Don't ever let anyone tell you that hard work doesn't pay off. When Marin Katusa first sat down with Rick Rule in 2004, it hadn't been long since left a job teaching calculus. Not to say that teachers aren't important, but the position he currently occupies is a far cry from that...

When an investor like Doug Casey says that the bottom of a bear market is probably in, it would be smart to pay attention. Depending on how you want to measure the beginning of the current bear market in precious metals, it has been going for at least six years, if not longer. For mining shares the...

South Africa is facing some major problems that may not have solutions. The most urgent issue is the lack of water, and the total absence of any viable options for supporting a burgeoning population. The city of Cape Town has instituted a water rationing program, but even with the cuts in service...

The lowest point of a bear market goes unnoticed. This is more a matter of necessity than some sort of grandiose statement about investing. When a market bottoms out, there is no way to know that it isn't going any lower, nor is there any way to know that times will be better in the future....

According to reports from the Nikkei Asian Review, the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (SIEE) is in the last stages of preparation before launching a crude oil futures contract that will be both open to international entities, and priced in Chinese Yuan. China recently overtook the United...

i. Introduction Economics has struggled to make sense out of the price movements that occur in financial markets, or on a larger scale, economies as a whole. For a long time the ideas of equilibrium were very important to the study of economics, but when these ideas are looked at critically,...

The world has changed a lot over the last ten years, both politically and economically. In many ways the existing financial system ended in the late months of 2008, and today, we live in a world that is experimenting with radical new ideas outside of the laboratory. James Rickards has been...

The platinum market has been sliding for a while. Like many metals, it posted some pretty lofty prices nearly a decade ago, but after the crash in 2008, its glory days never returned. Today the metal, which is far more rare than gold, is selling for less than a thousand US Dollars per ounce, and...

In the Western world, gold just isn't very interesting. Central banks were sellers of the yellow metal for a long time, but now, the gold reserves for countries like the United States, England, France and Germany are basically stable. There have been some squabbles recently about where...

The uranium market has been a rough one since the subprime bubble burst in 2008. The vast majority of junior miners have gone under, and are at best scraping by. But for Skyharbor Resources, the nasty climate for uranium investment has been a blessing, and today they are sitting on a land package...

The 19th Party Congress is well underway in Beijing, and with his opening speech Xi Jinping touched briefly on what could become one of the largest economic and geopolitical drivers of the 21st century. The Belt and Road initiative (BRI) is massive in its scope, and may be the thing that shifts the...

Unconventional gas recovery has been on a wild ride. The industry came out of nowhere around a decade ago, but for one innovative Canadian company, the tight gas field has been very rewarding. A lot of what makes Blackbird Energy so successful is their decision to buy into some of the best land...

With the price of silver around where it was a decade ago, one could be forgiven that the market for the white metal was flat. The opposite is true, and with the demand for silver rising, it is surprising to see the price banging around below $20usd/oz. The founder of First Majestic Silver, Keith...

For most of recorded history, gold was money. If it wasn't minted into coins for use in the economy, it was what backed up the value of paper currency. It has only been in the last 50 or so years that gold became demonetized, and with the rise of fiat currencies, the yellow metal became a...