Bill Holter
Financial Commentator & Former Stockbroker
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.
Bill Holter Articles
Very soon we will be entering the month of June. Normally June is the time of year in the northern hemisphere when people think of picnics, parks, water sports and the outdoors. It is a time where plans are made for vacation, rest and...
A few months back I theorized the rest of the world led by a Chinese/Russian alliance might let loose with a "truth bomb" or a series of them. It is clear the U.S. has been on a pathway in the desire to start a war. We have pressed in...
That didn’t take long did it? I of course am speaking of the second overnight and global meltdown of the credit markets …in the last four business days! Before getting into this topic which I believe will soon be seen in retrospect and...
I could have titled this piece "The Inevitable" or "It's not a matter of if, but when" but I have another thought in mind and want to look at Greece from another angle. Yes, either of those two titles would have sufficed because a Greek...
It smells like crunch time to me, the markets have flattened or begun to even roll over on continuously decreasing volume. The economy has also turned down all over the world including in China. Europe is contracting, Britain has finally...
A few weeks back I thought about writing an article on "honest weights and measures" and why they are important. There has been so much news recently, I almost forgot it as a topic. A funny thing happened since then. Last week while in...
The following chart from the Federal Reserve's own data pretty much sums up America. The rate of home ownership and the labor participation rate peaked about 10-15 years ago and it's been downhill since.
My plan for today was to write a very basic piece hitched to the one written yesterday "the money has to go somewhere". The plan was to point out that gold (and silver) will be the final destination for monies dislodged from crashing...
Several people have asked me “why doesn’t a cartel form to take on the suppression schemes on the COMEX and LBMA?” This is a very good question. One I believe can be answered with some common sense, a little bit of thought and a very...
Every once in a while it is good to go back to basics. We have looked at the topic of whether gold even matters several times in the past. Charles Hugh Smith undertook the exercise of "re hypothecation" process last week and can be read...
