Financial Sense Newshour Guest Expert Interviews

Jim welcomes back Ann Barnhardt for another compelling conversation. Going beyond the MF Global collapse, Barnhardt believes that the financial system is at risk, and we are living on borrowed time. She also adds that it’s time to go on strike against the big Wall Street firms.

MF Global has now become the 8th largest bankruptcy in history; resulting in the loss of over one billion customer funds. Jim discusses the broad importance of this case with the attorney representing 8000 affected clients regarding his legal battle with MF Global and JP Morgan.

In what is now the most listened to and popular interview Jim has ever conducted, previous futures broker, Ann Barnhardt, tells listeners that the collapse of MF Global is a huge warning sign that spells utter ruin for the markets and investors.

Jim welcomes Gerald Celente to discuss the MF Global debacle and the missing client funds. Gerald himself was a victim of the collapse and believes there is a "smoking gun" which reveals the fraudulent nature of MF Global.

Renowned economist Martin Armstrong and founder of Princeton Economics joins Jim Puplava in a wide-ranging discussion covering issues such as why economists get it wrong, the European credit mess, the culmination of the sovereign debt crisis by 2015, and why the next bull market will be in volatility.

Jim Puplava is joined on Financial Sense Newshour by Andrew Gavin Marshall to discuss the Bilderbergs, "the high priests of Globalization."

Jim Puplava welcomes Felix Zulauf on Financial Sense Newshour to discuss the growing sovereign debt crisis in Europe, other global imbalances, and why he is not optimistic about the future.

Jim Puplava and George Karahalios sit down for a broad-ranging macro discussion covering currency wars, government intervention, the peak oil business cycle, revenge of the free market, and could the US be the next Greece?

In this segment Jim and George look at investment survival tactics for the new year and beyond. These include basic necessities, gold stocks, a discussion on when gold may be too precious, and lastly an exit strategy.

Dr. Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report joins Jim Puplava on Financial Sense Newshour in a wide-ranging interview to discuss Ben Bernanke, QE3, inflation, gold and much more.

Professor of Economics and Law William Black explains to Jim why no one has gone to jail four years after the beginning of the historic Credit Crisis. Professor Black believes that the level of corruption and fraud is so pervasive that very few of the guilty will ever be brought to justice.

Eric Sprott, Founder of Sprott Asset Management, discusses with Jim silver manipulation and why he sees silver as the investment for the next decade.

In her discussions with Jim Puplava, Nicole Foss believes we will see the peaking of oil prices, the next bout of deflation and a looming depression. She sees resource wars as inevitable, given this deflationary scenario.

Jim welcomes back energy expert Bill Powers of the Powers Energy Investor newsletter. Bill discusses Daniel Yergin (Chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates) Exxon and Fracking, and explains how all three are related.

Dr. Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor at MISI, joins Jim to discuss an energy storm heading our way in the next two to three years. Dr. Hirsch believes Peak Oil is on our doorstep, nobody is taking notice, and we have no "Plan B."

Jim is pleased to welcome back Chris Skrebowski, a London-based expert on the global oil supply and founder of the Global Oil Megaprojects Database. Chris sees oil depletion overriding new oil supply, leading to higher prices in 2012 and beyond.

Axel Merk of Merk Investments LLC joins Jim Puplava this week. Axel sees a high probability of the Fed launching QE3 sometime in 2012. He also sees no quick fixes in Europe, as the leadership slowly works through the process of political and fiscal unification.

Jim is joined by Jeff Christian of CPM Group to discuss the precious metals. Jeff believes gold and silver are consolidating, but may peak short-term in first quarter 2012. Longer-term, Jeff believes platinum and palladium represent a better buying opportunity.

Jim welcomes Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, to discuss his book "Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry."

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.

Jim is pleased to welcome back Dr. Marc Faber for a wide-ranging discussion. Dr. Faber covers inflation, China, gold, war and resource scarcity, democracy and education, market volatility and the importance of diversification. (Click here for transcript)

Jim welcomes Evelyn Garriss of the Browning Newsletter this week. Evelyn sees a moderate to strong La Niña weather pattern lasting through the winter into the spring, with serious impacts on agriculture.

Joe Dancy joins Jim to talk about energy and sees global inventories and supply/demand metrics supporting continued high oil prices. In real terms, 2011 will have the highest average oil price in 147 years.

Brian Pretti joins Jim for a macro potpourri, including who will be next in the sovereign debt crisis, shorter business cycles coming, and surviving zero interest rates with dividends.

Jim is joined this week by technician and trend following expert Michael Covel to discuss capital preservation in trendless markets. Ryan Puplava also wraps up a short but volatile week in the global markets.

Nick Barisheff, CEO at Bullion Management Group Inc. sees the paper markets creating opportunities for precious metals investors. Nick also believes that $10,000 gold is coming sooner than you think.

Jim Puplava is pleased to begin a special series on "Up and Coming Producers" with Gold Resource Corporation, a low-cost gold producer that is projected to double production in the next 12 months, and pays a growing monthly dividend.

Filmmaker Kristin Canty tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of government bureaucracies. Kristin seeks to understand why and through this film add her voice to the movement to protect and preserve the dwindling number of American family farms struggling to survive.

Jim is joined by Ned Schmidt to discuss gold and silver cycles. Ned advises holding what you have, but wait for gold and silver to bottom before buying more. Ned believes silver will bottom before gold, by spring at the latest.

Energy analyst and author Chris Nelder joins Jim this week and sees oil prices heading higher. Chris discusses the recent indirect warning from the IEA, and believes we must start the energy transition now, as the effects of peak oil begin to take hold.

Jim welcomes Bill Laggner of Bearing Asset Management this week to discuss the European Debt Crisis. Bill believes the contagion is spreading and the US has a limited time to get its house in order or US bond yields will start climbing.

Jim welcomes Peter Byck, Producer/Director of the new documentary Carbon Nation. Even if you don’t believe in climate change, Byck sees this film as providing solutions for a low-carbon economy, which may soon become a national security issue.

John Williams from Shadow Government Statistics joins Jim to discuss 3rd Quarter GDP numbers, and how he sees all measures contracting. John believes unemployment hasn’t really recovered from the 2001 Recession.

Technician Ron Griess joins Jim to look at six-month holding periods for stocks on a long-term historical basis from 1885 to 2010. Selling in May and going away worked well after 1942, but not so well up to that point in market history.

Greg Weldon joins Jim Puplava this week with a powerful analysis of the European credit crisis, and sees the spreading contagion affecting global markets such as China and the US.

Silver expert David Morgan joins Jim this week to discuss the fundamentals and drivers of the silver market, as well as the controversy of potential price manipulation.

Author Neil Howe returns to discuss his concept of The Fourth Turning and the differences between the Millennials (Occupy Wall Street) and Generation X (The Tea Party Movement).

Kurt Wulff of McDep Oil and Gas Investment Research sees the current low market valuations creating an ideal environment for takeovers in the energy sector, with China as an aggressive buyer.

Jim welcomes Ross Hansen, CEO of Northwest Territorial Mint, the largest private mint in the US, to discuss the supply and demand characteristics of the silver market and assess the price outlook.

Jim is pleased to be joined by legendary mining executive Bob Quartermain this week. After 25 years at the helm of Silver Standard, Bob has taken on a new challenge as CEO of Pretivm Resources, an exploration company with massive gold reserves in British Columbia, among the largest undeveloped gold resources in the world.

Jim welcomes Bud Conrad, Chief Economist of Casey Research, to look at potential risks to the global economy. Bud is concerned that China will be the next crisis center.

Jim welcomes back John Doody of the Gold Stock Analyst to discuss his views on gold stocks as well as the recent tax legislation in Argentina and how it may affect mining companies.

Jeffrey Miron from the Cato Institute and Harvard University joins Jim this week to discuss why Warren Buffett is wrong about taxing the rich. He sees a major spending problem, not a taxation issue.

Nicole Foss of the Automatic Earth joins Jim this week from Europe to discuss her personal efforts to prepare her family for Peak Oil and the general economic uncertainty that she believes is headed our way. Nicole believes "there is a hell of a lot we can do, but we can’t have business as usual."

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Jim Puplava welcomes back Puru Saxena from Hong Kong to discuss the macro economic landscape, particularly in Asia. Puru sees more signs of slowing in China, and still favors the Risk-Off Trade.

Bill Powers, editor of Powers Energy Investor, joins Jim to discuss his view that energy will get increasingly expensive in the future and that it will be more economical for Americans to create their own power, rather than import it.

Renowned economist Martin Armstrong and founder of Princeton Economics joins Jim Puplava this week in a wide-ranging discussion covering issues such as why economists get it wrong, the European credit mess, the culmination of the sovereign debt crisis by 2015, and why the next bull market will be in volatility.

Jim welcomes Dr. Jim Walker, founder of Asianomics Ltd. (Hong Kong) to discuss the outlook for China. Dr. Walker is bearish on China and sees a slowing economy, leading to lower prices for commodities. He prefers dividend and defensive stocks at present.

Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management joins Jim for a wide-ranging interview on precious metals. Eric sees the gold to silver ratio eventually contracting, with silver to outperform gold.

This week Ned Schmidt CFA joins Jim Puplava to discuss a tightening in the Agriculture sector. Ned sees higher prices ahead for beef, chicken and pork and believes it is now time to start buying the Ag stocks.

Evelyn Browning Garriss of the Browning Newsletter joins Jim to discuss the return of "La Niña" and the implications of the winter weather forecast in North America.

Mark Smith, President and CEO of Molycorp Inc., joins Jim Puplava in a wide-ranging macro discussion of the Rare Earth Element sector and the prospects of Molycorp.

Chris Martenson joins Jim Puplava this week in a discussion of the weak US economy, its outlook and the importance of preparing for the next crisis heading our way.

Louis-Vincent Gave, CEO of GaveKal Research joins Jim Puplava from Hong Kong to discuss the debt crisis in Europe, the future of the Euro and the implications of a US recession.

Jim Puplava welcomes back Jeff Christian, founder of CPM Group, to talk about the precious metals market.

John Williams, Executive Editor of Shadow Government Statistics joins Jim this week to discuss the worsening economic situation and the inability of consumers income to keep up with inflation.

Joe Dancy joins Jim this week and sees continued strong global energy demand. Joe suggests investing in dividend-paying energy stocks and get paid to wait for the prices to recover.

Jim is joined this week by Ross Beaty, Chairman of Pan American Silver and CEO of Alterra Power Corp. Ross is bullish on the prospects for silver, as well as those for Pan American. He believes the 2009 acquisition of Aquiline Resources will double silver production for PAAS by 2014.

Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments Ltd. joins Jim this week and sees great opportunity in the precious metals equities, especially with the large caps.

Brian Pretti joins Jim this week to discuss why multinational blue-chip stocks may be the best place to hide in a volatile and risky world. Key factors involved are solid dividends, balance sheet safety, and currency diversification.

Jim welcomes back John Ing, President and CEO of Maison Placements Canada this week. John sees good value in gold stocks and notes the rising dividends of Newmont Mining.

Peter Warburton of Economic Perspectives Ltd (UK) joins Jim to discuss his inflation outlook. He sees inflation as baked in the cake, regardless of slow growth or average growth ahead.

Joe Saluzzi, co-founder of Themis Trading LLC, joins Jim Puplava this week to discuss High Frequency Trading and the inherent volatility and risks it brings to the financial system.

This week currency expert Axel Merk, founder of the Merk Investments LLC, joins Jim to talk about currencies. Axel sees the Euro remaining strong for now, but the best currency to hold is the Australian dollar. Axel also expects a massive response from the Fed to stimulate the economy.

Jim is joined by energy analyst Chris Nelder to discuss how most governments around the world are ignoring recent Peak Oil research studies, including one by the German military.

Jim Puplava welcomes Mark Nestmann, president of the Nestmann Group Ltd. to discuss the likelihood of capital controls, dual passports, and if expatriation makes sense.

William Black, Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, explains why no one has gone to jail four years after the beginning of the historic Credit Crisis. Professor Black believes that the level of corruption and fraud is so pervasive that very few of the guilty will ever be brought to justice.

Commodities expert Ned Schmidt CFA joins Jim this week and notes that traders are looking at the wrong data. He advises stocking up on beef, chicken and pork now, as he believes prices are going to double.

Nick Barisheff, CEO at Bullion Management Group Inc, joins Jim to discuss the gold market, and explain why gold is not in a bubble.

Bill Fleckenstein of Fleckenstein Capital joins Jim for a powerful interview on gold, the outlook for gold mining stocks, and the potential for a new Gold Standard.

John Butler of Amphora Commodities Alpha Fund in London joins Jim to discuss "Grey Swans leading to Black Swans" and how all roads are pointing to commodities.

Michael Coffman Phd, Tom DeWeese, Michael Shaw and Henry Lamb join Jim in a roundtable discussion on "21st Century Feudalism and the Threat to our Property Rights."

Dr. Dennis Cuddy, a political analyst and a former Senior Associate with the US Dept of Education, discusses "The Master Plan: a global currency, a global central bank, and the people behind it."

Joel Skousen, publisher of the World Affairs Brief newsletter, joins Jim to discuss "The Government Shut-Down Lie", the "Social Security and FDIC trust fund myths", and most ominously, "Preparing for the Next World War."

Jim Puplava is joined by Carl Teichrib, Chief Editor at Forcing Change, to discuss the quest for a single world currency.

Patrick Wood and Dr. Martin Erdmann join Jim Puplava in a roundtable discussion about the ominous implications of the link between Technocracy and the energy Smart Grid.

Puru Saxena, publisher of Money Matters in Hong Kong, joins Jim to discuss China’s real estate bubble and potential trouble ahead in Asia .

Bill Powers joins Jim this week and advises energy investors to hold on. The next round of QE should accelerate performance in hard asset equities.

Greg Weldon joins Jim Puplava this week to cover the ominous global macro scene, and explains why gold could run to $5,000 oz.

iTulip founder Eric Janszen joins Jim to discuss the output gap, recession, China, peak (cheap) oil and the potential for global warfare in the decade ahead.

Chief Economist Bud Conrad of Casey Research joins Jim to discuss the ongoing debt crisis, the fate of the Euro, Fed policy and other key issues.

David Morgan advises investors to take a little off the table after gold’s recent run-up, but if you don’t own any gold you need to buy some.

Jim is joined by Switzerland’s Felix Zulauf to discuss the growing sovereign debt crisis in Europe, other global imbalances, and why he is not optimistic about the future.

Analyst Ronald Stoeferle of the Erste Group in Austria joins Jim to discuss a return to sound money and gold price targets of $2300, $5000 and $10,000 per oz.

Chris Martenson sees a crisis ahead, and explains why massive fiscal stimulus (QE3) is coming along with gold heading to even greater heights.

Kurt Wulff sees much higher oil and gas prices next year and advises building a portfolio of selected large cap, small cap and royalty energy stocks.

Peak Oil pioneer Dr. Colin Campbell joins Jim to discuss the sunset of the Oil Age and the growing importance of living a more local life.

Energy analyst and Peak Oil expert Chris Skrebowski joins Jim Puplava to discuss his doubts regarding OPEC’s spare capacity and the potential for a severe energy crunch.

This week on the Financial Sense Newshour mid-week edition, Jim Puplava speaks with Neil Howe, historian, economist, and demographer about the Fourth Turning: the Age of Conflict vs. Compromise.

John Ing of Maison Placements Canada joins Jim Puplava to discuss why he prefers precious metals stocks over bullion.

In a special silver roundtable, Jim Puplava is joined by Jason Burack and Mo Dawoud to discuss their research report, "Treasure Hunting for Precious Metals Stocks."