Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto:1. The residents can’t afford to live elsewhere.2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited and retailers/service providers know residents have no other choice or must go to extraordinary effort to get better quality or a lower price.3. Nothing works correctly or efficiently. Things break down and aren’t fixed properly. Maint...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares how India's copper demand may impact the metal's price. Ballanger also reviews the gold and silver market, and shares one company he thinks might have a VMS project.As I was doing some research this week on the history of copper demand, what started as a focus on China wound up with some interesting revelations surrounding the economic history of neigh...Read More
We're smack in the middle of another exciting earnings season.It's once again that magical time of the quarter when investors become confused, angry (or both!) when stocks don't react as they expect after filing their quarterly updates.Why are earnings so tough on armchair investors?It might have something to do with all the confusing numbers and analyst estimates floating around. Or maybe it's be...Read More
A dicey April pullback has given way to a fresh rally as the market's former momentum leaders gain traction.The bears might have gotten a little too cocky during the April swoon, leaving the door open to an unexpected snapback as investors refuse to sell in May and go away...Facts are facts... and we can't deny what's happening in the markets right now. While we were all expecting a bigger correct...Read More
Canadian copper and gold explorer Vortex Metals Inc. says it has received conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange to acquire up to 80% interest in the Illapel copper project in Chile. Find out why two experts are recommending the stock.Canadian copper and gold explorer Vortex Metals Inc. (VMSSF:OTCMKTS;VMS:TSX;DM8:FSE) announced it has received conditional approval from the TSX Venture...Read More
Most economists don't believe we could have stagflation today. The prevailing view is that recessions are characterized by higher unemployment and reduced spending, and inflation is triggered by full employment and increased spending and therefore they cannot both happen at the same time.This prevailing view is wrong, as I explain today. Yet it's a powerful narrative that blinds most analysts to s...Read More
My goodness, I didn't think I could hate the present administration more than I already do. It's a fountain of idiotic ideas, starting with shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline to just sending $61 billion to Ukraine.You may as well just set the money on fire.Everything Boneheaded Biden has done has made things more expensive. And don't give me, "Well, inflation has come down!"If a product costs...Read More
Vancouver-based Tisdale Clean Energy Corp. is watching a major development involving uranium in the United States with interest. Find out why one analyst calls it a "big deal."Vancouver-based Tisdale Clean Energy Corp. (TCEC:CSE; TCEFF:OTCQB; T1KC:SE), which is exploring and developing the Fraser Lakes B uranium deposit at the South Falcon East project outside the edge of the Athabasca Basin, is w...Read More
You may have heard of the "Overton window."The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there.There are things you can say and things you cannot say, not because there are speech controls (though there are) but because holding certain views makes you anathema and dis...Read More
Two weeks ago, the Congress passed (and President Biden signed) four key pieces of legislation related to national security.Three of the bills provided assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. They received the most attention. The one that got the least attention was a mixed bag of provisions, such as a forced divestiture of TikTok.Included in that bill was something called the REPO Act that auth...Read More
"Why are we gambling with America's future?"This is the question of New York Times columnist David Brooks. More from whom:America is expected to spend $870 billion, or 3.1 percent of gross domestic product, this year on interest payments on the federal debt. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the government will spend more on interest payments than on the entire defense b...Read More
The silver spot price is above $26 per ounce today. It peaked above $28 on April 19, so it's pulled back a bit. But that's no big deal.Like the rising gold price, which is over $2,300 per ounce, it looks like there's more yet to come. In other words, precious metals are rapidly repricing.Right away, this tells me that Wall Street and the City of London have lost control over the price for gold and...Read More
This is a highly consequential election year, to say the least. The policy differences between Biden and Trump are enormous. Whether it's taxes, regulation, borders, energy or foreign policy, the differences couldn't be clearer.And though I prefer to focus my analysis on markets alone, I can't. These days especially, politics plays too great a role in how markets behave.But this year's election is...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares how India's copper demand may impact the metal's price. Ballanger also reviews the gold and silver market, and shares one company he thinks might have a VMS project.As I was doing some research this week on the history of copper demand, what started as a focus on China wound up with some interesting revelations surrounding the economic history of neigh...Read More
Did it warm your heart to see all those blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags waved by our elected officials in Congress Saturday night with the passage of the $60-plus-billion aid bill to the Palookaville of Europe?You realize, don't you, that the tiny fraction of that hypothetical "money" from our country's empty treasury that ever reaches Ukraine will rebound on the instant into Mr. Zelenskyy's C...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. explains why Vortex Metals Inc.'s Riqueza Marina Copper and Gold Host Project might be a new VMS project.Back in the 1960s, there was a geologist called Ken Dark who toiled as an explorationist for a big U.S. multinational called Texas Gulf Sulfur Company. His team had been conducting basic geology, including geochemical and geophysical testing of an area cal...Read More
Technical Analyst Clive Maund shares why he believes Giant Mining Corp. is an Immediate Speculative Buy.If you are the kind of investor who likes to obtain maximum leverage on capital employed in an environment where risk is at tolerable levels, Giant Mining Corp. (BFG:CSE; BFGFF:OTC; YW5:FWB) is the stock for you.In its former incarnation as Majuba Hill Copper, the only things giant about the com...Read More
They're wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions. They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that leave your jaw on the floor.The rest of the text is perfunctory. The headline is the takeaway.A few weeks ago, The New York Times told us that "As It Turns out, the Deep State Is Pretty Awesome."These are the same people who claim that Trump is trying to get rid of de...Read More
Last Friday's GDP number came in weaker-than-expected at 1.6% annualized, the weakest quarterly gain in almost two years.I've written for months that there would be no interest rate cut by the Fed at their June meeting. Wall Street was putting the odds of a rate cut at around 70% and the stock market was rallying in anticipating the cut.They were wrong, I was right. That's not to brag, it's just t...Read More