Brent’s partner Quinton Hennigh was also interviewed by Daniela at the Denver Gold Forum. Serious speculators should consider subscribing for Exploration Insights, Brent and Quinton’s premium newsletter. It’s the gold standard of exploration stock newsletters and I read it every Sunday. Join Brent, Quinton and I at the Toronto Resource Investment Conference Sept 27-28, 2012. Early registration is free… Continue Reading

Robert Friedland returned to the mining spotlight with a vengeance this week on news of IPO plans for Ivanplats, his private company with copper and zinc projects in the Congo and platinum and nickel projects in South Africa. Friedland showed his Midas touch with the discoveries of Voisey’s Bay nickel deposit in Canada, purchased by… Continue Reading

Ray Dalio, founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, L.P., the world’s largest hedge fund, discusses global economics with Maria Bartiromo – Sept. 12, 2012. Source: Council on Foreign Relations More Ray today: Ray Dalio: Southern Europe Is About to Enter a ‘Lost Decade’. WSJ Bridgewater’s Dalio: U.S economy out of ‘intensive care’. Reuters

The Terrible Impotence of Monetary Policy. Forbes Fed Stuck at Zero Into 2015 Seen in Swaps, QE Odds Reach 99%. Bloomberg Ship Magnate Uses Gut in $11 Billion Bet Worst Since ’70s Ending. Bloomberg Shahid Khan: The New Face Of The NFL And The American Dream. Forbes Lumina Copper Update. World of Mining Jim Dines Audio. King… Continue Reading

We had the opportunity to sit down with Frank Giustra last week, the lion behind Lionsgate Films, and an early architect of countless resource companies—most notably Wheaton River Minerals (now known as the $33B Goldcorp, which spun out the $12B Silver Wheaton), Petro Rubiales (now the $7B Pacific Rubiales), and Urasia Energy. By all accounts… Continue Reading

I began to wonder about Frank Giustra ten years ago when he assembled a massive lot on my grandparent’s street in West Vancouver and built a spectacular waterfront home. Giustra had come from the investment industry I learned, where my dad and three uncle’s have worked for over 30 years. But he was unlike us,… Continue Reading

QOTD: “You hang around for as long as I have and they start giving you awards… Twenty years earlier they wanted to put you in jail.” Peter Brown, Chairman of Canaccord, BCBusiness George Kalmar, Prominent Toronto Businessman and Holocaust Survivor, “Who Arrived With A Pregnant Wife and Just $7.50 In His Pocket” Passes Away Peacefully At The Age of… Continue Reading

Reformed Calgary/Bogotá-Based Oil & Gas Junior Hits 65 Feet of Colombian Pay And The Market Responds Featuring commentary from Frank Giustra, Jeff Boyce and Ralph Gillcrist, three key stakeholders in the company, Petroamerica Oil Corp. Caution: See PTA’s Foward Looking Statements. Jump to audio. It’s been a tough ride for Petroamerica Oil Corp. (PTA) shareholders,… Continue Reading

Could a mine opening ceremony be a catalyst to LUC’s share price? Lucara Diamond Corp ($LUC on the TSX big board) is a Lundin Group diamond mining and development company that I owned and wrote about last year. I entered at an average cost of $.87 cents and sold at $1.11 (Sources: 1, 2). For those new… Continue Reading

There was a 13.8% move upwards today in Petroamerica Oil Corp., stock symbol $PTA.v (bigchart), a company backed by well-known resource investor Frank Giustra. After market a news release came out that suggests PTA.v could have legs: Petroamerica Provides an Update on the Las Maracas-4 Well Results and Las Maracas Production, Colombia. More to come… Continue Reading

What Frank Holmes calls, “The love trade.”

Sorry for the delay in publishing this morning, we were having some technical issues… “The long term bullish cycle in commodities will continue – we’re just seeing a pause right now.” Paul Reynolds, CEO, Canaccord Financial To start the day off we listened to the Canaccord Financial quarterly conference call hosted by CEO Paul Reynolds. In… Continue Reading

Buying Into Panic Can Pay Millions–And Sometimes Billions–If You Have The Guts. The hypnotizing stench of market pessimism never ceases to amaze me. It wraps itself around it’s victims like a heavy smoke—choking them into a deep financial slumber. Some wake up weeks, months, or years later, dazed and confused, while others simply perish. Optimism… Continue Reading

“By doing these things, I learned how important and how liberating it is to think for myself.” Ray Dalio is the founder and top dog at the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Bridgewater has outperformed every other fund over the past 15 years. In 2011 the “pure alpha” fund returned over 40%. Ray Dalio’s… Continue Reading

Gross v. Fuss Bond heavyweights take opposing Treasury views. Investment News 1) Cultivate the Golden Contact List. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Bankers. Vanity Fair Disproves conventional wisdom that the dollar never lost any purchasing power until it went off the gold standard in 1971. Why the U.S. Dollar Is Not Going to Zero Anytime Soon.… Continue Reading