“….and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” -Greta Thunberg The above is an excerpt from the speech given by climate activist Greta Thunberg, and probably the most famous/notorious line of the year so far, dependi...

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it”. – Warren Buffet Whenever I come across pessimists bemoaning the current investment climate, I repeat this mantra to infuse positivity in my world vie...

If there’s anything that’s captivated mankind’s imagination more than new ways to kill one another, it’s how to beat the grim reaper. Just kidding, how to kill people still generates the most funding of all, but this article isn’t about that, it’s about immortality a...

Gold is molten hot and burning its way through the high roof! It’s the end of July, and you know what that means…the US. Fed’s Monetary policy meeting is nigh! Yep, it’s that time of the year again when Traders, Bankers, Stock Analysts, Arbitrageurs, Economists, and ...

…And so the saga continues, China holds the threat of withdrawing REMs from the US, threatening to undermine global supply chains. These threats translated into action when China last week increased the import duties on ores and concentrates to 25%. This is a bit of ...

  Holy Guacamole, and three kinds of chips and dips! China did not just threaten to cut off supply of rare earth minerals to the US? REMs are one of the few commodities on which the U.S. has not placed any extra import duties. Now they want to stop supplying it?...

From sticks and stones to nerve agents and nukes, there is nothing, absolutely no other endeavor that humans have worked on with such dedication since the dawn of time – which has seen so many resources invested upon, money thrown to develop, invent, and innova...

  “Go West, Young Man, Go West” – Famous words that captured the zeitgeist of a young nation looking to grab onto its belief of Manifest Destiny and make it real. If the Westward expansion of America was fueled by the great California Gold Rush, it was the indus...

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Source from pexel.com   In 1803, a bright and ambitious chemist disrupted the world by discovering a rare and lustrous silvery white metal. This man was W.H Wollaston, and he named this metal Palladium, after the asteroid of Pallas that was discovered two months...