The Bad Character Time is tight this week, so HAI will be brief. While the medium- to long-term outlook for precious metals remains exceptionally [...]

A Slug Out of the Middle Two weeks ago, a Mining.com article highlighted a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey revealing that, despite efforts [...]

Times Are Changing For many years, Japan has been used as the ultimate example for why sovereign debt burdens no longer matter in our bold new era of [...]

Noise vs. Signal This week in the wild world of markets, volatility was again the name of the game. Now, volatility comes in essentially two forms: [...]

Cooler Heads Will Prevail This week HAI will be short and to the point. Friday witnessed a historic sell-off in the precious metals. Gold dropped [...]

Iron Laws and Golden Light Shows In a recent New York Times article titled, “Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland,” White [...]

A Generational Bull In the Wall Street Journal this week, Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau warned of “the possibility of a fall [...]

New Opportunities in a New World In 2022, Russian President Vladamir Putin addressed the plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International [...]

Not All That Glitters is Gold in 2026 Happy New Year, all! This author is still hanging on to the last of family vacation time, so HAI will again be [...]

[CNBC] S&P 500 moves slightly as benchmark gets set to close out 2025 with 17% gain: Live updates [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Copper Set for Biggest Annual [...]

[CNBC] Stocks are little changed after S&P 500 posts back-to-back losses: Live updates [CNBC] 10-year Treasury yield steady ahead of December Fed [...]

[CNBC] S&P 500 declines as investors take profit on tech stocks into final stretch of 2025: Live updates [Reuters] The tenuous peace between [...]