During this episode, Jim talks about central banking policy, tax cuts, and crypto.Part 1 (part 2 below)During this episode, Jim talks about crypto, insider discussions with FED officials, and artificial intelligence.Part 2Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Chief Global Strategist at Meraglim. He advises t...Read More

Ocean's 8 has received mixed reviews and almost immediately some of the lead actresses are blaming white men. They said that the media hasn't shifted towards gender equality and that the reviews are a sign of not understanding or liking things that women like.Read More

The pitch by various ancestry operations is to send in your DNA by spitting into a vile and they will tell you your ethnic background. Sounds nice, but they Continue...Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa, an industry lobby group, said on Sunday it does not support some elements in the latest draft of an industry charter, including a stipulation that one percent of core profit is paid to communities and employees.South Africa plans to raise black ownership at permit-holding mining companies to 30 percent from 26 percent within five years, the draft showed on Friday...Read More

South Africa's Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday that 20 out of 45 mining deaths reported since the start of 2018 have taken place at Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) mining sites. To date, #SibanyeStillwater operations are responsible for 20 of the 45 fatalities reported since the beginning of the year. It, therefore, cannot be business as usual in how the Regula...Read More

Lior Gantz has been called a thrill-seeking entrepreneur by his team, and as such, he built and runs numerous successful businesses, and has traveled to over 30 countries in the past decade in pursuit of thrills and opportunities, gaining valuable knowledge and experience. With Wealth Research Group, Lior allows readers access into the world of the few who beat the markets consistently for decades...Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to dredge contaminated sediment from streambeds and dig ditches to divert water away from tainted rocks and soil, in an effort to clean up wastewater flowing from 26 old mines in southwestern Colorado.According to the Associated Press, such efforts are part of an interim plan the EPA is advancing with the idea of keeping toxic heavy metals from...Read More

The Honduran Fire Department informed that four people died, half of them women, and five were injured following a landslide at an artisanal gold mine in the town of El Retiro, 180 kilometres north of Tegucigalpa.According to Reuters, the Fire Department said that the miners were covered in sand and stones while they were cleaning up the ore they had extracted from the mine to separate it from the...Read More

The best new technology workers are the people who embrace it, says Mark Fawcett, a Partner at IBM and leading the effort to take artifical intelligence services to mining companies.Watson is IBM's artificial intelligent service that helps businesses independently model large data sets more efficiently. IBM not only sells the technology but helps mining companies train and transition staff. "The m...Read More

The average annual pay for expatriate exploration manager working in Colombia is US$170,000 per year, while the same job for locals pays $76,100.Data was compiled in CostMine's 2014 International Compensation Guidelines for Mining Exploration.Only in Chile was the pay trend reversed. The average annual salary for nationals was $133,800 compared to $130,500 for expatriates.Exploration manager pay f...Read More

China's holdings of US Treasury bonds, notes, and bills, after rising in February and March, fell by $5.8 billion in April to $1.18 trillion. Thus, China'sContinue...Read More

I mentioned before that Netflix had originally wanted to air The Forecaster movie, and then all of a sudden they refused because of politics.Continue...Read More

A BMO Capital Markets report laid out the investment thesis for this Nevada explorer. In a June 8 research note, Andrew Mikitchook relayed that BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage on Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) with an Outperform rating and a CA$3 per share price target "based on a conceptual-stage mine development plan and our expectation for exploration upside." With...Read More

Fund manager Adrian Day reviews several senior gold companies, including one he sees as a good buy at current prices. Franco-Nevada Corp. (FNV:TSX; FNV:NYSE, US$70.43)revenue is up, driven largely by its oil & gas royalties, however. Looking ahead, Cobre Panama, Franco's largest ever single investment, will see phased commissioning beginning later this year for first production in January. Cobre...Read More

I had a finance professor in college whoreferred to self-evident ideas as BGOs, or blinding glimpses of the obvious.The term stuck with me, and my kids haveheard it their entire lives.And it came to mind recently when Iconsidered if rising oil prices weighed on the realestate market. Well, duh!If consumers pay more for gas, then theywon’t be inclined to spend as much on housin...Read More

Prices in most of the global steel billet markets showed positive dynamics in the week ended Friday June 15, supported by the upward trend in scrap pricing as well as gradual restocking by customers in the Middle East and Africa, with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan nearing its end.Nevertheless, overall buying activity was still sluggish, with the majority of customers stepping back from the mar...Read More

Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold, in a wide-ranging conversation with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable, discusses issues from North Korea to Bitcoin. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Bob Moriarty, the founder of 321gold, and 321energy.com, and the author of two of my personal favorite books, "The Art of Peace," and "Nobody Knows Anything." Welcome to the show. I recall when Presiden...Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa, an industry lobby group, said on Sunday it does not support some elements in the latest draft of an industry charter, including a stipulation that one percent of core profit is paid to communities and employees.South Africa plans to raise black ownership at permit-holding mining companies to 30 percent from 26 percent within five years, the draft showed on Friday...Read More

South Africa's Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday that 20 out of 45 mining deaths reported since the start of 2018 have taken place at Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) mining sites. To date, #SibanyeStillwater operations are responsible for 20 of the 45 fatalities reported since the beginning of the year. It, therefore, cannot be business as usual in how the Regula...Read More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to dredge contaminated sediment from streambeds and dig ditches to divert water away from tainted rocks and soil, in an effort to clean up wastewater flowing from 26 old mines in southwestern Colorado.According to the Associated Press, such efforts are part of an interim plan the EPA is advancing with the idea of keeping toxic heavy metals from...Read More