MATSUYAMA, EHIME PREF. - Shikoku Electric Power Co. on Saturday restarted a reactor at its Ikata nuclear power plant after a suspension of nearly one year due to a high court order.The restart of the No. 3 unit at the plant in the town of Ikata, Ehime Prefecture, announced by the power company overnight Friday, came after a high court accepted an appeal by the utility in a late September ruling th...Read More
Featured GuestsDr. Raymond Moody MD & Dr. Stephen Leeb PhDShow HighlightsPart II of the talk with Dr. Raymond Moody, author of best-selling Life after Life (1974) and founder of The University of Heaven follows. The host is reunited with the former forensic therapist 30 years after sitting in Dr. Moody's undergraduate class.Dr. Moody embarked upon a remarkable-lifelong scientific journey to unco...Read More
My Two CentsBy Andy Sutton / Graham Mehl It began as any other bull market. An early burst followed by climbing a wall of worry, then bursting out (or down in this case) beyond the wall of worry, its trajectory headed for the great ethereal unknown. And just like every similar time in history, market analysts, policy makers, and the general public assumed it would go on like this forever. And i...Read More
By John MauldinAddicted to DebtLost Exorbitant PrivilegeTrigger PointsFrankfurt, Cleveland, Golf, and Here and ThereIs debt good or bad? The answer is "Yes."Debt is future spending pulled forward in time. It lets you buy something now for which you otherwise don't have cash available yet. Whether it's wise or not depends on what you buy. Debt to educate yourself so you can get a better job may b...Read More
By Gary Tanashian[edit] When viewing the sector through a technical lens it has been 'bounce only'. As this post shows, the fundamentals are in the process of changing for the better. What do bad technicals and good fundamentals spell? Opportunity. This edit goes in because while doing this weekend's work (NFTRH 523) a road map to the buying opportunity has emerged. It has very much to do with t...Read More
By David MorganFinancial crises start under blue skies, as investors in emerging markets know too well. They lead rather than follow business recessions. Ultimately, they are caused by a sharp tightening of liquidity conditions and collapsing investors' risk appetite.Arguably, the most important price to watch in financial markets for an early-warning sign is the price of the dominant economy's...Read More
The downward trend continued to prevail in the global steel billet market in the week from Monday October 22 to Friday October 26, with buying activity remaining muted amid a lack of support from the finished long steel sector.Some markets started to show the signs of optimism, however. In particular, in the CIS, some market participants hoped that the rise in import scrap prices in Turkey would h...Read More
By Darryl Robert Schoon As we approach the 2018 US midterms, interest in voting is the highest it's been in decades. Republicans, Democrats, independents and even the disaffected are engaged; and with voting 10 days away, we should review democracy's origins as it relates to the outcome of the midterms. The success of self-government ultimately depends on the nature of the self to be governed....Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized ecoanomist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Tim...Read More
Radio host, filmmaker and book author Steve Quayle says a second civil war has been brewing in America for a quarter century. Read More
The president of Zimbabwe Miners Federation, Henrietta Rushwaya, announced that villagers living around the Marange diamond fields in the eastern Manicaland province will be allocated claims to extract gems as part of government plans to empower the communities through mining.During a meeting with members of the regional miners association, Rushwaya said her office approached state-owned Zimbabwe...Read More
What if the NRA, the Government, and many restrictive laws are gravely wrong about how the 2nd Amendment empowers the ordinary people of our United States to stand up against ALL forms of tyranny, foreign and domestic?Constitutional scholar Dr. Edwin Vieira PhD, JD, Joins Reluctant Preppers to break open what you're not being told about the 2nd Amendment, its true power, intent, and shocking scope...Read More
In recent days, mid-tier gold and copper miner Aura Minerals (TSX:ORA) decided to suspend operations at its San Andr?(C)s mine in Honduras due to what the miner calls 'an illegal occupation of the mine' that has been intensifying since July 13, 2018.Through its subsidiary in the Central American country, Minerales de Occidente S.A or Minosa, Aura management informed workers that the gold mine woul...Read More
Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More
Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) has hired four people for its metals business in New York after losing six traders and salesmen who defected to rival Canadian lender Bank of Montreal (BMO) last month, sources said.The move signals that Scotia, whose Mocatta metals arm has for years been the world's biggest lender to the physical precious metals industry, is committed to the business despite a res...Read More
Ed Steer is the founder of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest and a director at GATA.org.Read More
"But is the eurozone sufficiently armed to face a new economic or financial crisis? My answer is no. It is urgent to do what we have proposed to our partners in order to Continue...Read More
While most market watchers have grown numb to the headlines about various western bankers and traders rigging markets (from Libor to precious metals to FX), who receive wrist-slapsContinue...Read More
As we have noted over the many years of the gold sector’s bear market, the gold miners will not rally for real until the real sector and macro fundamentals come into place. Those fundamentals do not include commonly promoted inflation, China/India “love” trades, a US dollar collapse or especially, war, pestilence or any other human misery than economic. The more astute gold bugs...Read More
The downward trend continued to prevail in the global steel billet market in the week from Monday October 22 to Friday October 26, with buying activity remaining muted amid a lack of support from the finished long steel sector.Some markets started to show the signs of optimism, however. In particular, in the CIS, some market participants hoped that the rise in import scrap prices in Turkey would h...Read More