
Andy Hoffman
Former Blog Contributor
Andy was a contributor to the Miles Franklin Newsletter and Blog from October 2011 to August 2017. Prior to joining the company, he spent 16 years on Wall Street, and five in the mining business. He has been writing free missives about Precious Metals, markets, and economics since 2004.
It’s All Going Wrong For A Gold Cartel On The Precipice
by Archive Writer | Aug 11, 2017 | Articles | 2 Comments
I wasn’t planning to write another article this week – as tomorrow morning (Friday), I’m taping a MUST LISTEN interview with one of the smartest investors in the Precious Metals/Cryptocurrency space; Edward Blake, the Renegade Investor. Not to mention, it’s the middle of August, and I have yet to take a day off from publishing all year. However, as we are living through what may well be a major inflection point in history – monetary and otherwise – I figured I’d pen a few thoughts. What the heck? Diana and Sylvie are visiting relatives in New York, so who’s going to stop me? Anyhow, the trading day just concluded – with the “market” finally allowed to have a real down day. But don’t worry, the “Dow Jones Propaganda Average” was down just 0.93%, whilst gold’s gains were capped by the equally time-honored “1% rule” for the second straight day. I mean, how could stocks possibly go down more than 1%; or gold up more than 1%; when we’re on the cusp of nuclear war – causing bond yields, oil prices, and the dollar to plunge, amidst unprecedentedly manipulated markets yielding “dotcom valuations in a Great Depression Era,” and the “lowest inflation-adjusted gold and silver prices...
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by Archive Writer | Aug 11, 2017 | Interviews and Appearances | 0 Comments
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It’s All Going Wrong For A Gold Cartel On The Precipice
by Archive Writer | Aug 11, 2017 | Articles | 2 Comments
I wasn’t planning to write another article this week – as tomorrow morning (Friday), I’m taping a MUST LISTEN interview with one of the smartest investors in the Precious Metals/Cryptocurrency space; Edward Blake, the Renegade Investor. Not to mention, it’s the...
by Archive Writer | Aug 10, 2017 | Interviews and Appearances | 0 Comments
Wednesday’s article, “Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever”. Trump, Re: Weak dollar Today’s soon-to-be-released article, “Did I Say Yesterday, the Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever? Well, Trump Took Just 24 Hours to Top It!” Trump, Re: North Korea’s “Fire and...
Physical Precious Metal Portfolio Swaps-Everyone Has Their Own Reasons
by Archive Writer | Aug 10, 2017 | Articles | 1 Comment
Two weeks ago, I made the rare, bold step of proclaiming this the “most Precious Metal bullish I have ever been.” The reason being, that never before had so many “PiMBEEB,” or Precious Metal bullish, everything-else-bearish, factors been present and/or imminent –...
Did I Say Yesturday, The Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever? Well, Trump Took Just 24 Hours To Top It!
by Archive Writer | Aug 9, 2017 | Articles | 5 Comments
Man, do I keep crazy hours! Seriously, I am now averaging four hours per night of sleep; to which I can only say, thank goodness for my 24/7 gym, and a laptop equipped with hundreds of podcasts, and thousands of Amazon Prime TV shows and movies. As for tonight,...
The Most Precious Metal Bullish Quote Ever
by Archive Writer | Aug 8, 2017 | Articles | 1 Comment
For years, I deemed them “horrible headlines”; and recently, “PiMBEEB” – or Precious Metal bullish, everything-else-bearish. But any way you slice it, the sum total of the global political; economic; social; and most of all, monetary situation – in which, a handful...
Why Bitcoin Will Make Gold And Silver Go Up, PT ll
by Archive Writer | Aug 4, 2017 | Articles | 1 Comment
Ho hum. Another first Friday of the month, and another fabricated “jobs” report with not a shred of correlation to real economic activity. Like, for instance, the completely ignored fact that - as I have discussed ad nauseum - the BLS’ “birth-death model”; which as...
by Archive Writer | Aug 3, 2017 | Interviews and Appearances | 0 Comments
Hosted By Financial Survival Network What’s Really Happening Wednesdays with Andrew Hoffman: Deflation fears causing Central banks to give up on last month’s “hawkish bluff” already Perfect monetary storm coming THIS YEAR Fiat Currency as archaic as “stocks and bonds”...
The 8:00 PM Algo-At 7:06 PM
by Archive Writer | Aug 3, 2017 | Articles | 3 Comments
In a world gone mad – mostly, due to a handful of sociopathic “one percenters” – here are some of the PiMBEEB reasons, from the past 24 hours alone, why I last week penned “the most Precious Metals bullish I’ve ever been.” In the words of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry...
Immutability And Timelessness, In The Dawning Of The Fintech Age
by Archive Writer | Aug 2, 2017 | Articles | 0 Comments
2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wisely espoused, “the only thing that is constant is change.” Which, in the world of investing, could not be truer – particularly today, as the pace of technological innovation accelerates at an unprecedented pace. ...
Precious Metals And Bitcoin-Twin Destroyers Of The Fiat Regime, Part lll
by Archive Writer | Aug 1, 2017 | Articles | 0 Comments
After Whirlybird Janet’s “ding dong, the Fed is dead” speech 2½ weeks ago, I predicted the “final currency war” I first warned of 4½ years ago would be taken to Defcon 1 – as all Central banks aggressively respond to the America’s increasingly inflationary monetary...
by Archive Writer | Jul 31, 2017 | Audioblog | 0 Comments
The Fed’s Vicious, Self-Created Catch 22-All Roads Lead To “Scarcity Assets”
by Archive Writer | Jul 28, 2017 | Articles | 0 Comments
It’s Friday morning, just before the B(F)LS, or Bureau of (Fraudulent) Labor Statistics publishes the second quarter GDP report. Incredibly, despite hard economic data consistently worse than the previous two quarters – which, at 1.7% (doubly seasonally adjusted and...
The Most Precious Metals Bullish I’ve Ever Been
by Archive Writer | Jul 27, 2017 | Articles | 0 Comments
Today is a very big day for me – at least, in my mind. As, at five years, nine months, my employment with Miles Franklin has officially tied the previous longest job of my career - at Salomon Smith Barney, from May 1999 through February 2005. After which, I spent...
Will Yellen Keep Her Job?
by Archive Writer | Jul 27, 2017 | Interviews and Appearances | 0 Comments