Not long ago, big powertrain news involved the launch of new engine plants like JLR’s Engine Manufacturing Centre. Now the attention has switched to battery manufacturing and the best way to produce lithium ion batteries for EVs.

Most tech and auto companies using cobalt have taken steps to avoid sourcing from those operations, but it’s a hard thing to track since it changes hands several times before reaching a battery cell.

SBTV speaks with Toumas Malinen, CEO of GnS Economics, in this hard-hitting interview about the appalling state of the global economy. Central bank policies have wreaked havoc in the financial system creating a false sense of prosperity, masking problems and blowing huge economic bubbles. The situation is so dire that there's no way to fix it at this stage.

SBTV speaks with JP Cortez, Policy Director of the Sound Money Defense League, about the citizenry efforts to restore gold and silver sound money to America at both State and Federal levels. Learn also about the Sound Money Index which tracks the process of each U.S. State in the adoption of gold and silver as sound money!