Dominating Nickel and Tin Markets, Indonesia to Set Up New Commodity Exchange with its Own Pricing
East Asia has emerged as a global critical minerals powerhouse, with China taking the lead on price discovery of…
Author: Andy Corbley
US Missile Shortages Affecting Allies as Delivery Times for Key Weapons Delayed for Years
European officials speaking with Bloomberg suggested that it’s unlikely US allies will receive any shipments of key weapon systems within the…
Fed Delivers Expected Rate Hike, Bond Market Moves Little, Gold Rises
With a full trading day and a bit behind the Federal Reserve’s quarter-point rate hike, the US bond market…
As Space Force Admits to Deploying Weapons in Orbit, US Contempt for Arms Control Continues
During a recent “State of the Space Force” address in Maryland, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess stated…
India, China Commit to Resolving Border Dispute at the BRICS Summit 2026. New Currency Not Announced
Another BRICS summit has come and gone, and the Western world will as usual want to know if the…
Humanity’s 3rd Visit to Mercury Kicks Off with the Successful Arrival of BepiColombo Mission
On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the…
Trump Envoys Fail to Make Breakthrough While Russian Forces Threaten Exactly That
Attempts by the Trump Administration to restart peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow have come up short in producing…
French Troubles Are Italy’s Gains with Rome Supplanting Paris in Investment Appeal
Analysts around the world are remarking how Italy has passed the ball as the Eurozone’s most troubled large economy…
Higher Yields, Shortened Average Maturity, New Buyers: Realities of the Bond Market’s New Beat
Long-dated US Treasuries closed the week with yields higher than before Secretary Scott Bessent attempted to drive them down…
Familiar Comments in Warsh’s Jackson Hole Speech Have Fed Watchers Sensing a Pattern
In the press conference following the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) July meeting, a journalist asked the new…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Survives Attempted Budget Cuts to Launch 9 Months Early
9 months ahead of schedule, and surviving attempts in both Trump Administrations to cut its budget in half, the…
Qatar’s LNG Exports Drop 96% Leaving Europe (But Not Italy) Undersupplied for Winter
Given Italy’s favorable geographic position and a big development bet on natural gas as a primary energy source, the…
Will Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Be Different from Biden’s Economic ‘Nuclear Bomb’?
President Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration was preparing the “most crushing economic operation” for Iran, and that…
08/26 End of the Empire: America at 40 (Trillion)
Given that data from the US Treasury Dept. on debt is released one day late, Wednesday saw a multitude…
S. Korean President Proposes New Round of Dialogue as Trump Again Reduces Commitments to Peninsula
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung used the occasion of the country’s day to commemorate freedom from Japanese domination to…
Interest Payments on the National Debt up 13% Year-over-year with Still 3 Months to Go
With a trimester left of the 2026 fiscal year, the US Treasury has already borrowed more money than in…
Jobs Report, Hormuz Deal Unlikely to Have Launched Gold as Much as the Yen Bailout
Two notable surges in the price of gold last week were attributed at the open to falling oil prices…
We Should All Probably Eat More Parsley
Americans have a funny way of relegating certain ingredients to specific functions that don’t always serve the overall purpose…
Trump’s War on Iran Now Solely Centered Around Hormuz
Story at a glance… The war on Iran has coalesced almost entirely into a battle for control over the…
‘What Are You Waiting For?’ Is the Collective Market Response to Kevin Warsh, FOMC Decision
Future data releases notwithstanding, the response from Wall Street to the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s decision not to…