We highlighted insider buying at Gear Energy (GXE) in our weekly Globe and Mail Who is Buying and Selling feature on September 21st. The article was based on the September 17th INK morning report where we note that Gear has recovered from a disappointing Q1 and insiders have been buying. Their continued enthusiasm suggests the stock remains undervalued despite a recent rally. Below is our 90 seco...Read More

In this free Real Vision video Becoming a "Fool on the Hill", Whitney Tilson, founder and CEO of Empire Financial Research, talks to Ed Harrison about how a few big risks he took early in his career allowed him to grow his fledgling hedge fund. Heeding the advice of Warren Buffet provided him the perspective to identify the opportunities in non-consensus equities through the dotcom bubble.Tilson...Read More

A downturn in global ferrous scrap prices and negative sentiment in most global steel markets continued to drag down billet prices during the working week from Monday September 16 to Friday September 20.Export prices for steel billet from the Commonwealth of Independent States region have been under pressure from weak demand and falling scrap prices internationally, which lead mills in the region...Read More

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Nick Barisheff, CEO of BMG and the author of the popular book "$10,000 Gold."Read More

Bianco Research president and eponym Jim Bianco calls in to help us make sense of last week's chaos in short term lending rates. Jonathan Tepper, founding partner at Variant Perception, assesses the commercial landscape and identifies potentially attractive opportunities.8:15 Why didn't the banks arbitrage those high rates?13:50 Excess reserves and post-crisis regulation19:00 Corporate competition...Read More

Violent factions of the mostly peaceful Pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong took to the streets this once again this weekend - attacking two subway stations, igniting street Continue...Read More

Sure, the communists in Russia may have directly and indirectly slaughtered millions of their own people, but Bernie is a glass half full kind of guy!Read More

At the time, the book was ground-breaking. Back in 2007, Nassim Taleb published a book called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.Continue...Read More

"That was the message from the Justice Department - commit all the fraud you need as long as you support the US dollar."Continue...Read More

"Negative interest rates is something that we looked at during the financial crisis and chose not to do. After we got to the effective lower bound [near-zero effective federal funds rate], Continue...Read More

After October 10, the New York Fed will "conduct operations as necessary to help maintain the federal funds rate in the target range, the amounts and timing of which have not yet been determined."Continue...Read More

I am simply amazed at how much email I have been getting asking my opinion regarding the latest Continue...Read More

This guest, Franklin Sanders, known as "The Money Changer," and founder of The-MoneyChanger.com, has been in the gold & silver business for 40 years. Sanders visits Reluctant Preppers this first time to explain his experienced view of the factors affecting premiums on collectible gold coins, and why he says the data argues "against" buying numismatic coins as a part of your wealth preservation str...Read More

Critical Mass - A point or situation at which change occurs.Just over a year ago Cameco made the difficult decision to close its MacArthur River and Key Lake mines, in response to low uranium prices, leaving the Canadian company’s flagship Cigar Lake facility as its only operating mine left in northern Saskatchewan, home to vast reserves of the nuclear fuel.  The mine closures by C...Read More

A downturn in global ferrous scrap prices and negative sentiment in most global steel markets continued to drag down billet prices during the working week from Monday September 16 to Friday September 20.Export prices for steel billet from the Commonwealth of Independent States region have been under pressure from weak demand and falling scrap prices internationally, which lead mills in the region...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday September 20 that are worth another look.Uptrends in the spot aluminium premiums in Rotterdam have faltered with backwardations in the London Metal Exchange December/three-month and January/three-month spreads starting to put material pressure on the physical market.Some large Chinese metal scrap buyers that have been granted imp...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday September 20 that are worth another look.Uptrends in the spot aluminium premiums in Rotterdam have faltered with backwardations in the London Metal Exchange December/three-month and January/three-month spreads starting to put material pressure on the physical market.Some large Chinese metal scrap buyers that have been granted imp...Read More

RAPAPORT... Consumers would willingly pay a premium for a diamond that had been verified by an independent thirdparty as being responsibly sourced, according to an MVI Marketing survey. Approximately one third of consumers would shell out anextra 5% on top of the retail price for a diamond that has been verified asresponsibly mined, or sustainably lab-grown, or for which the country of origin...Read More

RAPAPORT... A Burmese ruby ring from a private European estate sold formore than 18 times its low estimate, setting a new house record at ChiswickAuctions. An undisclosed buyer purchased the 10.51-carat, natural, unheated stone for GBP 462,500($576,817). The London-based auction house had estimated it would fetch at least GBP 25,000 ($31,179). "Natural rubies above five carats are very rare,...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lab-grown brand ALTR Created Diamonds has appointed RichardWhitby chief financial officer as part of an effort to broaden the company's reach. "Bringing Richard on board marks a pivotal point for ALTR aswe continue our global expansion amidst a shift in the industry," Amish Shah,president of ALTR, said last week. "Richard brings meaningful executiveexperience increasing the forwar...Read More