The gold industry has been built on the leveraging of debt and energy. The days of using human and animal labor to produce the precious yellow metal are long gone. While some gold is still mined the o...
I caught an interesting exchange on Twitter between old friend Mark Yusko and Lance Roberts as follows; This conversation gets to the heart of one of the major themes of this blog going back to the be...
Bitcoin plunged suddenly on Wednesday after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission claimed jurisdiction over bitcoin derivatives. It’s only the latest whiff of regulation, and apparently tho...
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for September new residential building permits. The latest reading of 1.215M was a decrease...
Again today we saw natural gas prices come under heavy selling pressure as longer-range forecasts eliminated the heating demand that we see in the medium-term forecast. The result was a break below on...
PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA): 3Q 2017 Results1 Net income of $113 million, or $0.60 per share Excluding special items, adjusted net income of $135 million, or $0...
Yes, it’s another glaring case of “revolving door” cronyism between Wall Street and the SEC: on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had hired Brett Redfear...
Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) are sliding after Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Gregory Francort downgraded the stock to Underperform, a sell-equivalent rating, on labor costs concerns....
Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey takes a lot of heat for the company’s weak performance, especially since he’s juggling the running of two multi-billion dollar companies at the same time. Along with...