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Gold Eyes $5,000 and Silver Targets $100 as Supply Squeeze Tightens
If you were waiting for a sign to look at your jewelry box with newfound respect, this is it. The global financial markets have officially caught gold fever, and for once, its more volatile sibling, silver, is steering the ship. On Wednesday, January 14, …
FMF 2026: What Happens When Mining Becomes National Defense?
If you want to witness the precise moment the free market era of mining died and the era of industrial statecraft was born, you didn’t need to be on Wall Street or in Washington this week. You needed to be in Riyadh.
Amazon Partners with Gunnison and Rio Tinto for Sustainable Data Center Materials
If you thought the cloud was comprised solely of code and vapor, think again. The infrastructure powering your next AI query is grounded in heavy metal, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) just secured a shiny new supply of it from an unlikely workforce: bacteria.
Mark Carney Announces Canada-China Trade Deal with “New World Order” Comment
If you had “Canadian Prime Minister says ‘New World Order’ while shaking hands in Beijing” on your 2026 geopolitical bingo card, please come forward to collect your prize. In a moment that has undoubtedly sent fervent online communities into a tailspin, Mark …
G7 and Allies Convene to Address Critical Mineral Dependency
If you ever wondered what it takes to get the world’s staunchest free-market defenders to seriously consider global price-fixing, look no further than the bottom of the periodic table. On a crisp Monday in Washington, the finance chiefs of the G7 and a cadre …
Saudi Arabia Adds $35 Billion in Gold Resources to National Reserves
Forget oil wells and petrochemicals for a moment, Saudi Arabia is busy polishing a very different kind of asset. In a massive win for the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, state-owned mining giant Ma’aden has just confirmed the discovery of a staggering 7.8 million …
Global Markets in Turmoil: Gold & Silver Rally as DOJ Threatens Fed Indictment
If there were any lingering doubts that 2026 would be a quiet year for global markets, the US Justice Department just shattered them along with several centuries of central bank tradition. In a stunning escalation of the ongoing friction between the White …
Jensen Huang Trades His Leather Jacket for a Lab Coat
If you thought the AI revolution was just about chatbots writing poetry or generating surreal videos of cats in space, you might want to sit down. The world’s most valuable chipmaker and the pharmaceutical titan that redefined weight loss have decided to move …
Canadian Oil Investors Call Trump’s Venezuela Strategy "Dead Wrong"
If you listened to the political chatter coming out of Washington last week, the Canadian energy sector was supposed to be shaking in its boots. Following the dramatic capture of Venezuela’s president, the White House signaled a grand pivot, suggesting that …
The Great Copper Squeeze of ’26: Why Your AI Habit is Costing $13,000 a Ton
Forget gold or lithium; the most precious metal of 2026 is the humble, reddish material currently holding the global economy together by a very fraying wire. If you have tried to buy electrical cabling lately, or simply glanced at the London Metal Exchange, …