There are days when you just want to shout: Thank goodness for the market!It seems like one of the few institutions remaining that actually tells the truth in a world of lies. It checks governments, ideologues, central banks, preening elites and delusional intellectuals and finally tells the world what is true.The message is not always obvious and clear but the trajectory is. It's about all we hav...Read More
It seems that more and more commentators and political figures are calling for an increased U.S. role in Ukraine, even the deployment of ground troops.For example, Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware recently argued, "We in Congress and the administration [must] come to a common position about when we are willing to go the next step and to send not just arms but troops to the aid in defense of Ukraine.&#...Read More
The latest estimate of U.S. GDP growth for the first quarter of 2022 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is 1.3% (annualized). That's a notably weak reading and it comes just days before the final number is published by the Commerce Department.It's true that the first quarter is behind us, but the first quarter was relatively unaffected by the war in Ukraine, which began Feb. 24. The impact o...Read More
Did you catch the absolute frenzy about Elon Musk's proposed takeover of Twitter? Employees at Twitter were falling on their fainting couches repeatedly.The Washington Post warned of the grave danger to democracy.Now think about this. This is a highly censored platform. They ban you for raising questions about vaccines. You are dinged for wondering a bit about Zelenskyy's war drums. They body-bag...Read More
How long will today's inflation last? Deficits are the obvious place to begin with. The best way to consider debt is the debt-to-GDP ratio; you put the debt in the context of the gross income needed to service the debt.The best estimate for annual U.S. GDP as of Dec. 31, 2021, is $24 trillion. The result is a U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio of 125% ($30T ?? $24T = 1.25). Another estimate puts the ratio at...Read More
The dollar price of gold is up about 2.7% in the past month, 8.4% in the past three months and 14% in the past year. That's not only a strong performance, but good evidence that the long 16-month dry spell from Oct. 1, 2020-Feb. 1, 2022, when gold traded in a range between $1,700 per ounce and $1,900 per ounce with very few exceptions, is also over.Gold has moved to higher ground in the $1,900-2,0...Read More
New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG; NYSE-A: NFGC) has reported more high-grade gold results from its ongoing, 400,000-metre drill program at its Queensway project in Newfoundland. Highlights from the drilling included 6.8 metres grading 8.7 grams gold per tonne starting from 98.3 metres in drill hole NFGC-22-533; and 2.2 metres grading 275 grams gold starting from 32.5 metres in drill hole NFGC-22-538....Read More
Shares of Baselode Energy (TSXV: FIND; US-OTC: BSENF) rose to their highest in May as the company reported elevated radioactivity in a near-surface interval in drill hole AK22-038 as part of the company's ongoing 20,000-metre drill program on the Ackio uranium discovery at its Hook project, in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin.The drill hole reported a radioactivity of 914 counts per second,...Read More
SRK Consulting has built deep experience working in the African mining sector and has developed a firm grasp of where potential opportunities are and some of the critical challenges preventing the industry from contributing to local economies to its fullest potential.The Northern Miner's senior reporter, Henry Lazenby, caught up with SRK Consulting director and principal consultant Andrew van Zyl...Read More
Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; US-OTC: CIAFF) has completed the first rail shipments containing 24,304 tonnes of high-grade 66.2% Fe iron ore concentrate from the Phase II expansion project at the Bloom Lake mine in Quebec.The mine complex is located approximately 13 km north of Fermont, and 10 km north of the Mont Wright iron ore mining complex belonging to ArcelorMittal Mines Canada. The Bloom Lake...Read More
Osisko Mining (OSK: TSX) has released more high-grade results from its infill and expansion drilling at the Windfall gold project in Quebecc, including 43 intercepts in 17 underground drill holes and five wedges from surface.The infill intercepts are located inside the mineral resource estimate (MRE) blocks defined in January 2022, which reflected 1.7 million metres of drilling. The measured and i...Read More
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) has revealed a costs blowout at its massive C??t?(C) gold project in Ontario, with preliminary estimates from an ongoing risk analysis indicating that development of the asset would require between US$1.2 billion and US$1.3 billion to complete.That compares to the company's previous assessment of between US$710 million and US$760 million needed and represents an eye-p...Read More
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Dear Outsider,There's something strange going on in the land of information.In a world where everyone gets their content from YouTube and social media, the last decade or so has seen an erosion of truth. Not just factual truth, but life lessons as well.For proof, just look at all the conflicting information we got about the pandemic... death rates, infection statistics, etc.What's more is modern n...Read More
While non-ferrous exploration budgets increased 35% in 2021 to an eight-year high of US$11.Read More
Share this articleTORONTO - Trigon Metals Inc. [TM-TSXV] shares were active Thursday after the company said it has closed on a $5.5 million convertible security funding agreement with Lind Global Fund 11, LP, an entity managed by the Lind Partners LLC, a New York-based institutional fund manager.Trigon has also entered into a financing letter with Sprott Mining Inc. under which Sprott has agreed t...Read More
Charlie Munger is a communist sympathizer.The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who certainly embraces free market capitalism when it benefits him, seems to trivialize it when he doesn't like it.Let me explain...Last week, Munger (who Warren Buffett once declared made him a better man) said that Bitcoin was stupid and evil and that China was right to ban it.Two things:Advocating for the state t...Read More
Liberty and Finance, Released on 5/5/22Multiple countries are moving away from the US dollar. The fuse it lit, says Bill Holter, contributor at JSMineSet.com, and the system will explode when the only buyer of Treasuries is the Federal Reserve. He describes how to prepare for a collapse. "In an urban environment, when the financial system goes down," he says, "you will not make it." He suggests li...Read More
ABC News (Australia), Released on 5/4/22Contrarian investor Marc Faber says central banks have waited too long to act. He believes a recession is inevitable and it will hurt ordinary people.Dr. Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland and obtained a PhD in Economics at the University of Zurich. Between 1970 and 1978, Dr. Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong...Read More
Peak Prosperity, Released on 5/5/22From Covid to George Floyd to Ukraine to abortion, are these all things meant to divide us?We are all rats in a cage who are being shocked. A very well-studied form of psychological warfare is being waged against us, and it's designed to encourage us to overlook where the shocks are originating and fight amongst each other. Join Chris on tonight's Informed Consen...Read More