Ron Hera and I are live on the floor at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. There were over 500 companies exhibiting and Ron says that in 5 years, half of them won’t exist. Ron explains that for a mining venture to be successful you need three things, experienced management with a track record, a property with decent ore grade and proximity to good infrastructure. Of | Read More »
At the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, I caught up with an old friend of the show Kirsty Hogg. Kirsty’s a gold bull and well known blogger about precious metals and protecting your wealth against the coming economic tsunami. Together we reviewed hundreds of different mining companies and went to a number of well informed company and market presentations. While we may not agree on every | Read More »
Less than a week ago, we questioned Ron Paul’s real impact upon the issues being discussed in the never ending series of debates that have left every American shaking his/her head. If the candidates were celebrities, their PR staff would have warned them against getting over exposed to their market. And as politics is often referred to as, Hollywood for the Ugly, you really have | Read More »
John Butler’s upcoming book, The Golden Revolution could be a blockbuster. Unlike many of today’s commentators and newsletter writers, John goes the extra mile and dares to see a world where fiat currencies have gone the way of the phonograph record. He’s certain that plans are currently afoot to implement a new metallic money standard. It’s clear that US monetary policy, besides being an abject failure, is | Read More »
Peter Grandich joins us for the first time today to discuss what’s going on with oil & gas, precious metals, and the stock market. Peter has been writing his newsletter for many years, and his biggest present concern is US debt. He describes the US as being in an eye of the storm–we’ve had the first wave and the back end, which is always worse, is rapidly | Read More »
Sydney Phillips of www.thecollegeconservative.com shows you how to get food stamps without really trying. She’s a college student who was conducting a social experiment on how difficult, or as it turns out easy, it is to get food stamps, now known as an EBT Card. She goes through the motions, not really complying with the necessary steps, failing to provide required earnings data and winds | Read More »
The former chief economist of Quantas Airlines believes the super-sized set is costing airlines way too much. He claims heavier passengers are costing an additional $472 per flight, in added fuel costs. His solution, charge passengers by the pound. If you’re above average in weight, you pay a price for each additional pound. Not that he’s going to give supermodels discounts even though they’re “saving” | Read More »
Gary Wagner stopped by the show today to explain why technical analysis along with a fundamental grasp of the underlying economic trends and issues gives us the best understanding of where gold and silver are heading. He is quite sure that the vicious precious metals correction has run its course and that we are now witnessing a new upward leg in the precious metals/commodities super-bull | Read More »
Dan Miller, internationally renown life coach and author of many books proves you only need 48 days to do the work you love and were meant to do. As he says, “Our mission at 48 Days is to foster the process of imagining, dreaming and introspection, to help people find their calling and true path, and to translate that into meaningful, purposeful and profitable daily | Read More »
The International Forecaster joins us again, this week for our bi-weekly chat. Bob and I discuss the gold and silver New Year’s take-off. We touch upon the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s review and investigation of the CME group. The C.F.T.C.’s has been tasked with looking into the leading causes of the MF Global failure. Check out a great interview Bob posted about this at www.theinternationalforecaster.com. Most of | Read More »
We’ve all been plagued by the late night commercials where a New York Lawyer, in an ugly cowboy hat and ill fitting designer suit, harangues us to let him handle our case for Social Security Disability Benefits. His voice is winy and you’d probably just give him the case to shut him up. However, little do most of you know, he’s cleaning up on the deal! The | Read More »
We’re back on with Jeb Handwerger to discuss “The January effect,” and how to pick the best mining stocks. According to Jeb, gold and silver miners will rise again in 2012, and the time honored trope regarding the month of January will reign true, as the first week of the New Year shows these stocks opening on a bullish note. When asked about the best gain | Read More »
Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, says that 2012 will be a big year for gold, silver, mining companies, and commodities, including energy. Mickey knows from whence he speaks. He’s been a professional freelance geologist for decades. When it comes to picking junior miners on the fast track, Mickey has a simple method of assessing their prospects. He goes to resource shows around the world, sits down with senior | Read More »
We interviewed Rick Ackerman yesterday, and he hit us with his prediction that the dollar was headed up. However, he was emphatic this was not an indication of the dollar’s fundamental health but rather a sign of the Euro’s impending slide. The buck is “The best looking horse in the glue factory.” Unfortunately, while misery may enjoy company, it doesn’t make anyone any happier. These | Read More »
Some of my best thinking takes place at the gym; it must have something to do with the enhanced oxygen supply and the high level of endorphins. While doing cardio and aerobics, it suddenly dawned on me that what the world needs is a special bankruptcy court, just for countries. That way, when a country becomes insolvent, they would do what companies and individuals have been doing for | Read More »
Andrew Horowitz (TheDisciplinedInvestor.com) has been investing most of his life, but he’s not locked into any one type of investment. He’s concerned about politicians whose attitudes are to avoid unpleasantry today, in order to enhance the odds of electoral victory tomorrow. Horowitz believes this can-kicking behavior has been going on for a long time, and the situation will continue unabated for quite a while. It is therefore extremely | Read More »
Bix Weir of RoadtoRoota.com joins us this week to discuss the impending implosion of the world’s financial markets. Bix believes the mother of all crashes is happening very soon, possibly as soon as this March. It could be triggered by the CFTC’s implementation of position limits for silver as well as other commodities and their upcoming definition of SWAPs. This is supposed to be done | Read More »
John Grisham has been an international, best selling author for nearly 20 years. His specialty, legal thrillers like The Firm, The Rainmaker, The Litigators and many others; Grisham has also written a couple of children’s legal thrillers as well. He’s sold over 250 million books, ranking him among the most successful authors on the planet. I’ve enjoyed his earlier works; but recently, I’ve found that his work was | Read More »
Bill Murphy, former pro-football player and Wall Streeter has been leading the charge for over a decade. He claims that the precious metals markets have been fixed by the government, for the purpose of propping up the bankrupt fiat money system. The country and the world have been living beyond their means for decades and now it’s all coming home to roost. Politicians and the | Read More »
Trace Mayer’s blog, www.RuntoGold.com, in addition to precious metals investing, covers a wide range of topics. Trace is an attorney, entrepreneur, author of The Great Credit Contraction, and an all around renaissance man. He reviews his trend predictions for 2012 and believes that all is not lost. Technology is freeing more and more people to pursue their dreams and their passions. Debt slavery is a | Read More »
Are you fed up with the near complete failure of the American educational system? We may finally be at the cusp of a solution. The combination of technology and the current system’s un-sustainability, could lead to sweeping change and improvement of education at every level. The wealthy always had access to the best tutors to make their children literate. Public education was created to allow | Read More »
If you’re worried about the latest price decline of precious metals, then listen to Ranting Andy’s latest take on the smack-down. Andy and I agree: it’s all smoke and mirrors, so you shouldn’t be deceived. You have nothing to lose but your fiat currency. Simply put, this latest smack-down is just another last ditch survival ploy by the elite world financiers. However, this tactic is destined to fail because worldwide | Read More »
We’re back with our weekly discussion with The International Forecaster, Bob Chapman. Although the gold slam down continues and the price per ounce has dropped to a record low, Bob reminds us to remember the difference between paper and physical investments. Precious metals are a long-term investment. Don’t be fooled by the mainstream media reports of the Christmas retail boom. The economy is not recovering, Sears and | Read More »
We recently posted to the site www.DailyKos.com, a site for thinking progressives. While many people view our current economic situation as one of right versus left, The Financial Survival Network has always viewed it as Man versus the State. It is not a question of government doing more, but rather an issue of government expansion. As the government grows and does more, it perpetually destroys the civil | Read More »
Richard F. Miniter has an intriguing article in AmericanThinker.com. Richard believes the advent of the Kindle and the Nook will lead education back to its original methods, namely autodidacticism. In his article, A World Without Schoolteachers, Richard describes personal experiences and references a large body of evidence supporting the fact that home-schooled children routinely out perform their public school rivals in standardized testing as well as national spelling and geography bees. | Read More »
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