Renewable energy deployment stalled out last year, raising alarm bells about the pace of the clean energy transition. In 2018, total deployment of renewable energy stood at about 180 gigawatts (GW), which was the same as the previous year. It was the first time since 2001 ...
Nick Cunningham
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May 8, 2019
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Whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican installed in the White House this November, you can count on fiscal discipline going out the window. Neither the incumbent, President Donald J. Trump, nor the leading Democratic contender to replace him, Bernie Sanders,...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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February 26, 2020
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Economists are good for one thing, and that is creating theories. The trouble is, those theories are often wrong. This is why economics is often called “the dismal science”. Such is the case with the latest economic soup-de-jour, Modern Monetary Theory, o...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 12, 2019
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Our research team, at www.TheTechnicalTraders.com , have been pouring over the charts and data to identify what is likely to happen over the next 60+ days in terms of global stock market volatility vs. the US stock market expectations. Recently, we posted a research article h...
Chris Vermeulen
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May 21, 2019
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I don’t know about you, but I never thought I’d see the day when the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond dipped below 2 percent, let alone 1.8 percent. And yet that’s precisely what happened on Tuesday as investors weighe...
Frank Holmes
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February 26, 2020
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Base metals markets have had a rough ride of late, getting tossed around by negative headlines surrounding the trade negotiations between China and the US. For awhile it looked like the two superpowers were about to ink a deal that would call a truce to the trade war that ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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May 21, 2019
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At Ahead of the Herd we love gold (and promising junior gold companies) because gold holds its value through time. Owning gold is a way to preserve wealth against paper currencies which are subject to inflationary pressures and over time, lose their value. In the US there wa...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 19, 2019
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In the first quarter of 2019, global debt hit $246.5 trillion. Encouraged by lower interest rates, governments went on a borrowing binge as they ramped up spending, adding $3 trillion to world debt in Q1 alone. It reverses a trend that started in the beginning of 2018, of ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 21, 2019
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A lot of resource investors stop listening to corporate presentations when they learn the company’s project is in Africa. More often than not the country risk of exploring for minerals in the “dark continent” (as Africa was known to 1...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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July 19, 2019
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Off-grid power systems can provide electricity as an alternative to very expensive grid power transmission and distribution systems – whether in remote and rural areas, or…in urban dense cities where every foot of trenching is cost prohibitive. It also provides unparallele...
Dave Jackson
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September 27, 2021
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