The Race is On
China could shut the rare earths tap on 10 November, maybe sooner. Beijing is squeezing its banks for cash while building the fastest robots on earth. Action’s on you US.

China could shut the rare earths tap on 10 November, maybe sooner. Beijing is squeezing its banks for cash while building the fastest robots on earth. Action’s on you US.

I began studying complexity theory as a consequence of my involvement with Long Term Capital Management, LTCM, the hedge fund that collapsed in 1998 after derivatives trading strategies went catastrophically wrong.
By Jim Rickards,

Labour eats up to half the cost of building a house in Australia. Elon just launched a car with no steering wheel. The robots are coming for the rest.

Most investors buy mining stocks at exactly the wrong times. There’s a better way. It’s called The Lassonde Curve, and it provides a basic framework for timing your mining investments. But like all good rules, you also need to know when to break them. Today is one of those times.
By James Cooper,

Expectations of a stimulus bazooka from China have again been pushed back. But their latest plan does point to a list of metals that should be in your portfolio.
By Charlie Ormond,

Four viewer picks: a speculative data centre technology play, a vertically integrated water services provider, a brownfields gold miner and a uranium miner.
By Murray Dawes,
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