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.
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”.