 Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Brian London. You're the publisher of Gold Newsletter. It's the Gold Newsletter and then of course you're the founder of the New Orleans Investment Conference. Is that correct? Well I'm not the founder but I am the host and producer of the conference. I started at the conference in 1985 but it had already been going on for four over ten years at that time. Okay so since 1985 that's a significant period of time and of course you have an amazing track record for attracting some of the brightest minds in the world specifically on gold, silver and base metals. Would you agree that that's correct or have you expanded from there? Yeah we do cover every investment sector. We start off in geopolitics and narrow down to drill down to every investment sector. We cover the economic trends, everything that affects every major investment sector but of course Jim Blanchard started the conference in 1974 as a gold event and we've always had that thread kind of running through the conference throughout the years and decades and we are known as the preeminent event for metals and mining stocks especially in a bull market atmosphere like we have going on right now. Okay well you're saying we have a bull market in that sector right now but we're not seeing it at the junior level yet Brian. When should we anticipate some positive impact to the exploration market for instance? Well I think very soon and I think as we speak quite literally we have seen some impact. I think this is just a real sweet spot for investors. The new gold bull market has been confirmed by gold moving by the big mining stocks offering leverage and silver offering leverage so it's a confirmed bull market move yet there are still lots of juniors that have begun to move but not have not yet put in the really big moves yet you know the kind of multiplying three four times in value moves that we typically expect in this kind of an environment this kind of a bull market. So it's a great opportunity you know the bull market's there and there's lots of opportunities so investors really need to take advantage of this for their own sakes and really get involved in this sector and find the best opportunities. Well I personally love the the blurbs you send out with the gold newsletter they're always very well written and I'm going to put you on the spot here Brian and ask you to highlight a couple of companies that will be either presenting or just attending the New Orleans Investment Conference that you're personally watching. Well I'm personally watching a couple of plays that I'm personally invested in or a few plays that I'm invested in. Two in silver after mass silver is a fairly early stage it has moved a good bit a lot of people are watching it but it's got two good silver projects that it will be drilling on over the next year or so and in going to resource stage I like that company it's an early stage silver company I like New Pacific Metals it's also a silver company that's got a tremendous project it's pretty well advanced right now in terms of market cap but it could end up being one of the world's largest silver deposits in Bolivia and and I like Greg Bayer I have that as a hold in our portfolio right now but it's already up already up 26 times in value from our alert service recommendation in late 2017 so that's kind of a sign that the big winners are already being produced right now in this bull market. Yes but arguably isn't that kind of an exception when you look at the vast landscape of juniors right now that really haven't moved Brian? That's correct they haven't moved and I think that makes that creates an opportunity really you know we see typically that the juniors are the last to move but in gold and silver but they move the most and then as the bull market progresses you get these kind these other ancillary bull markets because investor attention is focused on the sector you'll get uranium stocks moving you'll get as you know strategic metals and rare herbs and all these other sub-sectors getting attention as we go along so if this is anything like the early 2000s and I think it shows all the signs of being just that then we will have another you know five to seven years of a tremendously positive upturn in gold and silver but also lots of other opportunities emerging. And of course I just want to draw you back to the reference to the impact of geopolitical issues on markets overall one of the many reasons that I value the New Orleans investment conferences you have so many wonderful speakers that really talk about how these work with our portfolios can you comment a little bit about this? Yes we've always featured that we've always talked about geopolitics because they drive really everything we've always talked about economics we've had you know everybody Margaret Thatcher to Alan Greenspan to Ayn Rand to on and on and on this year we have Stephen Moore who was recently nominated and had to withdraw his nomination for the Fed a very well known economist and free market economist we've got Kevin D. Williamson who's kind of a bad boy of political geopolitical commentary out there he's kind of the Doug Casey on another level of commentary of course have Doug Casey back again we have Peter Bookfarad, Dennis Cartman, Rick Rule, Peter Schiff going on and on and on plus just about every expert out there on metals and mining and and what happens is a lot of these speakers tend to save their best recommendation their hottest picks for the New Orleans conference to unveil them and it's always proven over decades to be the best place to find these kinds of opportunities especially in the junior sector. Well let me just give you a minute to promote the New Orleans investment conference is it too late for us to sign up I mean are there any hotel rooms left I'm personally booking my flight today? Yes there are hotel rooms it's starting to get a little tight we still have a $400 savings early bird savings in place but that will be expiring in a few weeks so there's opportunities sometimes you're smart to point that out sometimes the hotel books sells out sometimes the entire city sells out at the time of our event but we do have rooms right now and we do have the early bird discount still in place and it is November 1st through the 4th so you will have to make your your plans fairly soon. Well speaking again I want to just stay on the geopolitical I think we need to have you on more regularly Brian I have too many questions for you we of course been watching a petition 232 and how it's kind of evolving with the current task force reviewing sustainability issues and in particular the uranium market can you comment at all on that and which way you think it's going to go? Yeah I think there'll be some accommodation for the domestic producers I don't think it's the one issue where where Trump has not turned toward protectionism or tariffs or some kind of a quota but I think there will be something evolving out of that in general that one of the things that that issue is kind of obscured is an improvement somewhat improvement but still a significant improvement in the outlook for uranium over the past few months but everybody's been looking at 232 as a a kind of a rescue for the sector and and so we did have a downturn when that didn't turn out as everyone expected but I do think it's going to end up being positive with that working group coming up with something to help the domestic producers and of course we've always been the top ranked site in the world and the coverage of the rare earths market who will you have speaking particularly on that topic at this event? Well rare earth strategic metals we have Simon Morris who's you know as you know is one of the best in the world on that area we also have all of our metals and mining newsletter writers who cover the area and myself included and frankly we'll be leaning on you for your advice and input on that sector because as you say investor intel is is a long-standing as a long-standing reputation as providing some of the best information on that sector for investors. Well Brian I look forward to seeing you and your team I know you'll be very busy and and personally I'm looking forward to hearing Doug Casey speak so thank you so much for having us again this year Brian we look forward to seeing you. Thanks Trace you're looking forward to seeing you down here very soon.