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Interview recorded - 14th of April, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Rick Rule. Rick is the Former President & CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings with decades of experience in the commodities business.

During our conversation we spoke about the Trump tariffs, what this means for the global world order, China, which assets to perform, a bifurcated world, gold & precious metals and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:37 - Tariffs
3:56 - China’s government backed economy
4:57 - US competitive edge
6:38 - Why has US economy shifted?
7:38 - Tax shifts
9:34 - Cutting government spending
13:16 - More retirees impacting coming years
14:01 - Challenging times
15:11 - Which assets to perform?
17:13 - Consumer products and tariffs?
18:08 - Bifurcated world
18:51 - All regions pushing towards protectionism
21:11 - Gold & precious metals
29:13  Energy
32:17 - Copper
36:10 - One message to takeaway?

Rick began his career 47 years ago in 1974 in the securities business and has been involved in it ever since. He is known for his expertise in many resource sectors, including agriculture, alternative energy, forestry, oil and gas, mining, and water. In 1990, Rick founded the business now known as Sprott US Holdings” merging in into Sprott Inc. ( SII) in 2011. He retired from Sprott Inc., in 2021, and resigned from the board of directors in 2023, but remains Sprott’s largest shareholder. IMr. Rule is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences, and a frequent contributor to numerous media outlets including CNBC, Fox Business News and BNN. Mr. Rule is actively engaged in private placement markets, through originating and participating in hundreds of debt and equity transactions.

Rick Rule - 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/RealRickRule
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-rule-1058921a/
Website - https://ruleinvestmentmedia.com/
Seminar - https://opptravel.zohobackstage.com/TheRuleSymposiumonNaturalResourceInvesting2024#/?affl=WTFinance

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Interview recorded - 20th of March, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Chris Vermeulen. Chris is the Founder & Chief Market Strategist at The Technical Traders. 

During our conversation we spoke about his views on the market, risk of a crash, shift of momentum, precious metals, how long do cycles last and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Chris’ view on markets
4:10 - Market crash?
6:20 - Shift of momentum
9:02 - Precious metals
11:14- How long do cycles last?
15:12 - Picking the bottom
17:20 - Global crash?
20:45 - Treasuries
22:40 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Chris Vermeulen is a visionary investor who pioneered an industry-breaking method of investing called “Asset Revesting.” Chris introduced this innovative approach in his latest book, “Asset Revesting – How to Exclusively Hold Assets Rising in Value, Profit During Bear Markets, and Continue Building Wealth in Retirement.“

Chris’s journey in the financial world began in 1997 at 16. Using his innate talent for trading and risk management, Chris earned enough money to pay for his final year of college, where he earned a business diploma in operations management. He then transitioned into a full-time entrepreneur and trader, achieving financial freedom in his 20s.

His expertise in technical analysis led him to create systematic processes that uncover unique trading and investment opportunities. A persistent advocate for managing portfolio risk, Chris has little faith in the buy-and-hold strategy, which often entails holding onto depreciating assets.

Chris’s innovative approach to asset allocation emphasizes efficiency, resulting in systems that manage portfolio positions, exhibit low drawdowns, and consistently outperform the markets. His short-term and long-term strategies are perfect for those seeking proven techniques to manage and protect capital.

Chris is widely recognized as an exceptional technical trader, possessing profound insight and a keen understanding of market trends. He shares his wisdom in his book “Technical Trading Mastery, Second Edition – 7 Steps to Win with Logic,” further solidifying his reputation as a trailblazer in the financial industry.

Chris Vermeulen - 

Website - https://thetechnicaltraders.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheTechTraders
YouTube -   @TheTechnicalTraders  

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Interview recorded - 13th of March 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Michael Oliver. Michael is the founder of Momentum Structural Analysis.

During our conversation we spoke about the current risk of a recession, what this means for markets, why there could be a long bear market, gold, the commodity super cycle and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:17 - Thoughts on markets?
6:13 - How do you define a market?
10:51 - Surprised about market strength?
20:51 - Dollar to come down
22:11 - Recession
24:41 - Gold
32:26 - Commodity super cycle?

J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park.  He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX.

In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis.  He learned early on that orthodox price chart technical analysis left many unanswered questions and too often deceived those who trusted in price chart breakouts, support/resistance, and so forth.

In 1987 Mike technically anticipated and caught the Crash.  It was then that he decided to develop his structural momentum tools into a full analytic methodology.

In 1992 the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank's Trust  Department asked Mike to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia.  Within a year, Mike shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research.  He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism.

Michael Oliver - 

Website - https://www.olivermsa.com/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Oliver_MSA

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Interview recorded - 15th of March, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming on Dr Steve Keen. Steve is a critically acclaimed economist who is looking to debunk traditional economics.

During our conversation we spoke about the current state of the global economy, why economists have everything wrong, why Trump should not be cutting the deficit, what this will lead to and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:19 - Overview of global economy
3:24 - Why is cutting the deficit wrong?
6:26 - Government spending sustainable?
20:19 - UK poor example
21:01 - Best deficit?
23:46 - Interest rates not an issue
30:31- Financialisation
39:46 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.

Keen was formerly an associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney. In 2014, he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He has since taken retirement and is crowd source funded to undertake independent research as well as being a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London.

Steve Keen -

YouTube -  @ProfSteveKeen  
Substack - https://profstevekeen.substack.com/
Website - https://www.stevekeenfree.com/free-book7
X - https://x.com/ProfSteveKeen

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Interview recorded - 14th of March, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming on Alex Krainer. Alex is has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. He is the founder Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend following. 

During our conversation we spoke about the geopolitical overview, why the world order is shifting, whether the US is different to the West, restructuring of the economy, the uniparty, impacts on the market and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:39 - Geopolitical overview
3:47 - Why is world order shift being ignored?
5:44 - When did shift begin?
9:17 - US different to the rest of the West
13:26 - Corporate colonialism
17:07 - Restructuring of the economy
18:47 - Can the West rise again?
24:07 - Uniparty 
27:57 - How does this impact markets?
34:42 - One message to takeaway from conversation?

Alex is the founder of Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend Following. He has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. Alex was born and raised in a socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. As a 17-year old he joined a student exchange program and took up his university studies there, ultimately transferring to Switzerland on a scholarship where he completed a degree in Business and Economics.

From Switzerland his path led him to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis in 1994 when 9 of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt. The same year he returned to Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence. In 1996, upon discharge from the military, Alex took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco. In 1998 he became the head of risk and CEO in 2000. 

Alex had originated the firm’s research and development program in market analysis and application of neural networks and artificial intelligence in trading of financial and commodities markets. By 2007 Alex launched his own investment management business and was among the small minority of managers who generated positive investment returns (+27%) during the 2008 financial crisis. Over the following six years, his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index of Blue Chip commodity futures trading funds. In 2011 Alex Joined Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth to manage the firm’s inflation hedging strategy. In 2019 Alex created Altana Wealth’s systematic portfolio allocation strategy designed to bridge the gap between technology and finance. 

In more recent years, Alex also busied himself as an author. He published his first book “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading” in 2015. In 2021 this book was selected as #1 on Financial-Expert.co.uk’s list of “The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders.” In 2017 he published “The Grand Deception” which is available exclusively from the RedPill Press. In 2021 he published “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible.”

Alex Krainer - 

X - https://x.com/NakedHedgie
I-System - https://isystem-tf.com/
Substack - https://alexkrainer.substack.com/
Trend Compass - https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/

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Interview recorded - 11th of March, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Edward Dowd. Edward is the Founder of Phinance Technologies and author of Cause Unknown.

During our conversation we spoke on his current views on the markets, why the economy is struggling, Mainstreet vs Wallstreet, Biden immigration policy, shift from capital to labour, economic reset, which assets to perform and more. I hope you enjoy!

Economic Outlook -https://phinancetechnologies.com/Product_USEconomyOutlook2025.htm

0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Current view of markets?
5:55 - Why was economy struggling?
8:56 - Biden immigration policy
11:14 - Mainstreet vs Wallstreet
13:42 - Government spending, regulation, spending
16:02 - Shift from capital to labour?
18:00 - Global Economy
22:00 - Force Powell to cut rates?
23:12 - Secular shift?
25:20 - System leverage
27:22 - Which assets to perform?
30:07 - One message to takeaway?

Edward Dowd is currently a founding partner with Phinance Technologies. He has worked on Wall Street the majority of his career, most notably at Blackrock as a portfolio manager where he managed a $14 billion Growth equity portfolio for ten years. Edward's book Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden death in 2021 & 2022 propelled him as an alternative voice during the pandemic and the economic implications that continue to plague us today. Phinance's unique alternative macroeconomic analysis of the global debt crisis and what may unfold has given many a deeper understanding of the global nature of our problems today.

Edward Dowd:

Website - https://phinancetechnologies.com/Home.asp
X - https://x.com/DowdEdward

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Interview recorded - 27th of February, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back  @GregoryMannarino . Greg is known as the "The Robin Hood Of Wall Street".

During our conversation we spoke about

0:00 - Introduction
1:09  - Current overview?
2:50 - People are struggling
10:51 - Imbalance from savers to creditors
17:17 - The system delays change
19:47 - The never ending refinancing bubble
26:02 - Opportunities during crisis?
31:52 - One message to takeaway?

Also known as "The Robin Hood Of Wall Street," Gregory Mannarino is an active/full time trader of the capital markets with a world-wide following.

Born on July 22, 1965, he became interested in "Wall Street," like many others at the time, in 1987 after seeing the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas. Around that time he was able to get an entry level position, then subsequently to the trading floor,  at the now defunct bank Bear Stearns, but within a relatively short time realized that working on Wall Street was not like the movies and moved on. He went on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant beginning in 1996, now retired from practice. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieutenant. He has even published a book on casino Blackjack strategies years later, and was banned from playing the game in Las Vegas casinos.

Gregory Mannarino -

YouTube -   @GregoryMannarino  
Website - https://traderschoice.net/

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Interview recorded - 20th of February, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Larry Lepard. Larry is the Managing Partner of Equity Management associates, has been a professional investment manager for over 40 years, is a vocal advocate for sound money and the author of the recently released book “The Big Print: What Happened To America And How Sound Money Will Fix It”.

0:00 - Introduction
1:12 - What happened in America?
2:30 - Financialization of the country
6:28 - How long can the system survive?
11:05 - The interest is the problem
14:25 - Losing control of the bond market?
18:04 - Gold?
23:47 - Why Bitcoin?
25:48 - Sovereigns buying Bitcoin?
27:20 - Constant growth of money supply for economy to grow?
30:03 - DOGE to reset system?
32:00 - Concentration of wealth?
34:15 - Positive outcome
36:25 - One message to takeaway?

Lawrence Lepard is a professional investment manager who has been a long time advocate for a return to sound money. He manages funds which focus on companies involved with gold and silver mining and Bitcoin. He is an active contributor to the "sound money" discussion on X, using the handle: @LawrenceLepard, and he recently published his first book: THE BIG PRINT: What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It.

The book is a discussion of how America's monetary system has gone astray and caused enormous pain for millions through inflation. The history of this process is laid out in the first part of the book: The Problem. The second half of the book is titled The Solution and explains what we must do to restore the American Dream. It offers investment insights that are relevant to all individuals and families and shows people how to protect themselves from inflation. The book is timely because as Mr. Lepard shows the problem is getting worse and is likely to result in a crisis very soon.

Lawrence Lepard:

Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Print-Happened-America-Sound/dp/B0DVTCVX8J/
X - https://x.com/LawrenceLepard

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Interview recorded - 21st of February, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Glenn Diesen. Glenn is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway & geopolitical commentator.

During our conversation we spoke further about the current geopolitical landscape, US & Russia to negotiate peace, disaster of Biden tenure, Russian threat for Europe, Ukrainian tragedy, China & US conflict, the end of US hegemon and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
2:18 - Geopolitical landscape
5:04 - US & Russia to negotiate peace?
9:59 - Graveyard of empires
13:22 - Biden tenure
14:42 - European security issue
18:07 - Russia threat for Europe?
22:12 - Ukraine tragedy
25:52 - Monroe doctrine?
28:17 - China & US conflict?
33:47 - Does China want to be a hegemon?
37:02 - One message to takeaway?

Professor Diesen is an academic, author, editor, and political commentator. His research focus is primarily on Russian foreign policy and the geoeconomics of Greater Eurasia and the emerging strategic partnership between Russia and China. Diesen’s latest books are The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order (2024); Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics (2022), Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia: Geoeconomic Regions in a Multipolar World (2021); Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution (2021); Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Rivalry: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty (2021); The Return of Eurasia (2021); Russia in a Changing World (2020); The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (2018); Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (2017); and EU and NATO relations with Russia: After the collapse of the Soviet Union (2015).

Glenn Diesen: 

X: https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen
Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/
YouTube:  @GDiesen1 

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Interview recorded - 11th of February, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Wasif Watif. Wasif is the President & CIO of Sarmaya Partners. 

During our conversation we touched on his current outlook on the markets, decades long commodity super cycle, whether it is similar to dot com period, the importance of energy, his investing approach and more. I hope you enjoy! 

0:00 - Introduction
1:43 - Current outlook for markets?
7:14 - Decade long trend?
10:01 - US phenomenon?
14:39 - Post dot com bubble?
19:04 - Catalyst for Commodity Super cycle
25:54 - The importance of energy
33:11 - Investment framework?
37:04 - Red flags when investing?
38:04 - One message to takeaway?

Wasif has over 25 years of investment experience, managing equity, global multi-asset and multi- manager portfolios in mutual funds and ETFs, wealth management and institutional portfolios. Built and launched ETFs, mutual funds and managed account platforms.

Wasif Latif -

Website - https://sarmayapartners.com/
ETF - https://sarmayaetf.com/
X - https://x.com/sarmayakar24?s=21&t=vCJTBKSb-nIJ8eFKe0YAxg

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