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Jason Burack: The number of 401(k) and IRA millionaires reach record high amid pandemic

November 20, 2015 / marketsanity.com

The number of 401(k) and IRA millionaires reach record high amid pandemic https://finance.yahoo.com/news/401k-i...Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup financial education company Wall St for Main St, LLC, to try to help the people of Main Street by teaching them the knowledge, skills, research method...Read More

Robert Kiyosaki: America just turned away from capitalism and freedom forever

November 20, 2015 / marketsanity.com

"My concern is we've lost our freedom."Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time. His book titles hold four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List's Life-to-Date Sales from 2001-2008 alone. Robert is an educational Entrepreneur and real estate tycoon, co-creator of the CASHFLOW (R) board game, founder of the financial educatio...Read More

Martin Armstrong: Trudeau Has Joined the Conspiracy Theorists

November 20, 2015 / marketsanity.com

Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, has just come out publicly confirming now that Trump is out of the way, they will bring about the Great Reset. They will achieve equality by reducing Continue...Read More

Mish Shedlock: Controversial Gold Advocate Judy Shelton Will Soon Be On the Fed

November 20, 2015 / marketsanity.com

Trump's nominee, Judy Shelton appears headed to the Fed.Continue...Read More

Vale to end Manitoba nickel refining in 2018

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

Brazil's Vale (NYSE:VALE) on Thursday announced it will shutter its nickel smelting and refining operations in Canada's Manitoba province in 2018.The operations were originally set to end this year, but the government stepped in to extend work for at least another three years reports Reuters.Mining and milling at the Thompson mine will continue and the Rio de Janeiro-based company said it will fin...Read More

A brutal year for mine financing explained in just one chart

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

Chart by Preqin.Year to date the mining sector has raised a miserable $400 million down from a high of $4.6 billion just three year ago, according to data compiled by Preqin released today.The research firm looked at private equity-style funds targeting assets in energy (including oil and gas); agriculture and farmland; metals and mining; and timberland and water.The decline in mine financing fro...Read More

Chinese commodity trade barometer at record low

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

The once obscure Baltic Dry Shipping Index came to prominence at the start of the Chinese-led commodity supercycle around a decade ago.The London-based Baltic Exchange tracks the cost of moving commodities along more than 50 routes around the world.With China's emergence as the dominant trading economy in the world the index became one of the go-to barometers.China now controls the global trade in...Read More

Caterpillar sales down again, almost three straight years

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

The biggest declines in sales were in construction in Latin America (-41%) and in the resources industry in Asia (-37%).Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), the world's No.1 heavy machinery maker, put another nail in the mining industry's coffin after reporting that its sales declined again in October, marking the 35th straight month of sustained drops.The Peoria-based firm's performance is often seen as a gau...Read More

Indonesia probing allegations of extortion to Freeport-McMoRan by senior officials

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold's Grasberg mine is the world's largest gold mine and third largest copper mine.Indonesia has began investigating claims that senior officials demanded to be granted a 20% stake in Freeport-McMoRan Indonesia in return for an extension of the parent company's rights to operate in the country.According to Jakarta Globe, the minister of energy and mineral resources, S...Read More

Michael Curran goes down-market shopping for winners

November 19, 2015 / www.mining.com

Most of the low-cost gold producers are fairly valued, says Michael Curran, managing director and mining analyst with Beacon Securities, so he's heading down-market to the advanced development opportunities and early-stage explorers that he thinks could become low-cost producers. Sure there is risk, as Curran explains in this interview with The Gold Report, but the reward could come via either a t...Read More

Jim Rogers Joins EM: Focus on Russia, Asia

November 19, 2015 / www.thedailybell.com

Legendary investor Jim Rogers joins EM's Global Advisory Board … Iconic founder of the Quantum Fund to advise leading emerging markets focused financial and corporate communications agency. EM, the leading emerging markets focused financial PR and IR consultancy, is delighted to announce that world-renowned investor Jim Rogers has agreed to join its Global Advisory Board … Tom Blac...Read More

#CallOnCOP- Francois Reyes, France, Fran??ais

November 19, 2015 / www.youtube.com

D?(C)l?(C)gu?(C) de One Young World Fran??ois Reyes appelle le Pr?(C)sident de la R?(C)publique fran??aise ? arriver ? un accord ? Paris COP 21. En facilitant un accord entre les leaders, le Pr?(C)sident aide ? soigner notre plan??te.Read More

Jim Rogers Joins EM: Focus on Russia, Asia

November 19, 2015 / www.thedailybell.com

Legendary investor Jim Rogers joins EM's Global Advisory Board … Iconic founder of the Quantum Fund to advise leading emerging markets focused financial and corporate communications agency. EM, the leading emerging markets focused financial PR and IR consultancy, is delighted to announce that world-renowned investor Jim Rogers has agreed to join its Global Advisory Board … Tom Blac...Read More

#CallOnCOP - Kofi Annan

November 19, 2015 / www.youtube.com

The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and One Young World Counsellor, Kofi Annan, calls on world leaders to set an example and deliver a strong and inclusive climate agreement at COP21. Mr. Annan says that they must show the younger generation what we can achieve when we work together. Call On COP is the most global action on Climate Change in 2015. At the One Young World Summit 2015...Read More

#CallOnCOP- Virginia Parratt, United Kingdom

November 19, 2015 / www.youtube.com

One Young World Delegate Virginia Parratt calls on Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom to address climate change.According to Lloyds, annual climate-related insurance claims have increased by ?40bn in the last three decades, and 8 of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 2002. www.oneyoungworld.com/calloncopRead More

#CallOnCOP - Ron Garan, USA

November 19, 2015 / www.youtube.com

One Young World Ambassador and former NASA astronaut Ron Garan calls on world leaders to come to a binding agreement on climate change at COP21 - the Paris Climate Talks.www.oneyoungworld.com/calloncopRead More

#CallOnCOP - Lam-ya Mostaque, Bangladesh

November 19, 2015 / www.youtube.com

Rising sea levels threaten the lives of 30 million people in Bangaldesh. One Young World delegate Lam-ya Mostaque calls world leaders to limit global warming.www.oneyoungworld.com/calloncopRead More

Top 15 copper mines worth $103bn less than a week ago

November 18, 2015 / www.mining.com

ChuquicamataIt's been a brutal November on copper markets with a only one up day of trading since the start of the month. Just over the last week the price has fallen more than 7%.In New York on Wednesday the copper price dropped to a low of $2.0670 or $4,560 a tonne, the lowest since March 2009 and down 27% so far this year.Copper traded below today's level for seven months at the height of the g...Read More

Teck Resources to axe 1,000 jobs, lowers dividend

November 18, 2015 / www.mining.com

Work at Carmen de Andacollo copper mine, located in Chile's north-central region of Coquimbo. (Image from archives)Canadian mining giant Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.A, TCK.B), (NYSE: TCK) has decided to cut 1,000 jobs, or around about 9% of its global workforce, through a combination of layoffs and attrition as part of a plan to reduce spending next year by $650 million.The Vancouver-based company, t...Read More

The collapse of commodities in one simple chart

November 18, 2015 / www.mining.com

Today's chart is all about perspective.See all YTD asset prices together in one place, and get perspective on the true collapse that has occurred in commodities this yearCourtesy of: Visual CapitalistThis chart from Macquarie puts the year in perspective for commodity investors. It covers various asset classes including equities, FX markets, bonds, and commodity prices, and charts them YTD in ter...Read More

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