As demand for food rises, so does the requirement for crop nutrients.

Today I’m speaking with Jim McDonald and Ken Berry of Kootenay Gold Inc.

The Silk Routes, collectively known as the "Silk Road", refer to a 7000 mile network of interlinking trade routes that were used for three millennia.

Today I’m speaking with Ken Berry and Dr. Bob Thompson of Northern Vertex.

Today I’m speaking with Dennis Higgs, Executive Chairman of Uranerz Energy Corp. TSX and NYSE Amex – URZ. Dennis has been involved in the financial and venture capital markets for over twenty-five years.

The Chinese government, in an effort to maximize exports and minimize US imports, prints their Yuan to buy dollars.

The Fed has been dumping billions of dollars into the US markets each and every trading day since late 2010.

The misplaced belief that the road to economic prosperity is paved by near-term fiscal tightening, as espoused by our own Prime Minister Stephen Harper and British Prime Minister David Cameron last week, shows we have learned nothing from Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great Depression.

The Fed has been dumping billions of dollars into the US markets each and every trading day since late 2010.

The demand we are now placing on our planets resources appears to have begun to outpace the rate at which they can be supplied.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (ODEC) the combined economies of Germany, France and Italy will grow by under one percent this year. OECD forecast the US economy will grow at a 0.4 per cent annualized rate in the fourth quarter, while in Europe, the three largest economies (Germany, France and Italy) will contract by 0.4 percent over the same period.

Today many governments are looking at ways to get more money from miners as companies report record profits. The higher the returns and the higher the profits, the greedier governments become. As commodity prices rise governments try to boost their share of the proceeds from their countries energy and mining sectors.