About the Guest: David Alan Stockman is a former U.S. politician and businessman, serving as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan and as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

About the Guest: David Walker is the Founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative (CAI). In this capacity he leads CAI’s efforts to promote fiscal responsibility and sustainability. Prior to assuming his current position, he served as the first President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Previously, Dave served as the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for almost ten years (1998-2008).

About This Week’s Show:
-The frailty of trust
-You can’t un-ring the bell!
-Gold buying driven by depositor concerns

About This Week’s Show:
-Stocks moving higher but NO bargain
-Manipulated markets require diversification
-Gold near a tradable low

About the Guest: Marc Faber is a Swiss investor. Faber is publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report newsletter and is the director of Marc Faber Ltd which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. More Information

-The consumer is NOT back
-The economy has not recovered
-Even $5,000 gold is still “a buy”

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-Involuntary re-balancing of the world
-More investment is not the solution for China
-The Financial Repression “Tax”

About the Guest: Michael Pettis is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets. Pettis has worked on Wall Street in trading, capital markets, and corporate finance since 1987. Read more: click here

-Consequences of the Fiscal Cliff deal

-Currency war with Asia

-Bernankeism is debtism

About this week’s show:
-Debt economics 101 (actually 107)
-Asian and European transitions
-AB’E-nomics: Sumo monetary expansion

The Rise of Global Ineptocracy

-Financial crises to follow Fiscal crises

-Basel III equals re-leveraging the system

-New mandate for Fed: Not Stingy

-Ian McAvity: Stocks are near a significant top

-Bill King: Gold is a bet against the government

-Mark Faber: Gold to beat cash next ten years

The Jewels of 2012 part 1

-Steve Forbes demands “Stable Money”

-Forbes warns against the bond market

-Embry: The public hasn’t even started to buy gold

An American Reckoning, a preview:

• Is gold manipulation a factor in price?
• 100 yrs of the Fed and 95% loss in the dollar
• Career politicians vs. true Statesmen

-Bank of England sees war in 2013
-Central banks creating new/misleading realities
-Deflation is incompatible with democracy

About the Guest: Steve Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media. In 1996 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now averaging 18 million unique monthly visitors, it has become a leading destination site for senior business decision-makers and investors.

A Look at This Week’s Show: 
-The rise of un-conventional conflict
-The weapons of economic war
-An Iron (gold) Dome for the Dollar?

About the guest: John Embry joined Sprott Asset Management LP as Chief Investment Strategist in March 2003. He plays an instrumental role in developing the corporate and investment policy of the firm. John, an industry expert in precious metals, has studied the gold sector for over thirty years and has accumulated industry experience as a portfolio management specialist since 1963.

About this week’s show:
– Gold’s growth ahead far greater than what’s behind
– Just how smart is the average investor?
– Ian McAvity Dow/Gold Target: One to One
– Monetary Sin Of the West – Click Here

About the guest: Ian McAvity, CMT, has been writing his DeliberationsTM on World Markets newsletter for a global readership since 1972. He draws on 48 years of experience in the world of finance–as a banker and broker since 1961 and as an independent advisor and entrepreneur since 1975.  Click here to learn more

About the Guest: José Antonio Ocampo is director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at and a fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. In 2008-2010, he also served as co-director of the UNDP/OAS Project on “Agenda for a Citizens’ Democracy in Latin America”, and in 2009 a Member of the Commission of Experts of the UN General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System.

About the Guest:
Dr. Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter “The Gloom Boom & Doom Report” report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including “ TOMORROW’S GOLD – Asia’s Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world.” Click here for more information

About the Guest: Alan M. Newman, the Editor of Crosscurrents, was born on June 24, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He has been married for 38 years and has two boys, 29 and 23, both Eagle Scouts. Mr. Newman has formerly enjoyed careers in acting, computer programming, game design and real estate and currently resides in Nassau County, NY, where his recently retired wife Ali received a Doctoral degree in Literacy Studies. Dr. Newman still teaches two classes as an adjunct Professor at Hofstra University.

About the Guest: Minxin Pei is an expert on governance in the People’s Republic of China, U.S.-Asia relations, and democratization in developing nations.

About the Guest: Wall Street veteran, merchant banker, equities trader, economist, finance professor, entrepreneur — iconoclast — Michael Pettis is a unique individual living and working in China, at the heart of the world’s most exciting and vibrant economy. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

About the Author: Since beginning his career as an equities analyst in Hong Kong in 1986, Richard has served as global head of investment strategy at ABN AMRO Asset Management in London, worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington D.C., and headed equity research departments for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers in Bangkok. He also worked as a consultant for the IMF in Thailand during the Asia Crisis. He is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore. Click here to purchase: The New Depression

About the Guest: Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague

About the Guest: Russell Napier is an Edinburgh-based consultant for CLSA Asia Pacific Markets, who writes about issues impacting the global equity markets. With more than two decades in the industry, Russell has contributed to the development and scope of CLSA’s equity research.

About the Guest: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. Read his latest articles, CLICK HERE

About This Week’s Show:
1. Gold and Silver Volatility
2. Dollar Trends: Technical Strength vs. Fundamental Weakness
3. Slowing Chinese Growth/Accelerating Treasury Liquidations

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About the Guest: Dirk Steinhoff is the Managing Director of the portfolio management arm of the BFI Capital Group. Prior to joining BFI in 2007, Mr Steinhoff had acted as an independent asset manager for over 15 years. Furthermore, he successfully founded and built two companies in the realm of infrastructure and real estate management.

About the Guest: Dohmen Capital Research Institute Inc. was founded in 1977 by Bert Dohmen as an economic and investment research firm. Over the past two decades, the firm’s services have achieved the highest acclaim. They are the most highly respected and sought-after advisory services for investors world-wide. The firm currently offers 10 services. These include a long-term advisory service for the mutual fund investor, which helps investors avoid the need for a money manager or financial planner.

About the Guest: “John Williams’ Shadow Government Statistics” is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype. To subscribe to Shadow Government Statistics, Click Here

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-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

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.

A Look At This Week’s Show:
- Disaster temporarily averted when 6 Central Banks dump 357 billion into Europe. How long this will work is anyone’s guess.
- Lower wages and higher debt imply slow growth and a collapse in equity prices. This trend could last years.
- Learn and use a “back of a napkin” financial solution to show your holiday guests and family.

A Look at This Week’s Show:
-There are thirteen days in December that literally could define the fate of the European Union.
-Iranian crises revisited? British Embassy in Iran is attacked with reminiscent echoes of three decades past.
-Wall Street celebrates Black Friday spending spree. More evidence of a complete cognitive disconnect with reality.

About the Guests: The Aden Forecast is one of the most influential investment publications in the world today. Its easy to understand format and powerful advice has consistently produced double-digit profits for subscribers in 21 out of the past 25 years…That’s an 83% batting average, one of the best and most consistent long-term track records in the business. www.adenforecast.com

Gold Insider Conversations: Roy’s experience as an institutional gold trader over a 32 year period brings insight into the present day gyrations in the precious metals markets.  We discuss past present and future events as they relate to Gold, and the various issues which are immediately impacting the price of the metals.  He can discuss his views freely as a long time friend, but in confidence.  We have left his name and the remainder of his bio out so he can share his thoughts with candor.

About the guest: Ian McAvity, CMT, has been writing his DeliberationsTM on World Markets newsletter for a global readership since 1972. He draws on 48 years of experience in the world of finance–as a banker and broker since 1961 and as an independent advisor and entrepreneur since 1975. Principally a technical analyst, Mr. McAvity has written on global inter-market relationships since the 1970s, including original research on relationships between gold mining shares and gold bullion. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as a director of many junior mining and exploration companies.
He has been profiled by most of the major North American financial media including the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and the Financial Post. Mr. McAvity has been a special guest on Louis Rukeyser’s Wall $treet Week, as well as on CTV’s Canada AM morning show and CBC’s Business World.

 A Look At This Week’s Show:
-Euro zone now estimates 2 Trillion Euro’s needed for adequate “Shock and Awe” backstop to Euro banks
-Last week’s realization that recession is far from over triggered a flight to liquidity (Dollars and long bonds)
-The selloff in Gold and other commodities was purely a “paper” sale to raise quick liquidity. Real physical gold is not being sold and is in fact become harder to acquire

A Look At This Week’s Show:
-Keynes fooled an entire nation into believing that we could spend our way to recovery. Today’s news proves that this is as wrong as it initially sounded.
-Keynes said, “Drive down interest rates” which in the final analysis leads to a whirlwind of inflation, bubbles and busts.
-The biggest obstacle in changing the flawed status quo in government is not the voting public, but rather special interest groups refusing to give up privilege.

About the Guest:
Hunter Lewis has contributed to many newspapers and periodicals including the New York Times, the Times of London, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic Monthly, as well as numerous websites such as Forbes.com. He is also an author and editor of books on economics and moral philosophy. His works include: Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts, Are the Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values.

About the guest:
Laurence Kotlikoff  is a William Warren FairField Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a former Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and President of Economic Security Planning. Purchase Jimmy Stewart is Dead Here 

About the Guest:
Alexander Landia, Chairman of the Nominations and Compensation Committee, member of the Strategy Committee. Landia worked for Accenture, the largest consulting company in the world. As the partner of Accenture, he was General Director of Accenture Russia until 2006. In 2004 he was appointed Global Gas Lead Partner, responsible for Accenture’s global business in the gas industry while based in Moscow.

• How the downgrade of U.S. Treasury Debt will cascade to Mortgage Backed Securities, Fannie & Freddie as well as Municipal Bonds.
• I scream, you scream we all scream Double Dip!
• Old habits die hard: Americans get scared due to downgrade in bonds and then run into the same (recently downgraded) bonds for protection!? The rest of the world sees the paradox and runs to gold and German bonds.

About the Guest: Dr. Chris Martenson is an independent economist and author of a popular website, ChrisMartenson.com. His Crash Course video series explores the intertwining significance of the “three E’s”—the economy, energy, and environment and offers articulate, dynamic insight into the workings of our monetary system. Click Here to Purchase The Crash Course

A Look at This Weeks Show:  
-The middle class: “When they feel the heat, they’ll see the light.”
-Replace the flawed U.S. tax code with a national sales tax.
-Work toward a gold standard.

About the Guest:
ZULAUF ASSET MANAGEMENT AG was founded in 1990 and is fully owned by Felix W. Zulauf as an independent investment manager seeking absolute return. The firm manages a global fund seeking absolute return in a conservative way and invests worldwide in liquid assets only. www.zuam.ch

A Look At This Weeks Show:
-Central bankers worldwide see a “phase out” of the U.S. Dollar reserve currency status.
-The history of central banks in America—Or, the third time’s a charm (actually a curse).
-Hamilton and Jefferson: Two founders competing views of U.S. Money that impact us still today.

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