Vizsla is just above a strong support line at $1.00. Vizsla has discovered enough silver that at a market cap of $252 million, Vizsla could arguably be worth more dead than alive. No, they are not in any trouble. They will raise money in the next year, but they are healthy. Capex to build a processing mill and building Continue reading
One-year price chart:
Gatos Silver (GATO)* $2.33 is a producing and continued development of the Cerro Los Gatos Mine and the Los Gatos District. These projects are located in one of the world’s premier silver mining regions, the Mexico Silver Belt. Continue reading
Washington Post, September 26, 2022
Bloomberg September 22, 2022.
Currency problems and Global financial system problems will create a “cause and effect” reaction to the Federal Reserve’s raising interest rates (cause) and then pausing (effect) its hiking of interest rates. Rapid increases (3/4% multiple times in a row) are very traumatic for countries who hold dollar denominated debt or treasuries. Dollar and interest rates up/US Treasuries down. Cost to repay US Dollar denominated Continue reading
It has been said the Fed will raise interest rates until something breaks. We might be close to that point. It seems there is some panic in the market. Perhaps a sick feeling in the stomach.
Over-view: it isn’t that interest rates are so high – it more likely that interest rates have risen so fast. This happened in 1987 Black Monday sell-off. In 1987, it was the fast increase in interest rates that spooked the market. Similar situation now. Interest rates have risen so fast that there has been no time for higher rate’s impact, to have its effect on the economy. So fast that we could see a hard stop in economic activity. So fast, it is crashing the economy well before the stats show up in “data dependent” economic reporting that the Fed says they follow. The Fed’s actions, we are told, are based on data dependent decisions, trailing indicators. Continue reading
Rick Rule – Thoughts on the Art of Speculating and on Gold. Video – 8:16 minutes
In this short Video Rule presents his case for gold but, more importantly for our teaching moment, Rule discusses how as a speculator, he uses the news flow buy low and sell higher. As a speculator he is not defining timelines. In general, it is safe to assume five years is his working timeline. For this period, he expects a three to ten times return on his investment. Continue reading
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Why do you want to own a FINTECH portfolio:
Fintech will grow fastest outside the EU and United States because it is an underserved market and people have far more smartphones than they have bank accounts!
According to the World Bank, 1.6 billion people are “unbanked” globally, with Morocco, Vietnam, Egypt, Philippines, and Mexico having the largest unbanked populations. By contrast, 80.6% of the world ’s population owns a smartphone, or 6.4 billion people. It is estimated that financial identities for the world’s unbanked population, could add $250 billion to global GDP, mainly from developing nations in Asia Continue reading
The “Why” behind the conflict in the Ukraine with Russia
