Kitco

Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver. It runs a website for gold news, commentary and market information.

History

In the late 1970s, college student Bart Kitner started trading scrap gold using a $700 loan. He refined and selling the resultant pure gold grain on to bigger players. Eventually, he was able to expand his business into other industrial areas and, by the late 1990s, into precious metals products.

In 1995 the website Kitco.com was launched providing market information — prices, trends, news.

Today, Kitco occupies more than two floors of a Montreal office building and two other offices in New York and Hong Kong.

Kitco News

Kitco News is the journalistic division of Kitco, reporting using articles and videos. Original coverage by Kitco News includes being one of the first organizations to break the story about the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee's (GATA) lawsuit against the Federal Reserve, as well as focus pieces on issues such as conflict minerals in the Congo. In addition to this, Kitco News reports on price movements within the precious and base metals markets, and provides both fundamental and technical analyses.

Doug Casey

Douglas R. Casey is a venture capitalist, an American investment advisor and writer. He is the founder and chairman of Casey Research. He is a libertarian and an anarcho-capitalist. He is known for advising how to profit from periods of economic turmoil.

Education

Casey is a graduate of Georgetown University where he was a classmate of Bill Clinton. He was raised Roman Catholic.

Projects

Casey has a wine and residential sporting estate project called Estancia de Cafayate in Salta Province, Argentina.

Career as author

Casey's 1979 book Crisis Investing was a national bestseller. It was at number one on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1980 for multiple weeks. It was the best-selling financial book of 1980 with 438,640 copies sold.

Casey contributes his opinions to websites including WorldNetDaily, LewRockwell.com and the Daily Bell. He has also been published in libertarian magazine Liberty magazine.

Casey Research

Casey Research provides a libertarian newsletter which advises on the purchase microcap stocks, precious metals, and other investments.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It advocates the importance of financial independence and building wealth through investing, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one's financial intelligence to improve one's business and financial aptitude. Rich Dad Poor Dad is written in the style of a set of parables, ostensibly based on Kiyosaki's life.

Summary

The book is largely based on Kiyosaki's childhood upbringing and education in Hawaii. It highlights the different attitudes to money, work and life of two men (i.e. his titular "rich dad" and "poor dad"), and how they in turn influenced key decisions in Kiyosaki's life.

Among some of the book's topics are:

For Dummies

For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional/reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered. The series has been a worldwide success with editions in numerous languages.

The books are an example of a media franchise, consistently sporting a distinctive cover—usually yellow and black with a triangular-headed cartoon figure known as the "Dummies Man", and an informal, blackboard-style logo. Prose is simple and direct; bold icons, such as a piece of string tied around an index finger, are placed in the margin to indicate particularly important passages.

Almost all Dummies books are organized around sections called "parts", which are groups of related chapters. Parts are almost always preceded by a Rich Tennant comic that refers to some part of the subject under discussion. Sometimes the same Tennant drawing reappears in another Dummies book with a new caption.

Another constant in the Dummies series is "The Part of Tens", a section at the end of the books where lists of 10 items are included. They are usually resources for further study and sometimes also include amusing bits of information that do not fit readily elsewhere.

James Rickards

James G. Rickards is an American lawyer. He is a regular commentator on finance, and is the author of The New York Times bestseller Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, published in 2011, and The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, published in 2014.

Biography

Rickards graduated from Lower Cape May Regional High School in Cape May, New Jersey, in 1969. He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973 with a B.A. degree with honors and in 1974, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. with an M.A. in international economics. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LL.M in taxation from New York University School of Law.

As general counsel for the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), he was the principal negotiator in the 1998 bailout of LTCM by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Rickards worked on Wall Street for 35 years. Rickards was the senior managing director for market intelligence at Omnis, Inc., a consulting firm. On March 24, 2009, Rickards presented his view at a symposium at Johns Hopkins, that the U.S. dollar was facing imminent hyperinflation and was vulnerable to attack from foreign governments through the accumulation of gold and the establishment of a new global currency.