Turning Hard Times Into Good Times

Ian MacDonald will help us understand who the buyers are that are driving the price of gold higher. Is it speculators? Or is gold flowing from weak hands into the strong hands of those who seek to protect their wealth? This at a time when nations around the world are creating endless amounts of paper money in an effort to cheapen their currencies in order to gain a trade advantage against their neighbors. As James Turk has pointed out, gold follows wealth. As wealth grows in Asia and declines in the West, are there reasons to expect the Chinese and other gold-hording nations to force a move toward a gold-backed currency? Secret talks have reportedly occurred between China and France toward that end during the past year. Is it possible we will soon witness a new global monetary system that is at last partly backed by gold? If so, what might that mean for the price of gold? Answers to those and more questions will be asked of Ian.

Andre Julian will comment on the potential for gold to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. In 1971, when Nixon took us off the international gold standard, he not only ushered in an era of flexible exchange rates and unleashed massive global inflation but also made it easy for each nation to engage in competitive currency devaluation, which they are doing to gain a competitive export advantage. Now the IMF is warning of potential exchange rate wars the likes of which have not been seen since the 1930s. This is leading to an increasingly unstable global monetary system, which in turn is driving people to the oldest currency of all, namely gold. What will happen to the commodity and debt markets as Bernanke keeps printing trillions of dollars? How can investors protect themselves against shattering currencies? Andre Julian will opine.

Bob Hoye will tell us, if the worst is over or if we might not be witnessing a repeat of the pre-Lehman Brothers good times. If we get a repeat performance like the 2008-09 time frame, will the dollar rebound again and stocks crash? What will happen to the energy and base metals markets? Can the silver/gold ratio help answer all those questions? If so, what is it telling us right now? With gold now over $1,300, is it possible we are nearing the end of this eight-year bull market? What about the gold shares? Are they reaching an exhaustion point? What about the bond markets? How can we continue to see lower rates when the U.S. is the largest debtor in the world? We expect Mr. Hoye will answer those questions from his very unique but highly valuable historical perspective. Bob has been exceptionally accurate in the past, suggesting you can’t afford to miss what this veteran analyst has to say about these most essential market questions.

As expressed on our June 1, 2010 show, Ian Gordon provided a reason why he firmly believes we will see a low in the Dow of around 1,000 Dow and a $4,000 gold price before this economic depression is over. I would strongly encourage you to go back and listen at http://www.voiceamerica.com/voiceamerica/vepisode.aspx?aid=46599 for the logic behind Ian’s dire projections for stocks and very bullish projections for gold. That will prepare you for Ian's next discussion, which will focus on why he is convinced our main concern should be on deflation rather than inflation. Whether you strongly agree or disagree with Ian, please forward your questions or thoughts for Ian at Questions4Taylor@gmail.com and I will pass them on to him for his commentary on this week’s show. Please join me for Ian's insights on this most important question and learn how he addresses critics who worry about hyperinflation.

William Hathaway is a former Special Forces soldier turned peace activist. He confirms what other people on our show like John Perkins, Daniel Estulin, Adrian Salbuchi, Ron Paul and professor Laurence Kotlikoff have said and that is that our government is lying to the American people about a host of financial issues. Whereas Professor Kotlikoff talked about how we are being lied to about the cost of domestic social programs like social security and Medicare, Professor Hathaway will talk about how and why the junction of Wall Street and the military/corporate industrial giant complex has to come to a halt now and why we can no longer sustain this corrupt rich man’s hobby. In fact, on the home front, wars are making America into a third-world country where millions are out of work, losing their homes, losing their savings, their pensions, and their retirement security. We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war. You can't miss Dr. Hathaway's insights.

Adrian Douglas provides two startling facts that are the most important facts ever aired on this show. 1) Irrefutable evidence that the gold price has been manipulated downward by 5 bullion banks that set the gold price daily in London. If you had bought gold on the London AM Fix and sold it on the PM fix every day from April 2002 through August 2010, you would have lost $500/oz. even as gold rose from $250 to over $1,200! 2) These five banks and the ruling elite that dictate their policies are losing control of their gold price suppression. Because of that, the gold price is on the verge of rising to unfathomable heights of thousands of dollars per oz. and in the process destroy the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. You can’t afford to miss Adrian’s convincing evidence that a tectonic event in the gold and currency markets is near at hand. The impact on your portfolio will be profoundly bad unless you adjust accordingly. Your very financial survival may depend on it.

Dmitry Orlov, born in Russia, lived in the U.S. as a young professional. His work took him back to his mother country just as the USSR collapsed. He believes the U.S. is following the same destructive path. The first step is the breakdown of the financial markets. This is very much in process now in the U.S. Next comes the bare grocery store shelves followed by rising crime levels, a breakdown in civil order and basic infrastructure. Mr. Orlov will lay out his logic for believing America is following in the same destructive footsteps as the USSR. We hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Joining us will be two ladies from All-in-one–Preparedness (AIOP) to talk about how you can be ready in advance of the kind of calamity Dmitri is speaking about or for more common natural disasters that lead to a need for emergency food and water supplies. AIOP also provides very affordable long life, nutritional dehydrated food items that are delicious. Don't miss this life saving show.

Professor Burton Folsom Jr. sets the record straight about FDR’s “New Deal.” Propaganda from our-state owned educational system has brainwashed us into thinking that President Roosevelt’s big spending programs were responsible for pulling the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Professor Folsom points out that FDR’s policies were not only an absolute failure, but propaganda to the contrary has paved the way for policies ever since then that have brought America to a state of bankruptcy. What is the evidence that FDR's policies failed? Were the causes of the Great Depression? What are the real causes of the current depression? By some accounts, we are now facing “the Greater Depression.” Believing FDR's policies were effective during the 1930s, President Obama has proudly likened himself to FDR for the current malaise. We will ask Professor Folsom what lies ahead for the American economy and our economic future.

Boston University Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff doesn’t pull any punches. He recently told a Bloomberg TV audience that both the Clinton and Bush administrations suppressed evidence of our country's dire financial condition. Actually, how bad off are we? What can be done from a policy perspective? What about doubling your taxes or some combination of that and government spending cuts? What are the chances of the Federal government telling us the truth? Will the system need to break down before our financial system gets fixed? What can we as individuals do to prepare for this impending disaster? Dr. Kotlikoff is the author of two books that address these questions and he also has some very useful free software you can use in order to prepare for own retirement. Can you afford to miss this discussion? Also, All-In-One-Preparedness will provide some life saving ideas for troubled times. Also executives of two emerging Jr. gold company will talk about building wealth.

Ian McAvity is one of the most sought after, independent technical and fundamental analysts in the world. Not only he is able to accurately draw technically significant lines on charts but his strong grasp of history enable him to breathe life into otherwise dry economic statistics that turn even the most disinterested listener into a spellbound observer of Ian’s vital remarks. Ian is not only market analyst. He is vitally aware of the importance of gold and silver as a preserver of wealth. As such he has been a creator of two gold and silver bullion funds that provide average investors with one of the best ways to own those precious metals. Ian will talk about those two publicly traded funds and give us his view on how the enormous economic problems of our time will play out. Inflation? Deflation? Skyrocketing interest rates? Massive unemployment? Skyrocketing or plunging food, energy and metals prices? What about gold? What about the Dow? Can you afford to miss Ian's views?

John F. McManus is our main guest this week. Constitutionally, America was never a Christian nation but it was a nation with many practicing Christians living in it. Its legal system was strongly influenced by Judeo-Christian values. To the extent the golden rule” was practiced, government was virtually unnecessary. But, over time, Judeo-Christian values gave way to Humanism. Without trust in a superior being, Americans have increasingly put their trust in Caesar. And with Caesar’s growing power has come increasing market intervention, leading to mal investment, a lack of savings, massive debt and parasitic behavior most egregious of which have been bailouts for filthy rich banking thieves on Wall Street and in Washington. Increasingly, Americans seek wealth by gaming the system rather than producing useful products in a free-market competitive environment for the good of all. How did this transformation from free markets to fascism come about in America? John McManus will explain.

Howard Davidowitz, recognized as a premier authority on retail business in America, tells it like it is. So we must listen to him. We are continually being told by CNBC, Bloomberg, and most other major media that the money printing and deficit spending policies of the Bush and Obama administrations have not only avoided Great Depression II but that the economy is on the mend and that good times lie just ahead of us once again. But is it really so? If 70% of our economy is consumer related and the consumer has lost his job, his credit card, and the ability to borrow against his house—if indeed he has been able to even stay in his home—and with taxes set to rise dramatically, how can everything be on the mend as we are told it is? Howard Davidowitz is one of the most refreshing truth tellers in the mainstream press today. We are fortunate to have him with us. You can’t afford to miss what he says about our economic future.

Daniel Estulin and Adrian Salbuchi will appear together as guests on this week’s show. Estulin, the premier expert on the Bilderberg Group, and Adrian Salbuchi, who tracks the moves by those same ruling elitists toward globalization and the removal of your personal sovereign rights and the removal of national sovereignty, will provide a “progress” report toward the elite’s efforts to enslave us all economically and politically. We will ask both gentlemen how the continuing global economic malaise, the European Union’s problems, and geo-political conflicts among Russia, China, Iran, and the Islamic countries play into this elitist group’s hands as they seek to establish a “One World Company Limited.” We will also seek a report from Daniel on the most recent annual Bilderberg Group meeting held in Spain. We will ask both men what they think the chances are in the near term for a growing, thriving global economy. And we will ask, “What can we do to stop this unfolding tragedy?”

James Turk has applied rapidly changing technology to meet the needs of human nature which never changes. The establishment has conned the American public into seeing gold as a barbaric relic so it can confiscate wealth through printing press money. As an early backer of GATA, Turk has provided evidence of Government’s outright market manipulation of the gold markets and con artistry aimed at confiscating citizens’ wealth via fiat money. Understanding the pernicious nature of fiat money, Turk set out to gain a patent for the use of digital gold to help investors protect their wealth against from a stealthy confiscation scheme. James’s invention, GoldMoney - which now has over $1 billion of customer assets - is not like digital paper money that will only allow you to exchange one worthless piece of paper for another. James Turk will explain how you can obtain GoldMoney and why you must do so to protect your financial future.

Addison Wiggin, a proponent of Austrian Economics, will give us his view on how the current global economic pathology will play out. Debt is the raw material from which our fiat money is manufactured. With every new stimulus, debt grows much more rapidly than income. Thanks to massive printing press money since Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971 capital has been invested poorly resulting in horrible returns even as debt has grown exponentially. Now, no matter how much stimulus is added to our economy, downward prices threaten a massive deflation. Are we facing a deflationary depression? Or is it possible that trillions of dollars will be placed in the hands of the poor and middle classes triggering hyper inflation? What can consumers do to protect themselves under either scenario? What about the direction of the stock, bond, commodities and precious metals markets? For your financial survival, you can’t afford to miss the insights of Addison Wiggin.

James Perloff explains in “The Shadows of Power” how ruling elite has pulled off a silent Communist revolution in America with 99.9% of Americans completely ignorant of the coup. The Federal Reserve has been the main enabler of this silent revolution, but as Ed Griffin has pointed out, intellectual groups like the Fabian Socialists (members include Keynes, G.B. Shaw and T. Blair), have no qualms with basic Communist ideology. Their only difference? Fabians have preferred a slow gradual process of “education” as opposed to seizing power through the barrel of a gun. James Perloff shows how “educated” Americans have now filled virtually all institutions in the U.S. and have in effect mocked the U.S. Constitution by turning our nation into a communist/fascist dictatorship just as completely as power was seized through the barrel of a gun in Russia. If recent political actions have you puzzled, Perloff along with Griffin, Salbuchi and Estulin make sense of it and plan for the future.

Kathy Fettke, a licensed realtor and TV commentator, analyzes the real estate markets now that the federal tax credit for home-buyers has disappeared. Low interest rates, low home prices and an $8,000 tax credit made it cheaper to own than to rent in many parts of the country. But, what happens now that those artificial stimulus measures are no longer available? This past week new home sales were the lowest since stats were collected in the early 1960s. Kathy will discuss: * National statistics vs. reality in the trenches (What's really going on with Real Estate) * What parts of the US are experiencing a housing recovery/rebound and which are still in a free fall? * Housing forecasts - When will housing stabilize and prices increase? * The unique financial opportunity today with OREO's and discounted housing prices. * Why some are calling this the greatest transfer of wealth in history. * Are we facing a double dip in housing and the economy?

Martin Gross, author of “National Suicide” will talk about how America is in the process of self destruction. “Stalin’s economic organization has been remarkably successful.” (1989 - Harvard’s Robert B. Reich, former Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton. Another admirer of Soviet central planning was another American communist, namely Alan S. Blinder, former Fed Governor and still professor at Princeton University. He said, “The real question is not whether we want elements of socialism on planning to abridge our personal freedom, but by how much.” That's the intellectual backdrop that suggested we could live beyond our means. Government allocation of scarce resource funded by a printing press with an unlimited capacity to spend in the absence of a gold standard has led to unlimited debt, future poverty and enslavement. We will ask Martin Gross for ways to fix this problem and how he thinks we can prepare personally for the death of America as we have known it.

Arch Crawford and Roger Conrad will help us prepare for “hard times” as well as good times. Last week we spoke to Roger Conrad, an expert in high-yielding equity investments for some ideas how retired folks may make ends meet in a not-so-disastrous world. We simply did not have sufficient time to cover all the important topics, so I have asked Roger to come back again this week to share more income ideas with you. Arch Crawford who is more in keeping with the bearish tone of this show, has agreed to come back on our show again to tell us what his technical work is revealing about the markets. Arch, who uses astrology for some guidance to the future, will give us his key disaster dates. Does the tragic gulf oil spill fit in with one of those “windows of disaster” he talked about previously? You won’t want to miss out on how to prepare for not-so-bad times as well as the kind of disastrous views Arch Crawford and many more of our guests have expressed on this show.

Roger S. Conrad provides hope for the future and a means for surviving financially at a time when policy makers continue to penalize those who save and reward irresponsible personal financial behavior. Last week, Ian Gordon told us why he believes we are entering a deflationary depression akin to or worse than our grandparents suffered through during the 1930s. Richard Russell, who lived through the 1930s and who often agrees with Ian Gordon’s thesis, has been warning over the past number of years that investments providing income will be the most sought after investment vehicles as people struggle to put food on their tables. Our guest this week, Roger S. Conrad, an analyst of all manner of utility stocks and Canadian income trusts, will provide some excellent ideas about which utility stocks can provide you with life sustaining income and do so with relative safety. Don't miss this Roger Conrad's practical guide to financial survival and why he favors stocks over bonds.