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Turning Rocks into Gold

Tue, Dec 1 Listen

60 min. from Tue Dec 1 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - We are in the greatest gold bull market of a lifetime. Yet, producing gold profitably is a very difficult endeavor and one that is wrought with risk. Most investors know little about the risks inherent in the business of gold mining or about the sophisticated science that goes into finding gold and producing it. Mining gold for a profit is very difficult and very few companies succeed in doing so. Your host has studied geology and gold mining...

Gold Is on a Tear. How Much Higher Will It Go?

Tue, Nov 24 Listen

60 min. from Tue Nov 24 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Our special guest this week is Ian MacDonald, who has been in the gold bullion business for years with the likes of Commerzbank AG, Credit Suisse, and Billiton (UK). Recently he managed a gold asset management company for the government of Dubai. Ian will bring his vision from inside the gold markets to explain why gold is on the rise, who it is that is buying, and how high it can rise in the future. He will also talk about his new firm's...

Getting Rich When Everyone around You Goes Broke

Tue, Nov 17 Listen

60 min. from Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - Kevin Duffy and Bill Laggner earned a 100+% return in 2008 when everyone else was going broke. How did they do it? They applied their knowledge of Austrian economics to get them on the short side of the markets before they crashed, following the Lehman Brothers failure in September of 2008. Their staunch deflationist views proved exactly right in 2008, but what about now? Are they still betting on inflation or do they see the possibility of...

Credit Crisis Will Lead to Higher Gold Prices

Tue, Nov 10 Listen

60 min. from Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - When gold was below $500/oz. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan twice said, "Central banks stand ready to lease gold, should the price begin to rise." That became known as the "Greenspan call." Greenspan was essentially telling the world that governments would suppress the price of gold and as evidenced by the brilliant work of GATA (www.Gata.org) the Fed did suppress the price of gold for quite a few years and is still capping it. However, now with...

Gold, Oil, The Dollar and The American Empire. How Long Can it Last?

Tue, Nov 3 Listen

60 min. from Tue Nov 3 00:00:00 CST 2009 Show - After the post-World War II nuclear age, it was no longer possible for empires to conquer other nations overtly with military force. A more clandestine means of conquer was required. Economic hit men like John Perkins were sent into foreign nations under corporate disguise with the goal of indebting foreign nations to the IMF, World Bank, and large U.S. banks, for the construction of major infrastructure projects like dams, airports, highway...

Manipulation of Gold and Treasury Will Lead to Hyperinflation

Tue, Oct 27 Listen

60 min. from Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Past guests such as Ed Griffin, Catherine Austin Fitts, Ron Paul, and others on Turning Hard Times into Good Times have spoken of sinister forces, who are behind the American throne of power, disrupting markets and our political system for their own gain, at your expense! This week's special guest, Rob Kirby, applies his vast experiences as a trader in the treasury and gold markets to show how and why our policymakers feel they must manipulate...

Have We Conquered the Crash?

Tue, Oct 20 Listen

60 min. from Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - In 2002, Robert Prechter's book Conquer the Crash predicted a major decline in the stock market and in the economy. He seems to have been "spot on" in his prediction, given the horrendous stock market decline following the Lehman Brothers collapse and the worst business downturn since the Great Depression. Now, the equity markets have bottomed. Since March we have been enjoying a powerful bull market in stocks, commodities, and, to a lesser...

You Too Are an Enemy of the State!

Tue, Oct 13 Listen

60 min. from Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - If you ever watched the movie, "Enemy of the State" starring Will Smith, you no doubt told yourself it was mere fiction. But, what happened to Will Smith was not far fetched. Something similar to what happened to Will Smith happened to this week's guest, Catherine Austin Fitts who applied her banking skills from her days at Dillon Read to help put the federal mortgage operators at FHA/HUD on a sound footing and lower their cost of capital. If...

Using Mining Stocks to Survive Economic Pathology

Tue, Oct 6 Listen

60 min. from Tue Oct 6 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Decades of Keynesian economic policy and irresponsible money creation by the FED has resulted in America becoming the biggest debtor nation in history. Because of that, America is facing prospects for the greatest economic decline since the 1930s. The only question now is whether the symptoms of this decline will be inflation or deflation. Our Special Guest this week, Sean Brodrick believes we face more deflationary pressures in the financial...

Where are we in this Kondratieff Winter Depression?

Tue, Sep 29 Listen

60 min. from Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Nations and their economies run through 50 to 70 year credit expansion/contraction cycles known as a Kondratieff wave. Special guest Ian Gordon, Chairman of Long Wave Group and economic historian tells Jay Taylor why the U.S. and the global economy has entered into a credit contraction that will be as bad or worse than the deflationary depression of the 1930s. Ian will explain why polices geared to stimulating the economy will not only fail...

"Cataclysmic Nation Changing Event - A ‘Progress' Report from Dr. Robert Mc

Tue, Sep 22 Listen

60 min. from Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - On April 27, Dr. McHugh warned our listeners his Elliott Wave work and a number of other technical tools suggest very strongly that the U. S. is heading toward another epic stock market decline that is likely to be much more significant than the one last autumn. He sees the potential for the next decline to alter global history and to take America into another depression much more severe than that of the 1930s. Dr. McHugh also sees a...

The Best of Turning Hard Times into Good Times - Ron and Ed Griffin

Tue, Sep 15 Listen

60 min. from Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - In our very first show, on March 24, 2009, Ed Griffin Author of The Creature from Jekyll Island, explains why America is in the financial mess we are in and how the Federal Reserve and its shareholders are to blame. Mr. Griffin explains what Americans can and must do if we are to have any hope of retaining our personal liberties and prosperity. Congressman Ron Paul, M.D. and Presidential candidate explained on April 7th why the Federal Reserve...

Gold, the Dollar, Commodities, & Special Ways to Make Money in this Depress

Tue, Sep 8 Listen

60 min. from Tue Sep 8 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Is the current bounce back in the equity markets signaling a V shaped recovery and return to prosperity in America? Or are we simply living in the eye of the hurricane? Your host and partners Roger Wiegand and Chen Lin will explain why the worst is yet to come but they will also explain what you can do to best protect yourself against the impending carnage. Roger Wiegand will focus on the commodities futures and options markets. Chen Lin will...

A House Call from The Financial Physician

Tue, Sep 1 Listen

60 min. from Tue Sep 1 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Lou Scatigna is know as "The Financial Physician." In good times or bad, he has the perfect prescription for everyone's financial future. In large part that's because he understands the cause of our national malaise. These times certainly aren't good! The economy is in free fall, and people everywhere are struggling to survive. Unemployment is at record peaks, business closures are epidemic, and foreclosures have gone through the roof. Lives...

Economic Stats the U.S. Government Doesn't Want You to Know

Tue, Aug 25 Listen

60 min. from Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Every week we are bombarded by economic statistics, most of which are derived from the U.S. government or its bed partner, the Federal Reserve Bank. When the numbers are good, Wall Street rallies and the rich get richer. When they are not so good, they are smoothed out over a period of time. When the numbers are too horrible to publish, new methods using highly theoretical assumptions are applied until a politically desirable outcome is...

Credit Contraction & Gold Mining Stocks

Tue, Aug 18 Listen

60 min. from Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - The equity markets have bounced back strongly from the devastating decline following the Lehman Brothers collapse in September of 2008. So, is the economy really on the mend? If so, might inflation be a serious concern in the near future? If inflation becomes problematic, should we start buying Dow and S&P 500 stocks now? If the economic and credit downturn is not over, how should we invest our money? Is it time for gold and silver? What about...

Will Silver Outperform Gold?

Tue, Aug 11 Listen

60 min. from Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Gold-as-money advocates are often painted by establishment propagandists as "crazed, eccentric, weirdo worshipers of a barbaric relic." But if gold bugs are thought of as crazed, silver bugs tout their faith in their favorite precious metals with even more religious and emotional fervor. But if there is one "silver bug" who is level-headed and analyzes silver markets with a rational scientific approach, it is David Morgan. With a background as...

America's Demise & You - How to Cope?

Tue, Aug 4 Listen

60 min. from Tue Aug 4 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Peter Grandich has had a remarkable track record at calling major turns in the markets. He and Arch Crawford (last week's guest) were among the few who called the 1987 crash. We will explore where Peter thinks the markets are heading and how you can prepare your life accordingly. Have you ever noticed how totalitarian governments seek to replace worship of God with worship of an emperor? In addition to his astute understanding of markets, Peter...

Can Heavenly Bodies Improve Earthly Market Profits?

Tue, Jul 28 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Nov. 21, 1978 The Granville Market Letter stated "Crawford predicted almost to the Dow point and day the 1977 decline, its end, and reversal..." January 15, 1981, Dan Dorfman said, " [Crawford] has issued ten buy and sell signals on the market, nine of them were right on target...He's been downright spectacular on the buy side..." August 24th, 1987 Arch Crawford said "Our long term sell signal is set in stone. Be out of all stocks by August...

Early Warning Report on Geopolitical Hotspots and a Declining American Empi

Tue, Jul 21 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - No one understands the interplay of global geopolitics and economics better than Richard Maybury. He predicted that the Muslim world would suck America into an Iraqi war that we could never get out of and that increasing statist policies both on the domestic and foreign fronts would lead to much higher oil and gold prices. Now predicting which of the numerous international powder kegs will likely explode next, Richard also points out how they...

James Turk

Tue, Jul 14 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - For centuries people have instinctively trusted gold as money and a store of value. So, at a time like now, when confidence in paper money is declining, people want to know how to buy gold and where to store it. Special guest James Turks is one of the most experienced gold analysts in the world. Not only does he understand why markets have for centuries, chosen gold as money, but he has been the leader in applying the latest information...

Web of Debt-The Shocking Truth about Our Monetary System

Tue, Jul 7 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jul 7 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Who is responsible for the global economic problems we are now facing? It's most certainly the Federal Reserve Bank or more accurately, its filthy rich International Bank shareholders. Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over, by the Federal Reserve Bank, which is nothing more than a private money cartel. Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans...

Using Gold to Enhance Investment Returns

Tue, Jun 30 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Advice on mainstream TV is free. More often than not, you get what you pay for. Yet, now and then the mainstream media features guests who provide an objective view of the world as it really is rather than the way a self-serving elite would have you see it. Frank Holmes, who heads the U.S. Global Investors group of funds, is one such investment adviser/money manager. His insights are especially appreciated by host Jay Taylor, who has used...

Turning Hard Times into Good Times

Tue, Jun 23 Listen

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German Hyper-Inflation. Could It Happen in America?

Tue, Jun 16 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - J.M. Schuler has been an award winning head writer for Alexander Haig's World Business Review 2000 to 2004. He has hosted the vastly popular syndicated radio show ‘Your Money Matters' sharing ideas with some of the biggest hitters in money management including Louis Navallier , the top people at Seligman Brothers in New York, and Ralph Bloch when he was with Raymond James. He is also a Telly award winner for his writing of a 2 hour documentary...

Washington's Criminal Finances Numbers Don't Compute

Tue, Jun 9 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jun 9 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Two-term Congressman Joseph J. DioGuardi has been the only CPA ever elected to Congress, and for good reason. In the business world, to keep them in good standing, an element of honesty is required of CPAs. Not so with government. So when DioGuardi proposed Republicans take the high road toward honest accounting of government spending, even his own party ridiculed him. On Turning Hard Times into Good Times, DioGuardi will tell how Congress...

This Financial Armageddon & America's Future

Tue, Jun 2 Listen

60 min. from Tue Jun 2 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - The stock market collapse of 2000 wiped out over two-thirds of the value of the Nasdaq Index and decimated the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans. That event prompted this week's special guest Michael Panzner to write his first bearish book, Financial Armageddon. Written in 2007, that book proved eerily prophetic in predicting the economic crisis we now face in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008. The outcome...

The Creature From Jekyll Island Manipulate Gold & Other Markets

Tue, May 26 Listen

60 min. from Tue May 26 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Alan Greenspan has said that governments hate gold because it prohibits them from turning a free market democratic society into a totalitarian economic dictatorship. As Federal Reserve Chairman, Greenspan also said,"The Federal Reserve stands ready to increase the supply of gold, should the price begin to rise." Recognizing the importance of gold and the need for free markets to remain unfettered by government intervention if America is to...

Deflationary Depression Cannot Be Overcome with Bernanke's Helicopter Money

Tue, May 19 Listen

60 min. from Tue May 19 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Michael "Mish" Shedlock argues that the enormous amount of debt taken on by the United States and its citizens dooms our country to a second Great Depression and a future of much lower living standards. He provides convincing evidence that current policies of deficit spending printing money by the FED, even if showered from Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve printing press equipped helicopters will fail. The implications for investors if Mish is...

How Government Controls Have Led to Economic Disaster

Tue, May 12 Listen

60 min. from Tue May 12 00:00:00 CDT 2009 Show - Having dwelt at high levels within the belly of the Wall Street-Washington beast, Catherine Austin Fitts will tell how collateral fraud within the mortgage industry was used to enrich Wall Street at the expense of Main Street. She will explain how the ruling elite control the lives of the Americans people through the use of fraud, deception and dirty tricks. Had she not witnessed firsthand the suppression of her investment firm's information,...

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