In this week’s episode of Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire welcomes back hedge fund manager and Mining Stock Journal author, Dave Kranzler, to delve into market manipulation and its impact on gold and silver prices.
The precious metals experts kick off with Dave providing an overview of the US economy and potential impending rate cuts, before exploring endgame scenarios for commercial real estate and central bank gold buying.
Timestamps
- 00:00 Start
- 03:00 Dave’s view of the US economy, rate cuts & more
- 08:00 Commercial Real Estate (CRE) fallout
- 17:00 Lack of regulation
- 22:30 Every central bank is long gold except one - endgame scenario
- 27:00 Indian silver buying
- 34:00 Market manipulation
- 38:30 Things going wrong in the world right now
- 51:00 Who will buy US Debt?
- 54:30 Mining stocks
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