On yesterday's editorial call, my good friend and colleague, Byron King, mentioned that The Donald was doing well domestically, but abysmally when it came to foreign policy.I recalled how I wrote about King Leopold III of Belgium, who had the same problem. So I started thinking about The Donald and his nearly schizophrenic second administration.Americans are happy with his domestic policy, and the...Read More
Tomorrow, President Trump will finally meet face-to-face with President Putin.The summit will take place in Anchorage, Alaska, as covered in detail by our friend Byron King earlier this week.President Trump has stated that his primary goal is to reach a ceasefire agreement. If an agreement isn't reached, Trump told reporters that Russia would face "severe consequences". He is likely referring to f...Read More
Humans are poorly wired for investing.Our operating system remains optimized for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.By default, fear, greed, and envy reign supreme. Each of these emotions can be destructive on its own, but together they can be disastrous.As a result of our brains' faulty wiring, the average investor sees annual returns of around 5% vs the S&P 500's long-term 9% performance.Human psyc...Read More
Last week President Trump made a big move in the currency wars.He appointed Stephen Miran, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to a vacated seat on the Fed's Board of Governors.I'm going to pull together some important threads. I'll also speculate about what Trump's plans for remaking the Fed might mean for international trade, and how Miran can assist.This could translate into a...Read More
India and China are each home to over 1.4 billion people.Together, the two countries host a whopping 35% of the world's population.The United States and its allies have worked hard to support India as a counterweight to China. American leaders have gone out of their way to embrace India, despite its strong military and economic relationship with Russia.Why? Because India is a key partner in Americ...Read More
Bureau of Labor Statistics head Dr. Erika McEntarfer is one of the latest persons President Trump has told "you're fired." President Trump said this month that he fired Dr. McEntarfer because the president believed she manipulated jobs data. Manipulations, he stated, include the updated May and June BLS numbers showing the U.S. economy created 258,000 fewer jobs than originally reported, as well a...Read More
For decades, the Ivy League has been treated as a sort of financial Olympus an elite club where money flows like vintage Bordeaux and the only financial hardship is deciding which fund manager gets to manage the latest billion-dollar donation.Harvard, Yale, Princeton... the names alone conjure images of investment portfolios so dense they have their own gravitational pullBut here's the inconvenien...Read More
In the 1990s, Cisco was the hottest stock in the world. It gained a remarkable 89,000% throughout the decade.Cisco shares peaked in March of 2000 at a $550 billion market cap. That year the company made a $2.7 billion profit. That would give CSCO a P/E ratio of around 200x at its peak.The prices investors were willing to pay for tech growth brought the entire stock market to bubbilicious levels. I...Read More
It's Assumption Day. And it's hot.Every group is entitled to its own fantasies…its vanities and its lunacies. They are condensed in slogan form, easy for the masses to remember.'Free the Holy Land' was popular for generations. 'Make the World Safe for Democracy' fizzled out fast. As did the 'Thousand Year Reich.'Europe has now settled on 'global climate change' as its cause celebre. Its numb...Read More
It's 4,350 miles (7,000 kilometers) from Moscow to Anchorage, almost a straight shot over the North Pole via great circle navigation. And it's not quite 3,400 miles (5,435 km), again via great circle nav, from Washington, D.C. to what some locals call "Anchortown."Great circle routes to ANC. Courtesy GreatCircleMap.com.I mention this point of cartography because today I'll discuss the upcoming sum...Read More
Brian Hicks of Wealth Daily signals a coming revolution in currency and how NatGold Digital Ltd. may be at the forefront.Let's begin with the catalyst or rather, the flashpoint.In mid-July 2025, news outlets proclaimed, "Trump Strikes Back at BRICS," vowing surcharges of 10% or higher against countries "aligning with anti-American policies." This declaration wasn't mere diplomatic posturing. It...Read More
John Newell of John Newell & Associates shares why he thinks NexGold Mining Corp. (NEXG:TSX.V; NXGCF:OTCQX; TRC1:FSE) is a Strong Speculative Buy.In the gold mining world, it's rare to have two near-identical standouts in the same family.For NexGold Mining Corp. (NEXG:TSX.V; NXGCF:OTCQX; TRC1:FSE), the Goliath Gold Complex in northwestern Ontario and the Goldboro Gold Project in Nova Scotia are li...Read More
Pacific Empire Minerals Corp.'s (PEMC:TSX.V; PEMSF:OTCMKTS) Trident project reveals a "Triple Point Junction" and strong assays. Read more on LiDAR prep and copper's global supply setup. Read more to find out how these findings could shape the company's 2025 drill strategy amid tightening global supply.Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. (PEMC:TSX.V; PEMSF:OTCMKTS), a copper-gold exploration company bas...Read More
Young Americans are fracturing along ideological fault lines.They are breaking into two camps. For lack of better terms, we will call them the far-right and far-left.Unfortunately, there are few surveys which ask these kinds of questions. Pollsters still query along legacy party lines, Democrat vs. Republican, even though those labels are losing relevance.Fortunately I have two teenage kids, and f...Read More
Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announces assays from the first three holes of its 2025 drill program underway at the Snip North target at its 100%-owned Iskut project in British Columbia. Find out how Red Cloud Analyst Taylor Combaluzier rates the stock.Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announced assays from the first three holes of its 2025 drill program, underway at the Snip...Read More
Torr Metals Inc. (TMET:TSX.V) announced the results of a recently concluded induced polarization geophysical survey and rock grab sampling at the Bertha Zone target at its Kolos Copper-Gold Project in south-central British Columbia. Read why one analyst thinks the company "could hardly be better positioned."Torr Metals Inc. (TMET:TSX.V) announced the results of a recently concluded induced polariz...Read More
The price of samarium has risen 60-fold over the past year.What the heck is samarium, you ask? It's a rare earth element (REE) used to create magnets designed for high temperature applications.Samarium-cobalt magnets are about 60 times as powerful as your average fridge magnet. They are used in fighter jet engines, where actuators and generators must be able to withstand temperatures up to 350 deg...Read More
Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares what has him excited about Fitzroy Minerals Inc. (FTZ:TSX.V; FTZFF:OTCQB).Applying my old training in financial analysis (at least what I can recall of it) to the existing resource at Fitzroy Minerals Inc.'s (FTZ:TSX.V; FTZFF:OTCQB) Buen Retiro project, it is important to remember that the drilling to date has been confined to the old pit structure, wh...Read More
Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CAM; OTCQB: CAMNF) has completed its acquisition of Granite Creek Copper Ltd. (GCX:TSX.V; GCXXF:OTCQB), combining key copper-gold assets in Canada's Yukon. Read more about how the deal boosts exploration potential in the high-grade Carmacks Project.Cascadia Minerals Ltd. (TSXV: CAM; OTCQB: CAMNF) has completed its acquisition of Granite Creek Copper Ltd. (GCX:TSX.V; G...Read More
Silver North Resources Ltd. (SNAG:TSX.V; TARSF: OTCQB) has successfully concluded a non-brokered private placement to continue exploration in the Yukon. Find out why experts think this stock could be good for your portfolio.Silver North Resources Ltd. (SNAG:TSX.V; TARSF: OTCQB) has successfully concluded a non-brokered private placement which will enable it to "continue to unlock the value at the...Read More