James Turk Biography James TurkJames Turk has specialised in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a BA 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. From 1987 to 2009 James Turk wrote The Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment newsletter that published 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 paperback version entitled The Collapse of the Dollar.
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In this video, John Embry — Chief Investment Strategist at the Canadian firm Sprott Asset Management — discusses the recent correction in the silver price with James Turk, Director of the GoldMoney Foundation. John argues that long-term savers and investors in precious metals should not panic in the face of such corrections, and also discusses the growing divergence between the paper and the physical silver market, and how we are in the early stages of a big rise in precious metals prices. Watch the full 30-minute interview at www.goldmoney.com/john-embry-interview.
James Turk of the GoldMoney Foundation speaks about currency devaluation and the rising gold price. How the gold price is rising against all major currencies and monetary policy is political, having abandoned all pretence of seeking monetary stability. He warns of the dangers of a hyperinflationary crisis. James also explains why gold should be considered money and not an investment. He also talks of the coming dollar collapse and the waterfall decline in the dollar, especially since Ben Bernanke’s words on QE. He talks of different examples of hyperinflation from paper money hyperinflation in Weimar Germany to deposit currency hyperinflation in Argentina. The presentation was held on 29 April 2011 in Munich, Germany.
Watch the full 33-minute interview at www.goldmoney.com In this video, recorded August 4 2011, Eric Sprott, Chairman of Sprott Asset Management, and James Turk, Director of the GoldMoney Foundation, talk about how there isn’t enough silver in the silver market to back existing “paper silver” commitments. Sprott thinks that “silver will be the investment of this decade”.
Watch Entire Show: www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com Episode 7 of James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the “connections” between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a “1+1=3″ type of way. It is this type of investigation that is the core idea behind the Knowledge Web project, whereby sophisticated software is being developed to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See k-web.org. See channel page for purchase options.
Want to drive like James Bond but don’t have a double-0 status? Richard Hammond shows you how in this video from BBC autos & vehicles show ‘Top Gear’. Click beneath the video to view in high quality, and don’t forget to visit www.topgear.com for all the latest news and reviews from the car enthusiasts.
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Rep. Alan Grayson explores Fannie Mae’s use of derivatives with Federal Home Finance Agency chief James Lockhart in a Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee hearing on June 3, 2009.
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The famous speech from George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) to Potter (Lionel Barrymore) and the loan board from Frank Capra’s movie It’s a Wonderful Life.
Forensic Accounting Professor Urges Students: “Take all your personal data off Facebook” College students are at great risk for identity theft and fraud by posting personal information to Facebook, says James Bierstaker, an expert in identity theft and forensic accounting at the Villanova School of Business. He urges his students to take “all your personal information off of Facebook.” I interviewed him yesterday on the snowy campus of Villanova, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Although Facebook has taken steps to stop the controversial “Beacon” program of sharing data with marketers, there is a great deal of public information that can be shared and used for fraud, Professor Bierstaker told me in this interview. Here’s a relevant article about young people and identity theft from Britain’s The Independent — Andy Plesser Full disclosure: The Villanova School of Business is a client of Plesser Holland, public relations. Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2007