Jim’s Big Picture: “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like... Recession”

In a difficult and volatile week for the markets, Jim Puplava believes "It’s beginning to look a lot like recession." In addition to this week's Financial Sense Newshour, popular technician Frank Barbera joins Jim to assess the wild week, as does Ryan Puplava.

Ryan joined PFS Group in 1995. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration/Finance from San Diego State University. His professional designations include FINRA Series 4, Series 7, and Series 66 Uniform Combined State Law Exam. He earned the Chartered Market Technician's designation in 2007. Mr. Puplava is Senior Trading Manager and works closely with Jim Puplava on PFS Group's Growth investment objective. He also contributes a monthly Market Observation to Financial Sense and co-authors In the Know—a weekly communication for Jim Puplava's clients only—with other members of the trading staff.

Frank is the editor of the Gold Stock Technician (GST) Newsletter which originally started publication in 1993. As editor of the GST Letter, Mr. Barbera employs technical indicators to bring market timing to bear on the highly volatile gold stocks. In addition to writing the Gold Stock Technician Newsletter, Mr. Barbera has also managed private equity capital for a number of years. In his role as a hedge fund manager, Frank sought to regularly trade precious metals, energy, currencies along with the broad stock market indices. Frank began his career in the early 1980s working with Financial News Network in Los Angeles and later, as the "on air" analyst for KWHY TV.