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In this long-form, Jim Bianco discusses various macroeconomic topics, including interest rate expectations, inflation, remote work's impact on spending and real estate, and the restructuring of New York Community Bank. He highlights the divergence in the global economy, with the US experiencing strong growth and increased consumer spending, while Europe struggles. Bianco also emphasizes the importance of understanding the Fed's political considerations and the potential for higher inflation and interest rates. The conversation provides insights into the changing dynamics of the economy and the challenges faced by regional banks. He also explores the surprising performance of gold and the factors driving its rally. Additionally, he shares his concerns about Bitcoin ETFs and emphasizes the need for cryptocurrencies to serve as an alternative financial system for people in countries with shaky currencies and corrupt banking systems.

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Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and with grid power and the Union Pacific Rail line situated at the base of the Cactus Project main road. With permitted water access, a streamlined permitting framework and infrastructure already in place, ASCU's Cactus Mine Project is a lower risk copper development project in the infrastructure-rich heartland of Arizona.For more information, please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.arizonasonoran.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fireweedmetals.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Vizsla Silver is focused on becoming one of the world’s largest single-asset silver producers through the exploration and development of the 100% owned Panuco-Copala silver-gold district in Sinaloa, Mexico. The company consolidated this historic district in 2019 and has now completed over 325,000 meters of drilling. The company has the world's largest, undeveloped high-grade silver resource, which will grow with a resource update in early 2024. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://vizslasilvercorp.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Victoria Gold operates the Eagle Gold Mine within the Dublin Gulch Property. Eagle is the largest gold mine in Yukon's long history of gold production. In addition to the long-life Eagle Gold Mine, the Dublin Gulch property has upsized exploration potential including priority targets Raven and Lynx among others. Follow all the gold production and exploration news at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vgcx.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Jean-Philippe Paiement is the Director of AI and Targeting at VRIFY. It was his work which began almost a decade ago which has led to the VRIFY's AI Product Launch this past week. JP shares his story about why he decided to combines geology with programming and machine learning. And how an event at PDAC almost 8 years ago would help launch his ideas into a tangible product to help improve exploration and generate better targets.

John is the Founder and Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity, a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption investment strategies. During the VRIFY.ai launch this past week, John sat down with MSD to talk about the inbound of interest he's received regarding technology in the mining space. He admits there has been a dichotomy between the technologists and the explorers for far too long. John shares ideas of how the mining and exploration industry will change as technology continues to be adopted.

Comet Lithium's Vincent Metcalf joined us from the VRIFY.ai booth at PDAC to talk about their adoption of the new artificial intelligence platform the company has been beta testing over the past few months. The initial phase of VRIFY's collaboration is focusing on Comet Lithium's 100%-owned Liberty lithium property. The approach leverages complex data relationships to predict mineral exploration targets, streamlining the process of identifying viable mineral deposits. The automation of target generation will allow the trained model to be updated quickly with new data from ongoing exploration work.

Fred Earnest, CEO of Vista Gold, joins us on the PDAC floor for a general corporate update on the Mt Todd Project. Last year the accompany announced a royalty deal with Wheaton Precious Metals which will be adding to the company's bank account and fund new development and exploration endeavors.

Ari Sussman of Collective Mining joined us in PDAC this week to talk about the influx of $18M cash from a new unnamed strategic investor and how the money will continue to help the advancement and exploration of the Guayabales Project in Colombia. We also talk to him about the rumblings of concerns about the Canadian government being unsupportive of Chinese money coming into Canadian equities.

Martin Turenne of FPX Nickel joins us from PDAC to discuss the latest news and developments from the Baptiste Nickel Project in BC. The company's strategy is designed to prioritize critical path activities in preparation for entry into the Provincial and Federal environmental assessment. We also discuss some of the latest analysis from Macquarie regarding the nickel supply in China and how one's reporting thinks we may be getting it all wrong.

We welcome both Western Copper and Gold's Sandeep Singh and Paul West-Sells to this episode to clear the air about the hiring of Sandeep as the new CEO of the company while Mr. West-Sells takes on the position of President. We discuss what spurred this decision, how the market reacted to the news, and what Mr. Singh needs to accomplish with stakeholder relations to get the Casino project through to the finish line.

Claudia Tornquist, CEO of Kodiak Copper, discusses how the company has been utilizing the new VRIFY.ai product to beta test its system and also enhance prospectivity. Exploration results from the MPD project continue to expand the number of drill-confirmed zones and prospective target areas, which now stand at over 20 mineralized centres. Kodiak's management views AI technologies as a promising method to help prioritize drilling more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Steve de Jong, CEO of VRIFY, joins Trevor and MSD for special coverage of the company's latest product launch during the PDAC Conference in Toronto. Steve talks about how the system leverages public and private data to better inform exploration teams of prospective targets within projects. And like the original VRIFY platform, the AI generates probabilistic 3D maps of the Earth's subsurface, aimed at pinpointing prospective mineral deposits.

Learn more at vrify.ai