“US Treasury’s Currency Report on China is a Case Study in Political Manipulation” By Daniel Griswold, courtesy of Mercatus Center The US Treasury’s semi-annual report issued this week on the exchange rate policies of China and other major trading partners is an exercise in intellectual gymnastics. The report reiterates that China was indeed a currency […]
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Russia muscling into Middle Eastern energy production
It’s widely acknowledged that Russia uses its vast supplies of oil and gas, along with its position athwart transit routes from Central Asia, as economic and diplomatic weapons, intimidating opponents in Western Europe and subordinating client states in Eastern Europe with the threat of cutting […]
U.S. MINING “SUPER ROYALTY REFORM” WILL HAND CHINA A LOT MORE THAN RARE EARTHS FOR LEVERAGE
By Larry Reaugh, CEO, American Manganese, Inc. In my previous piece published by The Economic Standard, I recommended that the U.S. introduce “Flow-Through Funding” to kick start exploration of critical and rare earth metals, for which the U.S. is presently dependent on imports, most notably […]