Radio Episodes
1/3/2023
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver & Chen Lin return. Last week Austrian economist Daniel Lacalle assured listeners that the dollar will remain as the world’s reserve currency for at least the next 5 to 10 years. Alasdair may disagree. Listen Now
11/15/2022
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Alasdair Macleod and Quinton Hennigh return. Human beings have been capable of believing, ever since Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, that they could be like God simply by obeying, without limit, their hedonistic instincts. Listen Now
10/11/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Dr. Quinton Hennigh return. Listen Now
9/20/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Wood & Patrick Highsmith return. The financial war between Russia, with China’s tacit backing on one side, and America and her NATO allies, on the other, has escalated rapidly. Listen Now
8/9/2022
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Alasdair Macleod and Dr. Quinton Hennigh return. Alasdair wrote the following in his July 21 weekly missive: “We are now seeing the initial stages of a currency, credit, and banking crisis develop. Listen Now
7/5/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver & Michael Wood return. So far, sanctions have backfired on those described by Vladimir Putin as the unfriendly nations. Listen Now
6/14/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, John Rubino & Quinton Hennigh are this week’s guests. Listen Now
5/10/2022
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Quinton Hennigh and Michael Oliver return. Listen Now
4/12/2022
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Quinton Hennigh and Michael Oliver return as guests this week. Listen Now
3/29/2022
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver & Patrick Highsmith are this week’s guests. Alasdair has recently pointed out that the Fed, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are now themselves becoming insolvent. Listen Now
3/8/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, Eric Coffin and Chen Lin are this week’s guests. Alasdair’s February 24, 2022 article, upon which the topic of this show is based, occurred before the Russian invasion into the Ukraine. Listen Now
2/8/2022
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Alasdair Macleod, Quinton Hennigh and Chen Lin are this week’s guests. The Keynesian religion has been taught to every college graduate in America and Europe in recent decades. Listen Now
1/4/2022
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2021 has been a disappointing year for profit-seeking precious metal investors, but for the few who look to accumulate gold and silver as the ultimate insurance against runaway inflation, it has been an unexpected bonus. Listen Now
11/16/2021
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Alasdair Macleod and Roger Moss return. Central banks now face a dilemma. Listen Now
10/26/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Patrick Highsmith and Michael Oliver return. The U.S. has three categories of buyers for U.S. Federal debt: the financial and non-financial private sector, foreigners, and the Fed. Listen Now
9/21/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Dr. Quinton Hennigh and Chen Lin return. Including bonds and other financial issues emanating from the U.S. Listen Now
8/3/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Quinton Hennigh and Michael Oliver return. Listen Now
7/13/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Patrick Highsmith & Quinton Hennigh return. With foreigners no longer buying U.S. Listen Now
6/8/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Dr. Quinton Hennigh return. Listen Now
4/27/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Chen Lin return. Listen Now
4/6/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Chen Lin and Michael Hudson return. One reality American policy makers overlook is that the basis for strong nations is a strong economic footing. Listen Now
3/2/2021
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Alasdair Macleod, Chris Taylor & Michael Oliver return. Alasdair will explain why gold, not crypto currencies, is destined to replace fiat money because cryptos can only act as stores of value so long as fiat exists. Listen Now
1/19/2021
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Alasdair Macleod & Michael Oliver return. Michael Timmins of Fury Gold Mines visits for the first time. It's clear to those not prone to groupthink that global central banks are rapidly racing their currencies toward the dustbin of history. Listen Now
12/15/2020
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Hudson & Chen Lin return. Listen Now
11/3/2020
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Alasdair Macleod and Dr. Quinton Hennigh return. Since engaging in the noble deed of saving the world from fascism in World War II, the U.S. has since then forgotten its values of "liberty and justice for all. Listen Now
9/22/2020
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Alasdair Macleod and Daniel McAdams return. The lies of John Maynard Keynes are obvious for anyone with the willingness to use their eyes to see. Listen Now
9/1/2020
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Michael Hudson return. Downturns in bank credit expansion always lead to systemic problems. We are on the edge of such a downturn, which thanks to everyone’s focus on COVID-19 is unexpected. Listen Now
7/28/2020
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Alasdair Macleod returns and Peter Ball visits for the first time. Deflationist Mish Shedlock recently reiterated reasons why he expects falling prices during what is emerging as the most serious economic decline since the 1930s. Listen Now
7/7/2020
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Hudson and Michael Oliver return. Alasdair argues that a dollar collapse is likely to occur by the end of 2020 taking all the synchronized western economies and their currencies down with it. Listen Now
6/2/2020
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Alasdair Macleod & Corwin Coe return. Few understand the seriousness of the economic and monetary situation, whether a V-shaped rapid return to normality or a more prolonged recovery phase. A liquidity crisis that developed in the U.S. Listen Now
5/12/2020
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Alasdair Macleod, Axel Merk and Michael Oliver are guests this week. In 2004 Dr. Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley warned America was on a collision course as it borrowed excessively from China and Japan to fund its Treasury. The collision Dr. Listen Now
4/21/2020
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Alasdair Macleod and John Williams return. Commentators routinely confuse the deflationary effects of a contraction of bank credit with the inflationary effects of central bank policies designed to offset it. Listen Now
3/24/2020
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Guests include Alasdair Macleod, John Rubino and Ivan Bebek. Elites are scrambling frantically to keep their fraudulent pickpocket-fiat-monetary scheme alive as COVID-19 craters markets & the global economy. Listen Now
2/25/2020
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Jay Taylor, Quinton Hennigh, Alasdair Macleod, Coronavirus, gold mining, global economy recession, US dollar, safe investments, gold investments Listen Now
2/4/2020
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Alasdair Macleod explains why he believes fears of deflation are unwarranted and gives his reasoning for upcoming consumer price and asset inflation. Chris Taylor updates us on Great Bear’s world class gold Dixie discovery and Michael Oliver will update us on his latest structure and momentum indicators for all the markets of major importance. Listen Now
1/7/2020
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Guests: Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver, Quinton Hennigh and Hamish Greig. The global monetary system is spinning out of control. Hard to think of a more bullish picture for gold. Alasdair will explain the dynamics. Michael comments on a declining dollar and rising commodities and Quinton & Hamish will discuss the exciting Lion One gold discovery. Listen Now
12/3/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver & Nav Dhaliwal return. Financial markets are ignoring bearish developments in international trade, which coincide with the end of a long expansionary phase for credit. Listen Now
11/5/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, John Rubino and Michael Oliver return. An unpleasant conjunction of events is beginning to undermine government finances in more developed nations including the arrival of a long-term trend of rising welfare commitments with an increasing certainty of a global-scale credit crisis. Listen Now
10/1/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, Dr. Quinton Hennigh & Michael Oliver return. China has made some silly errors in its conflict with the US, reflecting the arrogance that often afflicts every state actor. Listen Now
9/24/2019
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod and David Stockman return. Segments from prior interviews with Alasdair Macleod and David Stockman will be played. The dollar’s days as the global reserve currency are numbered. If you are unprepared, the dollar's decline will decrease your wealth. Listen Now
8/27/2019
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Chen Lin & Michael Oliver return. Listen Now
7/9/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, Shawn Khunkhun and Michael Oliver return. The financial war between America and China is escalating dangerously into a war to secure global financial resources. Listen Now
4/9/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, Peter Tallman and Michael Oliver return. The global economic outlook is deteriorating. Government borrowing in the deficit countries will therefore escalate. Listen Now
3/5/2019
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Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver Return. Bill Pincus appears for the first time. Alasdair says that a return to a gold standard is the only way nations can contain the interest cost of servicing debt. Listen Now
1/8/2019
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Alasdair Macleod, Chen Lin and Michael Oliver visit during this first episode of 2019. As the late 2018 stock market decline morphs into a far more serious event than the 2008 financial crisis, you will hear mainstream financial anchors declaring that no one saw this decline coming. Listen Now
12/4/2018
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Ivan Bebek and Michael Oliver return. Since 1981, interest rates have been in a secular decline, falling from 20% to zero in U.S. dollars. Listen Now
10/23/2018
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Ryan Girdusky visits for the first time. Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver return. Alasdair says we are nearing the end of the current credit cycle that began after the 2008 credit collapse. Listen Now
9/25/2018
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Alasdair, Michael Oliver and Chen Lin return. Apocalyptic thinking and prepping is common among some libertarians. While complete annihilation is always a possibility given human kind’s self-destructive nature, overreaction may also be a form of self destruction. Listen Now
8/7/2018
Turning Hard Times into Good Times
Alasdair Macleod, Ivan Bebek and Michael Oliver are this week’s guests. History tells us that an ounce of gold has retained 100% of its purchasing power since the Roman Republic. Listen Now
6/12/2018
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Alasdair Macleod and Peter Tallman return. A quiet revolution is taking place in a monetary vacuum developing on the back of the dollar’s eroding hegemony. Listen Now
5/1/2018
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Alasdair Macleod, Dr. Quinton Hennigh and Michael Oliver return. Alasdair Macleod will update us on where we are on the business cycle and why his fundamental views jive with Oliver’s Momentum and Structural technical analysis. Listen Now
4/3/2018
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Brian Groves return. Superpowers prevail and expand until the hand of God says “No more!” On the back of dollar hegemony, the U.S. expanded its empire dramatically after the fall of the Soviet Union. Listen Now
2/27/2018
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Dr. Quinton Hennigh return. For investors there may be few questions more important than the one Alasdair has attempted to answer in his Goldmoney.com essay. Listen Now
1/9/2018
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Alasdair Macleod, Amir Adnani and Michael Oliver return. Oliver’s highly accurate Structure and Momentum technical analysis is calling for bull markets in commodities and precious metals markets in 2018. Listen Now
11/21/2017
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Alasdair Macleod, Robert Carrington and Michael Oliver return. Some people think that crypto-currencies will replace gold as money, but Alasdair Macleod who sits on the board of directors of Goldmoney provides a very well informed opinion on that issue. Listen Now
9/26/2017
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Alasdair Macleod and Ivan Bebek return. Listen Now
8/15/2017
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Dr. Quinton Hennigh, Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver return. In 1884 the Witwatersrand gold fields of South Africa was discovered. Listen Now
5/16/2017
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Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver return. As China seeks to grow its economy through trade and a sound gold-based monetary system, America keeps its economic heart beating by creating constant wars and economic crisis that drive international capital back to “safe haven” U.S. Treasuries. Listen Now
1/3/2017
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Alasdair Macleod, Michael Oliver and Jim Payne return. With optimism surrounding the Trump election, stocks have made new highs with the Dow nearing 20,000. Listen Now
9/20/2016
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Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver return. Brian Ostroff appears for the first time. Michael’s work strongly suggests that we are nearing a prolonged bear market not only in stocks but also in U.S. Treasuries. Listen Now
5/3/2016
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Alasdair Macleod and Michael Oliver return. Saudi Arabia has been in the news recently for several interconnected reasons. Listen Now
1/5/2016
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Alasdair MacLeod and Chen Lin return. The Chinese, Indians and Russians have been importing massive amounts of gold, yet its price in dollars continues lower due to massive manipulation by major bullion banks. Listen Now
10/14/2014
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John Ciampaglia of Sprott Gold Miners ETF appears for the first time. Listen Now
4/15/2014
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Professor Frank H. Buckley visits for the first time. David Jensen and Alasdair return Listen Now
3/25/2014
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Alasdair Macleod and Eric Coffin return. AMinsky Moment is a sudden major collapse of asset values Listen Now
2/18/2014
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Economic geologist Dr. Quinton Hennigh, visitsfor the first time. Alasdair Macleod, Amir Adnani and Eric Coffin return. Listen Now
10/29/2013
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Robert McHugh, Ph.D., Alasdair MacLeod and Daniel McAdams return. Listen Now
10/22/2013
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Hidden Secrets: Is $40,000 Gold Ridiculous? Listen Now
10/1/2013
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Gene Epstein, Alasdair MacLeod and Daniel McAdams return as guests. Listen Now
1/15/2013
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12/18/2012
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