The CIS slab export price strengthened in new deals in the week to Monday January 27, as customers accepted higher prices amid positive dynamics in the finished flat steel market, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, rose by $5 or 1% to $425-430 per tonne on Monday, from $420-425 per tonne previously.Early last week, a cargo of Ukrainian sla...Read More
For Parts 1 & 2 of this video series, CLICK HEREFor Part 3 of this video series, CLICK HEREPretty much the entire country of China is in lockdown at this moment. Unbelievable. Along with restricting travel within and across its borders, the Chinese government has begun heavily censoring the data its sharing with the world. Chris calls into question the few statistics they're currently reporting, s...Read More
*This interview was recorded on January 15, 2020Jim 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 the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global finance, and served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducte...Read More
For Parts 1 & 2 of this video series, CLICK HEREFor Part 4 of this video series, CLICK HERETo get Chris Martenson's report on pandemic preparation, go to https://www.peakprosperity.com/corona...Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is th...Read More
Corona Virus: "This is the most serious pandemic risk that we've seen, not since SARS...but I think since the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1919." - Dr Chris Martenson. Join Mike Maloney as he investigates the potential for the coronavirus outbreak to become a full-blown pandemic. Mike and Chris will discuss the genesis and spread of Corona virus and how to prepare yourself. They will also examine how C...Read More
On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Iran's information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices.At the time, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin condemned the Iranian government for censuring information that Iranian citizens could view online, stating...Read More
Edward Snowden is the author of "Permanent Record" and is the president of Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that defends Continue...Read More
The coronavirus coming out of Wuhan is going to pop the "Everything Bubble." This has the potential for being the biggest mass casualty event in world history. At the very least it will take down the financial system Continue...Read More
The price of steel billet fell in most regions during the week ended Friday January 24, due to the continuing slide in ferrous scrap prices in Turkey.The downturn in Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices hit scrap prices in other regions and resulted in a further fall in billet prices.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a UK cargo comprising 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $277 per ton...Read More
Chris Marcus' biography: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/chris-marcus/TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:02:50 Sentiment shift signalling something big!05:25 Trigger point to a hot rally in the metals market10:25 Combating inflation and the great economic Ponzi system23:50 Investors seeking contrarian assets outside the Dollar's system28:50 Gold and Silver retaking the title of wealth protectors in 202033:05 G...Read More
Student enrollment has dropped 11% since 2011 while student-loan balances have surged 74%. Why?Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade...Read More
Speaking at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, David Morgan of the Morgan Report said that while he was happy to see silver achieve about a US$2 gain in 2019, some mining companies achieved much better results."What I really want to emphasize though is that the miners did exceptionally well. Our top-tier performance last year averaged (a) 63 percent gain, and the S&P 500 did 29 percent....Read More
One of the problems with prepping for a pandemic is getting accurate information. When there's a potential for a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease, people panic.Continue...Read More
The conspirators pulled off their scheme by selling solar generators that did not exist to investors, making it appear that solar generators existed in locations that they did not, creating false financial statementsContinue...Read More
- A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said.A U.S. Army spokeswoman declined to comment on the Taliban claim, but video from the crash site circulating on social media appeared to suggest the aircraft was a U.S. Air Force electronic surveillance plane.Continue...Read More
An equities correction in 2020 may be the catalyst that silver and gold investors finally need to see a breakout to the upside, said David Morgan, editor of The Morgan Report."We're going to see more of a move to safe haven status, and I think a major fact will be the stock market," Morgan told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. David Morgan is a world-ren...Read More
"The anticipated Wuhan flu contagion triggered sell-off in equity markets will likely drive gold demand out Continue...Read More
Three rockets struck the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of near misses, as thousands of protesters continued to marchContinue...Read More
Vanadium prices took another move higher in Europe during the second half of last week, supported by an increase in inquiries and trader restocking, Fastmarkets heard. Fastmarkets' price assessment for ferro-vanadium, ddp Europe stands at $26-27.15 per kg as of January 24, up by 3.6% from the midweek assessment, and now at its highest level since the beginning of October. Fastmarkets' price assess...Read More
In part three of the series, "All About Private Placements," Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable talks with Tekoa Da Silva, a financial adviser with Sprott USA, about details of private placements, including removing restrictive legends, exercising warrants, timing of private placement tranches, and understanding corporate share structures. Maurice Jackson: Thank you for joining us for the thi...Read More