Junior explorers are hoping investment will now increase in copper projects in Chile, the world's top producer of the red metal needed for the green energy transition.Junior explorers like World Copper Ltd. (WCU:TSX.V;WCUFF:OTCQX) are watching the situation intently as mining tax reform wraps up in Chile.Companies want to see more investment dollars for exploring and mining copper return to the So...Read More
Spread the loveQUESTION: Marty,Will the Brics launching a gold backed currency be the catalist for bankrupting 3rd world economies? Or is it rising interest rates on their debt?Tks for all the light u share in a confusing economic landscape.Cbeers.baldyANSWER: It is unlikely that we are looking at a BRICS single currency like the euro, for that would require a central monetary authority, surrender...Read More
See the first results of this company's metallurgical heap leach test program at one of the deposits in its gold and silver project in Nevada.Western Exploration Inc. (WEX:TSX.V;WEXPF:OTC) announced the first results from its metallurgical heap leach test program of the Doby George deposit at its Aura gold and silver project in Nevada.The company reported an average gold extraction oxide mineraliz...Read More
CNBC gives the day's headline news:Inflation fell to its lowest annual rate in more than two years during June, the product both of some deceleration in costs and easy comparisons against a time when price increases were running at a more-than-40-year high.The consumer price index, which measures inflation, increased 3% from a year ago, which is the lowest level since March 2021.Yet why? Why has i...Read More
Meanwhile, the precious metals markets were down slightly, in June, noted an Atrium Research report.MAG Silver Corp. (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE American) and its joint venture partner Fresnillo achieved commercial production at their Juanicipio project in Mexico on June 1, 2023, and the new mill has been operating at 85% of its 4,000 tons per day capacity, reported Atrium Research analyst Ben Pirie in a J...Read More
Certain establishment types consider my ideas extreme. They accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist or some kind of kook, way outside the boundaries of acceptable consensus.That's fine, I expect that. If you threaten powerful interests, you can expect that they'll try to discredit you.The fact is people are conditioned to accept whatever the authorities tell them. It's a powerful urge that actual...Read More
The big, bad tech stocks have dominated the market during the first half of 2023.The Technology Sector SPDR (XLK) and Communication Services Sector SPDR (XLC) have gained more than 36% year-to-date.Individual 2023 performances are even more impressive. NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) has rocketed 190%. Meta Platforms Inc. (META) has risen 140%. Tesla Inc. (TSLA) a consumer discretionary name that acts like...Read More
Is Ukraine still a thing for Americans? Of course, a brutal and tragic war is going on there with momentous geopolitical consequences. But do Americans care?Attention spans are short, and Americans have already moved on to stories about political scandals, the next election, and the usual celebrity glamour gloss. Outside of the U.S. warmonger elites and a few critics (myself included), Americans d...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on the current state of the economy and the stock market.*Disclaimer: The article is the opinion of Michael Ballanger and not of Streetwise Reports. Topics discussed may be controversial to some readers.*This newsletter always comes out with the title "Summer Doldrums" after the Canada Day holiday for a number of reasons, but the main one...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund takes a look at Metallic Minerals Corp.'s 6-month chart to tell you why he believes it is an Immediate Buy.Many silver stocks are looking like Buys here after their recent significant reactions, and Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCQB) is amongst them and is distinguished by the fact that its Accumulation line is already making new highs, as we will see wh...Read More
Unbeknownst to economists, the Keynesian bedrock of modern economics using financial repression and government spending funded by debt to manage the business cycle of growth and recession is an artifact of a century of expansive cheap energy and virtuous demographics.Presented as quasi-scientific “laws of economics,” Keynesian policies of suppressing interest rates and funding stim...Read More
Spread the loveQUESTION: Do you think the BRICS would create a gold-back currency as proposed by Russia?SJANSWER: The Neocon has directed the Biden administration to remove Russia from SWIFT. Their single-minded goal is destroying the world economy, but they do not care. They think they will conquer Russia and China and dominate the world so they will worry about the monetary system afterward.You...Read More
Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities looks at the current state of the gold market, which is at a seasonal low.The seasonal low is here?Key PointsGoldGold fitting into seasonal lowsWedge is tighteningVolatility remainingGold StocksBacktesting wedge upside breakoutTSX-V shows some lifeASX Gold stocksXGD downtrend brokenBacktesting wedge upside breakoutBondsBrinkmanship from market playersBreaking...Read More
The assault on enterprise of the last few years meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life has taken very strange forms.Ever since The New York Times said the way forward was to "go medieval," the elites have been attempting just that. But this medievalism has not come at the expense of Big Data, Pharma, Ag or Media.It mainly hi...Read More
Dolly Varden has begun drilling on its property in the Golden Triangle. Read on to see what the company expects to encounter on the new property.Dolly Varden Silver Corp. (DV:TSX.V; DOLLF:OTCQF) has announced that it has begun drilling on the Kitsault Valley project, which includes the company's silver property and the newly acquired gold-silver property, Homestake Ridge.The acquisition of Homesta...Read More
LONDON, 6 July 2023 - Analysis and comment from BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash is published today in an exclusive article for German finance professionals' magazine, AssCompact.Subscribers to AssCompact can read Adrian's 2-page report (in German) in the July edition, out now. Read More
LONDON, 6 July 2023 - Comment from BullionVault today leads the latest gold-market report posted on MSN, the global news-site from tech giant Microsoft."Gold's monthly runaround on US jobs data has started early with Thursday's blowout ADP private-sector jobs estimate for June," says the report - first published at MarketWatch - quoting BullionVault research.Read the full story at MSN here:Gold en...Read More
Can you expect continued inflation or a trend toward disinflation and possibly even deflation?That's probably the most important question in economics today.This is more than a matter of competing narratives. The question goes to the heart of modern economics (the so-called Neo-Keynesian consensus) and the models used in economic forecasting.In truth, it goes to the heart of economics generally...Read More
Happy Thursday from sunny Sicily!It's been blazing brightness all week here on the Mediterranean's largest island. We've had a great time so far.But I'm so sunburnt, it's great to be inside typing away.When I started writing the Rude Awakening two years ago, we had far fewer readers than we do now. We also have a different interest rate environment.So I thought I'd revisit a piece I wrote when rat...Read More