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BIG PICTURE 2005

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Saturday, December 31

Year-End Special

Transcript of the special

We've included charts and links as well as expert information.

Saturday, December 24

Year-End Special in 2 Parts

Part 1 - "Energy, The Big Story of 2005"
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Part 2 - "Commodity Bull Gets Its 2nd Leg" and "Inflation, the
Economy and the Business of Reporting"
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Saturday, December 17

Transcript of The BIG Picture
Charts for today's broadcast

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bullet   Gold & Inflation
bullet   Energy Storm Brewing
bullet   Emails
bullet   FSN Bloopers

Saturday, December 10

Transcript of The BIG Picture
Charts for today's broadcast

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bullet   Boom vs. Doom: The Catalyst That Bridges the Two
bullet   Major Premium vs. Major Discount: Correction Ahead
bullet   Emails

Saturday, December 3

Transcript of San Francisco Gold

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bullet    Brief Market WrapUp and Introduction to San Francisco Gold

Saturday, November 26

No show this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and time to spend with our families.


Saturday, November 19

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   Looney Tunes in Bananaland: Cycle Peak
bullet   Making Money in the Next 12 Months
bullet   What's Hot and What's Not
bullet   Helicopter Money
bullet   Emails

Saturday, November 12

Transcript of The BIG Picture
Charts for today's broadcast

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bullet   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Capitol
bullet   Making Conspiracies for Fun and Profit
bullet   Investing in the Circus or Profiting From Chaos
bullet   The Ride of the Federalies

Saturday, November 5

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   Predicting the Rain Isn't as Important as Building the Ark
bullet   Taxes & Inflation
bullet   Changing of the Guard at the Fed: What It Means For Investing

Saturday, October 29

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   All the Wrong Moves
bullet   The Two Bens [ article]
bullet   The Coming Drug Consolidation

Saturday, October 22

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   Get Off the Ledge, Close the Window, Sit Down, & Clear the Mechanism
bullet   Poker Face: How Long Can We Keep Them Fooled?
bullet   Tax Reform: Hold On To Your Wallet
bullet   A Letter From an Oil Exploration Insider [ Energy Bulletin Link]
bullet   Summing It All Up: Sector Rankings & Performance
bullet   Emails

Saturday, October 15

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   There Is No Plan "B"
bullet   Hooverizing the Economy
bullet   Still Cheap After All These Years
bullet   Emails

Saturday, October 8

Transcript of The BIG Picture
Charts for today's broadcast

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bullet   The Perfect Energy Storm
bullet   The Tipping Point On Inflation
bullet   Climbing the Mountain: Why You Don't Want to Own Long-Term Bonds
bullet   Emails

Saturday, October 1

Transcript of The BIG Picture

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bullet   SupplySide Shocks - Inflation on the Rise - Investors Take Warning
bullet   The Next Big Thing
bullet   Dividends For the Long Run: An Update
bullet   Emails

Saturday, September 24

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bullet   The Fed's Next Recession
bullet   Energy Myths: Slurpees Cost More Money
bullet   Fundamentals of Gold

Saturday, September 17

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bullet   Peak Oil: A Definitive Conclusion
bullet   Lessons from Katrina: History Repeats Itself
bullet   Two Macro Themes Impacting Investments Over the Next Decade
bullet   Hurricane Katrina Damage to Oil Industry

Saturday, September 10

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bullet   What Comes Next? Soft Patch, Soft Landing, or Recession?
bullet   Be Prepared
bullet   Dividends Do Matter
bullet    Frank Barbera "Gold Train" Can You Hear The Train Leaving The Station????

See also editorial and charts

Saturday, September 3

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bullet  "A Triangle of Storms"

Saturday, August 27

FSN Vacation
-- Jim offers "Peak Oil Series" review and Dan Denning guest interview


Saturday, August 20

FSN Vacation
-- Jim offers "Peak Oil Series" review and Barry Bannister, CFA guest interview


Saturday, August 13

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bullet   Trouble Ahead: Three Risks for the Economy
bullet   Chimera: The Illusionary Economy
bullet   Bubble Troubles: The Coming Real Estate Bust

Saturday, August 6

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bullet   Energy Tsunami Hitting Globally by Q4
bullet   The Geopolitical Aspects of Oil
bullet   China and the Next Commodity Bull Run

Saturday, July 30

Charts referenced in 3rd hour

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bullet   The Ticking Time Bomb
bullet   The Commodity Bull Market & Inflation
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bullet   Dividend Achievers
bullet   Your Email Questions

Saturday, July 23

Charts referenced in 3rd hour

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bullet   The Economics of Inflation, Part 2
bullet   Collision Course
bullet   Unloved & Underowned

Saturday, July 16

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   The Great Inflation, Part 1
bullet    Recommended Reading List for The 'Flation Debate

Saturday, July 9

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   Where's the Beef?
bullet   The New Gold Index, the Gold Bull Market, and How Best to Take Advantage Of It
bullet   Emails

Saturday, July 2

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bullet   The Many Faces of Inflation in a Financial Economy
bullet   The Great Commodity Bull Market and the Coming Resource Wars

Special Extension of 3rd Hour with Frank Barbera, CMT

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bullet   Update on the Gold Market
bullet   A New Gold Index
bullet   Why You Better Own Gold, " Da Bottom" article
    referenced in interview

Saturday, June 25

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bullet   TheComing Trade Wars
bullet   The Decline of the Dollar
bullet   The Danger to Us All

Saturday, June 18

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   Twilight In the Desert - Part 2
bullet   The Evolution of a Storm
bullet   The Next Big Thing: The Inflation Cycle of the Next 10 Years
bullet   Emails

Saturday, June 11

The Big Picture Will Return Next Week


Saturday, June 4

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bullet   Potpourri: Social Security, the 1984 Economy, & Dollar Devaluation
bullet   Fed Attack with Michael Bolser
bullet   Defending the Bull with Frank Barbera

Saturday, May 28

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   The Real Estate Bubble: Is It Real? When Will It End?
bullet   Collision Course: The Fed vs. the Markets
bullet   Golden Bull: A Look at the Fundamentals

Saturday, May 21

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bullet   Tipping Points Leading to a Fall
bullet   "Da Bottom" for Gold Stocks?
bullet   Frank Barbera's Editorial on FSO

Saturday, May 14

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (USA?)
bullet   Barometer Dropping -- Countdown to Crisis
bullet   Dividends for the Long Run

Saturday, May 7

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bullet   The Grim Reaper/The Looming Dollar Crisis
bullet   Why the Deflationists Simply Don't Get It
bullet   If You're on the Titanic, Own as Many Lifeboats as You Can

Saturday, April 30

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bullet   The Tale of Two Economies
bullet   Broken Promises
bullet   Planning for Retirement

Saturday, April 23

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bullet   This Isn't Your Grandfather's Gold Bull Market
bullet   Twilight in the Desert - Peak Oil is Here
bullet   Bubble Troubles
bullet   A Google-Eyed Market recommended article by Jim Puplava
bullet   Matthew R. Simmons presentation to Boston CFR:
  ( PowerPoint pdf |  PowerPoint pdf print ready)
    Twilight In The Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock And The World Economy

Saturday, April 16

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bullet   An Economy on Thin Ice recommended article by Paul Volcker in The Washington Post
bullet   Buy, Hold or Fold
bullet   How to Buy Gold Stocks
bullet   Preview: The Day After Tomorrow, Part 2 (published April 22)

Saturday, April 9

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bullet   The Shape of Things to Come
bullet   Gold/Silver Accumulation
bullet   The Investment Constant (also this week's Storm Watch Update)

Saturday, April 2

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   Learning to Become an Investor ~ Buy When Nobody Else is Buying
bullet   Investing for Retirement
bullet   Back to Basics
bullet   Emails

Friday, March 25

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   The Confidence Game
bullet   What Was, What Is, & What Will Be
bullet   California Insanity
bullet   Emails

Saturday, March 19

Charts Discussed on the Show

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bullet   Warning: Prepare for the Worst & Hope for the Best
bullet   The Coming Generational Storm
bullet   Emails

Saturday, March 12

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bullet   Let's Get Fictional
bullet   The Gold Bull
bullet   Investing in Juniors - Part II

Saturday, March 5

-- no Big Picture this week
Two hours with Jim and Frank Barbera discussing "The Great Inflation"

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Saturday, February 26

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bullet   Resource Wars / Resource Scarcities
bullet   Beating the Dow
bullet   Investing in Juniors - Part I

Saturday, February 19

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bullet   Bubble Troubles
bullet   Double Debtor
bullet   A Wild Ride for Energy

Saturday, February 12

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bullet   Collision Course: More Rate Hikes on the Way
bullet   The Life and Times of Stanley Johnson
bullet   Gold Bull Market: The Consolidation End Game

Saturday, February 5

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bullet   Social Security - Trust Fund or Ponzi?
bullet   Market Anomalies - The Approaching Storm
bullet   The Gathering Storm

Saturday, January 29

Special guest interview instead


Saturday, January 22

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bullet   WARNING: Upcoming Interest Rate Hikes Could be Hazardous to Your Financial Health
bullet   What They Don't Teach You About Investing at Harvard
bullet   Time to Get Defensive

Saturday, January 15

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bullet   WARNING: Upcoming Interest Rate Hikes Could be Hazardous to Your Financial Health 
bullet   What They Don't Teach You About Investing at Harvard
bullet   Time to Get Defensive

Saturday, January 8

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bullet   Breaking Point - getting to neutral 
bullet   Deflation Vs. Inflation: The Debate of the Decade
bullet   Investment Outlook 2005