 Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Brian London from the Gold Newsletter. How are you today, Brian? Doing just great Tracy. Wonderful to be talking with you. I'm gonna hit you hard just kind of as a long-term associate of mine. A couple of our associates were writing emails back and forth and one said my analysis and that of others that I respect is signaling a significant top in the US stock market sometime this week or next. That seems kind of hard to hear. What are your thoughts on that? I'm sure you've received the same email. Actually, I don't believe I have, although a lot of my friends' emails end up in my junk email, not for any reason of mine just because of the algorithms. I don't know about that. I don't know who can predict that or how or why. It's been a long bull market in the stock market and really with a few notable drops and wiggles along the way since the late 1990s. It's been a tremendous run in the stock market. I think that with all markets being floated by an unprecedented level of central bank liquidity around the world and the Fed in particular plus all of this fiscal spending, all of the markets, bonds, stocks, precious metals, gold mining stocks, everything is being floated upon the sea of liquidity. In that kind of an environment, all the correlations go toward one. Everything rises, everything seems to fall together. I don't know that we'll see a significant correction or crash in the stock market. If we do though, you can bet the Fed is going to turn it to 11 and come up with some new programs or whatever they need to do, but they are going to open up the gushers of liquidity once again to rescue it. Anything that we see I think will be short lived and everybody would just come back in and start the party again. Of course, as a publisher and an editor at the Gold Newsletter, I got to ask you the obvious. Gold, when are we going to see that bull market translating to the explorers, for instance, or will we see that this year? I think we will. In fact, gold is what you need to look at because if gold moves, then silver moves, then the mining stocks move, including the junior shares that we focus on so much. We really need to look at gold as being the bellwether. I'm actually very optimistic about gold right now. It looks like we set a double bottom in the price in March and it looks we have been rallying since then and it looks very good. I'm particularly enthused and encouraged by the fact that there is very little optimism even among the gold bugs right now. The best that I've been able to get from my gold bug friends is that they predict the price might grind sideways for some time and that's really the most bullish statement I've gotten from any of my friends in the Gold Bug community. With that kind of pessimism in the market, I think the stage is set. I think the ground is plowed and fertile for a new gold rally and we may actually be seeing that at this very moment. Of course, you and I both know that you're much older than you look, so you've seen a few cycles in your time. Yeah, I've been around in this market for 35 years now, 36 years now, so watching gold every day during that period and it just feels like gold is right for a big rally right now. So can you pick a stock for us or is there a stock or two that you can recommend? We take a look and do more research on. Sure. I like Erdene Resource Development Corp. I own that stock. They are developing a mine, a gold mine in Mongolia and also have a tremendous exploration play associated with it. I also like K2 Gold. I do not own that one at least yet personally, but that's a company that has an exploration project in California, but it's worked for his great signs of gold mineralization and comes out of that discovery group shop that has brought us great bear and a number of other big discoveries and big successes. And of course, we know that you're a very geopolitically driven investor, so that means you understand what the heck is going on with many of the critical materials like the rare earths. Do you have any comments on the rare earth sector or the critical material sector in general? Well, I love it. I think the story there is irrefutable, inevitable, undeniable, irresistible. It's all going to happen for that sector, for the junior stocks, the equities in the sector. I think we still need to have an underlying bull market in the precious metals because that brings the speculators into the mining sector and then they branch out and start looking at everything else. You remember the last rare earth boom we had, the last uranium boom, the last base metal boom that we had in the junior mining sector, it all happened with the backdrop of a precious metals bull market at the same time and I think we really need that to get going again. And of course, you have one of the best events of the year annually down in New Orleans. Can you tell us what you're planning for this year? We are planning to return in person in force with a blockbuster event that it seems the whole world is eager to come back to. We will be the first big investment event that will be back in person and it's fitting that it'll be in New Orleans, a city where everyone loves to come visit and everyone I'm talking to in the industry and our longtime attendees are very excited about getting back into New Orleans in person where you can benefit from all those human interactions and the insights that you can get and really the accidental meetings that you have just walking down the halls with big-name speakers, with really smart investors, the kinds of things that you really can't get in a virtual investing or a virtual meeting environment. Well, I'll tell you, you have to visit us more often and of course as soon as I get off the phone, desperate to travel myself, I'll be registering for your event. Thank you for joining us today, Brian. Thank you, Tracy. Great to be with you.