Nov 28, 2011

Very apocalyptic indeed was the title of Egon von Greyerz of Matterhorn Asset Management’s presentation at the Sydney Gold Symposium… “A Return to the Dark Ages” However given his gloomy title he had a collection of somewhat edgy but humorous slides to lighten the mood. We’ve seen von Greyerz perform pretty well on CNBC in the past and he was just...

Here’s 2 for the price of 1:  First up is a recent short video interview with Rick Rule of Global Resource Investors.  At the Casey Research/Sprott Summit When Money Dies, he spoke with Stefan Molyneux about energy and gold investments and his outlook for the near-future market overall.  Then if you prefer to read than watch, below that is an...

What a week to be away! It has been a crazy one.  I’ve been out of the country and while in transit the site was actually down for the day.  Not good – so sorry if you tried to get on there on Tuesday and had no luck and thanks to those readers who alerted us to the fact.  All rectified now –we’re actually also working on a facelift of the site at the...

The World Gold Council recently commissioned Oxford Economics to carry out a study on how gold performs in both an inflationary and a deflationary environment. A useful question to ask as currently it would seem as though we have a bit of both going on.  Globally many asset prices such as housing are falling while we see inflation in many commodities such as...

The End of America The founder and namesake of Stansberry Associates, Porter Stansberry, shocked the audience at the Casey Research Spring Summit with his ‘End of America’ speech. “Our country racked up an enormous amount of debt over the last 40 years – an unprecedented amount of debt. We went from being the world’s largest creditor, to being the...