In 1917, the United States created the federal debt limit (or ceiling) to make it easier to finance World War One, essentially allowing Congress to borrow money to pay for the war effort by issuing bonds. By 1939 with World War Two looming, Congress passed the first aggre...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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October 8, 2019
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Real Estate is one of the biggest purchases anyone will make in their lifetime. It can account for 30x to 300x one's annual income and take over 30 years to pay off. After you're done paying for your property, now you have to keep paying to maintain it and to support the prope...
Chris Vermeulen
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August 22, 2019
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Your average marijuana plant is a rather unimposing, forest green weed that blends well with nature. The dirty truth, however, is that the business of growing cannabis is anything but green. In fact, the growing of pot is so power-intensive that its ecological footprint is qui...
James Burgess, Oilprice.com
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January 15, 2020
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As 5G mobile technology is just getting ramped up throughout North America, meeting the needs of installing new and exciting transformational infrastructure to support 5G – quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively – is of course, of vital importance. Eastower Wireless (...
Dave Jackson
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March 29, 2022
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Energy sources and storage facilities are topics of the present and future. The more modern a society is, the higher the priority of cleanliness and moral innocuousness. Mobility in rich countries is undergoing change. In conurbations, the aim is increasingly being pursue...
Mario Hose
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February 20, 2020
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If anyone has the right to say “I told you so,” it’s Bill Gates. Two years ago, the co-founder, former CEO and now former board member of Microsoft urged governments to step up their preparedness in the event of a modern global ...
Frank Holmes
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March 16, 2020
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When it comes to the lucrative world of mining, the long-standing stars of the show are gold and silver – particularly this year with a pandemic-driven spike in gold prices to an all-time high of more than US$2,000 per ounce. But one sector, which to date has garnered li...
Oliver Gray
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December 7, 2020
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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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Let’s begin with a thought experiment. Imagine you wake up tomorrow from a three and a half-year coma. Everything that’s happened in the meantime—the election of Donald Trump, impeachment, Brexit and more—is a complete mystery to you....
Frank Holmes
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December 23, 2019
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I had been familiar with the story and potential of uber micro-cap (a valuation of little more than C$3 million or so for a LONG time!) Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.'s (OMM:TSX.V; OMMSF:OTCMKTS) for years. But as gold was beginning to percolate and other necessa...
Streetwise Reports
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June 24, 2020
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