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Axel Merk, Gene Epstein and Michael Oliver and Jay Taylor’s “Turning Hard Times Into Good Times”

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 11:49

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TND Podcast Spotlight: Jay Taylor’s Turning Hard Times Into Good Times |

Axel Merk, Gene Epstein and Michael Oliver return. In a moment the market thinks the Fed will stop pumping up the money supply and like a heroin addict desperate for the next fix, equities plummet downward with frightening speed. Whereupon a Fed government trots before the microphones to reassure the markets the Fed will do whatever it takes to keep Wall St. happy. Yet, in order to gain credibility and to have ammunition to lower rates in the future, the Fed has to permit rates to rise again. How can investors protect themselves against dangerous market volatility? We will ask Axel who has some time honored solutions. To get an idea of which important markets are likely to move next, Michael will share the results from his latest structural momentum work and Gene will tell us of the next NYC Junto meeting and perhaps share his current economic views as well.

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.

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Axel Merk

Axel Merk is the President and CIO of Merk Investments, manager of the Merk Funds, which he founded in Switzerland (1994) by pooling the investments he had been managing for his friends starting in college. He then relocated the firm to California in 2001 as a SEC registered investment advisory.

Merk is an expert on macro trends as well as an innovator in gold and currency investing. He is a sought-after speaker, contributor and author (his book, Sustainable Wealth, describes how the greater economic universe works, how it might affect and how to manage your finances to seek financial stability). Axel Merk holds a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Brown University.

Merk’s insight and expertise have allowed him to predict major economic developments (he identified the credit bubble and moved his clients out of real estate and the faltering U.S. dollar, into hard currencies and gold ahead of the equity and credit market collapse of last decade).

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.

J. Michael Oliver

J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, NYC. He studied under David Johnson, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX.

In the 1980’s Oliver began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. In 1987 Oliver, along with his futures client accounts (Oliver had trading POA) technically anticipated and captured the Crash. Oliver began to realize that his emergent momentum-structural-based tools should be further developed into a full analytic methodology.

In 1992 he was asked by the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank’s Trust Department to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia. Within a year Oliver shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research. MSA has provided its proprietary technical research services to financial and asset management clients continually since 1992.

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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.”