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Saturday, December 26

Special Year End Interviews

Saturday, December 19

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
2009 Year in Review - Markers & Turning Points | Other Voices: Louise Yamada Managing Director Louise Yamada
Technical Research Advisors LLC Topic: Review of Major Markets

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
2009 Year in Review - Markers & Turning Points continued | Other Voices: Gerald Celente Founder/Director
Trends Research Institute Topic: Top Trends 2010

Saturday, December 12

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
Gold: Bubble Trouble or Ready to Double | Other Voices: Dom Golio Author Bankrupting Joe the Taxpayer

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
Future of the Dollar

Saturday, December 5

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
2010 - Exit Strategy or Debasement | Q-Calls 

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
Resource Scarcity - Summary / Recommendations | Other Voices: Ron Griess Proprietor The Chart Store | Other Voices:  John Hofmeister Retired President of Shell Oil Company and Founder & CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy 

Thursday, November 26 ~ 6th Annual Natural Resource Show

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Jim and John Loeffler - Discuss Hard Assets San Francisco 2009 | Michael S. (Mickey) Fulp Mercenary Geologist | Robert Archer President & CEO Great Panther Resources (TSX: GPR)

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Topic: Press Club Conversations with Jim Puplava President PFS Group & Host of FSN Rob McEwen Chairman and CEO US Gold & Lexam Explorations and Founder & former Chairman and CEO Goldcorp Leanne M. Baker Managing Director Investor Resources LLC Gordon Cummings CEO & President Kimber Resources Inc (NYSE: KBX) George Karahalios Private investor

Part 3: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Ivan Bevek Corporate Finance Advisory Board Keegan resources Inc (TSX: KGN | NYSE: KGN) | Chris Bogard VP Corporate Development Corex Gold Corp (TSX: CGE-V) | Matt Collins COO Sutter Gold Mining Company (TSX: SGM-V) | Gordon Cummings CEO & President Kimber Resources (TSX: KBX | NYSE: KBR) | Lionel Martin CEO & President East Asia Minerals Corp (TSX: EAS-V)  

Part 4: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Tony Nunziata VP Corporate Communications Hathor Exploration (TSX: HAT-V) | William Pincus President Esperanza Silver Corp (TSX: EPZ-V) | Robert Washer President Dynesty Metals & Mining Inc. (TSX: DMM.TO) | Dave Webb President & CEO, Director Tyhee Development Corp (TSX: TDC) | Ben Whiting Chief Geologist Orko Silver Corp (TSX: OK-V)

Saturday, November 21 ~ 6th Annual Natural Resource Show

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company International, Topic: The Future of Energy
Kenneth J. Germino, Chairman Titan Oil Recovery Inc Topic: Current Condition of the Energy Markets
Glenn Labhart Chair, Energy Oversight Committee Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Topic: Energy Risk Professional: Understanding the Energy Markets

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Keith M. Barron Ph.D Geologist Topic: Finding the Gold
Ross Hansen Founder Northwest Territorial Mint Topic: Update on Precious Metals: Where are the Values
Bob Zwerneman VP of Corporate Development & Director of Investor Relations Jaguar Mining Inc (NYSE: JAG TSX: JAG)  

Part 3: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Harry Milling Natural Resource Fund Analyst Morningstar Inc Topic: Choosing Natural Resource Funds
Bruce Higson-Smith Vice President Corporate Development Golden Star Resources Ltd (NYSE: GSS TSX: GSC)
Bruce H. Vincent President, Secretary & Director Swift Energy Company (NYSE: SFY)

Saturday, November 14 ~ 6th Annual Natural Resource Show

Listen to MP3 - Part 1

Dr. Robert L. Hirsch, Ph.D., Senior Energy Advisor, Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI)
Topic: The Decline of World Oil Production & Its Possible Impacts
Keith Neumeyer, President & CEO, First Majestic Silver Corp. (TSX: FR)
Lorne Waldman, Corporate Secretary, Silvercorp Metals Inc.(TSX: SVM)
Robert A. Quartermain, President & CEO, Director, Silver Standard Resources Inc. (TSX: SSO | NASDAQ: SSRI)

Listen to MP3 - Part 2

Mark H. Bailey, Director, President & CEO, Minefinders Corporation Ltd.(TSX: MFL, AMEX: MFN)
Peter Barnes, President, CEO & Director, Silver Wheaton Corp.(TSX: SLW)
Rachel Benepe, Portfolio Manager - Gold Fund, First Eagle Funds Topic: Value Gold Investing

Saturday, November 7 ~ 6th Annual Natural Resource Show

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Ned Schmidt, Schmidt Management Co.,Topic: Investing in Farmland
James B. Engdahl, President & CEO, Great Western Minerals Group Ltd., (CDNX: GWG.V)
David Miller, CEO & Director, Strathmore Minerals Corp., (TSX: STM.V)

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

Jeffrey M. Christian, Founder, CPM Group, Topic: Gold Fundamentals
Brian K. Hicks, CFA, Portfolio Manager, U.S. Global Investors, Topic: Investing in Gold
John Doody, Ph.D., Editor, Gold Stock Analyst, Topic: The Coming Wave of Gold Mergers

Saturday, October 31

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Correction or Crash?
• Other Voices: Bill Powell, Fortune Magazine contributor, "It's China's World. (We just live in it)"
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crisis Window 2010-2012 Update
• Other Voices: Marin Katusa, Casey's Energy Opportunity, and Casey's Energy Report
• Other Voices: Brent Cook, Exploration Insight

Saturday, October 24

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3
~ SPECIAL EDITION ~ Warning: The Next Crisis

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• In Search of Predictable and Safe Yields
• Other Voices: Evelyn Garriss, The Browning Newsletter
• Q-Calls

Additional Materials
- Are We in the Early Stages of a Permanent Net Oil Export Crisis? by Jeffrey J. Brown, Samuel Foucher, Ph.D. & Jorge Silveus [Presented at ASPO-USA 2009]
- Frontline - The Warning (online video)
- OCC's Quarterly Report on Bank Derivatives Activities

Saturday, October 17

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Climbing the Wall of Worry
• Other Voices: Jeff Clark, Casey's Gold & Resource Report
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• There Is No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
• Other Voices: William Houston
• Q-Calls

Saturday, October 10

Part 1: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Dollar Decline: Sudden or Gradual
• Other Voices: Louis-Vincent Gave, CEO, GaveKal
  

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Next Bubble
• A Peak Oil Perspective with
Logi Energy:
• Larry Ortega, CEO
• Dennis Mangan, VP Hedging Operations
• Alex Brown, VP Trading Operations
• Jeffrey Brown, VP Global Oil Supply Analysis
• Chris Nelder, VP Global Oil Transition Analysis

Saturday, October 3

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Inflation/Deflation: Summary & Conclusion
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Inflation/Deflation: Summary & Conclusion - Continued
  
• Q-Calls

Part 3: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Russell Napier, Consultant, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets & Author
• Other Voices: Eric Janszen, iTulip.com

Saturday, September 26

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Fed's New Confidence Game
• The Statistical Recovery
• Expect the Unexpected
• Investment Implications

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Harry S. Dent, Jr., Founder & CEO, HS Dent
  Topic: The Inflation/Deflation Debate: Why Deflation is Inevitable
  
• Q-Calls

Saturday, September 19

Part 1: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Great Deflation/Inflation Debate with Daniel R. Amerman & Michael 'Mish' Shedlock

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Marc Faber, Ph.D.
  Editor, Gloom Boom & Doom Report
  Topic: Another Case for Inflation
• Q4 Rally

Saturday, September 12

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Government Failures: Repeating the Mistakes of History
• The Road to New Global Currency
• Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
• Other Voices: Bud Conrad, Chief Economist, Casey Research

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Peter D. Schiff, President, Euro Pacific Capital & Author
  Topic: The Case for Inflation

Further Reading

Economic Contractions in the United States by Charles K. Rowley and Nathanael Smith (IEA)
Trade and Development Report, 2009 by UN Conference on Trade & Development
Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Joseph Peden (Mises Daily)
China alarmed by US money printing by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (Telegraph.co.uk)
UN wants new global currency to replace dollar by Edmund Conway (Telegraph.co.uk)

Saturday, September 5

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
  CEO, Elliott Wave Int'l, & Author
  Topic: The Great Deflation/Inflation Debate

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Neil Howe, Founding Partner & President, LifeCourse Associates
• Q-Calls

Friday, August 28

Summer Recess Program

Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• William Fleckenstein, President, Fleckenstein Capital; Author & Columnist
• Evelyn Browning Garriss, Editor, The Browning Newsletter
• Tracy Knudsen, CMT, Vice President, Lowry Research

Friday, August 21

Summer Recess Program

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company Int'l
• Michael B. O'Higgins, O'Higgins Asset Management, Inc.

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Louise Yamada, CMT, Managing Director, Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, LLC
• Gerald Celente, Editor & Publisher, The Trends Journal

Saturday, August 15

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Supply: Unresolved Issues
• V, W or L
• Attack & Retreat: Why Markets are Headed Higher

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Dollar, Gold & Cash
• Other Voices: Eric Coffin, HRA Advisories
• Q-Calls

Saturday, August 8

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Great Inflation: Lessons for Tomorrow
• The Coming Commodity Shockwave

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Empire in Decline
• Other Voices: Chris Puplava, FS Commentator
• Q-Calls
• - Prognosis for National Health Insurance
• - U.S. Debt Clock in real time

Saturday, August 1

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• What the Numbers Tell Us About the Recovery
• Seasonalities: The Dollar, Gold & Stocks
• It's the Economy, Stupid

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Joanne Nova, freelance writer, Climate Money
• Other Voices: Mathew D. Staver, Dean and Professor of Law; Director, Liberty Center for Law and Policy
• Q-Calls
• Suggested viewing: Liberty Counsel updated & revised overview of HR 3200
• Charts

Saturday, July 25

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Sense & Flexibility
• The Coming Dollar Devaluation
• Revenues, Profits, Dividends

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Stephen Hyde, Hyde on Health Care
• Q-Call
• * Supporting Materials * Full Text of HR 3200 (Health Care Bill); Health Care Bill Explained by Peter Fleckstein (aka Fleckman)
• Charts

Saturday, July 18

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• 25% Unemployment & Underemployed
• Bank or Hedge Fund
• Beware of the Allure of Debt

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Truth in Healing: The Untold Story of Obama Care
• Other Voices: A Canadian's View of Health Care
• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 11

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Richard Karn, Emerging Trends Report: Credit & Credibility

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Kim Cooper, Real Estate Broker & Spokesman for the Coeur d'Alene Association of Realtors
• Other Voices: Dr. Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., Director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance
• Other Voices: Quint Tatro, Founder of Tickerville, President & Founder of Tatro Capital, LLC
• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 4

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• 2nd Half 2009 Outlook:
  The Good and the Bad
• Job Numbers Worse Than Reported
• The Most Important Investment Decision You Will Have to Make

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Ross Hansen, Founder & President, Northwest Territorial Mint
• Other Voices: Jonathan Potts, Managing Director, FideliTrade Incorporated
• Q-Calls

Suggested viewing: We The People Stimulus Package (YouTube video) | Hyperinflation Nation (Part 1/3) (Inflation.us video)

Saturday, June 27

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Less Bad is the New Good Revisited
• Bernanke's "Catch-22"

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Footprints of Depletion
• Cap & Tax
• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 20

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Trading Confidences
• Investing 2H and Beyond

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Next Consumer Evolution
• Other Voices: Kelley Wright, Managing Editor, Investment Quality Trends
• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 13

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
• Hedging Against a Collapsing US Dollar

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Coming Oil Shock Wave - Part 3: How Your World is About to Change
• Other Voices: John Williams, Shadow Government Statistics
• Q-Call

Saturday, June 6

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Bubbles, Troubles & Deficits
• The Coming Oil Shock Wave - Part 2

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Reflation Trade
• Other Voices: Bill Powers, Editor, Powers Energy Investor
• Q-Call

Saturday, May 30

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Reading the Economic Tea Leaves
• The Coming Oil Shock Wave

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Investment Strategy 2nd Half
• Other Voices: Eric King
• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 23

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Bulls vs. Bears
• Top-Down Analysis of Markets: Which Markets Should You be Investing In

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• War Cycles/Generational Cycles in Conflict/Leadership
• Q-Call

Saturday, May 16

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• New Era, New Rules, New Strategies
• Keeping It Simple: Metals, Food, Energy, Water

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Keeping It Simple: Metals, Food, Energy, Water (continued)
• Q-Call

Saturday, May 9 - Eric King as host

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Dr. Anna Schwartz, Economist
• Howard Segermark, President & CEO, Segermark Associates Inc.

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• James Dines, The Dines Letter
• Dr. Alan Lemerand

Saturday, May 2

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Path to Insolvency Part III: The Ponzi Cover-Up
• Inflation: Get Ready, It's on Its Way
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Next Asset Bubble
• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 25

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Path to Insolvency -
  Part II (Web Presentation)
• Energy: A Look at the Supply Side
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• An Insider/Outsider View of Juniors
• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 18

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Path to Financial Insolvency
• Stress Testing Dividends
  

Part 2: Rea lPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Gerald Celente, Founder & Director of Trends Research Institute
• Other Voices: Peter J. Sepp, VP for Communications, National Taxpayers Union
• Q-Call
  

Saturday, April 11

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Less Bad is the New Good
• "W"
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• How the Indicators Impact the Markets
• Pick Your Choices
• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 4

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Business Cycle: Where are We?
• Data Mining for a Recovery
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Until Debt Do Us Part
• The Inflation Trifecta - OBG
• FSO - Risk Model
• It Ain't Just Oil

Saturday, March 28

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Washington vs. Wall Street: Who Done It
• The Beginning of the End of Dollar Hegemony
  

Part 2: Rea lPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Resource Scarcity: Summation & Opportunities
• Q-Call

Saturday, March 21

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Weimar Way
• Resource Scarcity: Water, Food & Energy - All Related
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Road to Perdition
• Q-Calls continued

Saturday, March 14

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Reflation
• Fiscal Fallacies
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• VAR - Value At Risk
• Convergence

Saturday, March 7

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Financial Crisis: How We Got Here
• To Nationalize or Not to Nationalize is the Question
• I Didn't Make This Up

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Ugly, the Bad & the Good
• Other Voices: Evelyn Browning Garris, Browning Newsletter
• Q-Call

Saturday, February 28

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Back to the Depression
• Other Voices:
  Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.,
  Topic: The Safe Money Banking Survival Guide
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• From FDR to Juan Perón

Saturday, February 21

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Road to Nationalization
• Road to Serfdom
  

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• What the Economic Numbers are Telling Us: No Second Half Recovery
• Dow Theory Sell Signal
• Potpourri

Saturday, February 14

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Washington to Wall Street & Main Street... No clue, no plan

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• A Plausible Scenario
• Other Voices: James Quinn - Boomers, Your Crisis Has Arrive

Saturday, February 7

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• When Does the Change Begin (This is no way to run an economy)
• The Rally of Hope

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Death of Consumption
• Other Voices: Gerald Celente, The Trends Journal

Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - As introduced in the House of Representatives on January 26, 2009.

Saturday, January 31

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• This Isn't a Stimulus Program
• Other Voices: Charles Gasparino, On-Air Editor, CNBC
• Keynes vs. Free Markets

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• State of the States
• Gold vs. T-Bills

Saturday, January 24

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Perfect Energy Trifecta
• Fish Tacos

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Shock & Awe
• Investing When Interest Rates are Zero-Bound

Saturday, January 17

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• 2009 Forecast:
  - Dissecting the Consensus
  - The Economy - Recession
  - The Markets: Stocks, Bonds, Commodities
  - Credit Markets
  - Dollar/Currencies
  - International Markets

Part 2: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• FSO 2009 Forecast: New Era, New Deal, Soft Depression
• Q-Calls

Saturday, January 10

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Forecast 2009: The Consensus
• Forecast 2009: Visionary Thinking

Part 2: Rea lPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Forecast Failures
• Into the Unknown: Black Swans & Rogue Waves

Saturday, January 3

Special Year End Interviews