As the old saying goes, politics is a show business for ugly people. Fair enough, but what does it have to do with gold? Let’s jump right in and find out! There Is No Trade War Economic reports are rarely fun. But when we read the latest US trade ...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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March 7, 2019
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The yield curve inversion just got more pronounced. Not only the spread between 10-year and 3-month Treasuries, now also the spread between 10-year and 2-year turned negative. That sends a warning signal about the state of the real economy. About a recession on the horizon. So...
Arkadiusz Sieron
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August 15, 2019
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On Monday Wall Street pared back losses from last week’s sell-off, the worst since 2008, but it was only the promise of lowering interest rates, the return of the “punch bowl” hearkening back to recession-era stimulus, that has tempora...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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March 3, 2020
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Ahead of the Herd has been digging into why central banks are buying a lot of gold recently . What we’ve found is eyebrow-raising, to say the least. It may be the best reason you’ve ever read for wanting to buy gold. Take this headline fro...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 16, 2019
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Benjamin Franklin once said; “Out of adversity comes opportunity.” The adversity the United States now faces with the coronavirus pandemic is the worst national emergency the country has faced since World War II, more serious, far more deadly, than a...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 3, 2020
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Imagine, if you will, there was no coronavirus. No haz-mat suits, medical masks & gloves, no make-shift morgues. No terminally ill patients hooked up to ventilators, no horrible deaths without love ones close, no lockdowns, no social distancing, no deserted streets, no bailo...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 17, 2020
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The U.S. has formally removed China as a currency manipulator, just ahead of the signing of the ‘Phase 1’ deal. Given its past record, will China really change its ways? Kenny Fisher There was another positive develop...
FX Empire
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January 14, 2020
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"Virtually every lumber customer we have in the state of Oregon is now cutting for the Chinese market." That quote comes straight from Rick Holley, CEO of Plum Creek Timber ( NYSE: PCL ), the biggest timberland owner in the U.S. The benchmark commodit...
Larsen Kusick
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October 28, 2012
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Author: Jesse Day, Commodity Culture CEO of Leading Edge Materials (TSXV:LEM / OTCQB:LEMIF) Kurt Budge points out China’s dominance in the production and export of critical raw materials such as graphite and rare earths, and why this is a growing...
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSXV:UCU) is grabbing the mining industry by the horns thanks to its critical minerals separation technology and developing rare earth elements (REE) separation facility in Alaska.
John Ballem
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August 25, 2021
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