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The Gold Report: With development capital still at a premium, are companies with critical metals projects getting financed? What typically gets financed and what doesn’t? Luisa Moreno: The financing environment for the mining space is still difficult, and that is no different for the critical metals equities. Nowadays, the mining and related processing projects that […]

The Energy Report: Is investing in agriculture like investing in any other commodity, or do investors new to the space need to get familiar with special considerations? Tom Wallace: Agricultural investment is composed of a multitude of subsectors, so when it comes to making an investment decision, investors need to focus their efforts. Agricultural investment

The Gold Report: You recently wrote a paper called “Stagnation: The New Paradigm?” where you put current commodity prices in perspective by showing charts going back to 1999. What happened over the last five years in iron ore and copper and what can we expect going forward? Raymond Goldie: The price of iron ore from

The Gold Report: In late June, zinc and nickel prices on the London Metals Exchange (LME) dipped on concerns surrounding the economic fallout from Greece exiting the Eurozone. What’s your view? Stefan Ioannou: When the referendum was first announced in late June there was a big reaction. There is no doubt the issue is a

The Energy Report: With the collapse of the crude oil price and the timing of a recovery difficult to predict, the energy sector has fallen out of favor with investors. In the current oil and gas investment climate, are there any stocks that are immune to the negative sentiment and can still perform? Bill Newman:

The Gold Report: You recently wrote a piece in Exploration Insights reminiscing about the 1997 to 2002 resource market. What did we learn about investing in gold and silver in that five-year window? Brent Cook: I first started working for Rick Rule in 1997, just as the last resource bull was dying. The market just

John Mauldin, the man behind Mauldin Economics and author of “Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market,” gave some background on the China crisis. He credited the current problems in Chinese markets to a shift away from the previous top-down command economy to an organic market. “Inevitably, this transition is

John Mauldin, the man behind Mauldin Economics and author of “Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market,” gave some background on the China crisis. He credited the current problems in Chinese markets to a shift away from the previous top-down command economy to an organic market. “Inevitably, this transition is

The Gold Report: Pershing Gold Corp. (PGLC:NASDAQ) just uplisted to NASDAQ. What are the immediate and long-term benefits of that listing? Steve Alfers: The short-term benefit is increased liquidity. The new listing, combined with recapitalization from the stock split we recently completed, will allow institutions to easily get into the stock. I’m hoping we will

John Mauldin, the man behind Mauldin Economics and author of “Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market,” gave some background on the China crisis. He credited the current problems in Chinese markets to a shift away from the previous top-down command economy to an organic market. “Inevitably, this transition is