Turning Hard Times Into Good Times

The U.S. Mint made an unusual request this week. In a press release dated July 23, the bureau literally begged Americans to start putting coins back into circulation by spending or depositing them. As you may have noticed, people just aren’t making transactions with coinage like they used to. That’s […]

Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.  by Ellen Brown When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No more bailouts!” But what the Act actually said was that the next time […]

Alasdair Macleod, Axel Merk and Michael Oliver are guests this week. In 2004 Dr. Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley warned America was on a collision course as it borrowed excessively from China and Japan to fund its Treasury. The collision Dr. Roach warned about in 2004 was heard in September […]

Jay introduces the guests, gives updates on the sponsors and Michael Oliver provides his usual insights into the momentum of key markets. Axel Merk, President and CIO of Merk Investments, talks about OUNZ, a paper gold ETF, that allows investors to take possession of physical gold. Alasdair Macleod, has a background […]

Dan Oliver and Chen Lin are this week’s guests as we explore a new episode of the radio program. Nature gave us gold for money and currency. It is the best form of money known to man not only for economic stability and a prosperous egalitarian capitalist society but also […]

Jay introduces the guests, gives updates on the sponsors and explains what the day’s program is about in detail and a short history on our monetary system. Chen Lin, a very successful investor, talks about the reliability of COVID-19 China data, the trade war with China and what is affecting gold […]

James Rickards, Michael Oliver and Chris Taylor return as guests this week on the radio program. The lockdown of the global economy resulting from the virus exported by China to the world has not only caused deaths approaching 200,000 but has triggered a global economic depression that may rival or […]

Jay introduces the guests, gives updates on the sponsors and Michael Oliver explains what his latest momentum and structural analysis say about the markets. Chris Taylor, President and Director of Great Bear Resources, provides updates on a most significant new gold discovery and how they are handling COVID-19. James Rickards, New […]

Physical gold continued to catch a bid this week, trading above $1,760 an ounce, on a host of head-spinning economic news, from millions more Americans filing jobless claims to record money-printing to negative oil prices. The national average price for a gallon of gasoline fell further to $1.78 on Friday, […]

Alasdair Macleod, John Williams and Quinton Hennigh return as guests on this week’s radio program. Commentators routinely confuse the deflationary effects of a contraction of bank credit with the inflationary effects of central bank policies designed to offset it. Central banks always ensure their stimulus is greater, so inflation, not […]