Gold Research Videos

In this video Chris Martenson, economic analyst at chrismartenson.com, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about Martenson’s book The Crash Course, the US dollar and gold. Martenson explains how The Crash Course originally took the form of an online video presentation which can be found for free on his website. He started to work on this video in 2002 and finished uploading it right before the financial crisis of 2008 started to unfold. While digging deeper into the state of the economy he realised how despairing our financial and environmental condition really is. In Martenson’s view, it is a very good time to buy and hold gold, because all countries are trying to devalue their currencies.

Lastly, they talk about the energy cost of goods – especially food. With rising fuel costs the embodied energy in our food system also gets more expensive, and could lead to dramatic changes in the way we will treat food. Martenson also believes that we have to rethink our use of metals such as copper or silver, because they are getting more and more scarce and more expansive to mine. In his mind precious metals are still very under-owned – especially at an institutional level.

This video was recorded on November 16 at the Gold & Silver Meeting 2011 in Madrid.