We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil...

Last week the U.S. government expanded the coverage of its Russian secondary sanctions program to encompass most of Russia's banks. It...

Turkish banks halted transactions with Russian banks last month and are only slowly reintroducing payments for a narrow range of products t...

Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true , the long list of sanctions that the G7 ...

While I may have taken some jabs at the gold bugs in two recent posts, please don't take that to mean that I have it in for the met...

The price of gold has fallen over $200 in the last two days. This sounds like 1983 all over again. Not only did Star Wars Episode VI co...

Some interesting things have happened on the Iran monetary sanctions front since I last wrote on the topic. In my first post I explained h...

What should we make of the so-called " gold for gas " trade between Turkey and Iran? Turkey depends on Iranian natural gas to pr...

The US is currently importing significantly less crude oil and crude oil products than it did in 2005. Now if you were listening to the Pres...

James Hamilton at Econbrowser had an interesting series of posts ( here and here ) on determining the effect of naive commodity index funds...

I learnt some interesting facts about inflation-linked investment products. To begin with Sober Look had an intriguing chart showing an inv...