Against expectations and in some instances in defiance of fundamentals, commodities managed to climb a wall of worry over the first four months of 2016 giving mining companies a welcome boost after three years of declines.Sell in May and go away is one of the oldest adages on the equities market and it was especially true for the mining sector in 2016. While broader US share markets moved sidewa...Read More
What the President Does ... By Jonathan Bernstein Turns out maybe Donald Trump doesn't want to be president after all. Oh, he wants to run for president. Almost certainly wants to win. Probably wants to be inaugurated. But doing the actual job? That's something else. At least according to Paul Manafort, Trump's strategist and campaign chairman, in an interview with HuffPost's Howard Fineman. -...Read More
Elizabeth Warren Is Good at Her Job ... Elizabeth Warren has a rare talent for distilling political messages. In 2011, as she was running for the Senate seat that she won the next year, the former Harvard law professor delivered the kind of concise, pointed rationale for public investment — and the taxation to support it — that the White House had been striving to master for the previo...Read More
What the President Does ... By Jonathan Bernstein Turns out maybe Donald Trump doesn't want to be president after all. Oh, he wants to run for president. Almost certainly wants to win. Probably wants to be inaugurated. But doing the actual job? That's something else. At least according to Paul Manafort, Trump's strategist and campaign chairman, in an interview with HuffPost's Howard Fineman. -...Read More
Elizabeth Warren Is Good at Her Job ... Elizabeth Warren has a rare talent for distilling political messages. In 2011, as she was running for the Senate seat that she won the next year, the former Harvard law professor delivered the kind of concise, pointed rationale for public investment — and the taxation to support it — that the White House had been striving to master for the previo...Read More
The United Nations predicts that by 2022, India will surpass China as the most populous nation. India's population and economy is growing at insurmountable speeds and the global community is taking notice. Canada and the rest of the world look to this booming country for political and trade opportunities. Partha Mohanram, director of the India Innovation Institute at the Rotman School of Managemen...Read More
Led ZeppelinFriday, March 14, 1975Sports Arena, San Diego, CaliforniaRock and Roll 0:14Sick Again 4:07Over the Hills and Far Away 10:22In My Time of Dying 18:44The Song Remains the Same 31:06The Rain Song 36:31Kashmir 45:29No Quarter 55:11Trampled Under Foot 1:26:12Moby Dick 1:34:12Dazed and Confused 1:59:35Stairway to Heaven 2:32:32Heartbreaker 2:45:21audio remastered in Sony Vegas Pro 13.0Read More
Last year lead was the best-performing base metal on the LME by virtue of dropping by the least over the duration of 2015.The lead price declined 2.8% last year compared to 20%-plus falls in zinc, tin, cobalt and copper and ever volatile nickel's 42% drop (moly fared just as badly).In 2015 lead was buoyed by expectations of a handful of significant mine closures, a reduction in Chinese stockpiles...Read More
Speculative traders abandon gold in latest week ... Gold prices fell Monday, moving in the opposite direction of the U.S. dollar, which soared after comments by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen last week indicated an interest-rate hike could come this summer. -MarketWatchToday, gold prices have been clinging to around $1,200 against the dollar. It is becoming increasingly obvious...Read More
Over 450 Writers, Including Stephen King And Michael Chabon, Sign Petition Against Trump … Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle winners call out Trump's "nativism and bigotry." -Huffington PostThis is an amazing effort considering the many things that writers could complain about when it comes to the US.But it is Donald Trump that seems to have aroused these writers.Published on Lit...Read More
Economists overwhelmingly reject Brexit in boost for Cameron ... Poll shows 88% of 600 experts fear long-term fall in GDP if UK leaves single market, and 82% are alarmed over impact on household income. -GuardianOnce again, economists remind us that that their profession is at least a questionable one.Presumably healthy economies are based in private competition not public regulation. Economi...Read More
Ap-Norc Poll Finds Bare Confidence In Government, Elections ... Few Americans have much confidence in the U.S. political system, the government in general, or in either political party. Most say they’re interested in the 2016 presidential election, but they also feel frustrated, helpless and even angry with the way the election is going, a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public...Read More
Speculative traders abandon gold in latest week ... Gold prices fell Monday, moving in the opposite direction of the U.S. dollar, which soared after comments by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen last week indicated an interest-rate hike could come this summer. -MarketWatchToday, gold prices have been clinging to around $1,200 against the dollar. It is becoming increasingly obvious...Read More
Over 450 Writers, Including Stephen King And Michael Chabon, Sign Petition Against Trump … Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle winners call out Trump's "nativism and bigotry." -Huffington PostThis is an amazing effort considering the many things that writers could complain about when it comes to the US.But it is Donald Trump that seems to have aroused these writers.Published on Lit...Read More
Economists overwhelmingly reject Brexit in boost for Cameron ... Poll shows 88% of 600 experts fear long-term fall in GDP if UK leaves single market, and 82% are alarmed over impact on household income. -GuardianOnce again, economists remind us that that their profession is at least a questionable one.Presumably healthy economies are based in private competition not public regulation. Economi...Read More
Ap-Norc Poll Finds Bare Confidence In Government, Elections ... Few Americans have much confidence in the U.S. political system, the government in general, or in either political party. Most say they’re interested in the 2016 presidential election, but they also feel frustrated, helpless and even angry with the way the election is going, a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public...Read More
Pornstars Jay Taylor and Owen Grey talk about the awkwardness before a scene and what a great surprise it is when someone is as good at sex as Owen. They also cover how Owen got his start in the industry, how hot feet are and being ManyVids first contract star.Read More
A European army is exactly what the EU and UK needs Whether or not Donald Trump wins the US presidency, American sentiment is for the Europeans to do much more to help themselves ... Under Nato Euope’s defences remain incomplete and necessitate US involvement - UK IndependentGeorge Orwell's 1984 is coming to pass.It is not enough that the US has faux face-offs with Russia and China. Now...Read More
A European army is exactly what the EU and UK needs Whether or not Donald Trump wins the US presidency, American sentiment is for the Europeans to do much more to help themselves ... Under Nato Euope’s defences remain incomplete and necessitate US involvement - UK IndependentGeorge Orwell's 1984 is coming to pass.It is not enough that the US has faux face-offs with Russia and China. Now...Read More
A new report by BMI Research forecasts the global mining project pipeline will continue to narrow in 2016 and 2017 as low metals and mineral prices force miners into further cost cuts and lower capital spending.However, a handful of countries are set to continue to make significant investment into both brownfield and greenfield projects, bolstered by a combination of low production costs, high-gr...Read More