By David HaggithBloomberg this week ran a story telling us how the smart money gets out of the stock market when it hits its all-time peak and how the dumb money helps the smart money out. Only they didn't know that was what they were writing. It typically happens this way:At the end of a deliriously euphoric market rally when the market is preparing to crash, all the Joe Sixpacks, mom and pop a...Read More
Looking at the market at the close of this week, apparently the "policy makers" have once again gotten a handle on the financial markets. In the Dow Jones BEV chart below it did correct 10%; but only for one day, February 8th, with the Dow Jones coming back since. It closed the week only 4.81% from its last all-time high of January 26th, and so could easily make a new BEV Zero in the days and week...Read More
By Steve St. AngeloThe U.S. exported a stunning amount of gold since the turn of the century. As the price of gold surged along with the massive increase in U.S. debt, gold exports jumped to record highs. In 2012 alone, the United States exported nearly 700 metric tons of gold. The total amount of U.S. net gold exports over the past 17 years equaled the combined gold reserves of six high r...Read More
Gold's change for the week just past? A zip-zero-nada bona fide nuthin' burger. Well, ok, it did sport a net gain for the week of 30 ? having settled the prior Friday at 1323.7 and now yesterday at 1324.0. En route, price made both a "higher-low", but also a "lower-high", referred to by traders as an "inside week". Fairly riveting stuff, one has to say. Best have a bowl of soup and a nap.Speaking...Read More
RAPAPORT... Dominion Diamond Mines will integrate the Sarine DiamondJourney into its CanadaMark website, enabling consumers to track thedevelopment of their diamonds from mine to retail, Sarine Technologies saidrecently.The system was launched on the miner's website atthe Hong Kong International Jewellery Show earlier in March, providing imagesof the diamond through its journey along the supply ch...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) has received a $100,000grant for its "Diamonds Do Good" initiative, the group said last week. The JCK Industry Fund - which helped launch theprogram three years ago - has again provided funding for the campaign, aimed atinforming consumers about the industry's contributions to society. "Putting forward a positive narrative surrounding diamondsis esse...Read More
RAPAPORT... The National Museum in Prague has discovered a number of fakestones, including diamonds, sapphires and rubies, it saidlast week.The stones were found during an audit of the gemcollection while the museum was undergoing renovations. The Czech museum is remodelingin honor of the country's 100th anniversary, and will reopen inOctober, deputy director Michal Stehlik said in an interview wi...Read More
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada said 2018's convention attendance hit 25,606, the best turn out since 2013.Attendance was still marginally better than last year, just up six percent from 24,161.The PDAC Convention in Toronto, arguably the world's largest annual mining convention, is a bellwether of the industry's health. Participants from 125 countries attend.Organizers said...Read More
Reactions continue to pour in following U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports and 10 per cent for aluminium for almost every country but Mexico and Canada.Today, German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries told Reuters that the decision will cost jobs and growth. According to Zypries, Trump does not want to understand the architecture of a free global econom...Read More
Researchers from Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China tried curing blindness using gold and titanium.In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers explain how they replaced mice's deteriorated photoreceptors - sensory structures in eyes that respond to light - with artificial ones made with titanium dioxide and gold nanowires.To prove what at the...Read More
Asection of the northern dam wall at the Cadia mine, located in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales, collapsed into the southern tailings dam on Friday releasing a slurry of finely ground rock, water and a low level of benign processing reagents.The information was provided by owner and operator Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM), whose management issued a statement on Saturday saying that expe...Read More
Full description and comments at: https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcas...Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline.In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today's media to the risk of nuclear war, Kunstler also re-news his warnings of a current secular econ...Read More
We've just wrapped the Strategic Investment Conference, which in many ways is the best week of my year. Seeing so many old friends, making new ones, and having countless fascinating conversations is my idea of heaven.Continue...Read More
RAPAPORT... Dominion Diamond Mines will integrate the Sarine DiamondJourney into its CanadaMark website, enabling consumers to track thedevelopment of their diamonds from mine to retail, Sarine Technologies saidrecently.The system was launched on the miner's website atthe Hong Kong International Jewellery Show earlier in March, providing imagesof the diamond through its journey along the supply ch...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) has received a $100,000grant for its "Diamonds Do Good" initiative, the group said last week. The JCK Industry Fund - which helped launch theprogram three years ago - has again provided funding for the campaign, aimed atinforming consumers about the industry's contributions to society. "Putting forward a positive narrative surrounding diamondsis esse...Read More
A branch of journalism that might be called, "don't worry, be happy, because this time is different" tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is actua...Read More
A branch of journalism that might be called, "don't worry, be happy, because this time is different" tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is actua...Read More
Important development pieces have come together at the Silver Sand project in Bolivia. New Pacific Metals Silver SandNews Update: On March 12, New Pacific Metals Corp. began trading on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol NUPMF.New Pacific Metals Corp. (NUAG:TSX.V, NUPMF:OTCQX) recently announced several key developments. Two major ones were obtaining exploration permits from the Bolivian gover...Read More
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