PodCasts – McAlvany Weekly Commentary

A Look At This Week’s Show: -Food price inflation may have started the engine in the middle-east, but Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood are driving the car. -Egypt and Libya are just minor steps toward the true goal to overthrow the Saudi Royal Family. -Asia and Russia will take advantage of diminishing U.S. hegemony in the middle east.

A Look at This Week’s Show: -Rampant Speculation is again replacing a common sense approach. -No one protests free liquidity until it turns into inflation. -How to have a disciplined approach to your money vs. taking emotionally charged miss-steps.

A Look At This Week’s Show: -Treating the value of the dollar as a constant is a rookie mistake. -Will QE2 end early only to be replaced later with “emergency” QE3? -How inflation affects the four players of the economy: The Debtor, The Saver, The Creditor and The Consumer. Who wins, who loses and why.

A Look at This Week’s Show: -The Japanese crisis does not explain why the Yen is appreciating. - Why the G7 nations intervened on behalf of the Yen – the real reason. - What is carry trade and why should you care.

A Look at This Week’s Show: - Personal Recollections of Past Tsunami Devastation with Scott McAlvany - Seismic Changes in the Dollar That Pre-date the Japanese Crisis - Middle East Petro Dollar Complex Looking Elsewhere for Protection after US Abandonment

About the Guest: Hudson has reported on topics such as Federal Reserve interest rate policy, corporate governance and shareholder activism. Prior to co-anchoring NBR, he was host and managing editor of the nationally syndicated financial television program “First Business.” Tom also reported and anchored market coverage for the groundbreaking web-based financial news service, WebFN. There he reported regularly from the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and the CME. He also created original business news and information programming for the investor channel of a large e-brokerage firm. Tom Hudson’s Full Bio

A Look at This Weeks Show: - FATCA. One big fat mess - Erosion of financial privacy worldwide - The importance of fraternity to liberty About the Guests: Frank R. Suess heads up the BFI group of companies as CEO and Chairman and personally advises a select group of BFI’s high net-worth clients around the world. www.bfi-capital.com Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute and the Chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth. He is also a weekly economic columnist for The Washington Times, and serves on the editorial board of the Cayman Financial Review. www.cato.org

A Look At This Week’s Show: - Germans not happy with bailout of P.I.I.G.S. - “The budget will never again be balanced” - Even if commodities drop, gold should still rise Dr Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter “The Gloom Boom & Doom Report” report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including “ TOMORROW’S GOLD – Asia’s Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “ TOMORROW’S GOLD ” was for several weeks on Amazon’s best seller list and is being translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and German. Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world. www.gloomboomdoom.com

A Look at this Week’s Show: -Gold, not interest rates are the new barometer for risk. -Economic Recovery… Really? -Interest rates can be artificially held down longer than we may think possible

A Look At This Week’s Show: -Manufacturers are stocking up early to save on future higher priced supplies -Unemployment rising, not falling as reported -China seems to be booming but their household consumption is shrinking

A look at This Weeks Show: - Does America have the will to be an Empire? - Tactical traps vs. long term strategic thinking - The balance of power in Europe, the Middle East, & Asia About the Guest: George Friedman, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in security and intelligence issues relating to national security, information warfare and computer security. He is founder, chairman and Chief Intelligence Officer of STRATFOR, (Strategic Forecasting Inc.) a private intelligence company that provides customized intelligence services for its clients. Click Here Order the Next Decade Today: Click Here

A Look At This Weeks Show:  -Government debt Ceiling will have to be raised again and again. -Bullish stock market sentiment suggestive of a peak. -U.S. inflation indexes confirming what the rest of the world knows.

A Look At This Week’s Show: - Gold Market: Linear behavior now, exponential behavior later - Euro Crisis: Issing’s misgivings and the ECB’s bond market intervention - Social Change: Can you adapt and thrive?