June 18, 2025

US-China rare earths deal, and more DoD money will not loosen China’s grip on military-grade rare earth magnets – Richard Mills

2025.06.18 Rare earths have been in the news lately, with a deal between […]
June 17, 2025

Israeli attack on Iran a major failure of US power and diplomacy

By Bill Emmott – Asia Times If America genuinely did not want Israel to […]
June 17, 2025

Game on: Ford’s Bill 5 becomes law in Ontario

By Tamer Elbokl, PhD – Quartex Ontario’s truly “Big Beautiful” Bill 5, also […]
June 15, 2025

How Canada emerged as the safest port in a storm of global trade

By Peter Armstrong – CBC News When the trade war began in February, […]
June 14, 2025

Majority of Canadians dislike US in face of trade policy and sovereignty threats

From The Guardian A majority of Canadians hold unfavourable views towards the US, […]
June 14, 2025

Canada could gain as global investors rethink U.S. emphasis: BNP economist

From CTV News Canada stands to gain as global investors rethink their focus […]
June 10, 2025

Canada vows to reach NATO spending goal

From YouTube Canada is pledging to spend two per cent of its GDP […]
June 10, 2025

China’s central bank buys gold for seventh straight month in May

From Kitco News China’s central bank announced on Saturday that it had added gold […]
June 7, 2025

U.S. metals tariff hike backfires, sparks condemnation and countermeasures

From CGTN The latest U.S. tariff hikes on steel and aluminum imports, from […]
June 6, 2025

OECD Cuts Global Growth Forecast in Light of Tariff Threat

By Felix Richter – Statista The global economy is projected to grow slower […]
June 5, 2025

Posthaste: Canada to take brunt of one of the worst slowdowns since the pandemic, warns OECD

By Pamela Heaven – Yahoo finance The global economy is headed for a […]
June 4, 2025

What Would It Take for Canada to Build Its Own Fighter Jets Again?

By Wesley Wark – The Walrus What happens when you lob a grenade into one […]
June 2, 2025

‘Direct attack on Canadian workers’: Steel and aluminum sector reacts to Trump doubling tariffs

From CTV News U.S. President Donald Trump said he will double the tariffs […]
June 2, 2025

‘Grim’ risk of nuclear arms race as US presses for defence budget boost

By Andrew Tillett – Financial Review Defence Minister Richard Marles is warning that […]
June 1, 2025

Minister defends Canada’s sovereignty as Trump says Golden Dome would cost ‘zero dollars’ for 51st state

By Catharine Tunney –  CBC News Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada will control […]
May 30, 2025

Carney’s Defense Spending Will Add Up to $46 Billion to Economy, CIBC Says

From Bloomberg The Canadian government’s planned C$31 billion defense spending boost through 2029 […]
May 29, 2025

Enthusiasm for new B.C. mining plan despite few details

By Penny Daflos – CTV News First Nations leaders and the mining industry are […]
May 28, 2025

Newmont invests $5.8M in Tahltan Nation communities in British Columbia 

From Minibng.com Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) commemorated the 10th anniversary of the […]
May 27, 2025

Charted: How Canadians Feel About Traveling to the U.S.

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist The American–Canadian relationship is unraveling a bit. […]
May 27, 2025

Trump’s latest Wall Street showdown pushes investor scepticism to the brink

From The Guardian Donald Trump calls his tax and spending plans “big, beautiful,” and a […]
May 26, 2025

Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic

By Katya Adler – BBC As soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of […]
May 24, 2025

Deficits hasten fiscal death spiral – Richard Mills

2025.05.23 People get confused about the difference between the deficit and the debt. […]
May 24, 2025

Sleepwalking Into a New Imperial Age

By Ricardo Hausmann – Project Syndicate In 1651, Thomas Hobbes – deeply affected […]
May 22, 2025

One Wrong Decision and Everything Turns to Dust

05/17/2025•Mises Wire•George Ford Smith “The best way to destroy an enemy . . […]
May 21, 2025

How critical minerals became Beijing’s ultimate trump card in US-China trade war

By Sylvia Ma and Fan Chen – myNews Beijing is still tightening its […]
May 19, 2025

China’s “Orbital” Nuclear Missiles That Could Hit The U.S. From Space Rattles Pentagon; Why U.S. Fears FOBS?

By Sakshi Tiwari – The Eurasian Times If the threat posed by a […]
May 18, 2025

Tariffs hitting shoppers in Canada and U.S., with some prices set to rise at Loblaw stores, Walmart

From CBC A trip to the store is about to become more expensive […]
May 15, 2025

Video – Navigating Economic Uncertainty: The Looming Threat of Stagflation

I believe the United States current economic policies are driving us towards stagflation. […]
May 15, 2025

Copper price supported by Chinese demand, tariffs hiatus, easing of geopolitical tensions – Richard Mills

2025-05-09 China is by far the largest copper consumer and is the world’s […]
May 15, 2025

Ray Dalio: You think $35 to $3,500 per ounce is a big move? Peanuts compared to what’s next

From The Jerusalem Post For decades, the Bretton Woods system had anchored the […]
May 15, 2025

Mark Carney says Canadians are not ‘impressed’ by UK’s invite to Trump

By Ana Faguy – BBC Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Canadians […]
May 14, 2025

U.S.-China trade war pushed global supply chain near breaking point, new data shows

By Lori Ann LaRocco – CNBC The trade truce reached between the U.S. […]
May 14, 2025

How real is the risk of nuclear war between India and Pakistan?

By Soutik Biswas – BBC In the latest India-Pakistan stand-off, there were no […]
May 11, 2025

The plight of the American consumer – Richard Mills

2025.05.07 When it comes to financial news, stocks, bonds, interest rates and inflation […]
May 11, 2025

Along the Canada border, small-town America feels sting of Trump’s trade war

By Ana Faguy – BBC Border towns noticed almost instantly when US President […]
May 11, 2025

Why China’s military is the big winner from India-Pakistan attacks

By Mehul Srivastava and Charles Clover – Financial Review India and Pakistan’s biggest […]
May 11, 2025

Nobel-prize-winning economist says US trade deal was a mistake for UK

From YouTube As more details of the trade deal between the UK and […]
May 10, 2025

Ranked: The Import Dependency of Major Economies

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist In 2024, $24.7 trillion in goods were […]
May 10, 2025

Charting U.S. Trade Relationships

By Julia Wendling – Visual Capitalist As global policy uncertainty continues to dominate […]
May 7, 2025

China announces sweeping measures to ease policy in bid to shore up trade-war hit economy

By Anniek Bao – CNBC China’s central bank and financial regulators announced sweeping […]
May 7, 2025

What would happen if Alberta voted to separate from Canada?

By Timm Bruch – CTV News As the threat of a separation referendum hangs […]
May 6, 2025

‘You’ll feel it’: How Trump’s policies are hammering the dollar

By Sam Sutton – Politico President Donald Trump’s threats to upend international trade and […]
May 5, 2025

Copper Rises as China Says It’s Weighing Trade Talks With US

By Eddie Spence and Yvonne Yue Li – Yahoo finance Copper rose for […]
May 5, 2025

‘Do not expect white smoke’: Carney lowers expectations for first Trump sit-down

By Mike Blanchfield – Politico Canada is hitting back at President Donald Trump’s repeated […]
May 4, 2025

A Forgotten Battle Exposes Why Canada Might Want the JAS 39 Gripen over F-35

By Reuben Johnson – 19fortyfive Air forces equipped with Western fighter aircraft frequently […]
May 3, 2025

The Roman Way to Trash a Republic

By Michelle Berenfeld – The Atlantic In about 80 years, roughly the same length […]
April 30, 2025

China’s critical minerals dominance threatens US military supply chain, report says

By Liu Zhen – myNews China’s tightening export controls on critical minerals could […]
April 29, 2025

Echoes of History Navigating Today’s Global Challenges

Domestically, the United States grapples with its unsustainable debt and deficit levels, whispers […]
April 29, 2025

U.S. agriculture isn’t nearing a trade war tariff crisis, it’s in a ‘full-blown crisis already,’ farmers say

By Lori Ann LaRocco – CNBC The clock is ticking on trade deals that […]
April 28, 2025

The Death of Globalization

By James Rickards – Daily Reconing There is little question that the new U.S. […]
April 27, 2025

China-India Clash Over Chinese Claims to Tibetan Water

By: Brahma Chellaney – Asia-Pacific Journal If water geopolitics were to spur interstate tensions […]
April 26, 2025

The JAS 39 Gripen Fighter Has a Clear Message for the F-35

By Caleb Larson – 19fortyfive The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is Sweden’s front-ling […]
April 24, 2025

Stagflation for the Ages

By Stephen S. Roach – Project Syndicate The supply-chain disruptions during the pandemic […]
April 23, 2025

Here Be Dragons, The Complexity Of Everything – a Bob Moriarty Exclusive Interview #3

2025.04.20 Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: What are your sentiment […]
April 23, 2025

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

By Frank Langfitt – npr.org A survey of more than 500 political scientists […]
April 20, 2025

US manufacturing output slows in March; tariffs cloud hangs over factories

From Reuters  U.S. manufacturing production rose moderately in March and could decelerate further […]
April 18, 2025

WTO: Chinese Exports to U.S. Expected to Drop by 77%

By Anna Fleck – Statista Chinese exports to the United States are expected to […]
April 17, 2025

Who’s the Culprit Behind the Alarming Move in Treasuries?

By Ed Ponsi – The Street Pro The U.S. has a massive debt, […]
April 16, 2025

Geologist warns prospect of a mineral bonanza in Greenland is a mirage

By Jakob Illeborg – CBS News Greenland has likely received more international news attention in […]
April 16, 2025

Trump tariffs won’t lead supply chains back to U.S., companies will go low-tariff globe-hopping: CNBC survey

By Lori Ann LaRocco – CNBC If China is going to lose some […]
April 15, 2025

China weaponizes rare earths in retaliation for escalated US tariffs – Richard Mills

2025.04.10 The Trump administration on April 2nd rolled out “reciprocal tariffs” on countries […]
April 15, 2025

China’s Xi Sees Opportunity. He’s Calling Trump’s Tariff Bluff.

By William Pesek – Barron’s It’s nice that Trump is delaying most tariffs […]
April 14, 2025

Graphite without Geopolitics – Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

From YouTube Anthony Huston and his team at G1 should be congratulated for […]
April 14, 2025

The Case Against the F-35

https://mises.org/mises-wire/case-against-f-35 04/12/2025•Mises Wire•Patrick Barron In the past few months several reputable aviation magazines, […]
April 14, 2025

Mapped: How China Overtook the U.S. in Global Trade (2000–2024)

By Ehsan Soltani – Visual Capitalist From 2000 to 2024, U.S. trade grew […]
April 13, 2025

Brazil may emerge as winner from sweeping US tariffs, economists say

By Marcela Ayres – Reuters Sweeping U.S. tariffs could prove relatively advantageous for Brazil, Latin America’s […]
April 9, 2025

Devaluing the US Dollar: How to Make America Poorer Again

https://mises.org/mises-wire/devaluing-us-dollar-how-make-america-poorer-again 04/08/2025•Mises Wire• Daniel Lacalle In recent days, we have read numerous articles […]
April 5, 2025

President Trump’s Metal Tariffs Morass

04/04/202 Power & Market Stephen Anderson https://mises.org/power-market/president-trumps-metal-tariffs-morass President Trump issued separate presidential proclamations […]
April 5, 2025

Mapped: Which U.S. States Import the Most from China?

By Dorothy Neufeld – Visual Capitalist As trade wars intensify, some states are […]
April 3, 2025

Make Europe Great Again trades are gaining traction

From Reuters A more independent, less U.S.-reliant Europe is taking shape and investors […]
April 2, 2025

Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining

From The Economist Donald Trump wants minerals, and lots of them. America’s president is […]
April 2, 2025

As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers shunning their products

From Reuters The “Buy Canadian” movement is sending new ripples of concern through […]
April 1, 2025

A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards

By Laura Paddison – CNN Climate Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil […]
March 30, 2025

US building walls while China erecting windmills

By Jianxi Liu – Asia Times Dozens of foreign CEOs are gathering in Beijing […]
March 29, 2025

B.C. has a new policy for staking mining claims. Why doesn’t anyone like it?

By Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood – The Narwhal British Columbia has a new framework for […]
March 27, 2025

A World Turned Inside Out

By Stephen S. Roach – Project Syndicate The geostrategic shock that has accompanied […]
March 26, 2025

Metals, cars, beef and beer: How tariffs will hurt Americans – Richard Mills

2025.03.22 The world is bracing for April 2nd. That is the date that […]
March 25, 2025

Canadian megaprojects are back on the table, but who will pay for them? – Richard Mills

2025.03.15 “Maybe the one good thing about Trump is the slap in the […]
March 25, 2025

What should investors own in a recession? – Richard Mills

2025.03.13 Donald Trump’s erratic and aggressive economic policies have created uncertainty in the […]
March 23, 2025

How Trump uses disinformation in his trade war with Canada

By Evan Dyer – CBC News “Nobody knows that Canada is charging our […]
March 22, 2025

Ranked: The World’s Fastest Growing Economies in 2025

By Marcus Lu – Visual Capitalist Economy Which economies are set to grow […]
March 21, 2025

A new nuke wave washes over the world

By Colin Demarest – AXIOS The big picture: Decades of order now feel disordered. […]
March 21, 2025

Trump’s Crypto Plan Is Neither Strategic Nor a Reserve

By Dennis Kelleher – Barron’s President Donald Trump recently announced he would create what […]
March 20, 2025

Carney’s Liberals Surge in Polls With Canada’s Election About to Start

From Bloomberg Canada’s Liberal Party has jumped into a lead in some public […]
March 20, 2025

Are we heading into a recession? Here’s what the data shows

By Jasmine Cui – NBC News Trade tensions have torn into the markets. With stocks […]
March 19, 2025

Who Holds the Ballooning US Government Debt, even as the Fed and Foreign Holders Unloaded Treasury Securities in Q4?

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET When the incredibly ballooning US national debt reached $36.22 trillion […]
March 19, 2025

A US-imposed 100 percent tariff on BRICS countries would cause lower GDP, higher inflation than otherwise for all

By Warwick J. McKibbin – PIIE.com President Donald J. Trump has threatened to impose […]
March 17, 2025

The Week in Polling: One in five Conservatives would vote for Canada to be the 51st state; 44 percent of Canadians want to join EU; Carney Liberals and Conservatives now in dead heat

By Aiden Muscovitch – The Hub A recent poll from Angus Reid found […]
March 16, 2025

Canada faces dual adversaries on its northern frontier: W5 embeds with the Canadian military in the Arctic

By Jon Woodward – CTV News It was a blunt lesson about things in […]
March 15, 2025

If you think the current outlook is bad, just wait until the White House can’t find anyone to buy its debt, warns Ray Dalio

By Eleanor Pringle – Fortune If you think the current outlook is bad, […]
March 14, 2025

Toward a North American Economic Union

By Nouriel Roubini – Project Syndicate To resolve their current tensions, Canada, Mexico, […]
March 12, 2025

Who Sells the Most Weapons?

By Anna Fleck – Statista The United States was the world’s largest arms […]
March 11, 2025

America’s Faustian Trade Bargain

By Kenneth Jacobs – Project Syndicate On a recent trip to Germany – […]
March 8, 2025

Which US states could be hit hardest by Trump’s Canada and Mexico tariffs?

By Marium Ali and Hanna Duggal – Aljazeera United States tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports […]
March 7, 2025

Trump complains about Canada — but new data shows spike in U.S. drugs and guns coming north

By John Paul Tasker – CBC News President Donald Trump claims he’s targeting […]
March 6, 2025

‘Nothing more than a distraction,’ says B.C. forest minister on Trump’s lumber order

From chekNEWS B.C.’s Forest Minister said the latest executive order from U.S. President […]
March 2, 2025

The Arctic: The next ‘Great Game’ – Richard Mills

2025.02.22 The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over […]
March 2, 2025

‘All eyes on Arctic’: Canada boosts its northern force

By Agence France-Presse – Raw Story In the mess hall of a Canadian […]
March 1, 2025

Canadian border agents seize millions of drugs in transport trucks at southern Alberta border

By Lauryn Heintz – CityNews Millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs have been […]
March 1, 2025

The US Has Never Imported So Much Food

From Bloomberg The US, known for being a global agriculture powerhouse, has never […]