Boom in private debt financing for mining

India's economy is growing at its slowest pace in nine years and investor confidence has also been eroded by the current government's frequent policy u-turns, corruption scandals and power blackouts.

Rio Tinto Coal Australia's Blair Athol Mine, near Clermont in Central Queensland, will finish mining operations this year after almost 30 years of production.

With more investors realizing that safety of capital is the real reason to own gold, safe storage is more important than ever. Read more in this exclusive Gold Report interview.

It’s becoming clearer and clearer that there is a large blind spot in the minds of financial people regarding this probability. Only financial those who have been in the markets for 40+ years understand what can happen.

In this interview the CEO of Financial Sense News Hour, Jim Puplava, discusses whether we are moving into a phase of deflation or inflation and gives his views on what exactly that will mean to gold investors.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid said it was time to close one of the coal power plants in his home state of Nevada, calling it a "dirty relic."

Energy independence won't be coming to the United States, since the rate of decline for unconventional wells is so rapid, says Oswald Clint, senior analyst at Bernstein Research.

Gold is at a 120-year high (at least) relative to US house prices. Likewise, it is at a 74-year high relative to US wages, at multi-generation highs relative to wheat, coffee and cocoa and at the same price relative to the cost of a Yale education as in the first decade of the 20th century.

New technology, and recent gas reserve discoveries, have altered the conversation about North American energy. Fortunately Visual Capitalist has put together a clever infographic outlining the demand, market and supply of natural gas.