Bill Holter

Bill Holter writes and is partnered with Jim Sinclair at the newly formed Holter/Sinclair collaboration. Prior, he wrote for Miles Franklin from 2012-15. Bill worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. He left Wall Street in late 2006 to avoid potential liabilities related to management of paper assets. In retirement he and his family moved to Costa Rica where he lived until 2011 when he moved back to the United States. Bill was a well-known contributor to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) commentaries from 2007-present.

Articles by Bill Holter

The 2008 Great Financial Crisis came about because we began to hit "debt saturation" levels.  The crisis was one of solvency but was attended to with added liquidity.  Sovereign Treasuries still had the ability to add debt...
A very curious thing happened overnight in Japan, trading in their 10-year bonds was briefly halted.  This was the result of a selloff that pushed yields from minus 0.10% up to minus .015%.  The price move in the bonds was only ....
I recently had a long and very interesting conversation with John Embry of Sprott Resources.  It is always good to speak with him as I consider him one of the five sharpest economic/precious metals minds I know of and...
Wednesday morning before the Fed announcement, a reader sent me this: "It is Janet Yellen's turn to stoke the fire and evidently her news today of a rate increase has stoked the stock market fire to the tune of the Dow rising 138...
This past Friday the BLS released another "whopper" set of employment numbers. The economy supposedly created 271,000 new jobs.  I was fortunate to be able to speak with John Williams (I encourage you to subscribe to his...
Premiums on silver over the past weeks have exploded! Generally speaking,  10-25%+ seems to be the norm and anywhere from two - six weeks delay for delivery.  We have talked about the dichotomy between silver being...
A catchy title this "$5,000 Silver?" don't you think? Am I crazy? Is this even possible? In who's lifetime? Ours or our great, great grandchildren long after we are dead and buried? The best way to look at this I believe is to briefly look...
We showed you chart a yesterday suggesting markets are grossly overvalued, which to me is obvious and self-explanatory.



To make the point even more stark, take a gander at this chart of the "high yield" index.

 

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The Swiss have been known for many things.  They are renowned chocolate and watch makers as well as financiers.  They are well known as a very low crime society where nearly everyone has a gun (maybe this is why crime is low?)....

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During 1500s the Spaniards had taken 16,000,000 kilograms of silver from Peru.

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