Companhia Sider??rgica Nacional (CSN) set the iron ore guidance for its own production and purchases from third parties at 33 million tonnes in 2020 and 38-40 million tonnes in 2021, the Brazilian steelmaker and miner said on Thursday December 10.CSN previously expected its output and third-party purchases to total 33-36 million tonnes this year, compared to 38.46 million tonnes in 2019.A business...Read More

New bookings of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)-origin billet in Southeast Asia and Turkey were heard at higher prices in the week to Thursday December 10, while some suppliers were reported to have withdrawn from the market to reconsider prices, sources told Fastmarkets. A billet cargo originating in Russia was heard booked to Turkey earlier this week at $538 per tonne cfr, which would n...Read More

Turkish steel billet prices have increased sharply this week due to rising imported scrap costs and tightening supply, sources said on Thursday December 10.Steel billet exporters from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have continued to raise their offer prices for Turkish customers, which now stand at $550-560 per tonne cfr compared with last week's $520-530 per tonne.The Turkish custom...Read More

Understanding the ways in which the media seeks to control the narrative and sway your opinions is explored by dismantling two recent shamefully crafted hit pieces that went after Dr. Kory and his Covid Critical Care Team. Once you learn to spot leading phrases and slanted and biased words you gain power. No longer can you be so easily manipulated by media hacks. You'll regain your ability to be i...Read More

Steel billet and rebar prices have increased in Egypt in the week ending Thursday December 10, because of restocking after recent price increases, market sources have told Fastmarkets.Egyptian rebar producers have raised their prices twice in December so far, because of high production costs.Producers in the country have been offering rebar at E ?11,450-11,600 ($728-738) per tonne ex-works includi...Read More

From lockdowns & shutdowns dampening people's Christmas plans, to a nation that's even more divided than last month, Main Street seems primed to spiral out of control while the financial markets take on the look of insanity. Fortunately, John Rubino of Dollar Collapse joined Silver Doctors on Thursday, December 10, 2020, to help make sense of it all.Some of the topics in today's discussion include...Read More

Read the full article here: https://goldsilver.com/blog/why-finan... Jeff Clark is editor and lead writer of BIG GOLD, the monthly gold-investment newsletter from Doug Casey's Casey Research. He is also the Senior Precious Metals Analyst at GoldSilver.com. Having worked on his family's gold claims in California and Arizona, and analyzing the big trends in gold's bull market, Jeff and his team aim...Read More

Markets are in for a very wild ride. Covid taking front and center and the stock market is still holding up in spite of the threat.There's an attempt at the Santa Rally, we'll see if it succeeds. However, markets will close higher for the year. Renewed investor interest will keep things moving to the upside. They're looking beyond. Rally will continue into January. More stimulus is certainly comin...Read More

1. Markets are a bit weak this morning. There is still no stimulus deal made by the politicians. This could be weighing on the major indexes a little. The weekly initial claims report was released at 8:30 am ET. The weekly initial claims increased by 137,000 to 853,000. This number was much worse than expected. The continuing claims for the week ending November 28 increased by 230,000 to 5.757 mil...Read More

Craig Hemke from TFMetalsReport.com forecasts the U.S. is headed for years of stagflation. In other words, he predicts higher inflation with a stagnating economy reflectant of the 1970s.Craig forecasts a gold bull that will reflect the 1970s/80 bull market amid continued money printing and a weak economy. The stock market is more a measure of liquidity rather than the strength of the economy, he s...Read More

Despite JP Morgan getting fined $920 million for spoofing, and several other banks also getting caught and fined, the mysterious drops in the silver price continue.Fortunately, London metals analyst Andrew Maguire joined me on the show to explain what's happening, and discussed how these price smashes, in the face of the Department of Justice's case against JP Morgan, are being sanctioned by the B...Read More

It's obvious that the world is changing and the mark in history for the change is 2020. Government debt and central bank balance sheets are at levels never before seen in the history of the world. Unemployment is still at all-time highs, and the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider and wider. Simon Black, the founder of Sovereign Man, believes that in order to achieve true freedo...Read More

Faced with myriad unprecedented uncertainties - including negative real interest rates and exponentially runaway debt and currency expansion - ordinary people are at extreme risk if they are remaining inside the system without sufficient asset protection in place.Legendary natural resource investment analyst Rick Rule, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, returns to Liberty and Finance to give us a rev...Read More

If you're concerned about the overreach of government in juicing asset prices to dangerous levels, picking economic winner and losers, and constraining our personal freedoms - you have very good right to be.So says lifelong champion of free markets, sound money and civil liberty, former US Congressman Dr Ron Paul.Having spent decades in Washington serving as a member of the House of Representative...Read More

"I've NEVER had any thoughts of taking my own life, not once, ever. Even before I had my son," said Vaughan in a Facebook statement from last December. "I have a huge mission in this life. Continue...Read More

In an unexpected move, the Pentagon has told the CIA it plans to end the majority of the military support it offers forContinue...Read More

?>>?A few days ago Bloomberg came out with an article about how major central banks have done $5.6 trillion worth of QE this year. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/centra...However, just this week the Bank of Japan (BOJ) & European Central Bank (ECB) announced new stimulus (really bailout) QE programs. A lot of these programs are being done solely to create newly created currency units out of thin a...Read More

"I believe that with the enormous amount of debt and money that has been created and will be created in the future, the most important thing to pay attention to is the value of debt Continue...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More

As of yesterday, nearly 15 million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19, while over 281,000 people with the virus have died.Continue...Read More