Tyrants may oppress you. They may lead you into disastrous wars. But they don't demand that you take personal responsibility, that great burden of democracy. And every tyrant worth his salt provides scapegoats for his people's failures: It's never your fault, it's them.Politicians sell victimhood. They convince individuals that nothing is in your control. And in doing so, the politicians seize the...Read More
Via Sovereignman.com'Mrs. F.' was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she'd go back to prison.She's now 89 years old serving out another 2 1/2 year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women's prison about 60 miles o...Read More
Tyrants may oppress you. They may lead you into disastrous wars. But they don't demand that you take personal responsibility, that great burden of democracy. And every tyrant worth his salt provides scapegoats for his people's failures: It's never your fault, it's them.Politicians sell victimhood. They convince individuals that nothing is in your control. And in doing so, the politicians seize the...Read More
Via Sovereignman.com'Mrs. F.' was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she'd go back to prison.She's now 89 years old serving out another 2 1/2 year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women's prison about 60 miles o...Read More
FTSE 100 closes up 18 ptsRBS top riser Energy minnows EnQuest, Union Jack Oil and Hurricane Energy all make splashes with trading updatesFTSE 100 closed around 18 points higher as traders sit on their hands a bit and wait for the interest rate decision from the US central bank tomorrow.The UK blue-chip benchmark closed around 18 points, or 0.26% higher, at 7,061, with financial stocks doing w...Read More
Industry heavyweights David Morgan, Rob McEwen and John Kaiser share their thoughts on how high the gold price could eventually go.Read full newsRead More
Algold Resources Ltd. (TSXV:ALG) (the 'Corporation') is pleased to announce that it has raised aggregate gross proceeds of $1,159,960 by issuing a total of 8,285,429 units (each, a 'Unit') at a price of $0.14 per Unit (the 'Issue Price') under its brokered private placement offering of Units (the 'Brokered Offering') and concurrent non-brokered private place...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1310.40-$6.40Silver$16.20-$0.13XAU78.13-0.68%HUI169.21-1.11%GDM594.85-0.78%JSE Gold1066.77+5.10USD90.41+0.54Euro122.46-0.92Yen94.08-0.15Oil$63.40+$1.3410-Year2.887%+0.035T-Bond144.8125-0.71875Dow24727.27+0.47%Nasdaq7364.30+0.27%S&P2716.94+0.15% The Metals: Gold fell $9.60 to $1307.20 at about 10:30AM EST before it climbed back higher into midday, but it still ended with...Read More
- $8.8B Sprott Inc. sees higher gold on massive consumer debt, defaults & bankruptcies - Rising and record U.S. debt load may cause financial stress, weaken dollar and see gold go higher- Massive government and consumer debt eroding benefits of wage growth (see chart)by BloombergRising U.S. interest rates, usually bad news for gold, are instead feeding signs of financial stress among debt-la...Read More
Most of the major markets struggled through Monday, but spent Tuesday morning rallying to try and get back into the green.Read full newsRead More
A loan of $4,800 helped a member to buy more beans, cassava, and maize flour for sale.Read full newsRead More
Radisson Mining Resources Inc.(TSXV:RDS) (OTC:RMRDF) (FRANKFURT:2RX) ('Radisson' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce the release of an updated resource estimate for its 100% owned O'Brien gold project ('O'Brien') located along the Larder-Lake-Cadillac Break ('L-L-C'), halfway between Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or, two mining towns in the Pro...Read More
Graham Lumsden, chief executive of Motif Bio Plc (LON:MTFB, NASDAQ:MTFB), tells Proactive Investors they're taking some additional time over the new drug application (NDA) for iclaprim as they're keen to make the strongest possible submission to the US regulator.The next-generation antibiotic has been developed initially to treat acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections and has successfu...Read More
Ferrum Crescent Ltd's (LON:FCR) executive director Laurence Read talks to Proactive about plans to raise ?1mln to advance its Toral project in northern Spain and a name change to Europa Metals Limited.The funds will be used in three distinct stages, with a drilling programme to start in the summer to look for additional metal along the current strike.A scoping study is also planned to get a rough...Read More
Wealth Minerals strikes agreement over Chile lithium projectsRead full newsRead More
Cobalt company Cobalt 27 is seeing an ideal storm brewing for its key commodity as the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EVs) accelerates faster than even optimistic forecasts had speculated. "Cobalt 27 is a proxy for the adoption of the EV," executive chairperson Anthony Milewski told Mining Weekly Online in an interview. "What our most recent raise tells one is that the thematic is picking up...Read More
(Bloomberg) - First Quantum Minerals Ltd. plunged the most in almost two years as the miner was hit with a $7.9 billion tax bill by Zambia, which accounts for 84 percent of its revenue.First Quantum received a letter from the Zambian Revenue Authority dated Monday "noting an assessment for import duties, penalties and interest on consumables and spare parts," it said Tuesday in a statement. "The...Read More
LiDCO Group plc (LON:LID) saw its shares drop 7.5% in mid-afternoon trading to 6.1p after announcing the end of its distribution contract with Argon Medical Devices.The blood-flow monitoring company said the contract, which contributed ?1.4mln to LiDCO's overall sales in the last financial year, would end on 30 September 2018.Meanwhile, shares in GetBusy Plc (LON:GETB) fell 6.8% to 34p as the sof...Read More
Seeing Machines Limited's (LON:SEE) Ken Kroeger and Patrick Nolan talk to Proactive about a strong first half and the number of opportunities for its technology in aviation.Patrick Nolan, head of aviation, said he was excited about three applications: "Firstly, aircraft, then into the simulators with significant requirements for pilot training there."And thirdly what we are interested in is consol...Read More
Worries over the health of the UK retail sector will make full-year results from B&Q owner Kingfisher PLC (LON:KGF) a key focus on Wednesday.Ina preview, Graham Spooner, research analyst at The Share Centre noted: "The last update from Kingfisher, a third quarter statement in November, was notable for signs of continued weakness in the French businesses although the company said it remained on...Read More