Even as our fascist President Joe Biden becomes more aggressive in pressuring Americans to get vaccinated, he has refrained from using all his powers.Continue...Read More

This is the most important commentary I've ever written. It's time for alarm bells. It's time for me to play the part of Continue...Read More

Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance.Continue...Read More

Peter Grandich, of Peter Grandich & Company, and the author of "Confessions of a Former Wall Street Whiz Kid." joins us to talk about gold and where could it be heading.Peter Grandich & Company specializes in retirement, business and estate planning, that operates with the slogan that they "enable common people to attain uncommon results." The company was formed by Peter following decades of exper...Read More

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The real driver of gold prices right now is the state of the US economy and the outlook for growth and inflation.Continue...Read More

"Those were fat contracts to military industrial complex companies who reaped the profits of waste, fraud, corruption and abuse."Never has there been a more glaringly symbol of government waste and corruptionContinue...Read More

The head of the World Health Organization's origin investigation into COVID-19 has admitted that China basically ordered his team on what to write Continue...Read More

"Here, having failed to convince the Court that [Project Veritas'] case should be dismissed, [The New York Times] also failed to demonstrate the extraordinary justification required for the imposition of the drastic remedy of a Continue...Read More

"Perhaps not surprising that children from lower socioeconomic families have been most affected as this resonates with many of the other financial, employment and health impacts of the pandemic."Continue...Read More

Between 1978 and 1995 estimates suggest as much as 30 million ounces of gold left the Tapaj?s region of Brazil in the pockets and rucksacks belonging to artisanal miners known as garimpeiros. Today, junior gold exploration company, Cabral Gold, is doing all it can to find the source of much of that gold. If successful, Cabral just might become the most successful gold junior operating in northern...Read More

McAlinden Research Partners discusses how a rise in US demand and pressures on top copper producers may spell a rebound for the red metal. Copper prices bounced back through July, following a rise in U.S. demand and diminishing influence of Chinese strategic reserve releases on the overall market. A global copper supply deficit is expected to widen through next year and could be exacerbated by t...Read More

Chinese automobile production and sales figures continued to fall in July 2021, on both a monthly and an annual basis, although figures for vehicle exports and new energy vehicles hit record highs, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has said.Carmakers in China produced 1.86 million units in July, down by 4.1% month on month and by 15.5% year-on-year. Sales came to 1.86 millio...Read More

Members of the China Iron & Steel Association (Cisa) cut their crude steel, finished steel and hot metal production rates in the first 10 days of August compared with the preceding 11 days, according to data published by the association on Friday August 13.August 1-10 outputCrude steel: 2.04 million tonnes per day, down 2.97%Finished steel: 1.92 million tonnes per day, down 9.46%Hot metal: 1.83 mi...Read More

Another day, another decline in juniorminers – and another increase in profits from short positions in them.Shouldn’t we expect a rebound though?Well, no. The rebound already happened inlate July and early August, and what we see now is the trend being resumed.Consequently, even if it wasn’t for all the long-term analogies to the2012-2013 declines in gold and goldstocks (HUI Inde...Read More

Overnight, on Sunday and early Monday, Precious Metals and Oil started a fairly big collapse which quickly bottomed and recovered – at least in the Precious Metals markets.  Crude Oil is still moving lower in early trading on Monday, August 9, 2021.  Can we learn anything from the pre-COVID market trends and extrapolate any real-world analysis from this?Precious Metals “Mini...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 13 that are worth another look.Extended waiting times and bottlenecks at major Chinese ports have resulted in lower demand for imports of steel billet and higher freight costs for such shipments this week, sources told Fastmarkets...Read More

The precious metals futures markets launched shortly after Richard Nixon closed the gold window and removed the last vestige of gold backing from the Federal Reserve Note. Officials introduced paper gold and silver contracts specifically to increase price volatility and discourage physical ownership of metals.After nearly 50 years, it is safe to say their strategy was a success.It is often excruci...Read More

Export prices for Brazil-origin slab fell in the week ended on Friday August 13, with buyers resisting current offer levels to get better deals.Buyers and sellers continued to negotiate for October-shipment batches, with many re-rollers in the US willing to purchase material, but placing bids at $900 per tonne fob and below. On the other hand, sellers were trying to maintain prices from previous d...Read More

Prices of flat-rolled steel imported into South America were mostly up during the week ended Friday August 13, boosted by costly freight rates and higher offers, and despite uncertainty about a potential Chinese export tax.Most market participants expect the Chinese government soon will announce an export tax on steel, which has been heard from market chatter in the Asian country. There was no con...Read More