hike After A Long Pause? It’s Rare, But It Happens

By Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge It’s unusual for the Federal Reserve to hike […]
November 23, 2023

Even Higher for Longer if Markets Keep Fighting Central Banks, ECB’s Wunsch Explains. The Fed Has Same Problem

By Wolf Richter – Wolf Street The Fed, the ECB, the BOC, the […]
November 23, 2023

Tariffs; A failure of leadership

By Shang-Jin Wei – Project Syndicate Beyond undermining the rules-based international trading system, […]
November 22, 2023

China’s MMG Clinches Coveted Copper Mine With $1.9 Billion Deal

By Sybilla Gross, Bloomberg China’s MMG Ltd. has clinched one of the biggest copper […]
November 20, 2023

Biden and Xi Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit

By Stephen S. Roach US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s […]
November 19, 2023

October CPI Cools; Does This Really Mean the Fed Won the War?

By Michael Maharrey For the first time in several months, the Consumer Price […]
November 19, 2023

Graphene ‘gold’: MIT finds new properties in pencil lead

By Rizwan Choudhury A team of physicists from MIT has achieved a remarkable […]
November 18, 2023

Positioning in metals for economic recovery – Richard Mills

2023.11.18 “If it bleeds it leads” is a well-worn expression for describing how […]
November 18, 2023

Chinese Copper Smelter Inks First Drop in Fees in 3 Years

By Bloomberg News Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc and Chinese smelter Jinchuan Group agreed to […]
November 18, 2023

Where Have All the Foreign Buyers Gone for U.S. Treasury Debt? – WSJ

By The Wall STreet Journal Overseas private investors and central banks now own […]
November 17, 2023

U.S. Consumers Spend More Bucks for the Same Bang

By Felix Richter U.S. retail sales declined for the first time since March last […]
November 17, 2023

Mapped: Food Unaffordability Across the World

By Our World in Data Food is the palate’s poetry, the body’s fuel, […]
November 16, 2023

AOTH’s interest rate predictions have been bang on – Richard Mills

2023.11.16 At Ahead of the Herd, we pride ourselves on being right, when […]
November 16, 2023

All the Metals We Mined in One Visualization

By Bruno Venditti Major industries that directly consume processed mineral materials contribute 14% […]
November 15, 2023

Surimeau prospecting results advance battery metals and lithium exploration; Victoria drilling delivers mineralization – Richard Mills

2023.11.15 This week, Renforth Resources (CSE:RFR, OTCQB:RFHRF, FSE:9RR)  updated shareholders on results from the […]
November 15, 2023

Interventionism

By Connor O’Keeffe Interventionism creates a mixed economy between socialism and capitalism where […]
November 15, 2023

Interest Consumes 40% of Income Taxes, U.S. Treasury’s Unsustainable Path Raises Default and Inflation Fears

By Citizen Watch Report The interest payments on the national debt alone used […]
November 15, 2023

Inflation Cools as Consumer Prices Stagnate in October

By Felix Richter Inflation in the U.S. cooled down more than expected in […]
November 15, 2023

Brain’s Recycling System: Researchers Unlock the Secret to Neuron Renewal

By Aubern University Department of Physics Researchers at Auburn University have achieved a […]