On September 30, President Trump signed an executive order that would guarantee increased U.S. production of the 35 critical metals used for the military as well as critical industries such as fracking and electric cars.These minerals include rare earth minerals, most of which are currently imported from China. There are also other metals used in batteries such as cobalt and lithium.For 31 of thes...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday October 13 that are worth another look.The numbers of cases of Covid-19 infection have begun to grow once more across Europe, and Fastmarkets has heard the fears of various market participants about the consequences that any new restrictions or lockdowns could have for...Read More

We are altering the format of our Insights newsletter a bit to make it more useful for our members by focusing on the key emerging themes and findings that we have covered over the past week. INK Research produces about 10 or more written reports and blog posts a week, plus INK Chat entries. In addition, we publish 3 videos a day on INK Ultra Money during the week. We cover a lot of ground, and,...Read More

The domestic United Arab Emirates rebar price broke the steady streak held since mid-September this week after the low end of the range fell on weak demand, sources said on Tuesday October 13.Domestic rebar The country's biggest steel producer, Emirates Steel, continued to offer rebar at 1,936 dirhams ($527) per tonne ex-works for orders to be produced in October, stable since September 15. Fellow...Read More

Liberty Steel UK has started producing "green" rebar at its Rotherham mill, targeting domestic infrastructure projects, it said on Thursday October 8.The site has an electric arc furnace (EAF) and rolling mill that last week started to make what the company says is "sustainably produced" reinforcing bar that will be used to support concrete structures in major construction and infrastructure proje...Read More

The Turkish steel mills have purchased further deep-sea scrap material at firmer prices, market sources said on Tuesday October 13.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a US cargo consisting of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $285 per tonne and bonus at $295 per tonne cfr.The supplier did not wish to disclose the composition of the cargo when contacted.This compared with the previous US cargo sold on October...Read More

Seaborne iron ore prices buckled on Tuesday October 13, amid soaring port inventories in China and weakened demand for finished steel, according to trade sources.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $121.15 per tonne, down $3.08 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $121.30 per tonne, down $3.14 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $112...Read More

The domestic United Arab Emirates rebar price broke the steady streak held since mid-September this week after the low end of the range fell on weak demand, sources said on Tuesday October 13.Domestic rebar The country's biggest steel producer, Emirates Steel, continued to offer rebar at 1,936 dirhams ($527) per tonne ex-works for orders to be produced in October, stable since September 15. Fellow...Read More

The "Greens" are very vocal and aggressive about reducing CO2 and replacing oil by electricity. Why Big Oil, OPEC, and even Russia are not coming up with their own "propaganda" or at least challenging the Green Agenda? Economist, Martin Armstrong answers reader questions. Martin Armstrong is a world renown economist and the creator of the Economic Confidence Model. He is the founder of Armstrong E...Read More

The W.H.O. backs up the bus again and makes a u-turn on a very crowded information highway and now recommends against country-wide lockdowns. This after initially saying they work. Same as for the constant u-turning around masks, and whether or not Sars2 is airborne, etc. Beyond that, we've got great new data that Ivermectin really (really!) works. Especially and particularly in combination therap...Read More

The odds are that former Vice-President Joe Biden will win this year's presidential election, and the results for the economy will be more stimulus, higher taxes, and rising inflation, said Peter Schiff, senior economist and chief market strategist of Euro Pacific Capital."I think the outcome is going to be a Biden win. I also think that it's more likely than not that the Democrats will take the S...Read More

Gerald Celente, the popular publisher of The Trends Journal, is sounding the alarm on what he sees as a coming economic catastrophe. "They are killing us," says Celente referring to the current lockdown of many businesses.In the interview with Stansberry Research anchor Daniela Cambone, Celente discusses what he is doing to protect his assets. He also details how he is preparing for what he consid...Read More

?>>?In this most recent MAMINAR, Egon von Greyerz exchanges pertinent thoughts on the economy and markets with Matterhorn Asset Management advisors, Ronni Stoeferle and Grant Williams. This timely discussion covers an extraordinary range of topics, beginning with the obvious disconnect between rising securities markets and the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.Ronni and Egon ad...Read More

Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report https://solari.com/.Read More

Time Stamp References:0:40 - History, money printing and the middle-class.3:45 - Dow VS Metals5:00 - Dollar collapse is underway.6:50 - Gold and making rules.9:30 - Central planning or free markets.11:48 - Covid the convenient excuse to print moar.16:10 - Systemic risk and dealing with the Fed.18:55 - Why the dollar will decline.20:15 - Canadian Central Bank balance sheet exploding.26:50 - Unmined...Read More

http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Charles Hugh Smith writes the Of Two Minds blog which covers an eclectic range of timely topics: finance, housing, Asia, energy, long-term trends, social issues, health/diet/fitness and sustainability. From its humble beginnings in May 2005, Of Two Minds now attracts some 200,000 visits a month. Charles also contributes to AOL's Daily Finance site and has wr...Read More

Gerald Celente steals the Bill Clinton era campaign motto 'It's the Economy Stupid' and applies it to Trump's strategy to win reelection by focusing on reopening the economy.Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publish...Read More

Traders in China have returned from the country's Golden Week holiday hungry for steel imports although there are significant gaps between bids and offers for major products, market participants have told Fastmarkets.Climbing Chinese steel prices, bullish sentiment over market conditions in the months ahead and production cuts in China's steelmaking hub of Tangshan are the main reasons given for C...Read More

After a volatile summer, silver is now trading in the mid-$20's.Some think the rally is over and that it's time to sell. But Lynette Zang of ITM Trading still thinks silver is "severely" undervalued.Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understan...Read More

Libertarian communicator Ron Paul, at the start of a new interview at landry.audio, gave a mixed review of Donald Trump's actions as president.Continue...Read More