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

Thursday and Friday were very bad days for gold, silver and the shares.  The explanation on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday was because the Fed discontinued QE 3.  Along came Friday and guess what, the QE baton was passed...
In Part One, I recounted Alan Greenspan's one on one interview with Gary Alexander.  Later in the day Saturday, Alan Greenspan was part of a round table with Porter Stansberry and Dr. Marc Faber, moderated by Mr. Alexander....
While deciding how to write this piece regarding the interviews of Alan Greenspan, it dawned on me that has to be done in 2 parts.  GATA followers had very high hopes Mr. Greenspan could be pinned down with nowhere to go regarding the...
As I wrote yesterday, markets have become schizophrenic and volatility has exploded.  It is obvious the uncertainty regarding "QE"  (monetization) is at the heart of this renewed volatility.  I do want to mention and remind...
Sometimes seemingly unrelated news is actually joined at the hip and directly related.  For example, what does Bill Gross leaving PIMCO, China announcing "yuan for euro" direct trade and unrest in Ukraine, ISIS overrunning part...
This past week had many events which in days (long) gone by would have been shocking.  By today's standards almost nothing is shocking anymore.  It is as if in the words of Pink Floyd, we are now "comfortably numb".

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China announced swap agreements with Argentina over this past week-end, they also said their mutual trade would be settled in Renminbi/yuan.  If you recall, Argentina just recently defaulted on debt.   A New York judge then...
Not that you would know it by reading or viewing mainstream news last week, World War III took a very big leap towards going live.  First, last Wednesday was the biggest news when Gazprom announced they would be selling oil and gas...
I had planned to write today about Janet Yellen’s first FOMC meeting but what’s the point?    Because this is her first one, all markets have been scripted in ironclad fashion to portray “the picture.”  The picture of health...

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