In the game of resource investing, people are key. This forum is dedicated to uncovering names that you should keep an eye out for.

Mining alliances you should pay attention to as well as resources you can use to do research.

News, commentary and company reviews by Peter Grandich. You can subscribe to his commentary for free by visiting grandich.com

For those of you that know Merv, you are familiar with his past success in timing the precious metal stocks. You have read his articles published on www.gold-eagle.com and www.kitcocasey.com, and his former newsletters that he published for several years, the weekly Technically Speaking with Wil-Arm and the monthly Talking Gold with Wil-Arm. You know that Merv has studied and researched technical analysis, developing many indicators and trading techniques for over 35 years, during which time Merv received his certification as a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) from the U.S. Market Technicians Association. Based upon such certification and his expertise in technical analysis, various Canadian Provincial Securities Commissions gave him registration as a Securities Adviser based solely upon the technical discipline qualifications. Merv was the first and still the only technician with such Canadian registration. http://preciousmetalscentral.com/

Ken Gerbino heads Kenneth J. Gerbino & Company, which is in its 34th year. The company manages portfolios for individuals, pensions, trusts and corporations. The company manages private equity accounts as well as the Gerbino Gold Group, LLC, a private fund that invests in precious metal mining stocks. Ken is also the precious metal mining consultant to $2 billion ICM Capital Management. Ken was the Founder and Chairman of the American Economic Council (AEC), a nationwide economic reform group that was credited with the passage of the United States Gold Coin Act of 1984, which established the United States Gold Eagle coin. AEC seminars included participation by Alan Greenspan, Noble Laureate F. A. Hayek and Robert Bleiberg, Editor-in-Chief of Barrons. A former member of the Senatorial Trust in Washington, D.C., Ken remains well informed on national and international economic issues. The 1994 and 1996 editions of Nelson Publications’ “America’s Best Money Managers”, a comprehensive survey of global investment managers, ranked Kenneth J. Gerbino & Company’s investment accounts among the Top 10 in the world in their respective categories. Ken also was the co-manager of a publicly traded mutual fund, The Growth & Income Fund, part of The Reserve Funds family of Funds. Ken is on the Board of Directors of Titan Oil Recovery, Inc. He was previously a Director of the Los Angeles Unified School District Annuity Reserve Board, the Apple School, Athena Gold Corporation and Fortress Technologies, Inc. Ken was editor of The Kenneth J. Gerbino Investment Letter, an international investment and economic newsletter, for 15 years. His views have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, Investor’s Business Daily, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune and many others. A former financial analyst for Litton Industries and Republic Corporation, he has a B.S. in Business Administration from Ithaca College and an MBA from Syracuse University.

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Richard Daughty (Mogambo Guru) is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron’s, The Daily Reckoning , and other fine publications.

Nouriel Roubini is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at NYU and Chairman of RGE Monitor. www.rgemonitor.com

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Chris Mayer studied finance at the University of Maryland, graduating magna cum laude. He went on to earn his MBA while embarking on a decade-long career in corporate banking. Chris is the editor of Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations , a monthly report that unearths unique and unconventional opportunities in smaller-cap stocks. In 2008, Chris authored Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider .

Authors: John Townsend, Gary, Toby Connor www.goldscents.blogspot.com

Contributed commentary from Troy Schwensen. globalspeculator.com.au Follows mining sector with a focus on Australian stocks.

Adam Hamilton/Scott Wright Proprietors of Zeal, LLC. zealllc.com

Section for all things ETF. Especially leveraged ETF's.

The Stock Market Barometer uses a number of analytical tools in its search for value. Dow Theory, Gann, charts, and Fibonacci are among them and we admit that we rely heavily on Dow Theory. We tend to avoid popular opinion and think the Bloomberg's of the world should be “listened” to with the mute on at all times. Gurus come and go, but Dow Theory has been around for 110 years. www.thestockmarketbarometer.com

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jsmineset.com - You would do well to listen when this man speaks. CEO of Tanzanian Royalty. Jim Sinclair is a precious metals and commodities specialist. Some of the highlights of his nearly 50 year career include the founding of Sinclair Group of Companies (1977), which offered full brokerage services. Mr. Sinclair served as a Precious Metals Advisor to Hunt Oil and the Hunt family for the liquidation of their silver position as a prerequisite for the $1 billion loan arranged by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker. He was also a General Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of two New York Stock Exchange firms and President of Sinclair Global Clearing Corporation and Global Arbitrage . He has authored numerous magazine articles and three books dealing with a variety of investment subjects. He is a regular speaker at various commodities related events. In January 2003, Mr. Sinclair launched, "Jim Sinclairs MineSet," which now hosts his gold commentary and is intended as a free service to the gold community.

For over a quarter of a century, legendary investor and best-selling author Doug Casey and his team at Casey Research have been helping self-directed investors to earn superior returns through innovative investment research designed to take advantage of market dislocations. www.caseyresearch.com/about-us/

President of EuroPacific Capital. Financial advisor to the Ron Paul campaign.

Contributed commentary from our friend Jeffrey Kern - www.skigoldstocks.com

Contributed commentary from Streetwise Gold Report. www.theaureport.com

Contributed commentary from www.resourcestockguide.com

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Contributed Commentary from Clive Maund. Clive's focus is on Technical Analysis.

Commentary by Bob Hoye of Institutional Advisors. www.institutionaladvisors.com

Technical Analysis by Florian Grummes of TheSilverGoldSpot.com. Florian Grummes (born 1975 in Munich, Germany) is a selfemployed professional fulltime trader & very creative music producer and songwirter. He started trading & investing in 1996 and specialized in the precious metals sector since 2003. He did countless trading & selfdevelopment workshops and did as well the Supertrader Program with legendary Market Wizard Van Tharp. His main focus is technical analysis but he always carefully researches fundamental & sentimental perpectives as well. He is writing the very successful goldanalysis „Midas Touch“ every two weeks in german and english. His main passion besides trading and music is selfgrowth & spirituality.

Official website for the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane. It is a non-profit public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato's Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. The mission of the Cato Institute is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace. The Institute will use the most effective means to originate, advocate, promote, and disseminate applicable policy proposals that create free, open, and civil societies in the United States and throughout the world.

Contributed commentary from Ruben Varela of TheGoldenBull.net

Ron Paul blog

Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee. www.gata.org

Investmentscore.com is the home of the Investment Scoring & Timing Newsletter. Our newsletter service was founded on revolutionary insight yet simple principles. Our contrarian views help us remain focused on locating undervalued assets based on major macro market moves. Instead of comparing a single market to a continuously moving currency, we directly compare multiple major markets to one another. We expect this direct market to market comparison will help us locate the beginning and end of major bull markets and thereby capitalize on the largest, most profitable trades. We pride ourselves on cutting through the "noise" of popular opinion, media hype, investing myths, standard over used analysis tools and other distractions and try to offer a unique, clear perspective for investing.

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Contributed commentary by Chris Vermeulen. TheGoldAndOilGuy.com

Contributed commentary from Borealis Exploration Limited. www.borealis.gi. Full Disclosure: members of the Gold-Speculator team are shareholders in Borealis.

Sister publication to The Gold Report.

Contributed Commentary from James West et al. MidasLetter.com

Contributed Commentary from Jack Chan at simplyprofits.org

Contributed commentary from BullionVault.com

Contributed commentary from Jason Hommel. SilverStockReport.com

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Contributed commentary from Stewart Thomson. www.gracelandupdates.com. Stewart Thomson is a retired Merrill Lynch broker. Stewart writes the Graceland Updates daily between 4am-7am. They are sent out around 8am-9am.

Contributed commentary from Professor Antal Fekete. Professor Antal E. Fekete is a renowned mathematician and monetary scientist. This site will illuminate some of his important ideas in the areas of: * Fiscal and Monetary Reform * Gold Standard University * Real Bills Doctrine * Basis * Discount versus Interest * Gold and Interest www.professorfekete.com

The Market Ticker. Commentary on the capital markets by Karl Denninger. market-ticker.denninger.net

Editorials by John Mauldin of InvestorInsight.com. John Mauldin is the creative force behind the Millennium Wave investment theory. John is a New York Times best-selling author with a unique ability to present complex financial topics and make them understandable to the lay reader. He has authored Just One Thing, Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Secrets of the World’s Wealthiest Investors, and Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market.

Paco Ahlgren has worked as a financial analyst for sixteen years. He has spent the last two decades studying quantum physics and its implications on modern scientific, economic, financial, and psychological theories, as well as its dramatic similarities to Eastern philosophies and religions—most notably, Taoism. Paco’s first novel, Discipline, is a confluence of these passions. The book won the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award, the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Award and the 2008 FOREWORD BOOK of the Year Competition Silver Medalist Award.

Website of California Numismatic Investments or better known as CNI. They are rare coin and bullion dealers based in California. golddealer.com

Contributed Commentary from Roland Watson. Roland Watson is the author of The Silver Analyst, a paid newsletter focusing solely on Silver and its related topics from both a fundamental and technical point of view. www.silveranalyst.blogspot.com

John B. Lounsbury Ph.D., CFP is a financial planner and investment advisor in Clayton, NC. http://piedmonthudson.wordpress.com/

Contributed commentary from James West at ResourcexInvestor.com. This is a sister site to Midas Letter.

Editorials by John Mauldin, President of Millennium Wave Securities. www.2000wave.com. John Mauldin is the creative force behind the Millennium Wave investment theory. John is a New York Times best-selling author with a unique ability to present complex financial topics and make them understandable to the lay reader. He has authored Just One Thing, Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Secrets of the World’s Wealthiest Investors, and Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market.

Ashraf Laidi is currently chief foreign exchange strategist at CMC Markets, where he oversees the analysis and forecasting functions of G-10 currency pairs as well as decisions and trends of the major global central banks. Laidi is also responsible for education services and informing clients on the essential dynamics underpinning FX markets. His FX analysis has received world-wide wide acclaim for more than a decade, centering on G10 currencies and economies. His currency forecasts frequently placed Number 1 in FXWeek's Currency Forecasting since 2006. Ashraf Laidi's market analysis extends to the study of major equity indices, gold and oil, shedding light on the appropriate signals emerging from these markets and their implications for currencies.

Clif Droke is the editor of the Gold Strategies Review newsletter, published since 1997, which covers gold, U.S. and Canadian precious metals equity markets and mutual funds and other natural resources. The forecasts are made using a unique proprietary blend of analytical methods involving internal momentum and moving average systems, as well as investor sentiment. He is also the author of numerous books, including “How to Read Chart Patterns for Greater Profits.” For more information visit www.clifdroke.com

James Turk - Founder & Chairman of GoldMoney.com James Turk has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. His business career began at The Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase Bank), which included assignments in Thailand, the Philippines and Hong Kong. He subsequently joined the investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader based in Greenwich, Connecticut. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987. Since 1987 James Turk has written The Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment newsletter that publishes twenty issues annually. He is the author of two books and several monographs and articles on money and banking. He is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar (Doubleday, December 2004), which has been updated for a newly released paperback version, now entitled The Collapse of the Dollar (www.dollarcollapse.com).

Bio: James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. These articles reflect the personal views of James Quinn. They do not necessarily represent the views of his employer and are not sponsored or endorsed by his employer. He can be reached at quinnadvisors@comcast.net.

Barron’s once labeled him an “intrepid trader” in a headline that alluded to his key role in solving a notorious pill-tampering case. He received a $200,000 reward when a conviction resulted, and the story was retold on TV’s FBI: The Untold Story. But to the gang at CNBC, he’s been a pariah for the last ten years - a shoot-from-the-hip kinda guy whose irreverent style got him banned from the show after an interview on Squawk Box was alleged to have gone awry. His professional background includes 12 years as a market maker on the floor of the Pacific Coast Exchange, three as an investigator with renowned San Francisco private eye Hal Lipset, seven as a reporter and newspaper editor, three as a columnist for the Sunday San Francisco Examiner, and two decades as a contributor to publications ranging from Barron’s to The Antiquarian Bookman to Fleet Street Letter and Utne Reader. His detailed strategies for stocks, options, and indexes have appeared since the early 1990s in Black Box Forecasts, a newsletter he founded that originally was geared to professional option traders.

Contributed commentary by Mark Lundeen. Mark Lundeen is a retired US Navy Chief Petty Officer. His unique economic research of Barron's data provides for a unique view of the markets and future possibilities. His Bear Market Race to the Bottom series is a must read.

Addison Wiggin is the editorial director of The Daily Reckoning, and executive publisher of Agora Financial, a multi-million dollar financial research firm and publishing group based in Baltimore, Maryland. His second edition of The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was just fully revised and updated. He is also the executive producer of and a writer of I.O.U.S.A. a feature length documentary film nominated for the Grand Jury prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The film is inspired by the international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt, which he coauthored with Bill Bonner. Special Report: Introducing the Single Best Way to Make Sure You’ll Never Run Out of Money… The Endless “Paycheck Portfolio”

DGC Magazine is committed to the legal expansion of digital currency. Free market money, complementary currency and digital currency are local and global solutions which can expand trade and build a stronger world. A world not based on paper debt or the future promise to pay. Slowly, legally and ethically we try to move digital gold currency forward into everyday business. www.dgcmagazine.com

Contributed commentary from Timothy and Dan Silvers. The 'Silver Brothers'. www.silverbrothers.com

Contributed commentary from Olivier Tischendorf. Writer of the Tischendorf Letter. tischendorf.com

Mary Anne and Pamela Aden are two of the most influential and well known investment analysts, writers and lecturers in the world. They are the co-editors and publishers of The Aden Forecast, a monthly investment newsletter, which specializes in the U.S. stock market, mutual funds, U.S. interest rates and bonds, the international stock and bond markets, as well as the foreign exchange and precious metals markets. The Adens are also the Directors of Aden Research, based in San Jose, Costa Rica, and they are professional money managers. They have authored dozens of reports and articles and have spoken at investment seminars around the world. Their work has been featured in newspapers in several countries, in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Barron's, The London Financial Times, as well as CNBC business news and the international television documentary, Women of the World. Mary Anne and Pamela Aden are sisters and they've lived in Costa Rica since 1974.

A Daily Compendium of Free-Market Analysis. Appenzeller Business Press AG (ARBP). ARBP is located in the scenic Swiss village of Gais-one of the last bastions of free market thinking, culture and tradition. With just 3,000 proud residents, Gais is renowned for its free market traditions, respect for personal liberty, rejection of government intervention and reverence for Austrian economic principles. Still to this day, Appenzellers gather each year in the village square to take part in one of the world's oldest and purest forms of direct democracy, the Landsgemeinde. It's a centuries old tradition that happens just minutes from our offices. Eligible citizens meet openly in the village square to decide on laws and expenditures by the council. Everyone can debate a question. And those in favor of an issue signify their vote by simply raising their arm in the air for all to see.

www.hardassetinvestor.com HardAssetsInvestor.com (HAI) is a research-oriented Web site devoted to sharing ideas about hard assets investing. The site has been developed as an educational resource for both individual and institutional investors interested in learning more about commodity equities, commodity futures and gold (the three major components of the hard assets marketplace). The site will focus on hard assets investing without endorsing or recommending any particular investment product or approach. Brought to you by Van Eck Associates Corporation, HAI aims to be a robust and informative center for discussion for all hard assets investors. As you further explore the hard assets arena, please contact usThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with issues or questions you'd like to see addressed. Additionally, any suggestions you have for the site are both welcomed and encouraged. The materials provided on this Web site are for informational and educational purposes only and are not intended to provide tax, legal or investment advice. Nothing contained on the Web site shall be considered a recommendation, solicitation or offer to buy or sell a security to any person in any jurisdiction.

Contributed Commentary by Warren Bevan of preciousmetalstockreview.com

Self employed for the last 30 years in several business enterprises and startup companies. Founding Director on three occasions and held a corporate organic waste management contract for 9 years. Professional skills also include preparation of various business documentation, import / export, customer service, sales and administration. Private investing experience going back 29 years in bullion, futures, options, share investing / trading, real estate and unlisted companies. A passion for precious metals and global economics led to extensive research over the last decade and a decision to create the Gold Oz web site at the beginning of 2006. www.goldoz.com.au

Contributed commentary by Hugo Salinas Price. http://www.plata.com.mx

Contributed Commentary by Alf Field.

Since founding Agora Inc. in 1979, Bill Bonner has found success and garnered camaraderie in numerous communities and industries. A man of many talents, his entrepreneurial savvy, unique writings, philanthropic undertakings, and preservationist activities have all been recognized and awarded by some of America’s most respected authorities. Along with Addison Wiggin, his friend and colleague, Bill has written two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt . Both works have been critically acclaimed and internationally. With political journalist Lila Rajiva, he wrote his third New York Times best-selling book, Mobs, Messiahs and Markets , which offers concrete advice on how to avoid the public spectacle of modern finance. Since 1999, Bill has been a daily contributor and the driving force behind The Daily Reckoning .

The Mercenary Geologist Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with a B.Sc. Earth Sciences with honor from the University of Tulsa, and M.Sc. Geology from the University of New Mexico. Mickey has 30 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, and water in North and South America and China. Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist for the past 22 years, specializing in geological mapping and property evaluation. In addition to Mickey’s professional credentials and experience, he is high-altitude proficient and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2003 to 2006, Mickey made four outcrop ore discoveries in Peru, Nevada, Chile, and British Columbia.

Chuck Butler is President of EverBank® World Markets and the author of the popular Daily Pfennig newsletter, which is reposted here at The Daily Reckoning. With a career in investment services and currencies extending over 35 years, Mr. Butler oversees all aspects of customer service and the trading desk for EverBank World Markets. A respected analyst of the currency market, Mr. Butler has frequently made appearances or been quoted by the national media. These include the Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, MarketWatch, USAToday, CNNfn, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Butler was previously the Chief International Bond Trader and Director of Risk Management for Mark Twain Bank, and has held significant positions in the investment industry since 1973.

“Brevity is the soul of wit,” wrote Shakespeare long ago…and we’re inclined to agree. If there’s one thing lacking in your daily deluge of e-mails, financial media, and other distractions, it’s brief, concise judgment. That’s why we’ve created The 5 Min. Forecast: a daily e-letter designed to cut through the incredible glut of “news” by providing you with a quick and dirty round up of the most essential ideas and not-so-common knowledge - in five minutes or less. --Joe Schriefer Publisher, Agora Financial

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The golden jackass is designed to inform and instruct in the complex ways of gold, currencies, bonds, interest rates, stocks, commodities, futures, derivatives, and the world economy, with no respect shown for inept bankers and economists, whose policies and practices contribute toward the slow motion degradation, if not destruction, of the financial world ~ Jim Willie CB, aka "The Golden Jackass"

Russell began publishing Dow Theory Letters in 1958, and he has been writing the Letters ever since (never once having skipped a Letter). Dow Theory Letters is the oldest service continuously written by one person in the business. Russell gained wide recognition via a series of over 30 Dow Theory and technical articles that he wrote for Barron's during the late-'50s through the '90s. Through Barron's and via word of mouth, he gained a wide following. Russell was the first (in 1960) to recommend gold stocks. He called the top of the 1949-'66 bull market. And almost to the day he called the bottom of the great 1972-'74 bear market, and the beginning of the great bull market which started in December 1974. In 1989 Russell took over Julian Snyder's well-known advisory service, "International Moneyline", a service which Mr. Synder ran from Switzerland. Then, in 1998 Russell took over the Zweig Forecast from famed market analyst, Martin Zweig. Russell has written articles and been quoted in such publications as Bloomberg magazine, Barron's, Time, Newsweek, Money Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Reuters, and others. Subscribers to Dow Theory Letters number over 12,000, hailing from all 50 states and dozens of overseas counties.

SmartKnowledgeU™, LLC was founded on a simple bet I made with a friend many years ago that believed I couldn’t outperform the best money managers on Wall Street. Well that year, my stock portfolio (with all long positions, and no options) returned 40% while the major index in the U.S. returned 6% over that same time period. In winning the bet, I employed some very untraditional strategies that I believed were the best ways to invest money, though the mainstream investment firms most assuredly would have disagreed with me. In fact, because my methods utilized strategies that greatly diminished the risks associated with the uncertainties of investing, they increased the probability of achieving financial freedom in a shorter timespan than traditional methods of investing. When I realized that these strategies would work repeatedly over time to produce consistent significant returns, it was at this point that I decided to establish SmartKnowledgeU™, LLC. Today, my consistent if not spectacular track record of predicting the various steps of this crisis since 2006 has attracted the attention of Reuters online, Gata.org, Google finance, Yahoo finance, Seeking Alpha, Wikinvest, the Financial Times, and others, as all of these sites have re-printed articles I have written on my investment blog, the Underground Investor.

Gary North is the author of Mises on Money. He is also the author of a free 20-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible. Visit his website: GaryNorth.com.

With a degree in geophysics and a number of fascinating summers in mining exploration, one winter in "the bush" quickly led Bob into the financial markets. This included experience on the trading desk and in the research department of a large investment dealer, which led to institutional stock and bond sales. Bob's review of financial history provided the forecasting models designed to anticipate significant trend reversals in the sometimes alarming volatility typical of the transition from rampant speculation in tangible assets to fabulous speculation in financial assets. In anticipation of the latter opportunity, a monthly publication for financial institutions was started in January 1982. This competently covered the stock market, the yield curve, credit spreads as well as metal and energy prices. In 1998 the Institutional Advisors website was started as a forum for unique and reliable financial research. Bob, as chief financial strategist, writes the weekly overview - PIVOTAL EVENTS. www.institutionaladvisors.com

Doug Casey's thoughts on various subject matters.

Contributed commentary by David and Eric Coffin. David, the “geology side” of HRA, has been active in prospecting, resource calculation, and feasibility studies for resource companies for 29 years. He attended the Haileybury School of Mines, authored numerous qualifying reports for resource companies, and managed and designed field programs for over 15 years. Responsible for the “financial analysis” side of HRA, Eric has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures. hraadvisory.com

Adrian Douglas is a market analyst and CEO of the Market Force Analysis newsletter (http://www.marketforceanalysis.com). He graduated in 1980 from Cambridge University, England, in natural sciences. For 20 years he worked in the oil and gas industry, where he held senior management positions in marketing and sales. He now runs his own consultancy and has been contracted by the largest companies in the oilfield services sector. His study of enterprise pricing and commercial markets led to his interest in the market pricing mechanisms of financial assets. As a result he developed a unique algorithm and methodology for analyzing financial futures markets and in particular for identifying appropriate entry and exit points. The technique has been named "market force analysis" and two patents have been filed on his techniques. He has a particular interest in the precious metals markets and serves on the Board of Directors of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee.

Mark Nestmann is a journalist with more than 20 years of investigative experience and is a charter member of The Sovereign Society’s Council of Experts. He has authored over a dozen books and many additional reports on wealth preservation, privacy and offshore investing. Mark serves as president of his own international consulting firm, The Nestmann Group, Ltd. The Nestmann Group provides international wealth preservation services for high-net worth individuals. Mark is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (member of subcommittee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, Committee on Taxation) and member of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2005, he was awarded a Masters of Laws (LL.M) degree in international tax law at the Vienna (Austria) University of Economics and Business Administration.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Ed Steer is a keen observer of the financial scene and a director of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). As a Casey Research correspondent, he tirelessly digs up relevant financial and resource investment news Casey subscribers will benefit from.

John Winston is the technical commodity trader analyst. He provides detailed technical analysis for popular commodities like gold, silver, copper, oil, and natural gas. By focusing strictly on these commodity price movements trading become strictly technical and simple to trade. His free trading reports are available at his website: www.TechnicalCommodityTrader.com

Dr. John Hussman is the president and principal shareholder of Hussman Econometrics Advisors, the investment advisory firm that manages the Hussman Funds ( http://www.hussmanfunds.com). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, and a Masters degree in education and social policy and a bachelors degree in economics from Northwestern University. Prior to managing the Hussman Funds, Dr. Hussman was a professor of economics and international finance at the University of Michigan. In the mid-1980's, Dr Hussman worked as an options mathematician for Peters & Company at the Chicago Board of Trade, and in 1988 began publishing the Hussman Econometrics newsletter. Virtually all of Dr. Hussman's liquid assets are invested in the Hussman Funds.

Rob was born in 1960 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and moved to Toronto, Ontario with his parents when 11. He received his post secondary education at York University [Economics] in Toronto. When he finished his degree, he went to work in the financial district [Bay St.] in Toronto. He worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers [which has subsequently been bought out by Cantor Fitzgerald], then spent two years at Garban Inc., another inter dealer bond brokerage in Toronto - and left the industry in 1996. He started writing in 1997, and was involved in a number of entrepreneurial pursuits from marketing Buffalo meat to a part time stint in the giftware business. In 2002, he went to work for Investor's Group, the largest Mutual Fund Company in Canada. He worked there up until September '04 when he resigned to write about the markets - and his book - from a "gold bug's" point of view. www.kirbyanalytics.com

A land developer, professional numismatist, self-taught bullion trader and investor since 1980, Gene Arensberg analyzes technical and fundamental developments in the precious metals markets. In 2000 Gene started sharing his own market research with fellow traders and fund managers. Those email reports evolved into his popular Got Gold Report, a biweekly look at important indicators for gold and silver published on the web. Gene’s more in-depth market reports, insights and trading ideas are an added service for subscribers of the very popular Gold Newsletter (GNL). GNL is edited and published by Jefferson, Louisiana based Jefferson Direct, Brien Lundin, President. Brien hosts the acclaimed New Orleans Investment Conference each year which has brought investors together with some of the best and most sought after financial experts and investment authorities in the world for over three decades. For more information visit GoldNewsletter.com or NewOrleansConference.com

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, in addition to running a busy medical practice, is the editor of Silver-Coin-Investor.com and Hard-Money-Newsletter-Review.com. The latter is a free Gold and Silver Newsletter Review Blog written for the silver coin investor. The goal with each is to help those who are new to precious metals become better acquainted with the fundamentals and the vast body of commentary. www.silver-coin-investor.com

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Successful speculating in minerals exploration requires an edge: the ability to differentiate between fact and fiction. Through Exploration Insights, Brent Cook provides you with rigorous factual analysis based on decades of industry related experience in over 60 countries. These Insights are supplemented by extensive on site field evaluations of mineral properties. For an exploration speculator, there is no substitute for in-the-field experience to truly understand both the potential for a mineral discovery and the fatal flaws that make an economic discovery all but impossible. www.explorationinsights.com

Dan Amoss, CFA, is managing editor for Strategic Short Report and a contributing editor to Whiskey and Gunpowder. Dan joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, investment adviser for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. As a buy-side analyst, Dan refined his value investing approach by meeting with corporate executives and sell-side analysts and writing proprietary research for the fund’s management team.

Gary Gibson is the managing editor for Whiskey and Gunpowder. He joins the Whiskey staff as a long-time fan and reader of both Whiskey and Gunpowder and the Daily Reckoning. A graduate of Fordham University, Gary now spends his days reading about and writing on limited government, sound money, personal responsibility and resource investing.

Prior to joining Whiskey and Gunpowder, Byron received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations and as a field historian with the Navy. Our resident energy and oil expert, Byron is the editor of Outstanding Investments and Energy and Scarcity Investor.

Mark Brown is an independent trader who focuses on trading ETF funds. He has been involved in markets and money management since 1998. His unique trading model which uses a combination of analysis like: economy, market cycles, chart patterns, volume, market internals, and money management. www.ETFTradingPartner.com

Axel Merk is the Founder and President of Merk Investments and the author of "Sustainable Wealth" due in bookstores in October 2009. Merk is an expert on macro trends, hard money, international investing and on building sustainable wealth. An authority on currencies, he is a pioneer in the use of strategic currency investing to seek diversification. Axel Merk is a sought after speaker and author on topics ranging from the economy, gold and currencies to sustainable wealth and personal finance, as well as a regular guest and contributor to the business media around the world. Merk’s insight and expertise have allowed him to foresee major economic developments: As early as 2003, he identified the building of the credit bubble; in 2005, he positioned his clients to move out of real estate and the faltering U.S. dollar by investing in hard currencies and gold; in early 2007 he wisely cautioned that volatility would surge, causing a painful credit contraction affecting all asset classes. Read the latest Merk Insights providing the Merk perspective on currencies, global imbalances, the trade deficit, the socio-economic impact of the U.S. administration’s policies and effects on your wealth. Axel Merk’s 2009 book “Sustainable Wealth” is about understanding how the greater economic universe works, how that may affect your finances, and how to manage those finances to seek financial stability. Click here for more information. Axel Merk holds a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University. Axel Merk founded Merk Investments in Switzerland in 1994; in 2001 he relocated the business to the U.S. He is married to Hanna Tikkanen-Merk and they live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their four children. He is a marathon runner and a private pilot.

Carter Thompson trades full-time using a proven trading model which takes advantage traders fear and greed mentality along with the stock market internals allowing for low risk high profit strategy. He provides his trading analysis and signals at no charge for fellow traders. Visit his website for more information. www.MarketTimingSignals.com

Theodore Andros began his commodity career in the early 1980's and became a managed futures specialist beginning in 1985. Mr. Andros' expertise encompasses marketing, sales, portfolio selection and monitoring, customer relations and all aspects required in building a successful managed futures and alternative investment brokerage service. Mr. Andros attended the University of San Diego and the University of Miami, majoring in Marketing, Economics and Business Administration. He began his career as a broker in 1983 and has worked his way to the creation of TraderView, a firm that specializes in creating absolute return alternative investment portfolios. Mr. Andros is active in Economic analysis and brings this information and analysis to his clients on a regular basis, creating investment portfolios designed to capture these unfolding opportunities as they emerge. Ty prides himself on his personal preparation for the markets as they unfold and his ability to take this information and build professionally managed portfolios, developing a loyal clientele. Ty is the author of 'Tedbits'. Tedbits is a global macro and micro analysis dedicated to explaining the challenges facing investors today. www.alternativeinvestingfacts.com

Now in its 10th anniversary year, The Daily Reckoning is the flagship e-letter of Baltimore-based financial research firm and publishing group Agora Financial, a subsidiary of Agora Inc. The Daily Reckoning provides over half a million subscribers with literary economic perspective, global market analysis, and contrarian investment ideas. In short, The Daily Reckoning shows how to live well even in uncertain times.

Paul van Eeden is President of Cranberry Capital Inc., a private Canadian holding company. He began his career in the financial and resource sectors as a stockbroker with Rick Rule’s Global Resource Investments Ltd. in 1996. He has been active in financing mineral exploration companies and analyzing markets ever since. Paul is well known for his work on the relationship between the gold price, inflation and currency markets. His model for determining the fair value for gold was able to predict both the run up in the gold price to over $1,000 an ounce between 2001 to 2008, and its subsequent decline to around $750. He also created a measure called the Actual Money Supply (AMS) to monitor the real rate of inflation. AMS is crucial to analyze real (inflation adjusted) changes in prices and to calculate the real return on investments. Paul stopped writing a subscription newsletter in October, 2008, and his past commentaries can be found in the Archive on this site. Any future articles will be posted there publicly as well.

U.S Global Investors, Inc. is an investment management firm specializing in gold, natural resources, emerging markets and global infrastructure opportunities around the world. The company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, manages a family of no-load mutual funds across a range of asset classes. In addition, the company manages funds for international clients. http://www.usfunds.com/

Hera Research, LLC, provides deeply researched analysis to help investors profit from changing economic and market conditions. Hera Research focuses on relationships between macroeconomics, government, banking, and financial markets in order to identify and analyze investment opportunities with extraordinary upside potential. Hera Research is currently researching mining and metals including precious metals, oil and energy including green energy, agriculture, and other natural resources. The Hera Research Monthly newsletter covers key economic data, trends and analysis including reviews of companies with extraordinary value and upside potential.

Nadeem Walayat has over 20 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis specialises on the housing market and interest rates. Nadeem is the Editor of The Market Oracle, a FREE Daily Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting online publication. We present in-depth analysis from over 400 experienced analysts on a range of views of the probable direction of the financial markets. Thus enabling our readers to arrive at an informed opinion on future market direction. www.marketoracle.co.uk

ATP, LLC was founded by David Banister a former broker in New England after exhaustive research and years of trading experience. We combine a thorough understanding of fundamentals with a wealth of technical analysis experience to take advantage of the crowd behavior in the markets. Entering into trades after others have sold and often taken a loss, allows ATP to provide low risk entry points and high upside shortly after our recommendations. www.activetradingpartners.com

We have assembled a team of top investment analysts with the aim of creating the number one information resource for Oil and Energy. We are continually adding articles and information to the site to help educate, inform and keep our readers up to date with all happenings in the Energy sector. www.OilPrice.com

A veteran stock market commentator, Marc Davis experienced his "baptism of fire" in this high-stakes business as a floor trader on the frenetic Vancouver Stock Exchange in the 1980s. He left the business for a few years after the last major stock market crash, known as "Black Monday", in late 1987. During this hiatus, he developed a successful career as a financial journalist. Working both in newsprint and in television, he insightfully covered the action on Wall Street, as well as the London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Toronto stock exchanges, and the Foreign Exchange currency markets. This includes working for the Dow Jones News Agency in London, as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada. In recent years, Marc has focused on Canada's venture capital markets, working as a mining research analyst, a financier and as a corporate development consultant. In mid 2002, he launched SmallCapMedia to fulfill the need for an electronic media publication that insightfully and comprehensively covers up-and-coming North American small cap and micro cap equities. He also runs www.goldproducingstocks.com -- an online portal ( and more) for emerging gold and silver mining companies. www. BNWNews.ca

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for a quarter century, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London.

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For over 25 years Bill Baker, author of "Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism" and founder of the Conservative Economist web site, has been an equity money manager or investment research analyst in an institutional setting. More than half these years he has spent concurrently developing two companies: GARP Research & Securities Co. (member FINRA, SIPC) and Gaineswood Investment Management, Inc. (an SEC registered investment advisor). Before this he was at Reich & Tang, Oppenheimer Funds, and Van Kampen American Capital, being directly responsible for mutual funds or institutional accounts during most of that interval. One of the funds he managed at Oppenheimer was awarded a Morningstar five-star rating in November 1990 shortly before he left the firm. Mr. Baker received his master of business administration from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in 1980, and he was granted a bachelor degree in economics in 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania. He is vice president and a trustee of the Harbour League, a think tank headquartered in Baltimore with affiliates in other U.S. cities (www.theharbourleague.org).

My name is Sean Edward Blair. I have been involved in the futures markets for almost 18 years now. My primary focus is on accurate analysis of the markets and the direction they're going to be headed next. Although I cannot predict every move from minute to minute, there are times when there is a high probability that the market will react a certain way at a certain point. My objective is to know this and get the word out to people as much as possible, then hopefully benefit from it because these people are customers, prospects, or friends that are into accurate analysis. www.fastmktfocus.blogspot.com

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Peter Degraaf currently resides in Sarnia, ON. Canada with his wife Roberta. He is an avid reader and studies business trends on a daily basis. He has mastered the art of 'Technical Analysis' , which is a vital part of successful investing. Born in the Netherlands in 1935, he moved with his family to Canada in 1952. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1954, and while in the service, started a coin collection. Soon he began to 'wheel and deal'. Upon his discharge from the Navy in 1959, he turned his hobby into a full-time coin business. During his many years in the coin business, he traveled all over Canada, Europe and the USA, including a booth at the 1964 World's Fair. While living in Ottawa, during the great gold bull market of the 1970's, his company owned and operated four coin stores in that city, and he became president of the Ottawa Coin and Stamp Dealer's Association. For a number of years he was a contributor to the Charlton Catalogue of Canadian Coins. In 2001 he semi-retired from the daily routine of buying and selling coins, to trading stocks on-line, and writing articles on investing. For over 50 years, from the days when gold was trading at $35/oz, Peter has recommended that gold should be included in every investment portfolio. And until the world returns to the gold standard he will continue to recommend it! His hobbies are: cycling, roller-blading, speed skating, cross-country skiing, singing in a male chorus, writing articles and studying the Bible for spiritual growth.

Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT (AKA, “Trendsman”) is the proprietor of Trendsman Research, which provides investment research to private clients and the general public. Trendsman Research authors several newsletters covering trends in stock markets, bonds, commodities, gold, and silver. Mr. Roy-Byrne, a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicals Association, is also an official contributor for the CME Group. He is particularly skilled at extracting emerging fundamental themes from his technical research. He is also the host of The Financial Tube and the editor of TheDaily Gold and its premium newsletter. Mr. Roy-Byrne attended the University of Washington.