For around 3,000 years, China maintained an airtight monopoly on silk.China's silk empire began in approximately 2400 BC, and the entire process was a state secret. From raising and processing silkworms, to weaving and dying threads.Imperial workshops were vertically integrated and tightly controlled.The punishment for revealing any silk secrets was death. Export of silkworm eggs and mulberry seed...Read More
Legend has it that in November 2004 Taylor Swift was "discovered" in Nashville. A youngster at the time, merely 14 years old, she was playing guitar and singing at the Bluebird Caf? when a music promoter heard her, took a look, and decided that this gal was going places. And as you surely know, today she's a huge mega-star.Taylor Swift in Nashville, but no I didn't see her. Courtesy billboard.com....Read More
There are 'policies' that seem to work…and some that don't seem to work.But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they know what they want and what they have to work with. The feds, who have aims of their own, can make us do things differently; they can't make us do things better.Doing 'better' is dri...Read More
During the dotcom boom, fiber optic cabling was a scorching-hot sector.This is the wiring the internet runs on. The arteries and veins of the data world.Corning (NYSE: GLW) was the darling of fiber optics in the 1990s and into 2000. This classic American company had been a leader in specialized glass and ceramic materials for more than a century.Starting in the 1960s, they invested heavily in the...Read More
I opened my portfolio this morning already wincing, knowing an ugly number would materialize.Oof. It's a red day for those of us with beefy allocations to gold and silver miners. Game of Thrones style.Precious metal miners are correcting sharply. The SILJ junior silver miner ETF is down about 8.5% as of 12:40 PM. The GDX gold miner ETF is down about 7.8%. These are my preferred benchmarks for the...Read More
I remember getting my offer letter from Lehman Brothers in early 1997, a full 11 years before they went bankrupt, I hasten to add. For a whopping $34,000, I was theirs, green as a Granny Smith apple. My job was in a division called Global Corporate Equity Derivatives, and I was going to help the traders keep their trading books reconciled with the general ledger. It was my first, and last, account...Read More
During a conference call with investors last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon made a memorable response to a question from Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo about the collapse of a subprime auto lender called Tricolor that cost the bank $170 million. Tricolor went bankrupt due to allegations of fraud, including double-pledging of collateral, which led lenders to halt financing."Mike, you should assume t...Read More
A fascinating experiment is taking place.A startup named Nof1 gave 6 top AI models $10,000 each.They gave models access to a crypto exchange, a data feed, and let each model build its own trading and risk management strategy. The "Alpha Arena" competition started Oct 17th and the first "season" will conclude Nov 3rd.The AIs can use up to 40x leverage. With that much juice, a 2.5% move in the wrong...Read More
I was in Minnesota last week, in the storied "Iron Range" north of Duluth. In fact, I was out in the field on Friday, looking at Precambrian rocks, and missed the white-knuckle excitement of the market selloff for gold, silver, other metals, miners and more. It's amazing what happens when I leave town, eh?Good morning from northern Minnesota. BWK photo.I spent all day Saturday traveling home and m...Read More
Ron Struthers of Struthers Resource Stock Report reviews gold's latest correction and shares one gold stock he thinks is now a Buy. Yesterday, gold was down about $230 on the Comex. It looks like my $4,350 target is being met, and then a correction/consolidation is turning out to be bang on. I mark this more to logical intuition than technical science. I am sure today the voices are loud, saying...Read More
Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) is conducting a 4,000-meter, multi-purpose drilling program at its Imwelo Gold Project in northwestern Tanzania. Find out why one expert says the time to invest in gold and gold stocks is now. Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) is conducting a 4,000-meter, multi-purpose drilling program at the fully permitted Imwelo Gold...Read More
NatBridge Resources Ltd. (NATB:CSE; NATBF:OTC; GI80:FSE)secured 100% of the subsurface mineral rights for Californias Cahuilla Gold Project, adding over 122,000 ounces of indicated gold. The acquisition marks a key step in NatBridge's expansion of verified resources supporting its digital gold monetization strategy. NatBridge Resources Ltd. (NATB:CSE; NATBF:OTC; GI80:FSE) announced it has entered...Read More
Liberty Gold Corp.'s (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQX) latest results reinforce Rangefront as a potential starter pit in the upcoming Black Pine feasibility study, noted a Paradigm Capital report. Liberty Gold Corp.'s (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQX) newest 2025 drill results, showing additional broad, shallow intervals of oxide mineralization, expanded the upper, near-surface part of the Rangefront zone at its Black...Read More
Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) releases results from 32 infill and metallurgical drill holes as part of its ongoing 2025 drilling campaign at its Richmond Hill Gold Project in South Dakota. Read why one analyst thinks the data are positive for the company. Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) announced the results from 32 infill and metallurgical drill holes as part of its ongoing 2025 dril...Read More
"What do you expect when you sue the president?" Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump's political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution.That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative organization that was being audited during Bill Clinton's presidency. This...Read More
It's been a wild ride over the past few trading days...On Friday, President Trump started a mini-crash by threatening China with new 100% tariffs.Stocks slid, crypto crashed, and miners dipped.But yesterday, President Trump strapped on his Superman cape and saved the day. He struck a more conciliatory tone after China replied to his tariff threat with a hard-nosed retort.As a result, markets opene...Read More
Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCQB) is collaborating with VRIFY Technology Inc. to implement advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies across its promising precious metals and critical minerals projects in Canada and the United States. Read what research analysts rate the stock. Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCQB) announced a strategic colla...Read More
Vanguard Mining Corp. (UUU:CSE; UUFF:OTC; SL51:FWB) is stepping up exploration at its Brussels Creek Project near Kamloops after drilling returned gold grades up to 11.52 g/t. The company's proximity to New Gold's producing New Afton Mine adds weight to its growing presence in British Columbia's mining corridor. Vanguard Mining Corp. (UUU:CSE; UUFF:OTC; SL51:FWB) has announced updates to its 2025...Read More
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.'s (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) latest results from the Austin zone bode well for expanding resource ounces for the current ramp-up to commercial production at Madsen, noted a Cantor Fitzgerald report. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.'s (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) newly reported underground drill results from the lower Main Austin zone at Madsen confirmed th...Read More
John Newell of John Newell & Associates reviewsthe LinkedIn Producer Model Portfolio, launched on January 2, 2019, and shows what the next year may look like. Gold is breaking out, but the most valuable signal for equity investors is not the headline price. It is how leadership changes after a long base.In both prior up-legs in gold, the heavy lifting in equities came from mid-cap producers and...Read More