Perched on a Knife’s Edge: Deflationary Depression or Hyperinflation? Shadowstats John Williams and Barron’s Gene Epstein w/ Jay Taylor on Economy

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Despite trillions of dollars of QE from various central banks around the world, the global economy remains mired in negative growth. With that, we are witnessing a collapse of commodity prices headed by oil that is now at 4-year lows. Still John Williams steadfastly holds to his forecast of hyperinflation in the United Sates. With the burden of debt and mal investment dragging the world economy into a depression, we will ask John Williams why he predicts that seemingly unlikely outcome and assuming he is right, what will it mean for stock, bond and commodity prices, including of course gold and silver.

Gene Epstein will return to provide his views on the economy and to talk about the Dec. 4th NYC Junto guest, Donald J. Boudreaux, who will talk about “Half-Wits and Hypocrites.” Donald is Sr. fellow Mercatus Center & prof. of economics, George Mason U. Chair – Globalization, Trade, Law, Economics, Antitrust.

Stream each segment via YouTube below. Alternatively, to download a single mp3 file with all show segments or to access the show via iTunes, click here.

John Williams

Walter J. “John” Williams (known as John Williams) was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies. For more than 25 years, John has been a private consulting economist. Out of necessity, he became a specialist in government economic reporting. He learned that virtually all economic stats quoted by the U.S. Government are spun using optimistic assumptions that often bear little reality but make politicians look good and put money in the pockets of Wall Street. John writes the Shadow Government Statistics newsletter and his work has been recognized by the main stream media where he has been quoted in publications like the New York Times and Investors Business Daily.

Gene Epstein

Gene Epstein, an economist of the Austrian School–and by political persuasion a libertarian–joined Barron’s in February 1992 as Commodities Editor. The following year, he became the weekly’s first Economics Editor and the first to write the column, “Economic Beat”– his responsibility to this day. In October 2010, he also became the Barron’s Book Review Editor.

Before joining Barron’s, Epstein did a 13-year stint at the New York Stock Exchange, mainly as a senior economist. He has taught economics at the City University of New York and St. John’s University and holds an M.A. in the subject from the New School and a B.A. in history from Brandeis University.

Epstein’s book, ECONOSPINNING: How to Read between the Lines when the Media Manipulate the Numbers, was published by John Wiley in August 2006.

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About Jay Taylor:

Mr. Taylor is editor of J Taylor’s Gold & Technology Stocks newsletter (click here to learn more) and host for the popular radio show, Turning Hard Times into Good Times on the Voice America network.  His interest in the role gold has played in U.S. monetary history led him to research gold and into analyzing and investing in junior gold shares. In 1981 he began publishing North American Gold Mining Stocks, which preceded his current newsletter. His continuing interest in gold mining prompted him to study geology at Hunter College in New York City, supplementing his MBA in Finance & Investments from Baruch College, NYC. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor worked as a commercial, then as an investment banker. Most recently, he worked in the mining and metals group of ING Barings in New York. Prior to that he was involved in the first gold loan made in modern times in the U.S. to Amax Minerals, a 250,000 oz. loan facility led by Citicorp. In 1997 he resigned from ING Barings to devote himself full time to researching mining & technology stocks, writing his newsletter and assisting companies in raising venture capital. Along with the publishing of his newsletter he currently also hosts the web-based radio show “Turning Hard Times Into Good Times.”

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