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Alasdair Macleod, Patrick Highsmith and Michael Oliver return on this week’s episode of the program.
The U.S. has three categories of buyers for U.S. Federal debt: the financial and non-financial private sector, foreigners, and the Fed. The banks in the financial sector have limited capacity to expand bank credit and American consumers are being encouraged to spend, not save. Except for a few governments, foreigners are already reducing their proportion of outstanding federal debt and there is every reason to believe that trend will likely accelerate as they suffer losses from plunging bond prices in an inflation-driven, rising-yield environment. With that, dollar hegemony will be threatened. That leaves the Fed. But the Fed recently committed to taper quantitative easing and it cannot be seen to directly monetize government debt.
Meantime, the Biden Administration is pushing as hard as they can to spend endless trillions of more dollars in power-grabbing, give-away schemes. The Fed will be faced with a bad choice: protect financial asset values and not the dollar, or protect the dollar irrespectively of the consequences for financial asset values. The financial carnage from either inflation or deflation appears unfathomably large. We can think of no asset better than gold to hold purchasing power value in either financial extreme.
Patrick will update us on Firefox Gold’s exciting high grade gold exploration program in Finland and Michael will update us on his latest views on key markets. |
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Alasdair Macleod has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. He is a Senior Fellow at the GoldMoney Foundation and Head of Research at Goldmoney. His experience encompasses equity and bond markets, fund management, corporate finance and investment strategy. His weekly articles written for GoldMoney are posted on his blog at goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights Because of his deep insights into underlying market dynamics, Alasdair is one of the most frequent guests on Turning Hard Times into Good Times. |
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Patrick Highsmith is Chairman of Firefox Gold Corp. A professional geologist and mining executive with 29 years of experience in exploration, operations, business development & leadership roles for companies, including: Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Newmont, Lithium One, Pure Energy Minerals, and Fortescue Metals Group. Mr. Highsmith has worked on more than 250 projects around the world, leading teams through creative transactions, new discoveries, scoping, and prefeasibility studies. He is experienced in the capital markets, having been associated with all manner of financings and transactions. Patrick has been targeting gold in Finland since 2005, and has been integral in building FireFox. |
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J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, NYC. He studied under David Johnson, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX.
In the 1980’s Oliver began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. In 1987 Oliver, along with his futures client accounts (Oliver had trading POA) technically anticipated and captured the Crash. Oliver began to realize that his emergent momentum-structural-based tools should be further developed into a full analytic methodology.
In 1992 he was asked by the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank’s Trust Department to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia. Within a year Oliver shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research. MSA has provided its proprietary technical research services to financial and asset management clients continually since 1992. Oliver is the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism. |
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Jay Taylor Taylor Hard Money Advisors, Inc 718-457-1426 |
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