Adrian Day, president of Adrian Day Asset Management, shares his thoughts on gold’s latest price activity, saying the metal is still ‘nowhere near a top.’ In his view, its long-term drivers remain in place, and two new ones have now emerged. Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment…
Peter Krauth, editor of Silver Stock Investor and Silver Advisor, shares his thoughts on what’s next for silver after its run into triple digits. ‘I do think that we’re going to end the year higher than where we are now. Perhaps to the tune of 20, 30, perhaps even 40…
Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) has agreed to sell its Casa Berardi gold operation in Québec to Orezone Gold (TSX:ORE,OTCQX:ORZCF) for total consideration of up to US$593 million. The deal, announced on Monday (January 26), involves the sale of Hecla Québec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hecla that holds the Casa…
Speaking to global leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a blunt warning to Europe about its self-defense. ‘Europe needs to know how to defend itself,’ he said, arguing that the continent still isn’t ready to stand on its own without U.S. backing. Zelensky’s remarks reflected a…
A battleground district House Republican is wading into the redistricting war that has seized the U.S. with his own new proposal to crack down on ‘partisan gamesmanship.’ Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has introduced a bill called the Fair Apportionment and Independent Redistricting for Maps that Avoid Partisanship (FAIR MAP) Act,…
Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado argued that a successful democratic transition for her country would rapidly transform the nation’s economy and reverse years of instability, reshaping the region’s political landscape. Machado told the New York Post in an interview that such an outcome would define Trump’s foreign policy legacy,…
A cohort of Senate Republicans plans to launch a targeted task force aimed at tackling fraudsters in the wake of the Minnesota fraud scandal. Republican members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee announced that they would form a task force dedicated to rooting out fraudsters abusing…
More and more brutal evidence of the Iranian regime’s crackdown on its own people is circulating online, as the true number of those killed in Iran’s protests remains hotly contested amid internet blackouts and state intimidation. Estimates range from the thousands confirmed dead to the tens of thousands feared killed,…
The Pentagon’s newly released National Defense Strategy warns that future wars may no longer be fought solely overseas, arguing the U.S. military must be prepared to conduct combat operations directly from the American homeland as adversaries gain the ability to strike the United States itself. The strategy, released Friday evening,…
Russia criticized the U.S.’ proposed Golden Dome missile defense system Monday, warning it could destabilize global nuclear deterrence, according to reports. According to TASS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Kommersant newspaper that the ambitious project is extremely ‘provocative.’ ‘Problems in the strategic sphere resulting from…