Nikola Tesla once stood before the Niagara Falls Commission with a problem that nobody could solve. Edison's landmark system at Pearl Street Station in lower Manhattan utilized direct current, and...
Back in May 1796, a country doctor named Edward Jenner scraped pus from a sore on a milkmaid's hand and injected it into an eight-year-old boy named James Phipps.
Believe it or not, John D. Rockefeller knew something that many oil investors still don’t know. His insight into crude profits wasn’t a secret, either. Actually, it was pretty simple — you...
Every so often, the global economy experiences what economists call a commodity supercycle. It’s a 10-to-25-year period where prices remain dramatically elevated because structural demand...
Sometimes, an event takes place that goes over the market's head. Perhaps it’s dismissed as trivial, or brushed aside as new hyperbole hits media headlines that pulls its attention elsewhere. The...
BRICS nations now hold more than 17% of global gold reserves, and that’s not a coincidence. To put a little more perspective on that ownership, keep in mind that their share is up from about 11%...
When the CEO of Chevron stood in front of a crowd a month ago, his warning should’ve echoed across media headlines. He told us flat out that we’ll soon start seeing physical shortages —...
Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon are spending more than $650 billion on AI infrastructure this year. Look, they have the chips ready, and certainly enough land to build those projects. But what a...
In the early 1980s, the Carter administration sent a classified memo to Congress that barely made the papers. For most, the subject was far from exciting — chromium. How many people do you know...
The first reports came in around 9 p.m. local time. But if you were there, you wouldn’t need to wait for the official report because you’d know something was very, very wrong at Qatar’s Ras...
Back in the spring of 1999, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown decided that gold was finished. It seemed to make sense at the time.
Look, the narrative now is pretty simple — the strait reopens, supply flows, inventory fills, crisis ends, prices normalize. But the reality is going to be messier...
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