Time Stamp References:0:00 - Intro0:55 - Converting to a gold bug.4:30 - Emerging economies.8:00 - Gold as a store of value.12:00 - East vs. West recovery.15:30 - Commodity reserves changing.18:00 - Properties of silver.20:30 - Semiconductors. gallium, and silicon.24:00 - Commodity scarcity and energy return on investment.25:00 - Rare earth concerns.32:00 - American ingenuity last century.35:00 - What went wrong, we left the gold standard.43:00 - Commodities should be in your portfolio.44:20 - Structure of a new monetary reserve system.48:00 - Digital basket of currencies backed by gold.50:30 - Fixing gold to a new digital currency structure.53:00 - China's real gold reserves and their mining.57:00 - China has a defensive military structure.58:30 - Ghost cities and China's longer-term plans.1:01:00 - Co-operation or isolation.1:03:40 - Gold targets long-term.1:09:30 - The other 85%.1:12:00 - Buffett buying gold.
Stephen Leeb is a financial author, wealth manager, and publisher of a family of investment newsletters. Leeb earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business, and a Masters in Mathematics and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Illinois. He authored research papers on psychology and statistics in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Reports.