Author Archive: James Turk
James Turk is a specialist in international banking, finance and investments. He is founder and chairman of GoldMoney Network Limited, a firm offering services for investing in precious metals. Through the GoldMoney Foundation he promotes education initiatives for teaching the importance of sound money.
Mr. Turk was born in 1948 and holds a B.A. in International Economics from George Washington University, awarded in 1969. Following his studies, Mr. Turk began his business career at Chase Manhattan Bank (known today as JP Morgan Chase Bank). His work at Chase saw him on assignment in Thailand, The Phillipines and Hong Kong. In 1983 he was appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and relocated to the United Arab Emirates. In 1987 he resigned from this position. He then took up positions as advisor in various money management funds until founding GoldMoney with his son Geoff in 2001.
GoldMoney Network Limited is based in Jersey, one of the British Channel Islands. The company offers investment strategies for protecting wealth through acquisition of precious metals. GoldMoney offers customers the ability to purchase physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium and provides storage and certification services.
James Turk has written numerous articles on investment that can be found on his Free Gold Money Report website. He is co-author of the successful book The Collapse of the Dollar (2004).
James Turk is a proponent of the free market and identifies the government as the main source of economic hardship. He is particularly critical of the government monopoly on money creation and believes that continuous currency debasement by central banks will lead to hyperinflation and fiat currency collapse, with gold and silver taking their rightful place as money. He believes that money is a product of the free market as opposed to a creation of the government.
Luke Johnson and Dominic Frisby on optimism
Subscribe to our newsletter at In this podcast Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital Partners and contributor to the Financial Times, and Dominic Frisby, of the GoldMoney Foundation, talk about doom and gloom and why we should shake it off. Johnson believes that society progresses through optimists. Today’s sensationalistic media makes it hard to escape [...]
Jonathan Davis talks to Dominic Frisby about what makes a good investor
Subscribe to our newsletter at Dominic Frisby, of the GoldMoney Foundation, interviews Jonathan Davis, of Independent Investor, about what makes a successful investor. They talk about Warren Buffet, Jim Rogers and John Templeton and how they look for opportunities and a correct risk-reward ratio to justify an investment. Jonathan also talks about the importance of [...]
Tim Price talks to Dominic Frisby about wealth management
Subscribe to our newsletter at Tim Price, of Moneyweek, and Dominic Frisby, of the GoldMoney Foundation, talk about the unprecedented banking and debt crisis. Tim explains that their main objective at present is capital preservation. They discuss the extraordinary situation of the US Treasury market, which are deemed a safe haven despite representing a debt [...]
Andy Duncan and Dominic Frisby talk Austrian economics
Subscribe to our newsletter at Andy Duncan, of The God that Failed, talks to Dominic Frisby, of the GoldMoney Foundation, about Austrian Economics and which are the best and most accessible books for beginners. Andy explains his intellectual evolution from Labour party activist to a defender of the austrian school. He explains how Hayek’s The [...]
Juan Ramón Rallo and Alasdair Macleod talk about the Spanish economy, gold and silver
Subscribe to our newsletter at In this video Juan Ramón Rallo, economist and university professor in Madrid, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about the Spanish economy, gold and silver. Rallo sees growing interest in the teachings of Austrian economics, because it’s the only school that provides a theory of the business cycle [...]
Gold’s role as money
Watch the full 28-minute video at In this video Juan Ramón Rallo, economist and university professor in Madrid, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about the role of gold as money. Rallo states that fiat money does not lead to equilibrium, because it does not fulfill the basic functions of money. Therefore the [...]
Why buy silver as a monetary asset
Watch the full 28-minute video at In this video Juan Ramón Rallo, economist and university professor in Madrid, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about silver’s monetary role. Rallo says that Silver used to be a monetary asset in the past and still has a role for lower payments, however, he doesn’t see [...]
The ECB; Europe’s debt; and the US dollar
Watch the full 28-minute video at In this video Juan Ramón Rallo, economist and university professor in Madrid, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about Europe and the ECB. While Rallo thinks that the ECB will finally resort to money printing, the right thing to do would be to privatise public assets in [...]
Austrian vs. Keynesian economics
Watch the full 28-minute video at In this video Juan Ramón Rallo, economist and university professor in Madrid, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney Foundation talk about Austrian and Keynesian economics. Rallo sees growing interest in the teachings of Austrian economics, because it’s the only school that provides a theory of the business cycle in [...]
Philipp Bagus on moral hazard in Europe, inflation, and gold
Subscribe to our newsletter at In this video Philipp Bagus, Assistant professor of Economics at Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and author of The Tragedy of the Euro, talks about moral hazard in the eurozone, inflation, and gold. According to Bagus, central banks’ fear of deflation will cause them to do everything to prevent it [...]
