The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday and signaled it still planned to raise rates twice in 2016, though it said slower economic growth would crimp the pace of monetary policy tightening in future years. The central bank’s decision to stick with its 2016 rate path, however, appeared shakier, with six of its 17 policymakers projecting just one increase this yea...Read More
China’s Supercollider Higgs Factory Will Be Twice The Size Of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ... China could soon rival Europe and the U.S. as a global leader in the field of particle physics. The world’s most populous country now also aims to build the world’s most powerful supercollider to have a better understanding of the Higgs boson, the so-called god-particle. -Tech T...Read More
DoubleLine’s Gundlach says ‘central banks are losing control’ ... Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday investors are dropping risky assets and turning to safer securities including Treasuries and gold because they are losing faith in central banks. -ReutersThere is definitely considerable negativity about central banking in the mainstre...Read More
Clinton hits Trump for pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ ... Clinton, who spoke from a union hall, hit Trump for being simplistic on fighting terrorism Clinton also turned her focus to Trump’s most controversial idea: Banning Muslims from entering the United States ... [She accused] the presumptive Republican nominee of peddling “lies” because “he has to distrac...Read More
Lessons of Hiroshima ring again in Orlando … Thomas Friedman says we as a nation must address the moral implications as technology gives us more power to destroy move lives … I want to talk today about the horrific human tragedy of Orlando. But first I want to talk about Hiroshima – or, more precisely, the profound speech that President Barack Obama gave there …. -New Yo...Read More
Is it conceivable that the planet's most vilified company could be the one that feeds it? That, in short, is precisely what Monsanto hopes it can do. "They believe they're feeding the world, and there's no other good way," Connelly says. "Confidence that they're doing the right thing has blinded them to the fact that they need to be out there defending it." – FortuneAs usual, Monsanto is t...Read More
DoubleLine’s Gundlach says ‘central banks are losing control’ ... Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday investors are dropping risky assets and turning to safer securities including Treasuries and gold because they are losing faith in central banks. -ReutersThere is definitely considerable negativity about central banking in the mainstre...Read More
Clinton hits Trump for pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ ... Clinton, who spoke from a union hall, hit Trump for being simplistic on fighting terrorism Clinton also turned her focus to Trump’s most controversial idea: Banning Muslims from entering the United States ... [She accused] the presumptive Republican nominee of peddling “lies” because “he has to distrac...Read More
Lessons of Hiroshima ring again in Orlando … Thomas Friedman says we as a nation must address the moral implications as technology gives us more power to destroy move lives … I want to talk today about the horrific human tragedy of Orlando. But first I want to talk about Hiroshima – or, more precisely, the profound speech that President Barack Obama gave there …. -New Yo...Read More
Is it conceivable that the planet's most vilified company could be the one that feeds it? That, in short, is precisely what Monsanto hopes it can do. "They believe they're feeding the world, and there's no other good way," Connelly says. "Confidence that they're doing the right thing has blinded them to the fact that they need to be out there defending it." – FortuneAs usual, Monsanto is t...Read More
Ancient miners lacked modern tools, which means that important amounts of gold, silver and other valuable minerals are very likely to still lie beneath the surface, including a few unknown to them such as platinum and palladium. (Image via Pixabay)Egypt's ancient gold mines are guiding modern miners towards a vast amount of minerals deposits, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, the country is...Read More
3 Reasons Why Silver Will Rally Higher ... Like Warren Buffett, I have a disdain for gold as an investment but remain attracted to silver. For many investors, this appears hypocritical given that both are precious metals with closely correlated prices. However, silver, unlike gold, has considerable utility. It's widely used in a range of industrial processes, thereby giving it the characteristic...Read More
Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper 'dishonest' and 'phony' ... Why did Donald Trump revoke The Post's media credentials? ... Donald Trump said Monday that he is pulling The Washington Post's credentials to cover his events because he is upset with the newspaper's coverage of his campaign. -WashingtonPostDonald Trump is probably justified in revoking the Post's credentials....Read More
3 Reasons Why Silver Will Rally Higher ... Like Warren Buffett, I have a disdain for gold as an investment but remain attracted to silver. For many investors, this appears hypocritical given that both are precious metals with closely correlated prices. However, silver, unlike gold, has considerable utility. It's widely used in a range of industrial processes, thereby giving it the characteristic...Read More
Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper 'dishonest' and 'phony' ... Why did Donald Trump revoke The Post's media credentials? ... Donald Trump said Monday that he is pulling The Washington Post's credentials to cover his events because he is upset with the newspaper's coverage of his campaign. -WashingtonPostDonald Trump is probably justified in revoking the Post's credentials....Read More
Joseph Grosso is Executive Chairman, CEO & President of a leading junior mining firm in Argentina, Golden Arrow Resources. He has successfully formed strategic alliances and negotiated with mining industry majors such as Barrick, Teck, Newmont, Viceroy (now Yamana Gold) and Vale S.A., and government officials at all levels. Mr. Grosso’s specialty is financing, negotiations, corporate an...Read More
Donald Trump’s scaremongering response to Orlando shooting is the opposite of what America needs ... The gunning down of dozens of party-goers in a gay club in Florida showed, he wrote, that he had been ‘right on radical Islamic terrorism’. He thanked followers for ‘the congrats’. Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don̵...Read More
The memory of the use of the first nuclear bomb that brought the second great global inferno to an end continues to weigh on the collective consciousness despite the passing of more than 71 years since the tragic military intervention that obliterated the civilian population ... Because of their massive destructive power, nuclear weapons represent a huge contradiction that surrounds the power of i...Read More
Astronaut takes first step inside International Space Station’s inflatable ‘spare room’ ... Bigelow Aerospace developed the first-of-its-kind habitat as part of an $18 million contract with Nasa. The company has an eye on eventually using its inflatable technology to build hotels in space. -TelegraphAccording to NASA, this "flexible habitat" is a model of something the astrona...Read More
Joseph Grosso is Executive Chairman, CEO & President of a leading junior mining firm in Argentina, Golden Arrow Resources. He has successfully formed strategic alliances and negotiated with mining industry majors such as Barrick, Teck, Newmont, Viceroy (now Yamana Gold) and Vale S.A., and government officials at all levels. Mr. Grosso’s specialty is financing, negotiations, corporate an...Read More