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Saturday, December 27

Special Year End Interviews

Saturday, December 20

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1: Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Great Unraveling
• Not Your Ordinary Recession
• The Rise & Fall of Oil
• Crime of the Century

Saturday, December 13

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• A Look at the Economic Numbers: What the Numbers are Telling Us
• What Kind of Stimulus
• Supply Destruction vs. Demand Destruction
• Really Scary Predictions
• Q-Call

Saturday, December 6

Transcript for The BIG Picture

RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Recession vs Depression - How Deep/How Long
• Quantitative Easing
• No money - no inflation
• Searching for Returns in a Zero Interest Rate World

Saturday, November 27 - Annual Precious Metals Show

Saturday, November 22

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• A Plausible Explanation
• Other Voices: Richard Loomis, President & CEO,World Energy Source
• The Investment Trifecta

Part 2: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Mission Impossible - Part 3
• Another Look at Gold Production
• How to Know When We're Close to a Bottom

Part 3: RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, November 15

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Dinner in Zimbabwe - Part II: Monetary Policy
• Dividend Investing - Attractive Yields in a Zero Interest Rate Economy

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Mission Impossible - Part II: Depletion & Investment
• 20/20 Vision
• Reflation - Devaluation

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, November 8

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Obama Nation
• Other Voices: Jason Pearce, Pearce Financial, LLC.
• Recession, Recovery, Depression

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Dinner in Zimbabwe
• More Than the Greatest Debt song by David Farant
• Mission Impossible

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Meet the Henrys:High earners not yet rich
• What the Next Bull Market Will Look Like
• Charts for The Big Picture

Saturday, November 1

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Special Edition with Eric King & Guests

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Barron's Forum with: Thomas G. Donlan, Editorial Page Editor; Randall W. Forsyth, Editor, Barron's Online; and Gene Epstein, Economics Editor

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Big Picture with Eric King & John Loeffler
• Eric Sprott, Chairman, CEO & Portfolio Manager, Sprott Asset Management
• Dr. Alan Lemerande with Eric King

Saturday, October 25

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Special Edition with Eric King & Guests

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Bill Haynes, President, CMI Gold & Silver
• Jeffrey Saut, Chief Investment Strategist, Raymond James Equity Captial Markets

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Ted Butler, Butler Research
• Big Picture with Eric King and Dr. Alan Lemerande

Saturday, October 18

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Depression vs. Recession
• The Credit Crisis: Is It Contained?
• Is This the Bottom? with Frank Barbera

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Presidential Candidates' Positions on Energy, Taxes & Spending with Richard Loomis
• How the Gold Market Has Changed
• A National Strategy for Energy Security

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, October 11

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Donald G. M. Coxe, BA, LLB Homeicide: The Crime of the Century
• Frank Barbera, Gold Stock Technicial " We're at the Bottom"

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Deleveraging at Warp Speed
• Energy: Just the facts; the picture keeps getting worse

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, October 4

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Past, Present & Future: A roundtable with Jim Puplava, Brian Pretti and Frank Barbera

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Mess We're In
• Looking For Facts In All the Wrong Places

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, September 27

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Beginning of the End
• The Killer Storm

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Robert L. Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor, MISI
• Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company International
• Chris Skrebowski, Editor, UK Petroleum Review

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, September 20

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Who's Next
• Other Voices with John Williams, Shadow Government Statistics: Helicopter drops & B-52 bombing runs

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Band of Brothers
• The Next Major Crisis

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, September 13

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Conversations with Jim and Frank Barbera

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• No Virginia, it's still a commodity bull market
• Other Voices with Franklin Sanders, The Money Changer

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, September 6

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• London Gold Pool - Revisited
• Eric King with special guest: Ian MacDonald, Exec Director Gold & Precious Metals and Dubai Multi Commodities Centre

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Street of Dreams and the Inflation Depositories

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• $145 Oil
• Other Voices with Curtis Burton, CEO, Buccaneer Resources
• The Next Rogue Wave

Saturday, August 23

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Special Edition with Eric King & Guests

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Sean Boyd, Vice-Chairman & CEO, Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.
• Peter Marrone, Chairman & CEO, Yamana Gold Inc.

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• John Hathaway, Senior Managing Director & Fund Manager, Toqueville Asset Management LP
• Big Picture with Eric King & Dr. Alan Limerande
  

Saturday, August 16

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Confidence Game
• Midyear Outlook: What's Behind Higher Oil Prices

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Great Game
• Gold / Silver Bull: Shortages, Consolidation and the Perfect Option with Eric King

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, August 9

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Blood in the Streets: We've been here before
• 90% Pschological - 10% Logical

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Inflation vs. Deflation: Predicting the Outcome
• Running Out of Water
• What to do Now

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, August 2

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Gold Fundamentals: Other viewpoints
• If: Keeping your head when others are losing theirs

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• There Has Been Blood
• What Can You Believe Anymore?
• Obama Nation

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 26

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crosscurrents with Jim & John
• Other Voices: Alan M. Newman, Editor of Crosscurrents, "Metamorphosis Redux"

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Wisdom of Old Mr. Partridge with Eric King

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 19

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Lower the Lifeboats
• Put Up or Shut Up

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Reality Check: What were they thinking?
• Clueless in Sacramento

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 12

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• American Blowback: The Chasm Between Washington and Main Street
• Overboard

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Fork in the Road
• What It Means To Be a Millionaire
• Cisco vs. Goldcorp with Eric King

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, July 5

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Tipping Points - End of the Unsustainable
• Investing Prudently in a Period of Paltry Prudence

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Post Script" Stage Two of the Raging Gold Bull Market
• Dragnet vs. Naked Shorts a financial sense follie
• I'm Dreaming of an Oil Crisis - song by David Farant, FSN listener
• Shut Up and Drill!

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 28

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• When Money Dies
• Trading Places

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Stick to Fundamentals: Buy What's Cheap
• What Can You Do?
• FSO Crime of the Century Resources

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 21

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Oil: Facts, Fiction & Denial
• Oreo Theory: What Happened to the Creamy Filling?

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crime of the Century, Part V: Summary & Conclusion with Eric King

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 14

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Commodity Bull Market: Higher Prices Ahead
• The Four Phases of Inflation

Part 2 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crime of the Century, Part IV: Fingerprints at the Crime Scene, Protecting Mining Companies & Internet Rats
• Other Voices: Darin Diehl, Publisher, Executive Editor, Stockgroup.com
• Back to the Future: Repeating the Mistakes of History

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, June 7

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Mega Trends
• Filtering the Noise

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crime of the Century Part III: Stock Fraud with Wes Christian

Part 3 RealPlayer | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 31

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Get Ready for: $150, $200, & $300 Oil
• Ticking Time Bomb: Not If, But When

Part 2 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Crime of the Century Part II: How They Scam Individual Investors
• For information on filing a complaint with Canadian regulators click here. For information on filing a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission click here.

Part 3 Real Player | WinAmp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 24

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Oil Crisis: Keeping It Simple
• The Agency Issue: Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption & Crimes Against Investors

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Mark Bailey, Minefinders Corporation, Ltd.
• Robert Quartermain, Silver Standard Resources, Inc.

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Allen Ambrose, Minera Andes Inc.
• Robert Archer, Great Panther Resources, Ltd.
• Lorne Waldman, Silvercorp Metals Inc.

Part 4 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 17

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The World is Truly a Different Place
• Water & Uranium

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Energy: Just the Facts
• Other Voices: David Saltman, CEO, Open Energy Corp.
• Five Cardinal Sins - Leading to Bear Markets, Recessions and Depressions

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 10

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• What's Wrong with Gold Stocks?
• The Art of Creating Shortages

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Behind the Numbers: The Make Believe Economy
• Other Voices: Bill Reinert, Nat'l Mgr., Advanced Technology Group. Toyota Motor Sales USA
• Opportunities Inside the Oreo

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, May 3

"The BIG Picture" will return next week.

Saturday, April 26

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The New Energy World Order

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The End of the World as You Know It
• Other Voices: Eric King, Trading Analyst

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 19

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Decline of the Giants
• Other Voices: Peter Sepp, National Taxpayers Union
• The Catalyst

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Last Call
• Planning for Retirement - Part 4

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 12

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Bailouts, Stimulus II & Other Interventions
• Inside the Oreo

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Taxes & Trade: What not to do
• Planning for Retirement - Part 3

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, April 5

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Bubble Troubles or Bubbling Opportunities
• When Money Matters

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Creamy Filling
• Planning for Retirement - Part 2

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, March 29

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Crisis Window
• Change

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Return to Pac Man
• Other Voices: Gabriel Stein, Director & Chief Int'l Economist, Lombard Street Research
• Planning for Retirement - Part 1

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, March 22

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Credit Market Turmoil: Liquidity vs. Solvency
• Other Voices: William Pincus, Director, President & CEO, Esperanza Silver Corp.

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Big Disconnect
• Other Voices: Allen V. Ambrose, President & Director, Minera Andes Inc.

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, March 15

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
• Gold's Fundamentals: Even Better Days Ahead

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Three Related Problems: Energy, Food, and Water
• Other Voices: Eric King, Analyst/Trader
• If

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, March 8

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Lessons From the Mortgage Mess
• The Slow Death of Consumption

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Long-Term Investment Trends
• Buy Them While They're Short -In Supply
• Other Voices: Louise Yamada, Louise Yamada Technical Research Advisors, LLC

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, March 1

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Monetary Reflation, bailout, helicopter drops & other forms of intervention = Hyperinflationary depression
• Other Voices: Eric King, Analyst/Trader

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Other Voices: Mark Bailey, Director, President & CEO, Minefinders Corp. Ltd.
• Other Voices: David R. Webb, President & CEO, Tyhee Development Corp.

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3
Q-Calls

Saturday, February 23

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Next Wave: Price Revolutions in History
• Other Voices: Peter J. Sepp, V.P. for Communications, National Taxpayers Union
• Behind the Numbers

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Case for Gold
• Reinflation Strategy

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, February 16

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Era of Resource Restraints
• Other Voices: John Williams, Shadow Government Statistics
• How Bad Will It Get? When Will It Be Over?

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Plan B
• Other Voices: Scot M. Faulkner, Naked Emperors: The Failure of the Republican Revolution
• Dividends for the Long Run

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3
Q-Calls

Saturday, February 9

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• What the Next U.S. President Needs to Know About Energy
• The Next Great Depression, Part 4

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• More Evidence of a Recession
• Other Voices: George Tsiolis, President and Founder, Agoracom
• Strategery

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, February 2

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Big Disconnect
• The Next Great Depression, Part 3

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Here Comes the Recession / Here Comes the Stimulus
• Other Voices: Curtis D. Burton, Chairman & CEO, Buccaneer Resources, LLC

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, January 26

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• If
• Other Voices: Kelley Wright, Investment Quality Trends
• The Next Great Depression, Part 2

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• The Catalyst
• What You Need to Know About Juniors

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, January 19

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Back to the Next Depression, Part 1
• Here Comes the Bad Stuff
• Other Voices: John Williams, Shadow Government Statistics

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Quackonomics
• Other Voices: Eric King, Metals Analyst/Trader
• Buy Them When They're Cheap

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, January 12

Transcript for The BIG Picture

Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Flip-Flopping, Mood Swings & Bipolarity
• The Next Shoe to Drop

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Living with Uncertainty, Thinking Strategically
• Investing for Income
• Surviving the Night of the Living Populists

Part 3 RealPlayer | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls

Saturday, January 5

Transcript for The BIG Picture

"Forecast 2008"
Part 1 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• A Recession With No Name
• Asset Markets
• Investment Themes

Part 2 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Risks
• Oreo

Part 3 Real Player | Win Amp | Windows Media | Mp3

• Q-Calls