Yearly Archives: 2024

Houthi Rebels Dig In along the Red Sea

Sam Dagher and Mohammed Hatem at Bloomberg report that Iran-backed Houthis are preparing for a long battle with the U.S. in the Red Sea. They write: Houthi...

America to Invest Billions to Protect Ports from Chinese Cyberattacks

Dustin Volz, Gordon Lubold, and Doug Cameron of The Wall Street Journal are reporting the U.S. is investing billions to replace China-made cranes at...

America’s Pastime Isn’t Baseball, It’s This

You know America’s pastime isn’t baseball. It’s real estate and stocks. You probably have a good idea about house prices in your neck of the...

EV Battery Metal Market – From Boom to Bust

Rhiannon Hoyle and Julie Steinberg of The Wall Street Journal report that producers of lithium and nickel are pausing projects as prices collapse and momentum slows...

Can America Ever Compete with China’s Lithium Dominance?

UPDATE 2.21.24: Lithium Americas Corp. has decided to split its operations because of the ongoing competition for control of lithium supplies between the United...

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Why Diesel Prices Have Surged Across the U.S.

U.S. diesel prices have risen sharply due to high...

Learn an Investment Lesson from an Ivy League’s Mistakes

One of the country’s top Ivy League universities lost 27% of its endowment in the last fiscal year while this fund was down only 3.6%…

The Final Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report

After meeting monthly strategy report deadlines since 1978, I...

China Picks Up Slack After US Tariffs Hit Russian Oil to India

Russia’s crude oil exports rebounded to 3.49 million barrels...

Is Your State’s Pension System about to Collapse?

Katherine Loughead discusses state pension data from The Pew...

Consumer Sentiment Sinks

The Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment plummeted...

I’ve Never Been Busier

“I've never been busier”, is a phrase I often...

ExxonMobil Alert: Remarkable News on NatGas Use Last Year

For the first time ever, in 2016 natural gas...

With This Plan You Can Save More in 8 Years than in 32 Without It

In October of 1999 I explained why there is...

Herd Immunity by April?

COVID-19 may be entering its final days. According to...