October 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 2 topics: *Emerging markets debt crisis, $9.5 Trillion on emerging markets corporate debt denominated in USD *IMF is warning about declining liquidity in the bond markets and is encouraging governments to take precautionary measures *IMF: Bond market liquidity could dis-appear instantaneously *Physical Gold in non-bank storage is one […]

October 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part part 1 topics: *History of IMF, one of the big 3 Bretton Woods institutions *The IMF has evolved into its most powerful role ever *IMF is a functioning world Central Bank *The Fed has in effect been operating in a 2 year tightening cycle *China’s reserves are being […]

September 15, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part part 2 topics: *China’s sale of US Treasuries is being absorbed by the market. Bernanke: The financial system is a closed circuit *Financial warfare and risks in digital assets from cyber threats *Conversations with the only man who has ever been the head of both the CIA and […]

September 15, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part part 1 topics: *Jim is correct again on no Fed rate increase *No rate increase through end of 2015 *What the Fed needs to do is ease *Fed’s easing options moving forward: QE4, Forward Guidance, Helicopter QE, Negative interest rates, Next salvo in currency wars *The time to […]

July 16th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 3 topics: *Why a gold market corner is unlikely *What large futures positions in gold by major institutions probably means *Movement of unallocated gold in banks to allocated gold in private storage *People are taking gold out of banks because they are losing confidence in the banking […]

July 16th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 2 topics: *The extraordinary effort put forth by the Chinese government to halt the crash will not work over the long term *The greater issue here is whether this turns into a social problem within China *The most recent Pentagon wargame was specifically focused on China *Other countries […]

July 16th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 1 topics: *Comments on co-Keynote with Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke *Comments on recent experience and invitation to Pentagon hosted financial wargames *As predicted, there has been no Grexit *Bank holidays is a standard way of dealing with financial crisis, people should consider preparing ahead of time […]

June 17th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 3:  questions and answers with Jim Rickards *IMF SDR’s versus sovereign fiat currency *Thoughts on gold confiscation happening in USA, EU, and Switzerland *Why Switzerland is the best jurisdiction in the world to store precious metals   By listening to this podcast or reading its associated transcript (collectively, […]

June 17th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 2 topics: *State Backed hacking of US Government Employee Files *Compromise of employee files does represent a national security threat *Any portfolio reliant on all digital related assets is vulnerable to being completely wiped out *South China Sea – China is claiming the entire South China Sea by […]

June 17th, 2015 Interview with Jim Rickards Part 1 topics: *FOMC Meeting Analysis – No rate increase in 2015 *Dangerously low liquidity in bond market *Back in the 80’s-90’s liquidity in the bond market was a given, virtually any amount could get filled – this is no longer the case *Today large orders in the bond […]