Copper Surges to New Highs: Key Market Facts and Future Demand Drivers
Copper prices reached record highs on Monday due to a rally driven by short covering and speculative bets. Copper, primarily used in power, construction, and increasingly in green energy applications like electric vehicles and AI data centers, saw global consumption rise from 10 million metric tons in the late 1980s to 26.5 million tons in […]
Gold Prices Surge on Geopolitical Tensions, Then Dip After Fed Comments
Gold prices initially surged to an all-time high on Monday due to safe-haven demand amid increased geopolitical tensions following the death of Iran’s president. However, comments from Fed Vice Chair Michael Barr, indicating that interest rates would need to remain high to combat inflation, caused gold to pare its gains, trading around $2,410. Barr’s remarks […]
Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis
Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Second Amendment is vital for enabling Americans to protect themselves from the wave of criminals, drugs, and the mentally ill that are flooding across the U.S. southern border, former President Donald Trump told a […]
Map Shows Latest Cartel Activity In Mexico As Drug Lords Should Fear A Potential Trump Victory
Map Shows Latest Cartel Activity In Mexico As Drug Lords Should Fear A Potential Trump Victory Every six months, the US drug death catastrophe eclipses the Vietnam War. The vast majority of deaths are derived from fentanyl-laced narcotics, which come from Mexico (and chemicals sourced initially from China), via open southern borders pushed by radical leftists in the White […]
Maybe We’re Closer To “You’ll Own Nothing” Than We Realize
Maybe We’re Closer To “You’ll Own Nothing” Than We Realize Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to “you’ll appear to own things you don’t actually control and be happy.” The World Economic Forum’s catchphrase you’ll own nothing and be happy was widely mocked as an eyebrow-raising vision of a “sharing […]
FDIC Chairman To Resign After Sexual Harassment Scandal
FDIC Chairman To Resign After Sexual Harassment Scandal In the first – but certainly not last – major shake up at a key US financial regulator under the Biden admin, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg bowed to pressure to resign from the bank regulator after an external investigation found widespread sexual harassment at […]
Comply Or Else – Proof Of Censorship
Comply Or Else – Proof Of Censorship Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, It’s not been good lately for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies, […]
Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept
Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept Another day, another indication of what a spectacular, snakebit clusterf**k the F-35 program is. The latest blotter entry comes to us from the US Government Accounting Office (GAO), via a new report pointedly titled “F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter Production […]
Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees
Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees Via SchiffGold.com, The percentage of U.S. adults holding an advanced degree increased by over 3% from 2011-2021. This increase in education is assumed to have a crucial role in America’s increasing economic strength over that time period. The expertise gained from such degrees is supposed to be valuable enough […]
Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could “Haunt” The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim
Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could “Haunt” The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim Solar executives in China are railing the U.S. and Europe over trade protectionism, claiming that the West should instead “let the best technology win” in their respective markets. The Financial Times conducted an interview with Zhou Shijun, who leads global marketing for Arctech, who told […]