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…
Category: Economies & Markets
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…
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…
‘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…
China Ends Paper Gold Trading Hoping to Leverage Strong Physical Position to Reduce Volatility
A Chinese bank that’s the world’s largest measured by total assets informed its customers that on July 24th, buying…
Meet Molybdenum, Yet Another Metal Pricing Up from a Supply Deficit Worldwide
“Critical minerals” are all over the financial and economic news these days. Most commonly they refer to things like…
Trump Takes Huge Gamble in Second Blockade Strategy, as World Oil Reserves Fall Below Half
Following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in the days after President Donald Trump and Israel’s surprise attack…
Canada Successfully Exploring for ‘White’ Hydrogen Gas, a Clean Power Source Beneath Existing Mines
Scientists in Canada have discovered that ancient underground rocks are naturally producing hydrogen gas—and lots of it, and it…
Greenland Rejects China-Backed Australian Firm’s Application to Mine Kvanefjeld Rare Earths Project
On the final Friday in June, Greenland’s Ministry of Mineral Resources rejected an application from Australian mining company Energy…
Why the Japanese Yen Is Approaching a 40-Year Low Against the Dollar
Story at a glance… The Japanese yen is trading within a few basis points of a recent-record low against…
What Do a Firm Fed and a Yippie Yen Mean for Gold?
A sell-on-the-trumpets rally in gold following a firmer agreement of peace between Iran and the US and an opening…
BRICS Summit 2026 to Reveal the Long-Awaited Alternative Payment System, BRICS Pay
What has long been foreseen as the most important raison d’être of the BRICS organization may finally make its debut…
Central Banks Return to Net Buying of Gold Despite Turkish Sale and Hormuz Stalemate
Central banks returned to being net purchasers of gold in April, recording 19 metric tonnes of reserve additions. Poland,…
Quest to Sustain Divestment from Israel Continues Worldwide-Italy, Norway, North Carolina, Michigan
Under pressure from activists and those of conscience, millions of dollars are flowing out of the US-based Development Corporation…
Indonesian Tin Sees a Banner Quarter While Worldwide Developers Move Projects Forward
Continuing WaL’s coverage of the global tin market, Q1 performance by the state-owned Indonesian tin producer PT Timah came in…
What’s Behind Predictions of Gold Prices Continuing to Soar? Institutions Hold the Answer
Pierre Lassonde, the famous Canadian gold mining investor and executive, recently said in an interview that he believes gold…
Gold Jewelry Market Suffers Stiff Downturn Amid High Prices–a Potentially-Terminal Trend
This is part 2 of a 2-part series on the changing use-cases for gold and silver in the modern…
How Data Centers and Debasement Are Changing Millennia-old Use-Cases for Gold and Silver
This is part 1 of a 2-part series on the changing use-cases for gold and silver in the modern…
Record Debt Levels are Everywhere – Auto Loans, Credit Cards, Public Finance, Private Credit
Debt of all kinds in the US is reaching levels that seem impossible to manage to any normal set…
Countries Using Gold for Liquidity Prove the Yellow Metal Was Doing its Job
The Bank of France (BdF) recently announced it had repatriated all of its remaining gold reserves from New York…