The economic lessons of the Christmas story.  From inn to inn there are plenty of economic lessons from Christ and how to view governmental interference, how to deal with immoral costumed governmental leaders and the virtue of the servant merchant.

The difference between forwards and futures contracts and how the COMEX fail if there is prolonged backwardation in the monetary metals.

The economics and futility of war and why peace is becoming more profitable.

I will be headed down to La Estancia De Cafayate to enjoy some bife de lomo.  In this episode I discuss the the tungsten gold rumors and what to do.

Sometimes whenever gold is mentioned around polite company the term ‘gold bug’ gets thrown out. This term was penned by Edgar Allen Poe in his short story ‘The Gold Bug’. Published in the early 1840’s and according to Poe it ‘made great noise’ and was his most widely circulated and read story.

Discussion of the ‘new gold monetarists’ and I suppose I am one.  The CNBC guest throws out $11,000-$50,000 per ounce which could be a little high.  This goes in-depth towards the bottom of the liquidity pyramid.  The more you begin to understand economics and monetary science the more you will realize just how much is packed into that tiny little graphic.

[CORRECTIVE NOTE:  I have been hoarding platinum not palladium.  But if I could find a cost effectiv...

Jay Taylor of MiningStocks.com interviewed Trace Mayer on 10 November 2009.  We discussed HowToVanish.com, the interview on BNN, money versus currency...

Interview with Ian Gordon of the Long Wave Group where we discuss the Kondratieff Winter.  You can read the transcript or listen.

A discussion of the updates to RunToGold.  Mention of Deloitte’s report that states, “If the proposed ETF tracks a commodity, it buys or borrows certificats of ownership of that commodity.”

Then I ask some questions about

Interview with Aaron Krowne of ML-Implode.com where we discuss the coming wave of residential foreclosures, the impact on the banks, the looming dollar crisis and what to do about it.