China's Covid-19 measures are causing chokepoints in the country's ferrous supply chain, raising logistical costs for both traders and steel mills.China's National Health Commission reported 51 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday August 16 - 38 imported cases and 13 locally transmitted ones. Six of the locally transmitted cases were in Jiangsu province, while six were detected in Henan. While the numb...Read More

Gerald Celente, Founder of the Trends Institute, delivers a scathing criticism of big banks, pharma, tech, politicians, and the military industrial complex - along with his rules to prepare and protect yourself from the powerful. Gerald talks about the death of ingenuity in the US and the rise of China through the rest of this century stating; "the business of America is war, the business of China...Read More

Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com, discusses with David Lin, anchor for Kitco News, the pressure to taper that the Federal Reserve will be grappling with at the next Jackson Hole Symposium in late August. Wagner talks impacts on the dollar, interest rates, and gold. 0:00 - Jackson Hole expectations2:01 - U.S. dollar4:23 - Stimulus checks6:29 - Inflation7:22 - Interest rates9:04 - Gold11:1...Read More

"This Week In Charts" - Weekend Analysis Videos Can Be Found Here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0iT...I have been getting a lot of inquiries about offering premium content and as a result I am looking to start up some type of service in the near future whether it be a site with a paywall, interactive and educational courses, or personal coaching.As such, I would really like to hear more feed...Read More

1. The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. This is really the talk of the town this morning. This does not affect the stock market directly, but it makes traders and investors question their confidence in the current administration. I personally believe the Federal Reserve controls the market action with their current QE $120 billion/month program. 2. Options expiration for August is on Friday...Read More

Gold and silver have done surprisingly well over the past twenty years. But few see the performance from a long-term viewpoint and want to see the metals explode.David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of TheMorganReport.com, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall financial health of the global economy, currency problems and the key reasons for inv...Read More

The Fed. And then the Fed steps away.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and...Read More

Michael Krieger joins me on on Ep 47 of Wake Up. He's an Ex Wall Street guy, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg, Bitcoiner, Father, Husband and Gardener.The key topic of this discussion as Spiral Dynamics, a model of understanding the human collective and individual consciences through levels & layers of values frameworks.Created by Clare Graves in the time of Maslow, and built up by Don Beck, Spiral D...Read More

There's always a clip... the great Ron Paul predicted everything. While horrific scenes from Kabul airport drove headlines in the West, former Congressman Paul's words are trending once again. Continue...Read More

CNBC's 'Squawk Box' team discusses the potential for the Fed's tapering timeline, markets, economy and more with Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz and Gramercy advisor.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the...Read More

Let's start with a look at how the dollar has fared since the Federal Reserve gained control of it:Continue...Read More

Export prices for steel billet from the Black Sea basin have continued to decrease in mid-August amid limited demand in most outlet markets and lower costs for scrap raw material globally.Customers from Europe were mainly out of the market due to the holiday season in that region, while Turkish buyers were not willing to pay more than $650 per tonne cfr (equivalent to $620 per tonne fob) due to th...Read More

The new round of restrictions because of COVID variants is sending the world into an economic tailspin. Even in Thailand, the food lines are massive Continue...Read More

?>>?Is Ray Dalio being honest now that he's made billions more for himself and his investors the last decade? Fed officials say tapering is near, advancing discussion on rate hike https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-b...So while Fed governors are supposedly preparing to taper and hike rates, retired billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio says that the Fed can't taper QE or hike interest rates, w...Read More

"The close relationship between lead production rates and lead concentrations in humans in the past, suggests that without proper regulation we will continue to experience the damaging health impacts of toxic metals contamination," Continue...Read More

"Ensuring low-income families have access to a healthy diet helps prevent disease, supports children in the classroom, reduces health-care costs and more. And the additional money families will spend on groceries helps grow Continue...Read More

News of India's defeat of the Delta variant should be common knowledge. It is just about as obvious as the nose on one's face. It is so clear when one looks at the graphs that no one can deny it.Continue...Read More

"Central banks are likely to continue buying gold on a net basis in 2021 at a similar or higher rate than in 2020, driven by a continued focus on diversification and risk management," Continue...Read More

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Eastern China's domestic rebar price decreased slightly on Monday August 16 after the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released housing industry data for July.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,190-5,220 yuan ($801-806) per tonne, down by 10 yuan per tonneThe total area used for new housing construction totaled 1.19 billion square meters in January to July, down by 0.9% year on year, while the...Read More