I had the chance once again to speak with Peter Grandich yesterday, publisher of The Grandich Letter, and “Confessions of a Wall Street Whiz Kid.”

It was an exciting interview, as Peter understands the economy, gold, and the junior mining sector in a way that few other commentators do. The items we discussed were the DJIA continuing its move higher, gold breaking out technically, and the junior mining sector as being an incredibly cheap place to invest.

In regards the U.S. stock market, Peter said, “I work under the premise that there is a ‘don’t worry be happy’ crowd on wall street, and that the market is always tilted to the biased long side…the bulk of the financial institutions deal in stocks and bonds, and most times they always have a biased to be long…I like to joke that if you tossed one of them off the empire state building, all the way down they would say the same thing–’so far so good’...Most of the people that work in the financial service industry have a natural tendancy bias to be bullish, or to look at the cup half full rather than half empty.”

When asked about what he sees in the price of gold, Peter commented, “All that we had from December until recently [on the gold chart]is what I call the bullish descending wedge formation, that gold has broken out above. And when it breaks out like that, about 80% of the time you can calculate the move, and the move right now looks like it will get to a new high…I hate to sound like a broken record, but we had so much negative commentary in december, mainly from people who have been wrong for a lot of years—this is the mother of all gold bull markets. It’s amazing how well the fundamentals remain in tact, which is no central bank selling, [only] net buying, producers dont sell forward anymore…and the debasement of currencies”

With respect to the share prices of many junior mining shares, Peter said,“The junior market just got way oversold. We saw things come down to levels that their projects were just worth so much more than the current market cap…The problems that I’m hearing from the corporate side, is the concern on these companies now is that they’ll get taken out before they get to a valuation that’s really worthy.”

When asked about the complete disinterest in junior miners by investors, Peter added,“People finally threw in the towel on them, and that’s when they finally do [move higher].”

More @ bullmarketthinking.com

Listen to:
David Morgan – Silver update.
Danielle Park – Fund manager changes direction.
Warren Pollock – Real State of the Union.

From GoldSeek Radio:

About Gold Seek Radio:
The 2 hour Goldseek.com Radio show is the brainchild of Chris Waltzek & Peter Spina, President of Goldseek.com, the world’s leading precious metals network. Goldseek.com Radio was a contender for the prestigious, 2009 Peabody Award for internet radio.

More interviews @ radio.goldseek.com

Steve and Chris discuss the dangers of owning paper assets and rational for owning physical precious metals.

Featuring:
Steve Quayle of stevequayle.com
Chris Duane of dont-tread-on.me and TheGreatestTruthNeverTold

“Generations are about to be scarred and few are even preparing.”
~Chris Duane

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:
James Dines: Forecast for 2012: “No Place to Hide”

Jim is pleased to welcome back James Dines of The Dines Letter to discuss his forecast for 2012. In an interview covering many subjects, Mr. Dines believes gold shares will catch up to the gold price, Chinese growth won’t be enough to bail out the world’s economies, and that nothing will save the world until a currency link to gold is reinstated and enforced.

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

Detlev S. Schlichter: Author of Paper Money Collapse

from FinancialSense:
All paper money systems in history have ended in failure. Either they collapsed in chaos, or society returned to commodity money before that could happen. Drawing upon novel new research, Paper Money Collapse conclusively illustrates why paper money systems—those based on an elastic and constantly expanding supply of money as opposed to a system of commodity money of essentially fixed supply—are inherently unstable and why they must lead to economic disintegration.

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

Back on Thursday, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting with Jeff Nielson of BullionBullsCanada.

I first discovered Jeff on the Seeking Alpha website about three years ago. He had written and published some of the first, substantial missives I’d found on the silver market and bullion bank manipulation. Though written some time ago, these articles still ring true today and are some of the best-written summaries of silver manipulation you are going to find.

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12786:fifty-years-of-suppressing-silver&catid=49:silver-commentary&Itemid=130

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=528:silver-market-fundamentals-distorted-by-bullion-etfs&catid=49:silver-commentary&Itemid=130

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11299:the-silver-price-spiral-part-i-today&catid=49:silver-commentary&Itemid=130

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2887:your-etf-silver-is-for-sale&catid=49:silver-commentary&Itemid=130

As you listen to the podcast, you’ll hear Jeff and I cover a wide range of subjects. We spend a bit of time discussing this chart:

And toward the end, Jeff references the author Charles Savoie and his book “The Silver Stealers“. Here’s a link to an interview that Jeff conducted with Mr. Savoie back in November of last year:

http://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22976:interview-with-charles-savoie&catid=49:silver-commentary&Itemid=130

OK, that should be everything you need to follow along with the podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
TF

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:
John Williams: “No Way Out–Hyperinflation by 2014″

Jim welcomes back John Williams from Shadow Government Statistics. John sees no way to avoid hyperinflation, as some of the warning signs are getting worse: rising real inflation rates, massive Fed monetization, foreign nations dumping dollars, and the US losing its triple A credit rating.

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

From KerryLutz.com:

G. Edward Griffin joined us today. For those not familiar with his work, he wrote the definitive book on the Federal Reserve–The Creature From Jekyll Island, which details the shady dealings that went on to pass the Federal Reserve Act through Congress. Unfortunately too few people are familiar with this tale. Griffin has remained active in the debate and believes that everything that’s going on right now is a prelude to The New World Order and universal totalitarianism.

When faced with the decision to Get out of Dodge or to fight to restore the greatness of America, Griffin believes that there is nowhere to run to and nowhere to hide. He likens our contemporary struggle to that of the early founders of America. They didn’t run off to Canada or Mexico, they stayed and claimed their heritage. And he doesn’t propose violent resistance, which is doomed to failure, but rather a campaign of enlightenment and increasing the public’s awareness of the mass criminality and ulterior agendas of those in power. He believes it only takes one percent of the country to lead the movement that can take back America. And he’s not talking about Occupying Wall Street either.

He is hopeful that the tide can be reversed. The Internet is the great equalizer, which allows vast amounts of knowledge and truth to be imparted at the speed of light. And this is exactly why the government and the shadowy powers are trying to restrict your access and freedom to communicate on it.

Much more @ KerryLutz.com or @ 347.460.LUTZ

UPDATED WITH CORRECT AUDIO 1.10.12

Dohmen: “Turmoil and cross-currents will continue in this critical year”.

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:
Bert Dohmen: Expect More Volatility and Money Printing in 2012

Bert Dohmen joins Jim this week for a discussion of what Bert sees ahead for the global economy in this critical year. Bert also is announcing a special seminar “The Perfect Financial Storm?” he his holding in Los Angeles on January 21st. For more details see the following link.http://www.dohmencapital.com/seminar_01_2012.htm

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton: “Concentrated Positions Have the Ability to Manipulate Markets”

Jim welcomes CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton for a wide-ranging discussion. Some of the topics discussed include MF Global, concentrated positions, silver manipulation, the paper market vs. the physical market, and his new book, “Ponzimonium−How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.”

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

From KerryLutz.com:

Ranting Andy is back, relaxed and a little calmer after the new year. We got right down to business. Bob, a listener wanted to know why there’s no apparent shortage of silver in the marketplace now. Andy explained that while the paper prices were certainly depressed, the current premium on Eric Sprott’s Physical Silver ETF has hit a new historic high of over 30 percent. Sprott’s ETF is unique in that holders are permitted to convert their shares into physical silver. This means that investors are willing to pay higher premiums than are charged by metals dealers in the physical market. And those physical premiums have been on the rise as well. So when it comes to price and supply of silver, there’s a lot more to the story than meets the eye.

And then of course, there’s the fact that no publicly traded markets are functioning properly at the present time. They may have been mortally injured by governmental and large bank manipulation as well as an undermining of confidence by the MF Global collapse. No matter how you figure it, zero percent interest rates, off balance sheet gimmicks by the government and the large financial groups and collapsing asset values, there is no longer a means of determining objective values. The markets are now a ponzi scheme that are used to seperate unsuspecting marks from their cash.

Much more @ KerryLutz.com or @ 347.460.LUTZ

I think what I like best about Jim is that he’s just a regular guy. He’s not a “former Wall St analyst” or an “independent trader”. He’s just a guy that was so alarmed at what he saw happening in the U.S. that he feared for his kids’ future. He started writing articles in 2008 and they were soon picked up by several, independent websites. Not long after that, it was off to the races. He now manages his own site called The Burning Platform and he is frequently a “guest poster” at Zero Hedge.

I heartily encourage you to become a regular visitor to his site.

p.s. I was having some extraordinarily strange, technical difficulties while recording this podcast. Unfortunately, the recording was interrupted and I lost the last 15 minutes or so. I promise to try to circle back around to Jim soon so that we can elaborate on this initial discussion.

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton: “Concentrated Positions Have the Ability to Manipulate Markets”

Jim welcomes CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton for a wide-ranging discussion. Some of the topics discussed include MF Global, concentrated positions, silver manipulation, the paper market vs. the physical market, and his new book, “Ponzimonium−How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.”

Much More @ FinancialSense.com 

From GoldSeek Radio:

About Gold Seek Radio:
The 2 hour Goldseek.com Radio show is the brainchild of Chris Waltzek & Peter Spina, President of Goldseek.com, the world’s leading precious metals network. Goldseek.com Radio was a contender for the prestigious, 2009 Peabody Award for internet radio.

More interviews @ radio.goldseek.com

From McAlvany Weekly Commentary:

A Look at This Week’s Show:

• Substructure change in 2011 will lead to major regime change in 2012-15
• Complexity of current events equals simplicity of investment strategy
• Gold and cash are key to surviving the next wave

Much more @ McAlvanyWeeklyCommentary

“I can think of no greater priority today than a serious and effective anti-fascist alliance. In many ways one is already forming. It is not a formal alliance. It is made up of those who protest the Fed. Those who refuse to go along with fascist mainstream politics. Those who seek decentralization. Those who demand lower taxes and free trade. Those who seek the right to associate with whomever they want and to disassociate from whomever they want. Those who seek to buy and sell in terms of their own choosing. Those who educate their children on their own. The investors and savers who make economic growth possible. Those who do not want to be felt up at airports. And those who have become expatriates. It’s also made up of the millions of entrepreneurs who are discovering that the number one threat to their ability to serve others through the commercial marketplace is the institution that claims to be our biggest benefactor, the government. How many people fall into this category? I think more than we know. The movement is intellectual. It is political. It is cultural. It is ideological. They come from all classes, races, countries and professions. It is no longer a national movemnet, it is truly global. We can no longer predict whether members consider themselves to be left wing, right wing, independent, libertarian, anarchists, or something else… Now what does this movement want? Nothing more than sweet liberty. It doesn’t ask that liberty be granted or given. It only asks for the liberty that is promised by life itself, and that would otherwise exist were it not for the leviathan state that robs us, badgers us, jails us, kills us. This movement is not departing. We are daily surrounded by evidence that it is right and true. Every day it is more and more obvious that the state contributes absolutely nothing to our well-being. But instead of course massively detracts from it… Statism does not and cannot work. Statism is the great lie. Statism gives us the exact opposite of what it promises. It promises security, prosperity and peace. It gives us fear, poverty, war and death. If we want a future it is one we have to build ourselves. The fascist state will not give it to us, on the contrary, it stands in the way.” – Lew Rockwell, Chairman of the Mises Institute

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to speak with Andy Hoffman of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments. If you not already a fan of the daily “Ranting Andy” blogposts from Miles Franklin, you likely become one after  you’ve listened to this forty-minute podcast.

Brash, bold and insightful, Andy combines his expert analysis with a New York, tell-it-like-it-is attitude. The result is some of the consistently best PM analysis on the internet.

Much More @ TFMetalsReport.com

When Will the Requisite Purge Occur in the World Economy?
An Interview with Bill King

A Look At This Week’s Show:
There are only two possible outcomes of this ongoing crises:

1. New and bold leadership will force a purge of debt and overspending (Paul Volker on steroids?)
2. The market will force the purge destroying everything in its path.

• For now, the only relatively sound action an investor can take is to stay liquid with cash and gold until one of the two forms of purge occur.

About the Guest: Bill King, has authored “The King Report” for over 18 years. It is an independent view on global, political, financial, and economic factors that influence world markets. Bill’s candid observations and forecast on the economic, financial, and political forces that are impacting the markets have been extremely accurate.

Much more @ McAlvanyWeeklyCommentary

Al Korelin and guests discuss this week’s events and action.

More @ KEReport

From McAlvany Weekly Commentary:

A Look at This Week’s Show:

• A meltdown in Europe is a prelude to collapse in the west.
• Being “pro-gold” is really admitting an anti-fiat concern.
• Will war be the ultimate end of this depression (as it was the last time)?

Much more @ McAlvanyWeeklyCommentary

From KerryLutz.com:

David Morgan and I discuss the orchestrated precious metals smash down. Volatility is the buzz word of the day. To long term metals investors, this type of slam down is a routine occurence. It happens over and over again, and each time the mainstream media is shocked by the force of the action. Whether you believe that the end of civilization as we know it is upon us, or you believe that the world will find a way, these are extremely uncertain times that require everyone to be prepared for the most unlikely of events.

David still has a shine for many precious metals stocks, that he believes are trading at extreme discounts. It’s times like these that require serious and seasoned investors to simply filter out the noise and concentrate on the fundamentals. And the fundamentals are unchanged and perhaps more favorable to the metal sector than ever before. Governments have gotten neither spending, nor debt under control and don’t seem to be very inclined to do so in the near future. This means that until people and governments start to live within their means, not much is going to change and the outlook for gold and silver is quite bright.

So buckle your seatbelt, put on your earplugs and charge ahead. Silver at less than $30 and gold under $1700 per ounce is a virtual fire sale.

Much more @ KerryLutz.com or @ 347.460.LUTZ

From KerryLutz.com:

Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster is back with an important message for all of you scared precious metals holders. Stay the course and buy more if you can afford to. And if you haven’t bought any yet, what are you waiting for? This is a classic precious metals takedown, orchestrated by The Fed, The Treasury and numerous central banks around the world. And if we know anything about market manipulation, it’s that it can only be effective in the short run; in the long run markets always assert themselves and find their true price level.

Jon Corzine should be getting fitted for wide striped suits right now, but Bob says he’s an Illuninatiand is therefore immune from prosecution. But even the illuminati can get locked up for stealing billions and lying to Congress. Will Jon Corzine be brought to justice, write us and let us know your thoughts.

Bob will be placing more buy orders this Monday 12-19-2011. He’s too savvy an investor to ever get taken in by a head fake. Are you?

Much more @ KerryLutz.com or @ 347.460.LUTZ

From KerryLutz.com:

James Turk and Kerry Lutz talk about the interesting times that we’re all living through right now. As the founder of Goldmoney.com, James has a ringside seat on the financial chaos that has been sweeping the globe. Even though the prices of gold and silver have recently been hammered, James sees no rush by Goldmoney account holders to sell off their metals. The current downward price spike has taken place mostly on the world commodity exchanges, rather than in the physical market place.

Much more @ KerryLutz.com or @ 347.460.LUTZ

from BullMarketThinking:

I had the chance recently to speak with the legendary Jim Sinclair, publisher of JSMineSet.com and CEO of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corp. It was an incredible interview—Jim spoke about gold, MF Global, mining shares, risks of the paper gold market and much more.

During the interview Jim commented on how truly misunderstood gold still is, as well as the market being nowhere near an ultimate top. His comments were, “The general thinking amongst the youngsters who run the hedge funds, is not a very pro-gold school, and its very much in error…Gold will ultimately be a top brought about by violence in the most spectactular manner—the idea that gold made a top in the $1900′s could only be drawn by those with no experience in the previous major moves in the gold market.”

When asked about the widening price ratio between gold and mining shares, Jim said, “Many gold shares are selling at a significant discount to the price of gold, but also at a discount to simple logic,” for reasons that, “there are significant competing investments that didn’t exist back in the 70s and 80s, such as exchange traded funds in gold and silver…The largest of these funds, if you read the prospectus, you find out you’re investing in a fund that doesn’t have even the legal obligation todeliver gold itself, and they have the absolute ability to only deal in paper equivalents.”

In regards to the recent MF Global collapse, Jim said, “When problems like this occur, and when investors question whether or not their statements means anything, assets without liabilities attached to them held physically or stored personally by the investor become very attractive.” He concluded by saying, “the MF Global situation—is a piece of dynamite sitting underneath the gold price.”

Jim is known by many as “Mr. Gold,” and his depth of knowledge on gold & the financial markets is quiet uncommon. This is another “must-listen” interview for gold and silver investors.

More at BullMarketThinking.com

I was lucky enough to catch Jim Rogers on the phone again for a few minutes to discuss MF Global’s affect on the commodity markets, the direction of the U.S., plus an emerging southeast Asian country which presents an“enormous opportunity”.

In regards to the recent MF Global collapse and it’s impact on commodity markets Jim said,“MF Global is causing forced liquidation right now, but longer term people will forget about it. People still need to trade wheat, they need to trade oil. In the longer term it will be like many other disasters in markets, it will be a blip–an unfortunate blip.” Jim added that, ‘This event will be another push to move commodities business away from Chicago and towards Asia.”

In terms of where the U.S. is going fiscally, Jim said, “The U.S. is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world, and we’re setting ourselves up for terrible, terrible, problems. No country which has gotten itself in this bad of shape has gotten out without a crisis.”

In recent commentaries Jim indicated Myanmar is a spectacularly cheap place in the world to invest. In this interview he says if U.S. lifted restrictions,“I would try to find shares in Myanmar’s financial markets in which to invest. They have a very small and fledgling stock market, and they’re trying to develop it more and more. Investing there now is like investing in China in 1978, there’s shortages of everything.”

Jim’s always been 5-10 years ahead of even the “early-adopters” of new investment trends, so this is required listening for serious investors.

More at BullMarketThinking.com

A few days ago I had the opportunity to speak with Alasdair Macleod, a proponent of sound money and Senior Fellow at the GoldMoney Foundation.

The interview was a fascinating discussion on the concept of money itself, different schools of economic thought, plus what may lie ahead for gold, silver, and the West.

A chief topic during the interview was Keynesian Economics and it’s deadly impact on society. Alasdair indicates that, “Keynesianism is a self-serving mechanism,” in which, “only governments, their cronies, and banks benefit. Outside of Ron Paul, you don’t have anyone with the foresight or the guts to take the Austrian view. If members of congress or parliament do find out about Austrian economics–they have to keep quiet about it because of the politics of the system itself.”

In speaking to the future Alasdair said, “We don’t have very long left to live under fiat money. We’re on an accelerating road to a complete destruction of paper currencies, with only about two and half years left to go. The economic establishment is collapsing. On one hand it’s frightening, and on the other it’s very exciting.”

With regards to gold and silver Alasdair added, “Gold & silver will be considerably higher at the end of 2012 then they are today. The acceleration in money printing going into next year will diminish the purchasing power of dollars, pounds, euros, and other currencies against gold. Looking at my models, gold should be priced around $3800 by the end of 2012, and silver’s got potentially a triple or more over the next year considering the shortages.

As a final warning to investors Alasdair concluded, “We live an upside down world where, the things meant to be risk free are suddenly full of risk, and the parties which traditionally carry the risk are absolved of it.”

This interview was quite the intellectual adventure, and is a absolute “must-listen” for investors and students of economics.

More at BullMarketThinking.com

from TFMetalsReport.com:

Earlier this week, I was able to track down Mike Krieger. If you’re a frequent visitor to ZeroHedge, I’m sure you’ve read his stuff and become a fan.

Let me just say this: Mike seems like a really good dude, which you’ll no doubt discover by listening to this podcast. The guy walked away from a bigtime, Wall St job because he could see this trainwreck approaching and he felt that he had to do something to help as many folks as possible to prepare. Sound familiar?

Currently, Mike authors opinion columns once per week. He makes these available free of charge to anyone who would like to be included on the distribution list. He’s not selling anything. He doesn’t have a newsletter or subscription service. He’s simply trying to help in any way he can. If you’d like to be included on his list, simply drop him an email at michael@kamlp.com and explain to him who you are and why you’d like to be on the list.

I think you’ll enjoy this podcast.  TF

Much More @ TFMetalsReport.com

Rick Ackerman and Al Korelin talk about MF Global 12.9.11.

More @ KEReport

From Jim Puplava and Financial Sense:

Francis Megahy:  K Street Documentary – The Best Government Money Can Buy?

Director Francis Megahy joins Jim to discuss his film on the lobbying industry in Washington DC. Politicians now spend more than 25% of their time fundraising, while the number of lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000. Registered lobbyists have spent over 13 billion dollars in the last six years alone.

Much More @ FinancialSense.com