By Sean Dempsey, 04/15/25 The silver mining sector stands at the threshold of a potentially historic rally, driven by a rare confluence of macroeconomic imbalances, collapsing input costs, and structural mispricing. As of April 2025, the silver-to-gold ratio sits just under 100:1, a level that, while not unprecedented, remains among the most extreme in modern […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
By Sean Dempsey | 08/04/26 “You like shish-kabobs, right?” Papa asked rather impatiently as I emerged from the back bedroom, rubbing sleep from my eyes. “Good morning, Dad,” I replied, quickly heading outside to the urine-dendrum patch sitting between two large pines. The sun was high in the sky already. I’d slept in well past 10am. […]
