Share this article VANCOUVER - Lithium South Development Corp. [TSXV-LIS; OTCQB-LISMF; FSE-OGPQ] announced the successful completion of a series of advanced test work aimed at exploring alternative lithium production methods, to potentially enhance the value of its Hombre Muerto Norte project (HMN Li Project) in Argentina.Approximately 20,000 liters of representative brine samples from the Tramo w...Read More

On May 5, 2021, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social media companies and information distributors generally.They need to get with the program and start censoring critics of COVID policy. They need to amplify government propaganda. After all, it would be a shame if something would happen to these companies.These were her exact words:The president's view is that...Read More

I gave you ten steps to build your Free State of Me a few years ago. (Feel free to read or reread that article, as it's been a while.)One piece of advice is to start an online business, but many people don't know how to do that.With that in mind, I thought I'd briefly shift our focus to microeconomics.Microeconomics deals with the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions about allocat...Read More

What's the best way to survive a financial crisis with your wealth intact? The answer may surprise you.Many investors would say, "Sell everything, and wait until it's over!" That's almost never good advice.In the first place, some assets perform well in crises, and you should hold onto those. Secondly, how do you know a crisis has actually started?What seems like a crisis may just be a short-term...Read More

The Fed kept the fed funds rate unchanged at last week's meeting, as I predicted.That makes 17 Fed meetings in a row going back to March 16, 2022, when I got the Fed forecast right. Events remain uncertain from here, but it's so far, so good for my forecasting (that's not because I have a crystal ball but because I know how to read them).Jay Powell's press conference following the FOMC meeting was...Read More

The Senate quietly passed a $1.2 trillion funding package on Saturday morning to avert a partial government shutdown.Just days earlier, Jerome Powell and the Fed soothed jittery investors, declaring that the Fed still intends to cut rates before the end of the year.Meanwhile, you might have noticed gold and Bitcoin consolidating near their respective all-time highs.Coincidence?Probably not.While y...Read More

James Howard Kunstler's Saturday reckoning drew a heaping mail.Did you read it? Go here if you did not.James claimed that America's governing class is insane.On vaccines, on mass immigration, on "lawfare" against Donald Trump, on the Ukraine bloodletting and more...Meantime, James contends America's non-governing class "normal" Americans is sane.Perhaps James stretches the facts. Perhaps James...Read More

Can you feel it? The tension rising to the red line?It runs clear through all of Western Civ. We're ruled by governments of fiends. But now, the sun rides higher in the sky. The sap is rising in the northern forests. The earth heaves. The buds swell and blush. Something is in the air. The animals are waking from their long winter sleep.The natives are restless.The two traditional political divisio...Read More

Beware the Ides of March," Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer's warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending assassination on March 15.The death of American liberty happened around the same time four years ago, when the orders went out from all levels of government to close all indoor and outdoor venues where people gather.It was not quite a law and it was never voted on by anyone...Read More

The Federal Reserve began kinking its monetary hose two years back.This it did through fevered interest rate elevations and quantitative tightening.Yet the stock market put out its tongue, placed its thumbs in its ears and wiggled its fingers in Mr. Powell's face.It has gone streaking to record heights despite the Federal Reserve's kinks.A conundrum! Or is it?We are informed that financial condi...Read More

Sometimes, I watch videos on YouTube or X and think, "Thank heavens I listened to the right people about Russia and Ukraine."Of course, I claim no clairvoyance, and I'm not a "Washington Insider" like my colleague Jim Rickards.I'm just a well-traveled, educated spectator who tries to understand what's happening and then writes about it.And since my trouble with authority extends to the mainstream...Read More

Most of us recall the banking crisis of March to May 2023.It began with the collapse of the little-known Silvergate Bank on March 8. This was followed the next day by the collapse of the much larger Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 9. SVB had over $120 billion in uninsured deposits.Bank deposits over $250,000 each are not covered by FDIC insurance. Those depositors stood to lose all their money...Read More

In the year 2020 a fellow taking in $59,000 could purchase the average American house.The monetary and fiscal deliriums of the pandemic period were on the simmer but not yet the boil.Trillions and trillions later... they have boiled into a beautiful inflation.Here then is our question:What salary must a fellow fetch to purchase the average American house in 2024?Your choices are these:A): $67,00...Read More

Welcome to the year of the speculator.2024 has been a dream for adventurous investors who managed to catch lightning in a bottle and ride the mega-caps and semiconductors to outrageous heights.But I'm starting to see signs pointing to lower prices in the very near future...No, I'm not tracking the next big market meltdown... But I do expect the upcoming pullback to awaken more than a few hibernati...Read More

H.G. Wells concocted a marvelous trick ending to his classic tale The War of the Worlds (1897).Remember: the colossal Martian tripod "fighting machines" swarm all over the planet zapping cities with "heat rays"… it looks like all-is-lost… but finally the darn things just quit marching, stop zapping and stand down… the alien protoplasms at the controls (surprise ending) turn up de...Read More

What's driving the current stock market frenzy? Is it a new bubble pure and simple? Is it driven by fundamentals? Does the Fed play an important role?Let's look at these factors and make a forecast of stock market index levels based on these and other inputs.Trends in stock prices over the past year have largely been a function of market expectations about Fed rate cuts and market euphoria over st...Read More

In the 1990s, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backward.We were all gaining access to fabulous things, including the web, apps, search tools and social media. But governments at all levels were stuck in the past using IBM mainframes and large floppy disks.I recall the days of thinking government would never catch up to the glories and might of the market itself. I...Read More

A man is habitually battened upon his head with "elite" opinion.He takes daily instruction in what he must think and how he must think.If he fails to come aboard he is... varying by context... undemocratic, fascistic, racist, sexist, gay-phobic, transsexual-phobic, immigrant-phobic... and an altogether nasty fellow.He may even cast a vote for Mr. Trump.We are against these elites, so-called.We a...Read More

Surely, you don't think I'm implying or outright stating that I'd like to see mushroom clouds above German cities.Nothing could be further from the truth. Germany is one of the most beautiful countries in the world.But we need to face it: the nation-state known as Germany needs to disappear. Let's be honest. Europeans will never forgive Germany for either world war. The Jewish diaspora will ne...Read More

Most investors are highly focused on the U.S. presidential election this November, and rightly so.As of now, subject to change, that election is likely to feature a rematch of the Biden-Trump election of 2020. Their policies could not be more different.Biden is a rubber stamp for every progressive policy from open borders, climate alarmism and support for abortion to expanding the war in Ukraine.O...Read More