Dominic Frisby talks to John Kay, one of Britain’s most respected economists and author of Obliquity - Why our goals are best achieved indirectly.

As well as discussing the philosophy behind the book, in the second half of the programme they discuss banking regulation and systems of money. Full of thought-provoking ideas, the final discussion surrounding the financial system should give all listeners plenty of food for thought.

John Kay’s career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies.  He is a visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a director of several public companies and contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times.

This podcast was recorded on 14 March 2013. It can also be heard at Goldmoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Martin Von Hildebrand is the director of Fundación Gaia Amazonas,  which he set up in 1990 to work with the indigenous people of the Amazon areas in Colombia, to help them secure their territorial rights and protect the forest. He first visited the Amazonian Indians in the 1970s and has ever since been an activist for indigenous rights, cultural and ecological diversity , working in both government and non-government organizations. In 1986 he became Head of Indigenous Affairs under the government of Virgilio Barco. He has doctorate in ethnology from the Sorbonne in Paris and has won many awards including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

This podcast was recorded on 12 March 2013. It can also be heard at Goldmoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Jordan - aka Trendsman -  is a Chartered Market Technician.  From 2010-2012 The Daily Gold Premium Model Portfolio was up 131% compared to GDX (+5%) and GDXJ (-11%).  In 2012, the Model Portfolio was up 32%, making it arguably one of the top-performing gold/silver stock newsletters.

This podcast was recorded on 11 February 2013. It can also be heard at Goldmoney -GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Hong Kong-based private investor Michael Hampton returns, talking gold, the race between stocks and gold, and opportunities in gold mining shares.

The related charts are here.

Hampton makes the case that the gold price is currently marking a low in its long-term bull run. While there is a chance that the trend channel could be broken to the downside, the odds favour a continuation of the upward trend. If the gold price were to move back to the top range of the trend channel we could see $2,200 to $2,500 per ounce of gold.

This podcast was recorded on 6 February 2013. It can also be heard at Goldmoney -GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Andrew graduated in Economics and International Politics in 1997.  His first job took him to Washington DC where he worked for a US Congressman on Capitol Hill.  Andrew’s time in DC was hugely helpful in his gaining an understanding of how important politics and politicians are when thinking about finance and investment.

Since then Andrew has spent over a decade working in financial markets for various finance firms in London and latterly New York.  These included UBS, Credit Agricole (France’s biggest bank) and two smaller boutique firms.

This podcast can also be heard at Goldmoney - GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

BullionVault founder and CEO Paul Tustain has a background  in financial I.T. and settlement systems software. His previous business processed $120bn worth of stocks and bonds for major banks through London’s markets each day. He bought his first bar of gold in 2001 following the sale of his software business. But that gold was expensive and contractually complicated, and the poor experience led to his founding BullionVault. A sought-after commentator, Paul is regularly interviewed by the international media and widely published as an authority on the history and economics of gold investment.

Tom Winnifrith is a man of many talents. Foremost a writer, his blog is tomwinnifrith.com and  he owns the “Real Man Pizza Company”.

His book, Letters From The Chestnut Café, is available here.

Positive Money believes that the root cause of many of our current social, economic and environmental problems lies in the way that we allow money to be created. “We work to make the confusing world of money and banking much easier to understand,” it says. “When money drives most of the activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it.”

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They discuss whether or not central banks can influence asset prices and talk about the possibility of an impending credit crunch.

Central banks believe that they can depreciate a currency at will and elevate asset prices. But in Hoye’s view, asset price inflation needs some kind of speculative element. Therefore asset prices show huge swings compared to the growth curve of credit. Also Hoye states that inflation should not be confused with a rise in consumer prices.

Hoye points out that the stock market is currently signalling that we are in the midst of a post bubble contraction. The various measures undertaken by central banks in order to ease monetary conditions have not had significant results on the market, and Hoye expects another credit crisis. As indicators for an impending event, he looks to the VIX – which tracks S&P 500 volatility – and to the gold/silver ratio.

This podcast can also be heard at Goldmoney - GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver. It was recorded on October 18th.

On his recent trip to London, trader

They discuss the importance of sound money, the shrinking of the middle class and currency competition.

Dominic Frisby states that the extraordinarily uneven distribution of wealth in country’s like Britain and America is a consequence of our system of money. Those who receive the newly created money first benefit over those who don’t – a process which compounds over time and leads to an ever greater concentration of wealth among the top 1%. They also point out that government redistribution of wealth – whether via inflation or through welfare payments – is placing incredible pressure on the middle classes, who are finding themselves squeezed like never before.

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It’s all about asset allocation, see, and cost of production …

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Greece faces a dire social situation with an unemployment rate of 25%, a rise in poverty, illegal immigration and capital flight.

In the years leading up to the debt crisis, Greek politicians gladly took EU subsidies without assuring the productive use of those funds, which lead to an increase in debt and corruption. At the same time the regulatory setup in Greece has hindered the entrepreneurial spirit of the country. While the latest reforms were necessary and had good elements, Manolas criticises the implementation of reforms, and how the IMF forced them upon the people.

The majority of Greeks still favour staying in the euro. Manolas states that a move to the drachma and the subsequent power to manage their own currency could lead to the postponement of necessary structural adjustments. They agree that the eurozone will continue to “muddle through”. Amid the gloom though, Manolas sees some positive signals for investing in Greece.

This podcast was recorded on 14 October 2012.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Good news … though he sees a correction in the short term, Mike is bullish about gold and gold stocks.

Here’s a link to his charts.

Hampton believes that the upcoming presidential election in the United States is going to an big impact on both gold and the stock market. The seasonal cycle calls for a correction in the gold market in October that could result in a significant low as early as this week. Once that’s out of the way Hampton expects a pretty decent upside move in the gold price.

The four-year cycle in gold indicates that the year after the US elections on average sees a doubling of the gold price.

His outlook for the stock market is not as bullish , as the liquidity injections of central banks seem to have a diminishing impact after each additional round. Therefore owning call options on gold or gold shares versus puts on stock indices could be an interesting trade.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Theodore’s work frequently appears in The City Journal, The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph,The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, and Axess magasin. He is the author of a number of books, including Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What’s Left of It, and Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.

In his writing, Dalyrimple frequently argues that the liberal and progressive views prevalent within Western intellectual circles minimise the responsibility of individuals for their own actions and undermine traditional mores, contributing to the formation within rich countries of an underclass afflicted by endemic violence, criminality, sexually transmitted diseases, welfare dependency, and drug abuse. Much of Dalrymple’s writing is based on his experience of working with criminals and the mentally ill.

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Dominic Frisby talks to Dave Skarica of

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Douglas Carswell is co-author of best selling book, The Plan; 12-months to renew Britain and Douglas is an advocate of political reform. Douglas co-wrote “Direct Democracy; an agenda for a new model party”, which the Spectator magazine described as “One of the founding texts for the new, revitalised Toryism… written by some of the brightest young Conservative thinkers”.In 2009, The Daily Telegraph nominated him a Briton of the Year, and Spectator readers voted him Parliamentarian of the Year.

Before politic Doug had proper jobs, working in commercial television and then fund management. He first stood for Parliament against Tony Blair, as the Conservative candidate for Sedgefield in 2001. He was first elected to Parliament in 2005. He was returned as MP for Clacton in 2010 with a 12,000 majority.

He blogs each day at www.TalkCarswell.com and has written for the Financial Times,Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Telegraph and Spectator, as well as appearing on the Politics Show, Newsnight, Sky and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster and Westminster Hour.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

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Dominic Frisby talks Colombian gold mining with Paul Harris, author of the Colombia Gold Report and the Colombia Gold Letter.

Paul Harris is a mining journalist who moved out to Colombia in 2008, having been in Chile for five years.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Simon Caufield is a mathematician. After 10 years as an engineer, he took an MBA and then became a consultant to the financial industry. In 2001 he started his own software company which he sold in 2007. He then ’sacked’ his fund managers and took control of his own investing using a value approach. After a great deal of success between 2008 and 2010,  he began writing the True Value newsletter for Moneyweek Magazine.

Find out more about Simon and his newsletter here.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Detlev is an author and Austrian School Economist.

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This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

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This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

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Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine’s London-based Business Editor.

Michael Green is an independent economist and writer, who previously co-authored Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save The World with Matthew Bishop. He is currently working on a report for the US Committee of Concerned Journalists on how the media needs to change in response to the financial crisis. Previously he was a senior official at the Department for International Development, and taught economics at Warsaw University in Poland.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

Peter gives his opinions on the state of the gold mining sector, as well as telling us about Argonaut. Formed just two years and operating in Mexico, Argonaut is already producing gold as well as bringing other gold mining properties into production.

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They discuss the current bear market, the outlook - and how best to play it.

This podcast can also be heard at the Goldmoney Foundation, an independent organisation established by GoldMoney - the best way to buy gold and silver.

From Wikipedia: Anderson is perhaps most famous for Holidays in the Axis of Evil, the BBC series where he travelled secretly to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya and Cuba. He also made films about gang wars in El Salvador, the landless movement in Brazil, pollution in Varanasi, homosexuals in America, Maoist insurgents in Bihar, water rights for Palestinians in the West Bank, the third generation of Agent Orange victims in Vietnam, deportees and pimps in Cambodia and the war in Southern Iraq.

His recent work included “Taking on the Taliban“, a harrowing film that resulted from two months in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province, with the Queen’s Company, Grenadier Guards. The film was shortlisted for RTS programme and Journalism awards, as a well as a BAFTA. He has since covered Slave labour in Dubai, and new threats and solutions to deforestation for BBC 1’s Panorama.

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Huldra Silver is exploring and developing its wholly owned high grade silver deposits located at Treasure Mountain in the Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia.

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Ryan Sharp and Magnus Bratlien with a 350lb Galena rock removed from Level 1 of the mine in 1988:

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