The X-rated reason this tombstone was...
Cemeteries aren’t conventional tourist destinations, but they’ve become essential stops for history buffs looking to learn more about the community they’re visiting, writes Scottie Andrew for CNN travel: “‘Tombstone tourists” are always encouraging more to consider a cemetery’s the macabre beauty”. “For me, a cemetery is like an art museum,” said Joy Neighbors, an author who writes about her cemetery obsession…
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Half a billion in cash to...
One thing about commodity producers is that, when prices are high, it can give them enormous free cash flow. That gives them firepower to buy into other companies and projects if their existing operation doesn’t need or deserve more investment. Clearly, the team at MGX think there is more potential in gold than iron ore over the longer term. Today…
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Inside the Atlassian fallout between Mike...
Tech bro woes: Atlassian’s Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes in 2020. Pic via Getty Images They were once the country’s most famous, and inseparable, ‘tech bros’. But tensions at work that not even a counsellor could solve – and wives who ‘couldn’t stand each other’ – led to one of the biggest break-ups in Australian corporate history. Words by Perry…
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Where Have All The Mining Speculators...
Speculation with real outcomes: why junior mining stocks will become the next arena for global risk capital There’s an air of FOMO in global stock markets right now. Indices are breaking into new all-time highs. House prices keep going higher. Everything’s melting up! So, what should you do if you hold some cash and are looking to put that to…
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Nova Minerals revs up drilling at...
Two diamond rigs are targeting extensions at the RPM North and Valley zones, with initial drillholes showing highly encouraging characteristics An RC rig is also targeting the glacial fill area where Nova believes there is substantial resource upside within the valley-fill material, understood to be derived from erosion of high-grade PRM North mineralisation. An additional rig is continuing a maiden…
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What the flip is Fortescue Ltd...
Recently, while I was looking at our most-viewed articles on Rask, Fortescue Ltd (ASX: FMG) popped up a lot – maybe too much. As a new investor, who really had only heard of mining giants like BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP) and Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX: RIO), I wanted to see what all the hype was about. When I asked around, I…
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Fuji Bomb – Fat Tail Daily
The feds’ deficits are clearly a mistake But it will take many years for the harm to show up. The consequences, such as they are, will likely fall on our children and grandchildren, not on ourselves. ‘Sire…worse than a crime, you have committed an error.’ –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord A crime is whatever the feds say it is. Often not…
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Earnings support | Betashares
If you’d like to listen to this week’s Bass Bites, click on the player below: Global week in review A good start to the Q2 US earnings reporting season supported global stocks last week, despite a firm US inflation report and ongoing tariff threats from President Trump. US tariff levels inch above market expectations With markets becoming increasingly numb…
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Peregrine Gold makes major Channel Iron...
Peregrine will move quickly to advance the CID discovery at its Newman gold project, adjacent to BHP’s Western Ridge project and Mt Whaleback operations. Pic: Getty Images Peregrine Gold discovers large-scale Channel Iron Deposit (CID) It has been observed over a continuous length of 6.4km and up to 200m wide Further rock sampling and mapping of the Coopers CID prospect…
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What Happens Next – Fat Tail...
It’s not hard for us to imagine what might happen if Donald Trump were to have direct control of Fed policy. He’s already said the Fed should cut rates by 300 basis points. On Wednesday, Tom reported on a rumor that was unspooling on Wall Street. Donald Trump was said to be near to firing Jerome Powell. This was said…
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