Turning Hard Times Into Good Times

Gene Epstein and Rick Rule return as featured guests. Epstein will speak of his latest Barron’s Economic Beat article, “One of the Costliest Ponzi Schemes Ever,” illustrating how the U.S. social security system is nothing but that—one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever! Of course, that doesn’t even take into account other confiscatory acts by the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve in recent years. The productive middle class of America is being eaten alive by parasitic Washington and Wall Street with average Americans no longer having any real recourse through the ballet box. How then can we survive, never mind thrive, in an increasingly statist economic environment? We'll ask legendary investor Rick Rule who has learned how to profit from government-induced market dislocations for some ideas. Dave Cole of Eurasian Minerals and John Burgess of Northern Freegold will update us on their companies’ quest to finding the antithesis to Ponzi schemes—gold.