Fund Manager Adrian Day has a ready answer for investors wondering why the gold price has been so depressed. It is the strength of the dollar. In this interview, Day focuses on 10 companies that can remain stable at almost any price.

Taylor urges investors to stay as liquid as possible so they can invest in undervalued companies poised to explode when the value of gold is reasserted.

Trillions of dollars of debt, a bond bubble on the verge of bursting, and economic distortions that make it difficult for investors to know what is going on behind the curtain have created what author Doug Casey calls a crisis economy.

Starved of cash, nearly 150 mining companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange went into bankruptcy during the fiscal year that ended June 30, and another 23 have gone under since then.

Sprott shares his criteria for selecting profitable investments in volatile resource markets, plus near- and long-term plays that look poised to deliver returns.