News: NST Miners drag Australian shares lower ahead of Powell comments, page-22

The 'canary' of copper is running hard, the base metals inventories are low

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-01-11/watching-dr-copper

China is increasing its gold reserves, Ukraine is probably about to go red-hot with a Russian invasion, the US is beating its drums of war over Taiwan, every country has seen $300 billion dollars in Russian assets stolen by the US. Venezuela can't get its gold back from London as it is not recognised as the authentic government, so the international 'rules-based order' is being revealed as gangsterism.

I can see the trend lines for gold surging over the next year, this is not a momentary trend. As Chass said, even Ghana is getting in on the action. It is tempting to take profits, but this is just Beginning!

And how the US thinks it can take on both Russia and China at the same time, baffles me! Mind you, so does the concept of Australia having nuclear submarines. I must be sucking on the wrong Kool-Aid!

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/decision-arm-ourselves-or-arm-ukraine-navy-secretary-admits-crisis-us-defense-stockpiles