Let’s face it. Birkenstock smells bad!

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This is not Grandpa’s macro, and these are not Grandpa’s commodities. The traditional commodity complex has shifted to more critical status, amplified by progressing technology, and it probably goes without saying, global trade tensions/wars.
We are in the next phase, whereby gold led (as usual) all markets in H1, 2025, silver then took over from gold (Silver/Gold ratio exploded upward) and the positive market effects spread to commodities, and in our particular area of interest, critical or strategic commodities (like Cu, Ni, Li, REE, u3o8, etc.).
(more…)The text: “China is now testing a radical “anti-absenteeism” method: making it impossible for teenage boys to even consider skipping school.”