Posts Tagged ‘commodity’

Why China’s Strong Commodity Imports Defy Weak Economic Data

By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Despite continued weak economic performance, China’s imports of major commodities in the first two months of 2024 held strong and exceeded last year’s levels. Imports of crude oil, LNG, coal, and iron ore were all higher at the start of the year compared to the same period of 2023, although […]

Price cap on Russian oil “will wreak havoc in energy markets and push commodity prices even higher”.

READ HERE: Moscow is not planning to recognize a Western-imposed price cap on Russian seaborne oil exports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday   Source

The Energy Crisis And Polish Coal: A Scarce and Precious Commodity

Walbrzych, a city in Silesia, Poland, has a history inextricably linked and heavily marked by coal – first through the coal-mining industry, then by the closures of the mines, followed by unemployment, and now, by illegal mining organized by former miners. Roman Janiszek, a retired miner, explains that today, in these times of a global energy crisis, coal […]

Democracy as commodity

The U.S.’ Summit for Democracy has come and gone without too much fuss.  It was a strange little show with the leader of the so called ‘free world’ – being those “democratic” countries that for whatever reason support U.S. dictates – attempting through rhetoric and probably a few winks and nods to maintain its establishment […]

Water, The Most Basic And Essential Resource, Is Now Just Another Wall Street Commodity

By Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed Water may be the basis for all life on earth, but it may soon become one of the hottest commodities on the Wall Street futures market due to its scarcity as a good. Water will soon see its price fluctuating like other commodities including wheat, gold, and oil, now […]

The Hottest Commodity Play In 2018

This might be the smartest mining opportunity in 2018. It’s not coal, oil, copper. Nor is it silver, gold or platinum. But one little-known miner called Vatic Ventures (TSXV:VCV.V) with a simple business strategy… is sitting on a potential find that could make a real difference in Asia. Their strategy? […]

Newsletter: Is Health Care A Commodity Or Right?

With just a week left before Congress’ budget reconciliation process ends, the Senate is once again peddling a poorly-thought out plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If Senators vote before the September 30 deadline, they only need 50 votes instead of the filibuster-proof 60 votes to pass amendments. And once again, people are rising up […]

Commodity Cycle Upturn to Lift Precious Metals Prices

By Stefan Gleason Safe-haven demand for physical precious metals came in soft through the first half of the year as a rising stock market reinforced investor optimism toward the economy. U.S. stocks are expensive by just about every valuation measure you can think of – price/earnings, price/sales, dividend yield, total market capitalization as […]

When Peace Is A Commodity: Trump In The Middle East

Above Photo: by Mark Taylor | CC BY 2.0 In Riyadh, Trump couldn’t mention where most of the the 9/11 hijackers came from or whose Sunni cult-faith was the inspiration for Isis – nor which country chopped off heads with Isis-like relish. (Answer: Saudi Arabia). And when he arrived in Israel on Monday, Trump was faced with a new censorship […]

Online Fraud: US Commodity Commission Targets Israeli Companies

May 06, 2017 0 Source Article from http://www.newobserveronline.com/2017/05/online-fraud-us-commodity-commission.html

How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains

How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains December 16th, 2015 Via: Nautilus: When children grow up in poverty, their brains can take a different shape. That’s one of the stark and uncomfortable findings from the lab of Kimberly Noble, a pediatrician and cognitive neuroscientist at Teachers […]

UN Paris Climate Hypocrisy: Limos and Learjets

It happens every time: the millionaires, billionaires, and “public servants” — Prince Charles, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, Hollywood celebs, presidents, prime ministers, etc. — swoosh into the confab in their tax-payer provided jets, or their own private Learjets and Gulfstreams, to preach to the rest of us on why we must reduce […]

UN Paris Climate Hypocrisy: Limos and Learjets

It happens every time: the millionaires, billionaires, and “public servants” — Prince Charles, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, Hollywood celebs, presidents, prime ministers, etc. — swoosh into the confab in their tax-payer provided jets, or their own private Learjets and Gulfstreams, to preach to the rest of us on why we must reduce […]

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