November 20, 2024

China Doesn’t Pay Tariffs, You Do

From Schiff Gold As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the Oval […]
November 20, 2024

China targets critical metal exports in anticipation of further US tech, trade curbs

By Diego Mendoza – Yahoo News Beijing will expand export controls on critical […]
November 19, 2024

Deportations, Tariffs and Tax Cuts, Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory – Richard Mills

2024.11.14 At one of his campaign rallies Donald Trump asked: “Are you better […]
November 19, 2024

Chinese Steel Exports Are Booming But Here’s Why That Won’t Last

By Katharine Gemmell, Yihui Xie and Andy Lin – Yahoo Finance Steelmakers in […]
November 18, 2024

Will Trump roll back clean-energy spending? – Richard Mills

2024.11.09 Since Donald Trump was elected in a landslide on Tuesday, questions are […]
November 18, 2024

The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think

From The Economist People who want to do more to fight climate change and […]
November 17, 2024

US House of Representatives approves 2024 Critical Mineral Consistency Act

From Mining.com The US House of Representatives has passed the Critical Mineral Consistency Act of […]
November 15, 2024

Opinion: B.C.’s permitting crisis hitting local communities the hardest

By Keerit Jutla – BIV Sadly, time and time again I heard stories […]
November 12, 2024

America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world

From The Economist In 1971 John Connally, then the American treasury secretary, told his European counterparts […]
November 11, 2024

The crypto industry spent $197m on the US election

By Santul Nerkar – Financial Review The cryptocurrency industry treated the 2024 US […]
November 9, 2024

Recognizing China’s dominance, the US Government is finally anteing up for critical minerals funding. Three examples: Graphite One, Perpetua Resources and Lithium Americas – Richard Mills

2024.11.05 The US government has committed billions worth of loans and grants to […]
November 9, 2024

Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs

From The Economist Policy commitments made by President-elect Donald Trump often lack precision. Not […]
November 7, 2024

Trump vow on new trade war sends shockwaves through supply chain, importers scramble to move up orders

By Lori Ann LaRocco – CNBC
November 5, 2024

Weaponising gold

By Dr Farrukh Saleem – The International News Russia, China, Turkey, Poland, and India […]
November 5, 2024

A Collapse of the Russian Economy Might Lead to Chinese Aggression

By Richard E. Caroll – Modern Diplomacy While Mao Zedong once questioned the […]
November 3, 2024

US envoy sees some ‘concerning signals’ in Russia-China military cooperation in Arctic

By Gwladys Fouche – Yahoo News The United States is watching growing cooperation […]
November 1, 2024

China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals

From The Economist To decarbonise the global economy and build the data centres needed […]
November 1, 2024

China Has Bought Its Way To The Top Of The Manufacturing Industry. Where Does That Leave America?

By Ethan Karp – Forbes American manufacturers waiting for their government to subsidize […]
October 30, 2024

EU slaps tariffs on Chinese EVs, risking Beijing backlash

By Philip Blenkinsop – Reuters The European Union has decided to increase tariffs on Chinese-built electric […]
October 30, 2024

Exclusive: China considers over $1.4 trillion in extra debt over next few years

From Reuters China is considering approving next week the issuance of over 10 […]
October 25, 2024

IMF sees major manufacturing shift towards India & China

From Economic Times – India Times The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its […]
October 24, 2024

U.S. Dollar Performance Against Major Currencies in 2024

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist In 2024, the U.S. dollar has experienced […]
October 22, 2024

China iron ore imports head for record even as steel output slips

From Mining.com China is on track to import record volumes of iron ore […]
October 21, 2024

Opinion: Poor policy decisions have helped B.C.’s forestry decline

By Jock Finlayson and Ken Peacock – BIV News The forest products sector […]
October 17, 2024

Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars

From The Economist In a war with Israel, Iran would need money. Not just […]
October 15, 2024

China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback

From The Ecomonist AFTER THE collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange […]
October 15, 2024

Frightening Thought: Russia Sharing Military Technology with North Korea

By Malcolm Davis – The National Interest Russia’s North Korea Gambit: The international security environment […]
October 14, 2024

Can Australia handle an economic downturn? Failure to reinvest in mineral wealth casts doubt

By Huw Watkin – myNews Australia’s reliance on natural resources to fuel its […]
October 13, 2024

China announces more fiscal stimulus to boost economy, leaves out details on overall package size

From Reuters China pledged on Saturday to “significantly increase” debt to revive its […]
October 11, 2024

Parties’ mining and energy policies scrutinized ahead of BC election – Richard Mills

2024.10.11 While far from perfect, the BC Conservative Party appears to have the […]
October 10, 2024

Charted: How Wealth Inequality Has Changed Since 2008, by Country

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist This graphic tracks wealth inequality changes in […]
October 9, 2024

Project 2025 Offers A False Choice: Climate Action Vs. Economic Growth

By Margo T. Oge – Forbes When Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint […]
October 4, 2024

‘We’re Dying up Here.’ Inside BC’s Forest Industry Crisis

By Ben Parfitt – The Tyee Few communities in British Columbia have been […]
October 1, 2024

The folly of tariffs, trade wars – Richard Mills

2024.09.27 This week Donald Trump said he would hit John Deere with a […]
September 30, 2024

U.S. vs. China: Which Country is the World’s #1 Superpower?

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist Today, the global balance of power is […]
September 28, 2024

Ranked: World’s Biggest Superpowers in 2024

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist The global economic order is stitched together […]
September 27, 2024

Trump’s Three Arrows

From Goehring & Rozencwajg President Trump has once again pledged that, if re-elected, […]
September 26, 2024

Who Holds all these US Treasury Securities? Update on the Investors in the Ballooning US National Debt in Q2

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The US national debt has ballooned so fast to $35.3 […]
September 26, 2024

China Is Missing in America’s Election Debate

From Project Syndicate The US presidential campaign has mostly avoided discussion about what […]
September 26, 2024

Government Debt Projections for G7 Countries

By Kayla Zhu – Visual Capitalist On Sept. 18, 2024, the U.S. Federal […]
September 24, 2024

Trump water faucet comments and the Columbia River Treaty  – Richard Mills

2024.09.21 Donald Trump has once again waded into an issue he doesn’t understand […]
September 19, 2024

Three ways the US government could ‘kick the debt can down the road’ – Richard Mills

2024.09.14 Developed-world governments continue to spend beyond their means, borrowing and printing money […]
September 19, 2024

Donald Trump claims B.C.’s ‘very large faucet’ could help California’s water woes

By Amy Judd – Global News Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced an idea late last week […]
September 18, 2024

Recession Not Yet: Retail Sales Help Push Up Atlanta Fed GDPNow to +3.0% for Q3 GDP

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET As retail sales rose despite dropping prices of goods, inflation-adjusted […]
September 17, 2024

A cut — and then what?

By Lewis Krauskopf, Prinz Magtulis, Pasit Kongkunakornkul and Vineet Sachdev – Reuters How stocks, bonds and the dollar […]
September 16, 2024

The scary new map of the South China Sea

From The Economist On August 31st a Chinese cutter rammed the largest patrol ship […]
September 16, 2024

‘Buy America’ Feud Risks 200 Mile-an-Hour Rail From Vegas to LA

From Bloomberg For nearly 20 years, a plan has been brewing for a high-speed […]
September 16, 2024

Why Fed rate cuts matter to world markets

From Reuters When the Federal Reserve delivers a widely-anticipated interest rate cut on […]
September 15, 2024

After Project 2025, Knives Are Out for Heritage — On the Right

By Michael Schaffer – Politico Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris mentions Project 2025 — […]
September 13, 2024

High-speed rail: Electric leap forward or multi-billion-dollar boondoggle? – Richard Mills

2024.09.11 For North Americans, one of the highlights of overseas travel is often […]
September 10, 2024

Xi Is Paralyzed by China’s Economic Mess. The World Will Pay.

By William Pesek – Barron’s Just about everyone has a view on China’s economic […]
September 2, 2024

Biden administration considering price support to backstop critical minerals projects

From Mining.com In an effort to support US critical minerals projects, the Biden […]
September 2, 2024

China Is Playing Games With the US in the Pacific

By Tobin Harshaw – Bloomberg “Briefly stated, the question is: Should Washington deprioritize, […]
September 1, 2024

Ukraine unleashes mass drone attack while Russia strikes Kharkiv and Sumy

From CBC Russia says it intercepted nearly 160 drones; missile strikes in Ukraine […]
August 30, 2024

How Fascism Happens

By Mark Jones – Project Syndicate In the face of renewed threats to […]
August 30, 2024

Trump’s economic proposals could cost trillions, study finds

From YouTube Former President Donald Trump’s tax and spending proposals could send the […]
August 28, 2024

The Other Proliferation

By Richard Haass – Project Syndicate But as important as this scenario is, […]
August 28, 2024

America’s Coast Guard Marches North With A Big New Alaskan Base

By Craig Hooper – Forbes In a first hesitant step towards reinvigorating the […]
August 28, 2024

Diplomacy, Distrust, and Nuclear War

By Carus Michaelangelo – Mises Wire This week, for the third straight month, the […]
August 26, 2024

A Collapse of the Russian Economy Might Lead to Chinese Aggression

By Richard E. Caroll – Modern Diplomacy The Russian invasion of Ukraine has […]
August 25, 2024

US policy to increase mineral production must include revisiting tariffs

From Mining.com Regardless of the next president, tariffs will remain a part of […]
August 20, 2024

How the huge hike in U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber will impact B.C.

By Derrick Penner – Vancouver Sun U.S. officials warned Canada in February that […]
August 19, 2024

Why trade tension between DRC and Zambia is escalating

From news24 The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) imposed a 12-month ban on […]
August 18, 2024

What happened to the Fed’s gold? – Richard Mills

2024.08.13 As the richest nation and the world’s largest economy, it is hardly […]
August 18, 2024

Goldman Cuts US Recession Risk Following Retail Sales, Jobs Data

By Alan Goldstein – Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists lowered the probability of […]
August 17, 2024

Visualizing the Rising Cost of Government Debt

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist Today’s high interest rate environment is making […]
August 16, 2024

Inflation Cools to Lowest Level Since March 2021

By Felix Richter – Statista Little more than a week after fears of […]
August 16, 2024

Reluctantly, America eyes building more nuclear weapons

From The Economist The nuclear de-escalation that followed the cold war is over, the […]
August 13, 2024

America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race

From The Economist IN THE PENTAGON these days, those who plan for Doomsday […]
August 12, 2024

Charted: U.S. National Debt Reaches $35 Trillion

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist The U.S. national debt hit a new […]
August 11, 2024

A global recession is not in prospect

From The Economist A weak jobs report in America has raised fears that […]
August 10, 2024

Russian Demographics

By Jennifer Sor – Business Insider
August 9, 2024

Steel, Aluminum Makers Push Trudeau Government on China Tariffs

By Laura Dhillon Kane and Erik Hertzberg – Bloomberg Steel and aluminum producers in Canada are […]
August 7, 2024

The decline of the petrodollar not the greenback – Richard Mills

2024.08.03 The Bretton Woods financial system collapsed in 1971 when President Nixon severed […]
August 7, 2024

Russia’s Arctic Energy Expansion: A Geopolitical and Economic Gambit

By Simon Watkins – Oilprice.com The continued use of the Arctic Northern Sea Route […]
August 6, 2024

China needs to pick a side, and it just might pick the West

By CHEE MENG TAN – Asia Times Signs that China is already pivoting to […]
August 6, 2024

Drone Wars

By Charles Ferguson – Project Syndicate In Ukraine, expensive manned systems such as […]
August 2, 2024

US delays tariff hikes, reflecting domestic opposition: experts

By Qi Xijia – Global Times The Office of the US Trade Representative […]
August 1, 2024

America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission

From The Economist GENERAL CHARLES “CQ” BROWN, the chairman of the joint chiefs […]
July 30, 2024

The National Security Twist in an EV Maker’s Graphite Deal

By Liam Denning – Bloomberg The agreement between Lucid and Graphite One shows […]
July 29, 2024

The Decline and Fall of the Petrodollar?

By CARLA NORRLÖF – Project Syndicate Although Saudi Arabia has been pricing its […]
July 28, 2024

Canada’s “worst decline in 40 years”

By Peter St. Onge – Mises Institute Canada’s standard of living is on […]
July 28, 2024

How a Year of the Fed’s High Rates Has Affected the US Economy

From Bloomberg In the year since the Federal Reserve brought interest rates to a more […]
July 25, 2024

What, and who, caused the inflation the Fed is currently fighting? – Richard Mills

2024.07.25 The weaker labor market and rising unemployment rate, which hit 4.1% in […]
July 25, 2024

NATO finds gaping holes in Europe’s defences

By Sabine Siebold and Matthias Williams – Reuters The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. […]
July 22, 2024

Mineral-rich DRC Province Suspends Mining Activities

From Barrons Authorities in one of the most mineral-rich provinces in east DR […]
July 21, 2024

The Foreign Investors Who Bought the Recklessly Ballooning US Debt: July Update

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET The recklessly ballooning US national debt is now just a […]
July 19, 2024

US has second-longest mine development timeline in the world, S&P Global says

From Mining.com According to a new report by S&P Global, the United States […]
July 17, 2024

The King of the Americans

By Steve Pincus In her dissenting opinion in Trump v. United States, Supreme […]
July 16, 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 16, 2024

Xi Jinping’s Great Economic Rewiring Is Cushioning China’s Slowdown

From Bloomberg China’s twin-track economy is generating doom-and-gloom headlines about domestic woes one […]
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 10, 2024

Inequality

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

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 […]