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The decline in personal computer sales may end as soon as next year as consumers will be enticed to upgrade their legacy Covid-era PCs. The…
Via SchiffGold.com, American-made weapons will soon be bound for Taiwan, American lawmakers are telling Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, sending shockwaves of uncertainty through electronics and…
America's transition to a decarbonized economy demands massive base metals and rare Earth minerals. Currently, China dominates the rare Earth mineral market. However, initiatives are…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the temporary blockage of its Black Sea ports have redirected the flow of grain from "the world's breadbasket". One of…
Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Could the world be creeping closer to a monetary gold standard? Steve Forbes sees signs that it is.…
With each day that goes by, there is more and more news indicating the EV market is saturated. First, it was manufacturers cutting back on…
Authored by Pete McGinnis via RealClearPolicy, In June 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed a rule that would require stricter financial assurance standards…
Range anxiety with electric vehicles becomes less of a problem when switching to hybrids - a plan almost all of the auto industry is now…
We don't think it'll be long before nuclear power once again has a renaissance, as we've written about extensively. But for now, the world's largest…
A month and a half after we first observed that the world's largest bitcoin fund, Grayscale's GBTC, had lost more than half of its assets…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We all know the problem with fiat currency: the temptation to print more currency is irresistible, but…
By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Surging commodity prices are threatening to bring inflation back through a door that investors thought central…
By Jake Lloyd-Smith, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The global oil market is in OPEC+ walk-up mode. That should keep prices supported this week…
Sam Altman backed nuclear startup Oklo inked a deal to supply 100MW of nuclear power to data center company Wyoming Hyperscale, it was announced last…
Since 2010, the majority of China’s cross-border payments, like those of many countries, had been settled in U.S. dollars (USD). As of the first quarter of 2023,…
Beijing is still mulling its expected retaliation in the wake of last week's Biden administration rollout of steep tariff increases on a series of Chinese…
Wall Street banks are in a frenzy over "The Next AI Trade," piling into the 'Powering up America' investment themes, whether that's power grid companies, commodities, such as copper,…
A mere few days after Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, was sworn into office at the start of the week, China's military on Thursday morning (local time)…
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…
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Afghanistan’s acting Industry and Trade Minister Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters earlier this month that his country agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan…