*This interview was recorded on April 9, 2020Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in ad...Read More
"Social isolation should not mean spiritual isolation."Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist.Continue...Read More
Facebook Inc said announced on Monday that it had removed events in Nebraska, New Jersey, and California promoting protests against stay-at-home measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic Continue...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More
Many people have taken the "Red Pill" when it comes to silver price manipulation and that's a GOOD THING. The more you know how the Criminals Rig the Game the sooner we can END this FRAUD!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedi...Read More
"We have taken aggressive actions to keep coronavirus out of our plant and keep this critical infrastructure facility operational."Continue...Read More
How did you end up with negative oil prices today? This happens when a physical futures contract find no buyers close to or at expiry. Continue...Read More
Over the past few weeks, state governments across the Land of the Free have been feverishly proposing new legislation that will virtually guarantee the entire insurance industry is wiped out.Continue...Read More
"I don't think we'll have a long-lasting Great Depression.... But we may have a different kind of a mess. All this money-printing may start bothering us."Continue...Read More
Turkey has increased the import duties on a number of steel products, including hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil, coated coil, angles and sections and stainless flat steel, effective from Saturday April 18.The new duties are in effect until July 15, 2020, as per a decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the country's official gazette.The import duty for semi-finished stee...Read More
Near-term, it's bullish for gold from the sense of making for safe-haven demand amid a very anxious marketplace. However, Continue...Read More
The precious metals sector has reached an interesting juncture. After a rip-roaring recovery, Gold and the largest and most Continue...Read More
Steel billet prices in most major regions around the world climbed in the week to Friday April 17, tracking gains seen in the bellwether Turkish ferrous scrap import market. Scrap prices in the world's largest importer of the steelmaking raw material have increased by close to $50 per tonne since plunging to April 2's three-and-a-half-year low of $208.10 per tonne. CIS, Turkey, EgyptTrading activi...Read More
"The administration I think is trying to ramp up testing, they are doing some things with respect to private labs, but to try to push this off to say that the governors have plenty of testing Continue...Read More
"If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences."Continue...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday April 20 that are worth another look.Last month, analysts started warning that oil prices could fall below zero. On Monday, they did.Iron ore fines output at Brazil-based miner Vale fell by 18.2% year on year in the first quarter of 2020, while the company has cut its guidance of iron ore and pellet production for 2020, the company...Read More
The following profound and accurate comment was written by Rick Mills of the Aheadoftheherd.com site"Historically, and especially so today, for all the reasons to like gold, the greatest leverage to rising precious metals prices has been owning the shares of junior resource companies focused on acquiring, discovering and developing precious metals deposits.Importantly, juniors are a cost-effect...Read More
Last month, analysts started warning that oil prices could fall below zero. On Monday April 20, they did.The May futures contract for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil fell as low as minus $37.63 per barrel, the first time ever that the price of the commodity has entered negative territory. By contrast, the June WTI contract is trading at around $20 per barrel, marking the biggest perce...Read More
Chinese domestic portside manganese ore prices of both high and low grades registered significant increases in the latest assessments on Friday April 17, after the country's ore traders raised offer prices notably in response to a 14-day extension of the lockdown in South Africa. On April 9, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced he would extend the nationwide lockdown in place sin...Read More