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Another couple of names to consider as potential interviewees are Alasdair MacLeod and Ned Naylor-Leyland. Alasdair is head of research at GoldMoney and his articles and interviews are excellent: well worth looking out for on YouTube. Ned Naylor-Leyland is a fund manager who manages the Merian Gold & Silver Fund. He has occasionally done…[Read more]

For anyone interested in subscribing to a newsletter to get gold mining stock picks, here is a list (not a recommendation):

Michael Belkin https://hyperpyron.com/belkin-gold-stock-forecast/
Eric Coffin https://www.hraadvisory.com/
Brent Cook https://www.explorationinsights.com/
John Doody http://www.goldstockanalyst.com/
David Erfle http://www.jun…[Read more]

The standard ‘Austrian’ explanation of why there is interest at all is that it is compensation for deferred consumption. By and large, if I have some money, I would rather spend it and enjoy what I buy with it now than wait to buy next year. This is called time preference and is a common feature of the utility approach to understanding economic…[Read more]

In the UK, payday loan companies are obliged to display the APR (annualised percentage rate) of the loan. I’ve seen TV ads with rates of 1,700%. The highest I ever saw was for a loan of £70 at the start of a month, paying back £90 at the end of the month, which works out as an APR of over 2,000%.

In 1971, when the Bretton-Woods agreement came to an end, and the price of gold was no longer fixed, the average house price in the UK was approximately 250 ounces of gold. It still is. The pound on the other hand has lost more than 91% of its purchasing power.

Another interview suggestion: Erik Townsend from Macro Voices. The YouTube channel is called Macro Voices and there is a website: https://www.macrovoices.com/

Erik is a hedge fund manager and each week his channel features a longish interview (over an hour) with someone in the finance sector. Last week’s interview was with Grant Williams. https://…[Read more]

I haven’t used Glint, though it does look like an interesting service, so I might try it. Here are a few observations about the differences between Glint and GoldMoney.

1. GoldMoney is a public company, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Glintpay Services Ltd. appears to be a privately owned company. Public companies are subject to more…[Read more]

I would prefer a straightforward oldest-first order to the posts within a topic. Nesting of replies doesn’t help much: if the subject becomes highly complex it’s better to split it out into separate topics.

The insert image function only allows you to insert a URL to an image that already exists on the web. Alternatively, you can attach an image,…[Read more]

I don’t think even the big oil companies know where the price is going. They don’t really need to since:

1. They are large and solvent and can survive a significant drop in price without going bust. Even in 1999 when the price of crude dropped to $16 a barrel, the big companies shrugged it off and many didn’t even cut their dividends.

2. They…[Read more]

A good microphone like a Blue Yeti is very sensitive and will pick up room noise. The whirring sound might be your computer’s fan. A whistle might be feedback. In either case, turning the gain down and speaking close to the microphone is a good idea. Good mics also usually have their own headphone output socket, so you can hear your own voice…[Read more]

If you are not recording your voice, just capturing audio from a playing video, you can turn off the microphone input using a setting in the control panel. In fact, it would be a good idea to switch off all audio sources other than the one you are recording.

A better option is to extract the audio directly from the video by ‘ripping’. This does…[Read more]

There is a noise removal/reduction tool within Audicity. If you select a portion of your sound recording where there is no speech, just the background hiss, then you can subtract this off from the recording (Effects > Noise Removal). That said, don’t expect marvellous results. This works well with removing a hum, such as you might get from…[Read more]

Irrespective of the quality of your Internet connection, you will get much better quality recordings by spending some money on a good microphone. You don’t need professional studio quality, but if your budget runs to somewhere between £100 to £200, you could get something like a Blue Yeti or a Rode NT. These are USB condensing microphones and w…[Read more]

I am actually a paid subscriber to Real Vision, so I saw this video when it came out in October. If you can spare a few hundred $$$ Real Vision is an excellent source of material. They publish videos every day and they have in-depth interviews with some of the big names in the investment world, such as Stanley Druckenmiller, Jim Chanos, Marc…[Read more]

The man in the hat is apparently Walt Whitman (photo attached). 2019 is the 200th anniversary of his birth. Come to that, 2019 is the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, so maybe that is relevant too.