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Rick Mills on Global Move to Central Bank Digital Currencies (Replay)

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Mar 30, 2023 – Rick Mills, editor and publisher at Ahead of the Herd, gives FS Insider listeners an update on the global move to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), discussing the pros and cons of CBDCs in the context of "programmable money"...

Rick Mills on Global Move to Central Bank Digital Currencies

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Jan 3, 2023 – There's a growing movement by central banks and governments around the world to completely phase out the use of cash for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). What are the pros and cons of CBDCs in the context of "programmable money"...

Rick Mills on What the Experts Are Getting Wrong About Green Energy

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Oct 5 – FS Insider speaks with Rick Mills at Ahead of the Herd, one of the leading voices in the resource and mining community, to discuss the massive number of mines and raw materials needed to power the transition away from fossil fuels...

How China Is Shaping the New Supercycle in Commodities

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Apr 19 – Rick Mills at AheadoftheHerd.com joins FS Insider to discuss how this commodity supercycle will be different from the last one due to the ongoing push towards electrification, electric vehicles, and renewable energy. Rick says...

Rush to Renewables and EVs Makes China the World's New Energy Master

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Feb 2 – Battery metals like lithium, nickel and others have seen a huge uptick in demand with the ongoing push across the globe to decarbonize and electrify our energy and transportation sectors. However, unlike fossil fuels, there are only so many deposits...

The Big Three Commodities of Electrification and Decarbonization

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Oct 26 – Rick Mills, author of the widely-read Ahead of the Herd newsletter, discusses the long-term investment case for the three most critical inputs or raw materials in the race to electrify and decarbonize the globe: copper, lithium, and graphite...

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Rick Mills: Copper Will Be the Key Commodity for Global Infrastructure, Green Energy Push

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Mar 23 – Rick Mills at AheadoftheHerd.com discusses his bullish long-term outlook for copper and copper-mining companies due to the confluence of growing demand for renewable energy, 5G, electric vehicles and other trends all the while supplies...

This One Commodity May Blow All Others Away in a New Bull Market, Says Rick Mills

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Dec 16 – FS Insider speaks with Rick Mills of the widely-read Ahead of the Herd newsletter on the four major themes driving a new commodity bull market and the one commodity he thinks will do the best out of all of them. Rick explains why this...

The Road to War: China vs the US

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By Rick Mills – In 2016 Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, declared that there was no doubt, in his mind, that the US would go to war with China in the South China Sea in the next five to 10 years.

Currency Wars: The Race to the Bottom Has Begun

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By Richard Mills – This article will show that not only is Trump engaging in a trade war, but also a currency war with China. Plus a bit of a history of currency wars. What does a currency war, and a low dollar, mean for investors and for commodities?...

Gold Holding Its Own

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By Richard Mills – What the heck is going on with gold? The past few weeks have seen global equities falling amid a broad selloff in tech stocks, but the traditional safe-haven metal has barely budged, floating along in...

Trump Builds Economy and War Machine

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By Richard Mills – On March 1 Donald Trump announced that his Administration would implement a 25% tariff on all steel imports and a 10% duty on aluminum. President Trump initially said the tariffs would apply to all steel...

Blue Chip Companies on Track for $800 Billion Buyback Record in 2018

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By Richard Mills – S&P 500 firms are reportedly on track to give $1 trillion in either dividends or share buybacks to shareholders this year, based on the lower corporate tax rate, incentives to repatriate overseas cash and strong earnings.

How Global Growth and Infrastructure Are Driving Commodities

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By Richard Mills – The global economy is booming again after years in the doldrums, commodities are back in a big way, and metals prices are for the most part, way up. In our last article showing how commodities are the place...

5 Reasons Why Commodities Are the Place to Be in 2018

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By Richard Mills – The stock market pullback of the last couple of weeks has shown that markets are jittery, and will likely be volatile for a while as investors keep a vigil on rising bond yields (inflation) and potential interest...

This Is the Number One Factor Driving the Price of Gold

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Real interest rates are the level of annual yield paid to savers and investors over and above the pace of inflation. PIMCO makes a convincing case that the number one factor influencing the price of gold is the changes in real yield on 10 year US Treasuries.

Laundromat Banks Too Big To Fail

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Money laundering is the process by which illegally obtained cash is made to appear as if it has been obtained by legal means.

Did Bernanke Get It Right?

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It certainly appears that there’s a global recovery underway and it’s being led by the U.S. The Fed has even given itself a successful report card and started to taper. What should we expect for 2014?

America’s ‘Exorbitant’ Privilege Will Continue

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The questionable ‘exorbitant’ privilege (the interest-free loans, U.S. Treasury purchases by foreign governments versus the loss of business competitiveness and all that entails) bestowed upon America for having the world’s reserve currency is going continue for the for-seeable future.

Quantifornication and An American Spring

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Ironic isn’t it? A record number of people on food stamps yet new highs for stock indices. Below is an interesting question posed by Michael Snyder. The answer is very important to your future.

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