There’s quite a line up of big name, big money commentators featured in this Q&A article, most of them well respected (Jeffrey Christian maybe not so much – although you might recall we do have him to thank for somewhat unwittingly helping to make public the 100:1 paper gold to physical ratio in the London Bullion Market Association-LBMA). ...

The 3 of us here at Gold Survival Guide first met at an investment dinner where Bud Conrad of Casey Research was the guest speaker, so it’s always great to hear from him.  Bud always uses quantitative analysis to get to the root of the matter – rather than just theorising he likes to look at the numbers and has a plethora of graphs to draw from....

Weekly Wanderings 25 November 2010 More problems in the Eurozone So Ireland is under the gun yet again.  Interestingly, it appears that Ireland’s government was not exceptionally profligate during the boom times – they have just become a victim of the euro structure. It’s hard to see at this stage which of two alternatives will eventuate – will it be...

Darryl Schoon discusses how the explosive credit growth from 1982 to 2008 resulted in a “crack up boom” and then the flight into real values - i.e. gold -  began in 2001.  He warns of the eventual complete breakdown of the monetary system, however he also warns of the likely existence of fractional gold and silver accounts… FRACTIONAL...

This article is a summary of comments by Jim Rickards, who was interviewed recently by Eric King, over at King World News. Mr Rickards is a writer, lawyer and economist with a long and very distinguished record in the global capital markets.  He is Senior Managing Director at Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm in McLean, VA and is the leading practitioner at the...