The week of March 8 saw ambitious plans laid out in both the U.S. and Canada for building the Green Economies of the future, as well as to promote and develop home-grown resources and technologies that would strengthen all those supply chains, etc. Yet as I discussed with my friend…
As promised a few days ago, I have just penned for you THIS CRITICAL COMMENTARY . . . . . .explaining a subtle and conscious change unfolding in Fed policy; one not yet recognized for what it is by the broad markets. For the second time in his tenure, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has decided it's time…
As usual, the Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber especially are, at best, fighting the last war; and have again failed to understand TODAY’S market dynamics. COMMENTARY -- February 22, 2021 The morning of Wednesday, February 17, brought a minor (so far) jolt to markets the likes of…
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The “Reddit Revolution” — are all those Peasants with Pitchforks buying GameStop, et al to fight hedge funds the whole story?
0 As usual, I was starting off the 2nd regular issue of The National Investor for this month with a series of audience questions. But the answer to the first of them--on the subject of all the market gyrations over the GameStop, et al tussle--ended up being darn near an issue…
To get all my recommendations--several of which have been ON FIRE recently as you'll hear in the below discussion--you need to be a Member.If you are not, VISIT ME RIGHT HERE Yesterday (Monday) I caught up with my buddy Trevor Hall at Mining Stock Daily to set the table for a LOT of…
Posted Thursday morning, January 7, 2021 Yesterday (Wednesday) -- in between keeping our eyes on the crazy scenes unfolding in our nation's capitol -- I heard from a great old friend: Washington area journalist Cliff Kincaid. He recently relaunched his America's Survival TV brand and wanted to visit with me…
On Friday, I expanded on a HUGE policy and investment theme that I started articulating to my Members in the new issue they received this past week. Frankly, it's something that has been percolating for years; but which NOBODY else is talking about that I have seen. I had the great pleasure of visiting…
It's said that "a picture is worth 1,000 words." The two above have engendered WAY more than that; and much of it partisan hooey and disinformation. Though the LAST thing I am is a big fan of the apparent 46th president, I am apolitical and enough of a critical thinker…
Posted Oct. 29, 2020 In the above downloadable compilation, I share my recent thoughts on the legal, political and mining industry climate in Ecuador. Being essentially a "first mover" among my peers in covering the country and its nascent mining industry (I have several Ecuador-related companies on my recommended list presently, and a couple past…
Published/Posted October 20, 2020 Readable / Downloadable above, I have just penned a fairly comprehensive update on Cornerstone Capital Resources. The timing of this now is deliberate for two reasons: Last week, the hostile bid for Cornerstone by its senior partner on the Cascabel Project in Ecuador, SolGold, plc, expired.…
BY THE WAY ... NOT A MEMBER??Visit me RIGHT HERE to make sure you have ALL my Members-only recommendations! The best one-liner I heard Monday (actually, in a while) came from an analyst being interviewed on CNBC. As I was in my car and only listening to the network, I didn't see who this was; so regrettably…
My colleague Tom Bodrovics at Palisade Radio and I spent the better part of an hour on Memorial Day on one of THE most important subjects that investors generally--and gold investors especially--need to get their heads around. I have long called it "The Flation Debate." And you can listen by…
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The Historic Chasm Between Main Street and Wall Street. . .and LOTS more market and investment thoughts
0 The first of two back-to-back issues for my Members as we close out April has been but slightly redacted...and is available FREE at the above download link. From time to time, as some of you already know, I will make a FREE copy of one of my usually Members-only issues available to…
(from the March 31, 2020 Issue) GUARANTEED to piss off Trump sycophants and those with T.D.S. (Trump Derangement Syndrome) alike, here's a BADLY needed discussion of the current, unfolding DISASTER in America's energy industry:
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The GOLD ISSUE: This is NOT Your Father’s Gold Market! — (Summer, 2020 Issue, JUST Updated and Expanded!)
0 Even with the price of gold recently reaching its highest levels since just after the all-time high of $1,920/ounce was logged in September, 2011, we have already had a few lessons teaching us that "This is NOT Your Father's Gold Market!" This move which began in earnest in late 2018…
Congress can do no more than play confused, partisan politics with the central bank—and a new nominee—at a “Waterloo Moment” for the Fed, the economy and markets. by Chris Temple -- Feb. 15, 2020 _________________________________________ “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways” * James 1:9 – KJV “Whom…
Sunday, December 15, 2019 -- By the time the late President Ronald Reagan appointed him for a second term as Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker (the two of them above, of course, in the Oval Office) was already well into his "second act" at the helm of the central bank. And…
(From the July 29, 2019 issue) Markets seem both oblivious to and unprepared for a MAJOR change that's looming in the world: the end of "Globalization" as we have known it for three-quarters of a century. As I write in the cover story of this new issue, though Donald Trump…
(From the April 15, 2019 Issue) -- I put "Debate" in quotes above since what you are hearing on this suddenly-HOT issue is, for the most part, just another scripted and canned one delivered to us by the Establishment and its two kept political parties. As I explain, there could…
As of the latter part of the month now (June, 2020) Omineca is my top performer of the year. So far it is now up SIX-fold for the year (as of the close Friday, June 19.) At the link below you can download this potentially "once-in-a-generation" kind of story and…
As most of you already know, I have been ambivalent for a while when it comes to most any "commodities" save for gold and uranium. The battery metal lithium has a GREAT future; yet the still-tenuous nature of the global economy, near-term downside risks due to the Coronavirus and more…
(Posted Feb. 6, 2019) -- With all the attention on the president's State of the Union address last night and myriad other matters, you can be forgiven for forgetting that yesterday marked the one-year anniversary at his present post of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Here's a look back at an…
I'm privileged in this discussion here to visit with Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. who, over the better part of four decades beginning during the Nixon Administration, was a Senior U.S. diplomat involved in every single agreement concerning nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament issues. In great part due to this career he…
(Posted Aug. 18, 2018) -- From most of the usual suspects, there have again been "sensational" and "SHOCKING" revelations recently of (Take your pick) a coming currency re-set. . .new global currency based on the International Monetary Fund's S.D.R. basket. . .a crypto currency-like replacement of the U.S. Dollar. .…
From time to time I clarify my own position--and provide some common sense and history--to address a well-flogged story line (actually a MYTH today) that the gold price is "suppressed." In the below excerpt from the latest issue of The National Investor I remind folks that--a scant 20 years or…
I regularly call out the carnival barker types among the "Pied Pipers of the Gold Bug Echo Chamber" for putting out utter nonsense at times as they frantically fight over a shrinking audience of well-meaning but impressionable investors who appreciate gold's historical role. One of the dopier story lines for…
(Posted August 16) -- This week President Trump announced some unilateral measures he was taking on the regulatory/administrative front to try and remove some of the road blocks to speedier approvals for infrastructure spending projects. This is intended to precede a coming legislative measure--one of Trump's key policy initiatives--that would…
(COMMENTARY and News from the Sept. 5, 2016 issue) -- I vividly remember when -- in the late 1990's, as a growing European Union was about to add a common currency, the EURO, to its regimen--Dispensationalists and others were loud in the dire warnings of what this meant! We were…
(Adapted from the first August, 2016 issue) -- On schedule, those "experts" who specialize in taking a grain of truth and spinning it into a mountain of B.S. in order to sell you something are at it again! The following is adapted from our most recent issue, where we again…
Here's my two-part interview of my old friend...and hero...and (among other things) creator of the Ithaca HOURS community currency, Paul Glover. (For more on Paul's activities, visit www.paulglover.org) 2015-04-06 08-04-47
Each year at Christmas for some time now, I have shared the accompanying commentary by the late Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder. To me it indeed does reflect the truly revolutionary, epochal event of over two millennia ago, when our Blessed Lord was born. Reflect on these words...and on the…
Please indulge this simple effort on my part to remember a great man...a Great American Congressman and statesman...one of my heroes...the late George V. Hansen. Remembering George Hansen
(From the August 11, 2014 Issue) -- There is ONE -- and only one -- world leader who has it most in her power to end the diplomatic, economic and, perhaps, looming military standoff over Ukraine. And that is German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Already, this renewed cold war of sorts…
(NOTE: New/returning subscribers will now receive the NEW/EXPANDED VERSION!!) Though nearly a decade old, Chris' "signature presentation" here remains the best primer on the nature of our markets you will read ANYWHERE. Once you have read this, you will know more about what makes this whole crazy system "tick" than…
When energy giant Enron imploded in scandal and financial ruin, too many described it as a tale of political cronyism, greed and whatnot. The truth was deeper than that: Enron collapsed because it had turned itself into the poster child for what is wrong with the fractional reserve system and…
Once upon a time in America, there was a thriving middle class; citizens able to enjoy "The American Dream" because they had good, stable jobs that paid a living wage. One of the great advocates of "A Square Deal" for his workers was the industrialist George F. Johnson, whom Chris…
This is an oldie but a goodie, where the noted linguist demonstrates why his articulate views are also solicited on subjects of social and economic importance. Here, among other things, Chomsky explains the social costs of burdensome debt.NOAM CHOMSKY ON DEBT
It's been nearly 15 years since this key Depression-era legislation was repealed by a Republican Congress and Democrat president. The reasons why the banks were pushing for Glass-Steagall to be deep-sixed became evident with the monstrous mortgage and derivatives boom--and BUST--of ensuing years. Chris predicted the course events would take; a…
(NOTE: Chris will be updating the Ithaca HOURS story and adding a LOT to it in his upcoming Special Report entitled "Building an Economic Lifeboat.") Years ago, Chris wrote of a wonderful new--and successful--experiment to create "an economy within an economy" in the beautiful, rolling farmland and lakes area in…
BacTech Environmental (CSE-BAC; OTC-BCCEF): A Renewed Opportunity!
UPDATE--From the Dec 3, 2020 Issue I encourage you to continue reading for a more complete profile of BacTech from this past Summer...but first, an update from my NEW issue on a couple recent news items (AND a reminder that the opportunity to invest in BacTech via its S.E.C. Reg.…