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With a booming stock market and Bitcoin mania, it would be easy to overlook gold and silver as an investment strategy. But that’s a risk we don’t recommend you take.

So, why is NOW a good time to buy precious metals? How much of your portfolio should you devote to gold and silver? And should you invest in physical bullion or ETFs?

Precious metals expert Jeff Clark serves as Senior Analyst at Hard Assets Alliance, a platform that provides investors with a simple, low-cost way to buy and sell physical bullion. 

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Jeff joins me to discuss the impending economic crisis and explain why the stock market continues to go up while gold and silver remains weak—despite the chaos in the world at the moment.

Jeff describes the difference between investing in physical bullion versus paper or ETFs and weighs in on why institutional investors (including tech giants like Peter Thiel) are moving into gold.

Listen in for Jeff’s thoughts on cryptocurrencies as a store of value and learn how to protect your money from economic uncertainty and invest in gold and silver through the HAA Metal Stream Program. 

Why the stock market continues to go up while gold and silver remain weak (despite the chaos in the world at the moment)

What investors need to know about the spikes in the precious metal markets over the last 50 years

Jeff’s prediction that the irresponsible behavior of central banks will trigger an economic crisis

Why the only way to prepare for black swan events is to have meaningful exposure to gold and silver

How owning physical bullion protects investors from counterparty risk 

Jeff’s take on cryptocurrencies as good speculation but not a stable store of value

How institutional investors, central banks and family offices are taking positions in gold to hedge risk right now

How institutional investment influences the gold market (i.e.: slow steady rise vs. spike in price)

How much gold is ideal for an investment portfolio

How high Jeff sees gold and silver prices rising in the short-term before a crisis hits

How the Hard Assets Alliance Metal Stream Program makes it easy to accumulate gold and silver

Where to go for Jeff’s insights around the best mining stock picks

Hard Assets Alliance

Jeff on Hard Assets Alliance

Gold Silver

Jeff on Twitter

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Hard Assets Alliance Metal Stream Program

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin

John Hathaway at Sprott

Jim Rickards’ Avalanche Theory

Mike Maloney

‘Peter Thiel’s Tech Firm Just Bought $50M in Gold Bars’ in Yahoo Finance

Why Portfolios Perform Better with Gold

Jeff’s Open Letter to Warren Buffett

Casey Research

Stock Pulse Silver Symposium

Most individual investors don’t have the millions of dollars it takes to invest in fine art as an asset class.

But what if you didn’t need millions of dollars? What if you could own a stake in paintings by Monet, Warhol or KAWS for just $20 per share?

Scott Lynn is the Founder and CEO of Masterworks, a platform that helps individual investors get in on the lucrative fine arts market.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Scott joins me to explain why he built the first platform for trading shares in fine art and describe how art is evaluated as an asset class.

Scott discusses why individual investors should consider adding fine art to their portfolios, weighing in on how real assets serve as a hedge against inflation.

Listen in to understand how fine art correlates with the stock market and find out how Masterworks makes it easy for you to invest in individual shares of paintings by well-known artists like Basquiat and Banksy. 

What inspired Scott to build the first platform for trading shares in fine art

How Masterworks uses data to evaluate art markets

The 2 criteria Scott’s team uses to decide which paintings to buy

How the dwindling supply of an artist’s work influences returns

Why individual investors should consider adding fine art to their portfolios

The benefit of investing in assets uncorrelated to public equities

How the Masterworks platform makes it easy to invest in individual shares of fine art

How real assets like fine art serve as a hedge against inflation

The high correlation between fine art and gold

Why Scott doesn’t believe in NFTs in the context of fine art

Masterworks

Consilience Financial

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Masterworks Presentation on Understanding Art as an Investment

Nomura Piece on Investing in Art

Sotheby’s

Christie’s

Basquiat

Monet

Banksy

KAWS

Pest Control

The pandemic has effectively shaken up real estate markets around the world, initiating new trends and accelerating some shifts that were already in motion.

And if you know where the opportunities are, now is a very good time to buy properties on the cheap in growing markets.

Ronan McMahon travels the globe in search of investment opportunities for profit and shares his insight and deal flow through Real Estate Trend Alert, otherwise known as RETA.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Ronan joins me to discuss the real estate opportunities he is exploring right now, explaining what Panama is doing to encourage investment and how the short-term rental market is thriving in Portugal.

Ronan shares his experience around the ongoing international travel constraints caused by the pandemic and describes how COVID has impacted global real estate prices.

Listen in to understand where property prices are on the rise and learn how to access to Ronan’s real estate investment opportunities through RETA.

Why prices are skyrocketing in Ireland’s real estate market

How multinational investment has transformed Ireland

What Panama is doing to encourage investment in its tourism infrastructure

The ongoing constraints on international travel caused by the pandemic

Portugal’s extremely attractive residency packages and investment opportunities

Why the short-term rental industry remains robust despite COVID

The ongoing trend to move to remote locations (and how it’s transforming real estate markets)

Ronan’s insight on opportunities in strong markets and crisis scenarios

The value of the RETA membership’s group buying power

How Ronan is facilitating deal flow with low-risk projects

Real Estate Trend Alert

Consilience Financial

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Kennedy Wilson

Ronan’s Natal Project in Tulum

Overseas Dream Home on Instagram

The Daily Reckoning

Between 1975 and 2018, no less than $50T transferred from the working class to the elites. And this didn’t happen by accident but was the result of policy favoring global corporations.

So, how do we rework our values in a way that revitalizes the middle class?

How do we shift from a system that supports monopolies and cartels to one that places reasonable limits on the concentration of wealth and power?

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of 11 books on economics, finance, the Fed, healthcare, education, national debt, government policy and crony elites. He shares his thoughts on the blog Of Two Minds and his work is featured regularly at The Daily Reckoning.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Charles joins me to discuss the problem with policy that mandates the COVID vaccine and share his take on why the economy was already weakening prior to the pandemic.

Charles weighs in on how the government and the markets have abandoned the middle class, describing how current policy prioritizes corporate profits over national security and what we can do to set reasonable limits on the concentration of wealth and power.

Listen in for insight on how innovation and opportunity flourish in the right systems and find out why ‘doom and gloom’ is the first step in escaping our dependence on long supply chains and corrupt power nodes.

The problem with policy that mandates getting the COVID vaccine

Why Charles believes the US economy was weakening prior to the pandemic

How political policy prioritizes corporate profits over national security and maintaining the middle class

The need for transparency, competition and adaptability in the markets

How America’s greatness stemmed from the opportunity to turn labor into capital and why that’s lacking now

The benefits of the current trend to decentralize and re-localize

How our dependence on long supply chains and a handful of nodes makes us vulnerable (and why ‘doom and gloom’ is the first step in finding solutions to this problem)

Charles’ concerns around the decline of morality in America

How Charles thinks about the role faith plays in building a future of common values

Charles’ call for reasonable limits on the concentration of wealth and power and how he applies this idea to social media

Of Two Minds

Consilience Financial

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The Daily Reckoning

‘I Went to a Party with 14 Other Vaccinated People; 11 of Us Got COVID’ in The Baltimore Sun

Mayo Clinic Data on the Prevalence of the Delta Variant

Rand Corporation Research on Trends in Income from 1975 to 2018

‘Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups and Average Citizens’ in Cambridge University Press

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

As we get farther away from the ideals of the Old Right, the Progressives in power continue to pump money into the economy and destroy the value of the dollar. 

So, what can you do to navigate rising inflation? How might strategic investments in precious metals and rare earths protect your wealth in the age of Bidenomics?

Byron King is our in-house resource for military and geopolitical matters and the author of the online newsletter Whiskey & Gunpowder. He also happens to be a Harvard-trained geologist who’s gotten to know some of the best mining teams on the planet.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Byron joins me to discuss what happened to the Old Right and its idea of the ‘citizen representative,’ explaining how men like John T. Flynn, H. L. Mencken and Garet Garrett fought against the early decades of progressivism.

Byron walks us through the evolution of the international monetary system from the gold standard to the petrodollar, predicting how we might value currencies moving forward and describing how Bidenomics is causing our current workforce shortages and rising inflation.

Listen in for insight around China’s dominance in the rare earths race and get Byron’s top investment picks in precious metals, energy and mining.

How the Old Right fought against the early decades of progressivism 

What happened to the idea of the ‘citizen representative’

The consequences we face from deindustrializing the country

How Bidenomics contributes to our current workforce shortages and inflation

The history of the USD’s shift from the gold standard to the petrodollar

How SDRs may replace the dollar as the new world currency

Why crypto needs a credit system before it can run a global economy 

Why China is winning the rare earths race and what the US needs to do to catch up

Byron’s top investment picks in precious metals, energy and mining

Whiskey & Gunpowder

Consilience Financial

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John T. Flynn

Garet Garrett

L. Mencken

The Bretton Woods Agreement

Nixon Closes the Gold Window

Jim Rickards

Jim Rickards on SDRs

Chinese Sanctions on Lockheed

Barrick Gold Corporation

Newmont

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

Sprott Gold Equity Fund

Defense Metals

Appia Energy Corporation

We’re at the cusp of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and technological innovation is creating dramatic change at breakneck speed.

So, how do you begin to understand the science behind advancements like mRNA vaccines, plasma water rockets or quantum computing?

What do you need to know to make good decisions for your health—and the health of your investment portfolio?

Ray Blanco is our science advisor and editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Technology Profits Confidential and FDA Trader, publications dedicated to breaking down the science and offering investment advice around promising technology and biotechnology companies.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Ray joins me to provide clarity around the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus and explain how mRNA vaccine technology stands to revolutionize medicine in the decade ahead.

Ray shares his take on the Billionaire Space Race, discussing how these ‘thrill rides’ might serve as a precursor to the development of high-speed international travel.

Listen in for Ray’s insight on the relationship between innovation and deflation and get his top picks for investments in the chip sector, alternative vaccines and space technology.

Ray’s insight on the Delta variant of COVID-19

How mRNA vaccines work and how they differ from traditional vaccines

Other potential revolutionary applications of mRNA technology

Ray’s take on the politics of the push to get everyone vaccinated

What it means for a virus to ‘escape’ from a lab

The idea behind gain of function medical research

How the Billionaire Space Race might be the precursor to high-speed international travel

The relationship between deflation and innovation

Why Ray suggests investing in the chip sector and new vaccine technologies

The potential applications of plasma water engine technology

Technology Profits Daily

Ray at St. Paul Research

Consilience Financial

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Orphan Drug Act of 1983

Myocarditis and Pericarditis Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination

Virgin Galactic

Grace Hopper

Gwynne Shotwell

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Global Foundries

Novavax

MOMENTUS

SRAC on MarketWatch

There are obvious flaws in Marx’s labor theory of value, the idea that the value of a commodity can be objectively measured by the average number of hours required to produce it.

But George Gilder is exploring a new way to think about money built around the time theory of value, an idea that frames currency as a measure based on time—much like the meter, the kilogram or the lumen.

George is the most knowledgeable man in America when it comes to the future of technology and its impact on our lives. An established writer, investor and economist, George has an uncanny ability to see how new breakthroughs will play out, and he shares his ideas through Gilder’s Daily Prophecy.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, George joins me to discuss the three principal ideas in his forthcoming book, Life After Capitalism, beginning with the theory that economic growth is fundamentally a learning curve.

George shares his interdisciplinary approach to developing new ideas, describing how he thinks about money as tokenized time and what’s missing from our current measures of economic growth.

Listen in for George’s perspective on how governments are using money as an instrument of power (and why that stifles growth) and get his take on the crypto movement’s potential to emerge a new economy.

How George got interested in the semiconductor industry and information technology 

George’s theory that economic growth is a learning curve

How globalization improves our ability to fight pandemics and how the same concept applies to capitalism

The impetus to plan and control among governments and current elites

The idea of Google Marxism and how we are repeating Marx’s greatest error

George’s interdisciplinary approach to developing new ideas

The three principal ideas in George’s forthcoming book Life After Capitalism

How George frames money as tokenized time

How George thinks about the time value of gold in a way that’s not related to speculation

How economic measures fail to recognize the huge technological progress that’s underway

George’s take on how governments are using money as an instrument of power rather than an instrument of knowledge—and why that stifles economic growth

The great mistake cryptocurrencies are making right now 

Why George believes a new economy will emerge from the crypto movement

Gilder’s Daily Prophecy

Consilience Financial

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George Gilder—America’s #1 Futurist on The Wiggin Sessions EP011

Carver Mead

Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder

A Modest Theory of Civilization: Win-Win or Lose by William Bonner

Pandemics: Our Fears and the Facts by Sunetra Gupta

Life After Good: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

Introduction to Valence Theory by Jean Worrall

‘The Nature of Light: What Are Photons?’ by Carver Mead

Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World by George Gilder

Milton Friedman

‘Do Real Output and Real Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not’ by William Nordhaus

Gale Pooley at Discovery Institute

Marian Tupy at Cato Institute

‘Transit’s Dead End’ by Randal O’Toole

Are there any winners in the worst Pandemic of the last Century? After over 63,700 reported deaths globally, one might think there are no winners … but you would be wrong.

What players in what organizations are taking advantage of this tragedy? Who holds the power to make significant changes in public health and climate change? And how can you, the listener, use strategies that the Global Elite are employing to self-enrich themselves?

Jim Rickards is an American investment banker, lawyer, economist, op-ed contributor, and author. His insider status gives him a unique perspective on the most recent crisis – the COVID pandemic - in his latest book The New Great Depression: Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World (Jan 2021). Rickards has also published several other books including as Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (2011) and The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System (2014).

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Jim joins me to explore how the Davos gang of elites have taken advantage of the Great Reset for the global economy, and how you can too. We also explore the role that debt, inflation, and the destruction of the dollar play into the great reset and how you, as an investor, can navigate it.

What the Great Reset is and why it matters to your pocketbook.

What the Globalization Agenda is and COVID has escalated it.

Why the United States has not benefitted from Globalization.

Why Climate Change is key for the Global Agenda and for Global elites to secure their power.

How billionaires pay less in taxes, and you can too.

How Facebook, Twitter, and other major Social Media players illegally censoring and curating content and ruin lives.

Get an Insiders perspective into how the Global Elite instill fear to push their agenda and why they are trying to control the planet.

Why the free society that we believe in, and love is under attack, and what to do about it.

How COVID affected debt, inflation, and the destruction of the dollar.

What can we expect as we emerge out of this pandemic?

The James Rickards project

Jim Rickards on Twitter

Jim Rickards on Facebook

Email: [email protected]

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Klaus Schwab - head of the World Economic Forum on LinkedIn  

Klaus Schwab Podcast Episodes

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Ron Klain (Biden Administration, Chief of Staff)

Susan Rice (Biden Administration, Domestic Policy Advisor)

Valerie Jarrett (Biden Administration, Senior Advisor)

Jake Sullivan (Biden Administration, National Security Advisor)

Tony Blinken (Biden Administration, Secretary of State)

Mark Carney

Christine Lagarde  

Janet Yellen

Agustin Carstens

G7

G20

OECD

Contributions to the Daily Reckoning - Jim Rickards

On a societal level, governments and central banks encourage us to live for today at the expense of tomorrow. And it’s the economist’s job to make the unseen visible. To reveal the future consequences of spending with reckless abandon. 

But in the current climate, the mere suggestion of cutting spending is political suicide, and we use modern monetary theory to justify our stimulus-focused, Neo-Keynesian approach to the economy. 

So, what’s it going to take to wake us up to the flaws in this system?

Jeff Deist serves as President at the Mises Institute, a libertarian institution that promotes teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, individual freedom, honest history and international peace. Prior to his role at Mises, Jeff worked as a longtime advisor and chief of staff for Congressman Ron Paul.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Jeff joins me to discuss how his background as a lawyer in mergers and acquisitions informs the way he thinks about central banking and share the Austrian perspective on our current economic environment.

We explore the danger in legislating our way to prosperity, and Jeff explains why he blames the Bush administration for ushering in the idea that deficits don’t matter.

Listen in for Jeff’s view of the US dollar as a tool of imperialism and learn why countries like China are conflicted around unseating the USD as the world’s reserve currency.

How politics has changed in the 8 years since Jeff worked for Ron Paul

How Jeff’s background as an M&A lawyer informs the way he thinks about politics and central banking

Jeff’s role as president of the Mises Institute

Jeff’s take on the Austrian perspective of our current economic environment

The problem with MMT’s aim to legislate our way to prosperity

Why Jeff blames the George W. Bush administration for ushering in the idea that deficits don’t matter

How talking about cutting defense, Social Security or Medicare spending has become a death sentence for any politician

How governments and central banks encourage us to live today at the expense of tomorrow

The economist’s job to make the unseen visible to us

What we can learn from the political climate and economic situation in France

The countries with a vested interest in unseating the USD as the world’s reserve currency (and why they would want a gradual devaluation)

Jeff’s insight on how the US dollar is a tool of imperialism

Mises Institute

Consilience Financial

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Liberty Caucus

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin

The Daily Reckoning

Agora Financial

Lew Rockwell

Doug Casey

Paul Krugman

Books by John Maynard Keynes

Jean Baptiste-Say

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton

The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard

Books by Hunter S. Thompson

Frederic Bastiat

The issue of sea level rise is an emotional, politically charged one. And we simply don’t want to believe that our actions might put beloved places like New Orleans or Venice under water in the not-so-distant future.

But what if we take the emotion out of it and simply look at the facts? What if we focus on adapting to rising sea levels by way of sound economic principles?

John Englander is the oceanographer and economist behind the Rising Seas Institute, a think tank dedicated to understanding and explaining the latest science around long-term rising sea levels. He also serves as a consultant helping corporations, government agencies, communities and individuals adapt to the risks of sea level rise. John’s latest book is called Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward.

On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, John joins me to share the data on sea level rise, explaining how melting glaciers cause it and why it’s accelerating at an exponential rate.

We explore the relationship among CO2 concentration, global temperature and sea level, discussing how humans have altered the natural cycle of warming and cooling—and why we’re so resistant to accepting our impact on climate.

Listen in for John’s fiscally conservative, market-driven approach to addressing sea level rise and learn how the phenomenon is likely to impact the economy and property values in coastal communities around the globe.

How glacier calving causes sea levels to rise + how that natural process is accelerating in our warmer world

What sea level rise means for communities like Baltimore Harbor

How humans have altered the natural cycle of warming and cooling (and why we’re so resistant to accepting our impact on climate)

The relationship among CO2 concentration, global temperature and sea level

What drove natural heating and cooling cycles prior to industrialization and how those cycles have changed with the burning of fossil fuels

How sea levels and shorelines are NOT permanent (and why we struggle to comprehend that)

How satellite data reflects a doubling of sea level rise every decade for the last 30 years

John’s experience working with the military and municipalities on the impact of sea level rise and why their responses differ

Why property values and insurance premiums should reflect the risk associated with sea level rise

John’s fiscally conservative, market-driven approach to addressing sea level rise and why the government should not subsidize flood insurance costs

How the unsustainability of our current economic policy parallels that of CO2 emissions

What makes Greenland the best place to observe the extreme melting of the world’s glaciers

Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward by John Englander

Consilience Financial

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John’s Greenland Expeditions

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kuntsler

John’s Chart of CO2, Temperature & Sea Level

Green New Deal

Bill Bonner’s Diary

Books by David M. Walker

Rising Seas Institute

John’s Graph of Satellite Data on Sea Level Rise

Google Earth Timelapse of Columbia Glacier in Alaska

Google Earth Timelapse

Agora Financial