Resentment of the federal government's management of public lands runs deep in the arid West, where grazing, mining, and timber once predominated and remain important to rural communities. This resentment bubbled over in 2016 with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in...

At the time of writing this report, there have been over 33 million recorded cases of COVID-19 virus and over 1 million deaths. It’s important to note that there are conflicting claims that the recorded data may underestimate or overestimate the mortality and/or infection rate.Equally, it’s...

2020 is being painted, with some justification, as the most extraordinary year ever in capital markets. The scale of disruption makes attempts to calibrate data and reliably generate forecasts impossibly challenging and attempts to find precedents for H2 2020 confusing and contradictory. Can...

The saying ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’ could have been coined to describe the 5,000 years journey to what is today known as ESG. This references the progression, if that indeed is the correct term, outlined in the comprehensive, informed and informative but...

The price of gold is little changed from the levels at which it opened the year, although it did move higher in the first half of March, up around 12.5% from the opening price in January, before slipping back again.This has confounded some analysts who had expected the price of gold to move...