Half a Century of Gold-Bug Wisdom

Fergus Hodgson, September 14, 2020

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The hard-money movement, particularly in the United States, has had a bumpy ride over the last decades—from gold being illegal to essential and the explosion of countless cryptocurrencies.

For our 200th episode, we invited Gary Alexander, former editor of the Gold Newsletter in the 1980s, who recounted the evolution of the precious-metals industry and what lessons remain for new investors.

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This week in our Discovery Group segment, we interview the CEO of Valore Metals (TSX-V: VO), Jim Paterson, who shares promising drill results of its Pedra Branca project in northern Brazil.

Recommended Links

• Follow Gary’s work on Navellier.
• Get a copy of Confessions of a Gold Bug, by James Blanchard.
• “The Heroic Gold Bug You Never Heard Of,” by Fergus Hodgson.
• Read this 1983 interview with James Blanchard in Reason magazine.

If You Liked This Episode

• “Legalize It! The Genesis of Gold Newsletter,” Gold Newsletter Podcast.
• “Brien Lundin: How I Became a Gold Bug,” Gold Newsletter Podcast.
• “The Unstoppable Rise of Gold as Money,” Gold Newsletter Podcast.
• “How Inflation Finally Caught Up with the Fed,” Gold Newsletter Podcast.

Fergus Hodgson is Gold Newsletter’s roving editor. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.