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Tom Winmill On Investing In Precious Metals Tom Winmill On Investing In Precious Metals
Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Funds, delves into the precious metals markets and equity performance vs. physical commodities
Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Funds, delves into the precious metals markets and equity performance vs. physical commodities.
  • Market malaise holds gold equities back
  • In defiance, Midas Fund outpaced metal performance (2007)
  • Global GDP growth and bubble bursting
June 17, 2008
Duration: 06:15 min
 
Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Funds Tom Winmill On Legislation And Speculation Limits
Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Funds, discusses the effects of a proposed ban on commodity speculation and commodity investment in pension funds, and revisits his fund's allocations and platinum
Tom Winmill, portfolio manager of Midas Funds, discusses the effects of a proposed ban on commodity speculation and commodity investment in pension funds, his fund’s allocations and platinum.
  • Commodity markets and prices affected
  • Volatile by nature
  • Platinum demand surpasses production
 July 01, 2008
Duration: 05:17 min
 
Marc Chandler Examines Changing Currencies Marc Chandler Examines Changing Currencies
Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, discusses the dollar, and what’s dragging it down.
Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, explores the link between oil, gold, the euro and the dollar.
  • Saudis still dealing in dollars
  • Gold: the good alternative?
  • Relatively no cost to the weak dollar
 June 10, 2008
Duration: 05:27 min
 
Marc Chandler Dissects Marc Chandler Dissects the Dollar’s Decline
Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, discusses the dollar, and what’s dragging it down.
Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, discusses the dollar, and what's dragging it down.
  • A healthy amount of exaggeration
  • The Fed’s fault?
  • U.S. deficits—believe it or not—improving
 June 03, 2008
Duration: 05:30 min
 
Biofuels Professor Says Corn Will Never Work
Roy Nersesian is Professor at Center for Energy and Marine Transportation Columbia University
Roy Nersesian, an energy specialist from Columbia University, puts the biofuels hype under a realist's microscope.
  • Why corn-based ethanol will never work
  • The chink in cellulosic ethanol
  • Hope for biodiesel?
 May 13, 2008
Duration: 05:28 min
 
Roy Nersesian Sees ‘The Perfect Storm’
Roy Nersesian is Professor at Center for Energy and Marine Transportation Columbia University
Despite a speculative element, the fundamental forces behind the rise in agricultural prices may persist.
  • The Chinese want beef (and that drives up grains)
  • Biodiesel and palm oil
  • Could speculators get caught out?
 May 20, 2008
Duration: 06:02 min
 
Barry Ritholtz Wants Us To Stay Cautious
Fusion IQ's CEO thinks that the entire 2003–2007 economy recovery was "backwards," and that we're starting to pay the price.
Fusion IQ’s CEO thinks that the entire 2003–2007 economy recovery was “backwards," and that we’re starting to pay the price.
  • Market to drop further
  • No virtuous cycle of raised wages
  • The Greenspan put hits payback
 April 29, 2008
Duration: 05:40 min
 
Barry Ritholtz Sees More Upside In Commodities
Fusion IQ's CEO thinks that the entire 2003–2007 economy recovery was "backwards," and that we're starting to pay the price.
With the Fed printing money and global demand continuing to grow, Ritholtz says the long-term trends are intact.
  • Fed fuels inflation
  • Institutions move into the market
  • Gold has further to go up
 May 06, 2008
Duration: 05:39 min
 
The Gloves Come Off
Peter Schiff, author of the new book Crash Proof, debates Mike Norman on Gold
HAI anchor Mike Norman and Peter Schiff, author of the new book Crash Proof, square off on whether gold and commodities are a good investment.
  • Why is gold down 50% on a real-return basis since 1980?
  • Schiff says gold going to "several thousand dollars an ounce"
  • The need for a "cleansing recession"
 April 15, 2008
Duration: 06:56 min
 
Are We Doomed? Norman and Schiff Debate America’s Future
Peter Schiff, author of the new book Crash Proof, debates Mike Norman on the Dollar.
Peter Schiff says the U.S. economy is doomed, and that the dollar is nearing collapse. Can Mike Norman convince him otherwise?
  • The dollar's down, but you ain't seen nothing yet
  • Do we need to produce "hard goods" in our economy?
  • The dollar is up 400% over the past 40 years
 April 22, 2008
Duration: 07:10 min
 
Walter Nasdeo, Ardour Capital, Discusses Alternative Energy Stocks: Part I
Walter Nasdeo, Director of Ardour Capital, Discusses Alternative Energy Stocks.
The Director of Research for Ardour Capital says alternative energy and ethanol are "here to stay."
  • Corn-based ethanol isn't going away
  • The alternative energy market is maturing
  • The relationship between alternative energy and oil prices
 April 01, 2008
Duration: 06:12 min
 
Walter Nasdeo, Ardour Capital, Discusses Alternative Energy Stocks: Part II
Walter Nasdeo, Director of Ardour Capital, Discusses Alternative Energy Stocks.
Walter Nasdeo, Director of Research for Ardour Capital, talks about the factors driving investment in alternative energy.
  • Huge global VC influx
  • New technologies in play
  • Energy efficiency, photovoltaics major factors
 April 08, 2008
Duration: 06:00 min
 
Bank of New York's Michael Woolfolk Discusses The Dollar - Part I
Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist for The Bank of New York Mellon, examines the forces pushing the dollar lower.
Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist for The Bank of New York Mellon, examines the forces pushing the dollar lower.
  • A structural account deficit
  • Will oil-producing nations switch to the euro?
  • Fed pushing growth over inflation
 March 18, 2008
Duration: 05:46 min
 
Bank of New York's Michael Woolfolk Discusses The Dollar - Part II
Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist for The Bank of New York Mellon.
Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist for The Bank of New York Mellon, asks: Will the dollar remain the world’s reserve currency?
  • We want a stable dollar, not a strong dollar
  • Paulson’s success with China
  • The yuan is going up 30%+
 March 25, 2008
Duration: 06:13 min
 
Ashmead Pringle Interview Part I
Ashmead Pringle, President and Founder, GreenHaven Commodity Services
The founder of the new GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund explains why he’s completely bullish on commodities.
  • It’s hard to be bearish on energy
  • Grains outlook wide open
  • How the new fund works … and how it’s different from competing products
 March 05, 2008
Duration: 05:49 min
 
Ashmead Pringle Interview Part II
Ashmead Pringle, President and Founder, GreenHaven Commodity Services
The founder of the new GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund says big money is distorting the commodities market.
  • Everyone wants to be like Yale
  • The outlook for contango and backwardation
  • The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of corn
 March 11, 2008
Duration: 05:46 min
 
Paul Quartararo Interview – Part I
Paul Quartararo, Partner at SPECTRA Resources Corporation
SPECTRA Resources' Paul Quartararo talks about the direction of the global steel market.
  • Steel prices are expected to continue to rise in 2008
  • In the U.S., nonresidential construction is replacing demand as residential construction slumps
  • Emerging markets are driving demand outside the U.S.
 February 19, 2008
Duration: 06:00 min
 
Paul Quartararo Interview – Part II
Paul Quartararo, Partner at SPECTRA Resources Corporation
SPECTRA Resources' Paul Quartararo talks about the direction of the global steel market.
  • China has replaced the U.S. as the world’s largest consumer of steel
  • U.S. domestic steel production cannot supply all of domestic demand
  • Profits are not yet keeping up with price increases
 February 27, 2008
Duration: 5:48 min
 
Interview with Kevin Kerr - Part I
Kevin Kerr, President and Founder of Kerr Trading International
Kevin Kerr, one of the world's foremost agriculture commodity traders, surveys the landscape.
  • Corn is up, but it may go higher
  • Sugar could be sweet
  • Watch for pullbacks
 February 04, 2008
Duration: 05:39 min
 
Interview with Kevin Kerr - Part II
Kevin Kerr, President and Founder of Kerr Trading International
Kevin Kerr, one of the world's foremost agriculture commodity traders, surveys the landscape.
  • Why institutions are driving prices higher
  • The impact of China
  • An 8-year bull market
 February 06, 2008
Duration: 5:38 min
 
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