Corona Virus: "This is the most serious pandemic risk that we've seen, not since SARS...but I think since the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1919." - Dr Chris Martenson. Join Mike Maloney as he investigates the potential for the coronavirus outbreak to become a full-blown pandemic. Mike and Chris will discuss the genesis and spread of Corona virus and how to prepare yourself. They will also examine how C...Read More

On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Iran's information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices.At the time, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin condemned the Iranian government for censuring information that Iranian citizens could view online, stating...Read More

Edward Snowden is the author of "Permanent Record" and is the president of Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that defends Continue...Read More

The coronavirus coming out of Wuhan is going to pop the "Everything Bubble." This has the potential for being the biggest mass casualty event in world history. At the very least it will take down the financial system Continue...Read More

The price of steel billet fell in most regions during the week ended Friday January 24, due to the continuing slide in ferrous scrap prices in Turkey.The downturn in Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices hit scrap prices in other regions and resulted in a further fall in billet prices.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a UK cargo comprising 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $277 per ton...Read More

Chris Marcus' biography: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/chris-marcus/TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:02:50 Sentiment shift signalling something big!05:25 Trigger point to a hot rally in the metals market10:25 Combating inflation and the great economic Ponzi system23:50 Investors seeking contrarian assets outside the Dollar's system28:50 Gold and Silver retaking the title of wealth protectors in 202033:05 G...Read More

Student enrollment has dropped 11% since 2011 while student-loan balances have surged 74%. Why?Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade...Read More

Speaking at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, David Morgan of the Morgan Report said that while he was happy to see silver achieve about a US$2 gain in 2019, some mining companies achieved much better results."What I really want to emphasize though is that the miners did exceptionally well. Our top-tier performance last year averaged (a) 63 percent gain, and the S&P 500 did 29 percent....Read More

One of the problems with prepping for a pandemic is getting accurate information. When there's a potential for a highly contagious and potentially deadly disease, people panic.Continue...Read More

The conspirators pulled off their scheme by selling solar generators that did not exist to investors, making it appear that solar generators existed in locations that they did not, creating false financial statementsContinue...Read More

- A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said.A U.S. Army spokeswoman declined to comment on the Taliban claim, but video from the crash site circulating on social media appeared to suggest the aircraft was a U.S. Air Force electronic surveillance plane.Continue...Read More

An equities correction in 2020 may be the catalyst that silver and gold investors finally need to see a breakout to the upside, said David Morgan, editor of The Morgan Report."We're going to see more of a move to safe haven status, and I think a major fact will be the stock market," Morgan told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. David Morgan is a world-ren...Read More

"The anticipated Wuhan flu contagion triggered sell-off in equity markets will likely drive gold demand out Continue...Read More

Three rockets struck the US embassy in Iraq's capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of near misses, as thousands of protesters continued to marchContinue...Read More

Vanadium prices took another move higher in Europe during the second half of last week, supported by an increase in inquiries and trader restocking, Fastmarkets heard. Fastmarkets' price assessment for ferro-vanadium, ddp Europe stands at $26-27.15 per kg as of January 24, up by 3.6% from the midweek assessment, and now at its highest level since the beginning of October. Fastmarkets' price assess...Read More

A lack of information on the extended Section 232 tariffs that were announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday January 24 has made it difficult to predict the impact on the downstream steel and aluminium markets.The steel and aluminium tariffs will be set at 25% and 10% respectively and will take effect on February 8, according to the presidential proclamation.A list of targeted goods h...Read More

Chinese steelmaker Hebei Jingye Group has moved a step closer to acquiring British Steel following an agreement made with the trade unions that could result in 500 job losses.The proposals from Jingye on terms of employment now need to be agreed by British Steel staff following the negotiations by the various trade unions.Other outstanding hurdles to the deal include Jingye reaching an agreement.....Read More

A summary of Anglo American's production results for iron ore in the fourth quarter and full-year 2019, as well as production guidance for 2020, following the company's report released on Thursday January 23. The South African Kumba unit increased production on both comparisons due to the Sishen mine improving operational performance and the Kolomela mine - both mines are part of the Kumba un...Read More

A lack of information on the extended Section 232 tariffs that were announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday January 24 has made it difficult to predict the impact on the downstream steel and aluminium markets.The steel and aluminium tariffs will be set at 25% and 10% respectively and will take effect on February 8, according to the presidential proclamation.A list of targeted goods h...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe were expected to rise due to a combination of uncompetitive import offers and good order books at EU mills, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday January 27.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, ex-works Northern Europe, was ?,?461.25 ($508.42) per tonne on Monday, compared with ?,?460.81 per tonne on January 24.The index was...Read More