Podcast Guests

John Butler worked for over 15 years as an interest rate, foreign exchange, and commodity strategist at major banks around the world before founding an independent investment and advisory firm in London. He has written extensively on financial topics, and his work has been cited in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among other publications. He is also the author and publisher of the popular Amphora Report newsletter and is an occasional speaker at global investment conferences. Though a native of northern California, he resides in the English countryside with his wife and four children.

http://www.atomcapital.co.uk/

Christopher Duane is a Financial & Investing Expert and Founder of the Sons of Liberty Academy. Chris is also a US Marine & venture capitalist and became a self-made millionaire by age 30. Since 2001, he has been able to increase his net worth an estimated 3,750% while the housing, stock and job markets have been tanking. Chris Duane’s YouTube Channel “The Greatest Truth Never Told” has over 5.5 million views since it’s debut a year ago. He believes massive change is coming and that if you are aware and prepared for this change, you will be able to create generational wealth. Much of his work can also be found at http://dont-tread-on.me/

Andrew ("Andy") Hoffman joined Miles Franklin as Marketing Director in October 2011.  For a decade, he was a U.S.-based buy-side and sell-side analyst, most notably as a II-ranked oil service analyst at Salomon Smith Barney.  Since 2002, his focus has been entirely on Precious Metals, and since 2006 has written under the moniker "Ranting Andy."  Prior to joining the Miles Franklin, he spent five years working as an Investor Relations officer or consultant to numerous junior mining companies.  An archive of Andy's "rants" can be found on the Miles Franklin Blog here:

http://blog.milesfranklin.com/category/authors/andrew-hoffman

Mike graduated from Duke University in 2000 with a double major in Economics and Spanish.  Upon graduation he joined Lehman Brothers’ Equity Research Department where he worked on the oil team. In 2005 he resigned from Lehman Brothers to join Sanford C. Bernstein as the Commodities Trading Desk Analyst.  In this role he wrote commentary and advised investors on various companies in the commodities sector including oil producers, oil services, refining, metals and mining and utilities.  Within a couple of years he started writing his own personal “macro” emails where he would comment on a broader range of topics that no one else covered at Bernstein such as foreign exchange and precious metals.  These macro emails became extraordinarily popular with clients and he soon found himself traveling all around North American and Europe advising some of the decision makers at many of the largest hedge funds, mutual funds and pension funds on the planet.  In January 2010 he became tired of this role and resigned from Bernstein and struck out on his own to form Krieger Asset Management (a family office) and also to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it.  Last December, finally sickened by NYC and the culture, he moved his operations to Boulder, CO where he currently resides. His primary goal at the moment is two-fold.  Protect his assets and those of my family and spread the word so that as many people in the U.S. can get as financially and mentally prepared as possible. To that end, Mike founded the website http://www.libertyblitzkrieg.com in March of 2012. His stated intention is this: "My number one goal is to help as many people as possible protect themselves from the financial and social calamity that is coming to this planet as a consequence of the actions of the Central Planners and those that play ball with them as a means to enrich themselves at the expense of the species.  I am dedicated to restoring Liberty to the United States of America."