Richard Mills

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• Why Now May Be The Best Time Ever To Hold Gold

  Published 17 May 2019 | viewed 4,458 times

  “It’s the tail that wags the dog” is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is…

• U.S.-China Impasse Threatens Rare Earth Trade

  Published 15 May 2019 | viewed 5,520 times

  On Friday the United States made good on its threat to ratchet up the trade war against China, after the two parties failed, after weeks…

• Is Zinc Heading Towards A Supply Squeeze?

  Published 09 May 2019 | viewed 4,059 times

  Zinc and lead prices are movin’ on up again, following a two-week hiatus in the long-term trend of diminishing inventories in London Metal Exchange warehouses. Zinc…

• Congress Agrees On $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

  Published 04 May 2019 | viewed 1,320 times

  The White House and Congress finally agreed to put their significant differences aside and work together on something constructive, no pun intended. On Wednesday it…

• Is China’s New Silk Road A Trojan Horse?

  Published 01 May 2019 | viewed 3,204 times

  In March Italy broke ranks with its EU partners in joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative, known also as One Belt, One Road or the…

• Electric Vehicles Are Reshaping The Mining Industry

  Published 20 April 2019 | viewed 3,511 times

  Is the age of the gas-powered automobile coming to an end? Doubtful. In the US, electric vehicles (EVs) only make up about 1% of the…

• Central Bank Gold-Buying Is Chipping Away At The Dollar

  Published 16 April 2019 | viewed 2,093 times

  Ahead of the Herd has been digging into why central banks are buying a lot of gold recently. What we’ve found is eyebrow-raising, to say…

• The Uranium Alternative Flying Under Investors' Radar

  Published 03 October 2018 | viewed 10,397 times

  Most junior resource investors know uranium, and many got in on the action when NexGen Energy and Fission Uranium made their discoveries in the Athabasca…

• How Infrastructure Is Driving A Commodity Boom

  Published 23 February 2018 | viewed 2,220 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information The global economy is booming again after…

• Resurgent US oil industry priming the economic pump

  Published 26 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Crude oil prices dropped from $110 a barrel in the summer of 2014 to about $30 in January 2016. The effect on oil producers and…

• Bond Market Bear Creating Gold Bull

  Published 19 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  Gold is climbing as bond yields rise and the dollar falls, over speculation that China is pulling back on buying US Treasuries and Japan signals…

• How China Is Locking Up Critical Resources In The US' Own Backyard

  Published 12 January 2018 | viewed 0 times

  In the 1800’s the United States under President James Monroe invoked the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that any effort by European nations to control any…

• Weapon of Mass Disruption

  Published 26 December 2017 | viewed 0 times

  The ever-increasing digitalization of our world has meant advances in technology that would have been unimaginable 30 years ago when the Internet first entered the…

• The Lowdown On Canada's Cannabis Industry

  Published 20 November 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information 600 tonnes of marijuana a year up…

• Saving Us From Us

  Published 23 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. According to Al Gore if we would…

• Earth Overshoot Day

  Published 02 May 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information The second half of the 20th century…

• Why Now Precious Metals?

  Published 21 April 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. John Exter was an American economist and…

• Renewable Energy's Problem and the Solution

  Published 10 March 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. The electric vehicle (EV) market, indeed the…

• The Most Beautiful Metal

  Published 24 February 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Vanadium is a soft, silvery gray, ductile…

• Manganese Is Energy Critical

  Published 30 January 2017 | viewed 0 times

  As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. In 1917 the War Industries Board (WIB)…