Podcast appearances and mentions of josh crumb

It's a holiday weekend in the United States, and we thought it would be a good time to revisit some of the big ideas that our guests shared with us over the past year.   Meeting the new commercial realities created by the globalization of the natural gas market, the energy transition to a lower carbon economy, and the rise of artificial intelligence requires new and smarter markets in which participants are empowered with new financial technology.   And building those smarter markets will require big ideas. We hope you enjoy revisiting these moments and ideas with us.   Our guests featured on this episode are:    -Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines -Brad Hitch, Director of LNG Trading, EQT Corporation -Samantha Dart, Head of Natural Gas Research, Goldman Sachs -Susan Sakmar, Visiting Professor, Univ. of Houston & Board Member, Flex LNG -Mark Lewis, Head of Research, Andurand Capital -Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading, Trafigura -Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters -Andrea Hotter, Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets -Ben Hunt, Author of Epsilon Theory & Co-Founder/CIO, Second Foundation Partners -Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Chief Data Strategy Officer, Abaxx Technologies -Dr. David Bray, Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & CEO/Principal, Stimson Center & LDA Ventures, Inc. -Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies  

We continue Gold for the 21st Century this week with Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss how gold has shaped Josh's vision and mission to build smarter markets throughout his career. They also talk about how the gold market is where the many dimensions of Abaxx come together as it launches a physically deliverable kilobar gold futures contract in Singapore through Abaxx Exchange, a gold pool through Abaxx Spot, and deploys the new financial technology that will pave the way to full digital title.

We begin the new year with part two of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined again this week by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.   In part two of our Holiday Special, they continue their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and gold – and how better market infrastructure and financial technology can be brought to bear to make these markets fit for purpose for the commercial needs of today and into the future.

We close out the year with part one of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Sacha Lifschitz, David Gornall, and Steve Lowe from the Abaxx Exchange Metals Team.   In part one this week, they begin their discussion on metals markets – battery metals and gold – and how better market infrastructure and financial technology can be brought to bear to make these markets fit for purpose for the commercial needs of today and into the future.

This week on our Markets in Transition series, we're celebrating our 200th podcast episode by welcoming Josh Crumb, the Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, back into the studio. David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss what's been learned and accomplished so far in turning the SmarterMarkets vision into a reality.

Josh Crumb talks all things commodities, green energy transition, mining labor shortage, and building Abaxx Futures Exchange. I hope you enjoy. Finally, a big thanks to our sponsors for making this episode happen. Mitimco This episode is brought to you by MIT Investment Management Company, also known as MITIMCo, the investment office of MIT. Each year, MITIMCo invests in a handful of new emerging managers who it believes can earn exceptional long-term returns in support of MIT's mission. To help the emerging manager community more broadly, they created ⁠⁠⁠⁠emergingmanagers.org⁠⁠⁠⁠, a website for emerging manager stockpickers. I highly recommend the site for those looking to start a stock-picking fund or just learning about how others have done it. You'll find essays and interviews by successful emerging managers, service providers used by MIT's own managers, essays MITIMCo has written for emerging managers, and more! TIKR TIKR is THE BEST resource for all stock market data, I use TIKR every day in my process, and I know you will too. Make sure to check them out at ⁠⁠⁠⁠TIKR.com/hive⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/valuehive/support

We close out the year with part two of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely continues his conversation with Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Dan McElduff, Joe Raia, and Ian Forester. Together, they discuss where they are now – and what's next – on their mission to create the market infrastructure and financial technology needed to build Smarter Markets.

This week, we present part one of our two-part Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely is joined by Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, along with colleagues Dan McElduff, Joe Raia, and Ian Forester. Together, they discuss where they are now – and what's next – on their mission to create the market infrastructure and financial technology needed to build Smarter Markets.

The subject at hand in episode six of Shifts Happen is the potential for a new commodity-backed BRICS currency and, joining us to kick the idea around is Josh Crumb, Founder and CEO of Abaxx Technologies. Through his work at Abaxx, Josh is perfectly placed to discuss the importance of physical settlement in the commodity markets and the practical limitations of introducing a currency that requires settlement through physical transfer. Also up for discussion is the wider connection between energy and interest rates as Josh shares with us the lessons learned from decades of experience, with his diverse background as a mining engineer, trader and the Co-Founder of Goldmoney, giving him a rare perspective into the significant change taking place in the world of commodities.   Every episode of the Grant Williams podcast, including This Week In Doom, The End Game, The Super Terrific Happy Hour, The Narrative Game, Kaos Theory and Shifts Happen, is available to Copper, Silver and Gold Tier subscribers at my website www.Grant-Williams.com. Copper Tier subscribers get access to all podcasts, while members of the Silver Tier get both the podcasts and my monthly newsletter, Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Gold Tier subscribers have access to my new series of in-depth video conversations, About Time.

On the final installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss his vision for building smarter markets and why the future of smarter markets begins with launching a futures exchange and clearinghouse in Singapore.

“What people miss is this transition to what I believe is going to be a medium-term or even long-term supply shock in the commodities space,” says Josh Crumb, president and CEO of Abaxx Technologies. He explains that we're entering a period of “structurally higher inflation” and “heightened volatility” that will lead to the fluctuation of gold prices. Additionally, the global commodity infrastructure is underinvested across the board, down from roughly $2 trillion a year to nearly $1.5 trillion even though demand is still growing. “We're just chronically underinvested,” in a new environment with “higher volatility and higher interest rates,” he claims. “The capital is not hitting the market like it needs to,” he says. Finally, he discusses the future of the energy sector and how decarbonization finance could impact that space. ➡️ Watch Here

We close out the year with Part 2 of our Holiday Special with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert and Josh to continue looking back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the past two years and discuss where it's going next.

This week, we present Part 1 of our end-of-year Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, to look back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the last two years and discuss where it's going next.

MacroVoices Erik Townsend and this week's guest host Kevin Muir welcome Abaxx Technologies CEO Josh Crumb to the show to take a deep dive on the future of decentralized finance.  https://bit.ly/3Firk5K   Please visit our website https://www.macrovoices.com to register your free account to gain access to supporting materials

My apologies for all the background noise, but it was recorded live on location at 8th Wonder Brewery in Houston where the event was held.The intersection of crypto, bitcoin, and Web 3.0 with energy markets, both traditional and low-carbon, is a general topic area I am in the process of ramping up on. Toward that end, I attended the Digital Wildcatter's EMPOWER: Energizing Bitcoin conference at Houston's 8th Wonder Brewery on March 30-31. Casual dress, a brewery, a "Beetles" stage, bitcoin mining demonstration projects, and free bottled water helped create an excellent learning environment (for the record, I did not drink any beer during this Houston visit). TakeawaysSignal vs noise. I will use my ESG views as an analogy to bitcoin/crypto. With ESG, I have differentiated between the “virtue signaling” variety that we could all do without and I think causes far more harm than good and “substantive” ESG that is indeed needed. The equivalent for bitcoin/crypto, in my view, are what I believe are called the Bitcoin maximalists that believe the US dollar is doomed and Bitcoin is its inevitable replacement. While I reserve the right to change my mind in the future, I do not share the view that Bitcoin will be an excellent reserve currency replacement for the US dollar. The part of the crypto-verse I do find highly intriguing is the potential for distributed blockchain ledger technology to allow for digital privacy, asset ownership, contracts, decentralization, reduced dependency on Big Tech and Big Banks, and related themes.Future currency? Not so fast. While I agree that fiat currency debasement is a fact of life, I am unaware of hard currency alternatives that lead to better societal outcomes. I also have not heard any Bitcoin maximalist accurately (in my view) describe the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policies and what it means or doesn't mean for money creation. To that end, I would encourage everyone to listen to Jeff Snider and Emil Kalinowsky on their excellent Eurodollar University podcast (Spotify or Apple Podcasts) for a real education on the Federal Reserve, monetary policy, and the plumbing of our global financial system. The US dollar, like democracy and capitalism, is far from perfect. But it is better than every alternative humankind has come up with thus far.Web 3! Crypto via so-called "proof of work" is the fuel that allows blockchain verification in a "trustless" environment. Proof of work is compute power intensive; hence the link between Web 3 and energy markets. It is early days for Web 3. My initial take is that we are in the "Amazon starts selling books online" stage of it. The long-term upside potential is meaningful for energy markets to the extent proof of work remains the enabling mechanism to secure the blockchain.Methane/gas management. Currently, the relationship between traditional energy companies and bitcoin miners comes via stranded gas arrangements. Or perhaps more accurately, areas where an E&P company wants to grow oil production but there is inadequate natural gas takeaway capacity. Bitcoin miners have struck deals to capture natural gas that would otherwise have been flared/vented (which is terrible, by the way) in order to generate power via a natural gas generator, which is then used to power the massive ASIC computers used to mine bitcoin. The oil company benefits by receiving value for otherwise worthless natural gas, while also benefitting the environment via reduced flaring/venting. A private Bakken E&P and its bitcoin mining partner at the conference indicated the E&P was receiving a price for its gas that was greater than zero but less than the equivalent pipeline gas price.Bitcoin miners want cheap, reliable power. Apparently bitcoin miners are no different than all of the rest of humanity in desiring the least expensive, most reliable power. In some applications, this comes through renewables like solar, wind, and hydro. In other cases, it will come through stranded natural gas. Importantly, bitcoin miners enjoy (seemingly) near complete location flexibility, which could be helpful to monetizing energy resources in remote locations (e.g., Africa, rural/in-land locations).⚡️On a personal note...I would like to acknowledge Josh Crumb of ABAXX Technologies and Max Gagliardi of the TalkEnergy podcast for sparking my interest in this topic, and the team at the Digital Wildcatter's for hosting this unique conference.⚖️ DisclaimerI certify that these are my personal, strongly held views at the time of this post. My views are my own and not attributable to any affiliation, past or present. This is not an investment newsletter and there is no financial advice explicitly or implicitly provided here. My views can and will change in the future as warranted by updated analyses and developments. Some of my comments are made in jest for entertainment purposes; I sincerely mean no offense to anyone that takes issue.Regards,Arjun

In this second episode of our three-part series, host Grant Williams dives into the heart of the matter with Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder of Abaxx Technologies. Josh and Grant discuss the SmarterMarkets vision for how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society's biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.

For the opening episode of our new series, legendary podcast host Grant Williams welcomes back Jeff Currie, Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, to examine the question “What are Smarter Markets?” What are SmarterMarkets? SmarterMarkets is our vision for using technology to redesign and improve markets to meet society's biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition. SmarterMarkets is also our weekly podcast, bringing you the entrepreneurs, icons and executives of commodities, capital markets and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our three-part series “What are SmarterMarkets?” will include Jeff Currie, Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs, Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder of Abaxx Technologies, and Erik Townsend, host of MACROVoices.

This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between Josh Crumb, Founder of Abaxx Tech, and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.***This content aired as a video webcast live on Wednesday, October 6, 2021***Want access to our 8 other webcast in this series? Click HERE to get free access:Register for our new Simulated Trading Tournament HedgEye On The Prize for the chance to win cash prizes and Hedgeye product subscriptions!

Josh Crumb, Founder and CEO of Abaxx Technologies joins us on the podcast for the first time as we conclude our three-part mini-series on the energy industry’s transition to a renewable future. 

Remember when Kyle Bass appeared on MacroVoices and suggested that Erik should get Josh Crumb on the show to explain all the various dimensions of Abaxx Technologies and how the company plans to disrupt commodity trading by bringing the latest technologies to bear to create smarter commodity markets? The long-awaited interview is finally here. Abaxx founders Josh Crumb and Joe Raia lay out the whole story of what Abaxx intends to do, from a new commodity exchange in Singapore to embracing blockchain technology to redesign how futures markets work, to a new suite of self-sovereign identity tools for finance that could revolutionize the way the industry does business. Link:https://bit.ly/3r17uDB

**This originally aired as a video webcast live on Hedgeye.com on October 14, 2020**This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between Josh Crumb, Founder of Abaxx Tech, Goldmoney Director Stefan Wieler and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.

***This interview originally aired live on Hedgeye.com on April 15, 2020***This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between Josh Crumb, Founder of Abaxx Tech and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at how the ‘everything bubble’ that’s ballooned since the Fed began printing money with reckless abandon after the last crash has become the almost-everything bailout, as cronies and insiders receive trillions in credit from the Fed and funds meant for ‘small businesses.’ In the second half, Max interviews entrepreneur and former commodities analyst Josh Crumb about the bizarre situation in the oil market and explores how our financial system got us into this mess.

 MacroVoices Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Josh Crumb to the show to discuss gold-oil ratio, pricing models for gold relative to both crude oil and real interest rates, and what lies ahead for precious metals & much more.  Link: https://bit.ly/2R6iGj0

In Episode 129 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Josh Crumb, founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, which is launching a new commodity futures exchange in Singapore over the next year. Josh was formerly a macro economist and commodity strategist at Goldman Sachs, where he was the head of metals strategy. He is also a co-founder of gold bullion dealer Goldmoney, and Jewelry company Mene.  In their conversation, Josh and Demetri discuss a curious case of backwardation on the COMEX, which is the futures and options market for trading metals in New York. The price of gold in near-dated futures expiring at the end of March spiked by almost 10% to $70 an ounce above the price of obtaining physical gold in London. Only on a handful of occasions since 2000 have gold prices risen more in a single week, including immediately after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008. Josh Crumb explains what really happened in the early hours of March 24, how disruptions to global supply chains caused by COVID-19 factor in, and why it matters to you. If you are interested in becoming a supporter of Hidden Forces, head over to our Patreon Page and subscribe to one of our three content tiers, giving you access to the overtime, transcript, and rundown to this and all prior episodes. All subscribers also gain access to our overtime feed, which can be easily added to your favorite podcast application.  Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Subscribe & Support the Podcast at http://patreon.com/hiddenforces Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod

This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between Josh Crumb, Founder of Abaxx Tech, co-founder of Goldmoney and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.This Hedgeye Investing Summit interview originally streamed live on HedgeyeTV, October 14-16, 2019.

This is an exclusive "Hedgeye Investing Summit" interview between currency and metals strategist Josh Crumb and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.We gathered some of the smartest investors on Wall Street to discuss the current market set-up around the globe.

1. ARE INVESTORS GETTING AHEAD OF THEMSELVES? The cumulative proceeds from Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) – the cryptocurrency equivalent of a stock’s Initial Public Offering – have reached $3.8 billion, according to Coindesk. Are investors getting ahead of themselves in all these new ICOs? “Probably,” Crumb says. “Just like the dot-com bubble, most of them will return to their intrinsic value, which is 0.” But that’s the point. Bitcoin is “one of the most perfect medium of exchanges we’ve ever had,” Crumb says. “Just like we had no idea what the Internet was going to do, but we knew it was important, this wave of cryptocurrency capital is pushing all of these things to crazy multiples.” In other words, some will win. Some will lose. But cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Another thing to note about the nearly $4 billion in ICO proceeds: There’s no transparency. “I think that number is totally fraudulent,” Crumb says. “There are so many wash trades of financing these things. So we see this big number, but it may just be shifting back and forth between different ICOs.” That says nothing about the “revolutionary” nature of cryptocurrencies more broadly, Crumb says. “I think that we have another period of rounding up and taking a lot of these ICO people to jail,” Crumb says. That’s what has happened in transformative markets throughout history. 2. ISN'T BITCOIN A BUBBLE? “The annual production of bitcoin is now larger than the silver market, larger than the lead market, and we’re approaching zinc,” Crumb says. “It’s still probably only 10% of the gold market. But it’s getting into the levels of value where people are going to have to start to trade this asset class.” This is important. The total market cap of all cryptocurrencies recently hit $600 billion. That’s larger than the market cap of massive companies like Amazon (AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) and Exxon Mobil (XOM). Mr. Market is advising investors to take cryptocurrencies seriously. Still, a lot of investors believe bitcoin is a bubble. Crumb turns this argument on its head. He says to consider the “bubbly” nature of more traditional asset classes. “Look at the size of the fiat government bond bubble,” he says. Crumb asks whether you are more confident you’ll be able to send your son or daughter to college in 10 years with money invested in bitcoin or European government bonds? “If I was going to buy a European bond with a negative interest rate, nominally we already know it won’t get to par. In real terms, I absolutely think there’s no way 10 years from now. So as a store of value I think that’s a massive bubble,” he says. As for bitcoin, “It could pay for your son’s college in the next 2 months. That’s what people are buying it for right now.” Short-term, say in the next three months, Crumb says he’s unsure of the price of bitcoin. But, in three years, he thinks the price of bitcoin is higher. After the fallout from the wave of questionable ICOs that sends some to jail, Crumb thinks there will be these “adaptive peaks, where more and more people are coming in and getting comfortable with bitcoin.” 3. CAN THE ESTABLISHMENT CONTROL CRYPTOCURRENCIES? Many are speculating about the launch of fedcoin, a national cryptocurrency controlled by the Federal Reserve. These people think, as cryptocurrencies are more broadly adopted, the government won’t let them usurp the U.S. dollar and overtake the Fed’s control of the money supply. Might the establishment (governments or Wall Street types) attempt to undermine bitcoin? “I don’t think they can,” says Crumb. “You have to remember, central banks created this. It was their control of the market that caused people to say, ‘I don’t like you controlling it. I’m going to figure out a way to create a currency no one could control.’” In other words, Pandora’s Box has been opened. And there’s no turning back now. ABOUT JOSH CRUMB: Mr. Crumb is a co-founder of Goldmoney

Erik Townsend welcomes Josh Crumb to MacroVoices. Erik and Josh discuss his perspectives on gold and the influences of energy and interest rates. They further discuss the outlook for currencies and cryptocurrencies including bitcoin.

Our season finale brings you three world-leading analysts and investors as they share their frameworks and favorite indicators, and help you to become a better investor. Featuring Jesse Felder of the Felder Report, Mark Yusko of Morgan Creek Capital Management, and Tian Yang of Variant Perception. We also say farewell to Aaron Chan, our co-host, as he departs Real Vision to continue his career in finance. In “Things I Got Wrong”, we speak with Josh Crumb, Co-founder of Goldmoney Inc., who shares the mistake he made diverging from the “long-term greedy” perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most investors will dismissively tell you gold prices are entirely driven by greed and fear, and that the only way gold works as an investable asset is if the world ends. That’s simple-minded. Gold is a stable store of value. It’s money. “If you saved in gold over the past 20 to 25 years rather than any currency anywhere in the world, gold has outperformed all these currencies,” says Stefan Wieler, Vice President of Goldmoney. Wieler continues: “We don’t think that gold will make you rich but it will help you retain your purchasing power. So yes it has gone up several thousand percent since the demonetization of gold but it still buys you the same amount of oil or the same size house it’s just very good money.” In the HedgeyeTV video interview above, Wieler and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough discuss… What drives gold prices (“real interest rates and energy prices,” Wieler says) The impact of upcoming Fed rate hikes and what that means for gold prices And on the U.S. economy: “Even in an absolute goldilocks scenario, gold prices would only come off a little bit until we hit the next recession and the Fed has to lower rates,” Wieler says. For more, check out our interview with Goldmoney co-founder Josh Crumb, “GOLD: The Complete Investor’s Guide From the Smartest Guy In the Room.”

On the one hand, you've got the gold bugs. They long for the good old days when the U.S. dollar was backed by the precious metal. On the other hand you've got clueless financial journalists derisively dismissing it as "just a rock." Both may be missing the point. Gold is a currency, says Goldmoney co-founder Josh Crumb. He knows a thing or two about metals. In addition to being a former Goldman Sachs metals strategist, Crumb holds a masters degree in Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines. As Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough says in the interview above, "Josh is probably the best gold analyst there is." Most investors don't truly understand the long-term case for owning gold, according to Crumb. "People want to bean count gold like it's oil or copper," Crumb says. That's misguided. There's roughly $7 trillion of gold money stock and inventory, he says, and, unlike other commodities, gold is scarce and non-perishable. So that $7 trillion in inventory is basically the last 5,000 years of production. "I like the math of gold. It's got this deep simplicity" as money stock, Crumb says. According to Crumb, that’s why investors bid up gold prices in 2016. At its peak last year, gold was up more than 20%. It was a year of “extraordinary monetary policy” experiments, Crumb says. Last year beats out even 2010 and 2011, which saw the introduction of quantitative easing, he says. Consider a few of the facts. The European Central Bank deepened its negative interest rate policy. India banned what amounted to 50% of circulated cash to curb corruption and tax evasion. The Bank of Japan fixed the yield curve of the country’s 10-year bonds at 0%. Investors were desperately searching for alternatives to the euro, yen and rupee. WHY HAVE GOLD PRICES FALLEN THE LAST SIX MONTHS? Crumb thinks recent selling in gold is a temporary distraction brought on by the surprise Election Day victory of Donald Trump. The exuberance radically shifted investor expectations. But once this initial honeymoon period wears off, investors will go back to worrying about central banks again, he says. As they should. The hubris among global central bankers is palpable. “We can’t predict the weather tomorrow. But we’re going to tell you what interest rates are going to be 30 years from now.” A few weeks ago, Crumb debated the case for gold as money with a panel which included some prominent central bankers. The panelists were all arguing that money is “a construct of our minds.” In other words, you have to believe that it has value and that someone else is willing to accept it. That’s misguided. As Crumb retorts: “Just because the central bank’s models are more and more wrong doesn’t make the economy more and more subjective.” The best proof of gold’s stability as a currency is that, in the more than four decades since abandoning the Gold Standard, gold has maintained its value. In fact, a Goldmoney study from 2015, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the movie Back to the Future, shows that gold has maintained its per ounce value across a variety of consumer goods, from Big Macs to sports cars, even in the face of rising inflation. “It wasn’t by central bank decree. It wasn’t the Gold Standard, or because of the Bank of England. None of them actually made gold work. Gold worked without them. That’s the most important fact we have.” This is why people should own gold, Crumb says. The stability of gold over long periods of time,is compelling, especially in an era of increased central bank meddling. Crumb suggests slowly adding your gold position on pullbacks like we've just had. “Just like we’ve been trained to buy the dip on anything else investors should be in that accumulation phase for gold,” he says. Watch the entire interview between Crumb and Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough in the video above.

I'm sitting with Josh Crumb, the co-founder of a company that was originally called BitGold but following the acquisition of James Turk's GoldMoney they rebranded their company as GoldMoney I agree with that decision because I think GoldMoney is more descriptive of what they are really doing with gold, than is BitGold But the reason we're sitting here today is because I was so impressed with their company after having lengthy conversations with the other co-founder, Roy Sebag, that I really agreed with Roy and I thought that the best thing for us to do was to join forces and to combine both companies to the mutual benefit of both investors and, more importantly customers of both my company SchiffGold, and GoldMoney So we've agreed on a merger and we've formed a joint venture between the two companies What I wanted to announce today is what this new joint venture means for current customers of my company, SchiffGold One of the things customers might be thinking is: "Does this mean that my experience is going to change?" GoldMoney (BitGold) is much more of an internet-based program where people are not interacting with live representatives The answer to that question is no. Nothing is going to change regarding the our customers' relationships with SchiffGold In fact, what we're hoping to achieve is to bring some of that personal service to the current GoldMoney customers

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main interviewed returning guest, Bitgold https://www.bitgold.com/ co-founder and the Chief Strategy Officer of Bitgold, Josh Crumb. New articles on Bitgold software free for users: 1) http://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b... 2) http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/blog... During this 20+ minute interview, Jason starts off by asking Josh why gold has rallied in US Dollar terms since December? Josh talks about negative real interest rates and how the gold bull market has actually been going on for more than 2 years in other currencies besides the US Dollar. Jason and Josh discuss negative interest rate policy and the attempt by many global central banks to implement financial repression. Josh says that gold will be an even more attractive alternative for investment and savings the more attempts central banks try at manipulating interest rates down or taxing people to keep money at a bank account as part of negative interest rate policy or NIRP. Jason then starts asking Josh a lot of questions about the Bitgold business model like what problems in the market was Bitgold created to solve? Bitgold has recently added the ability for businesses to pay payrolls in gold and pay dividends in gold for free to users and Bitgold is rapidly approaching 1 million users/customers in a little over a year. If you want to learn more about Bitgold, this is a informative interview from Josh about where the company is now and where it's going!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Bitgoldhttps://www.bitgold.com/, Josh Crumb. Josh is also a serial entrepreneur. His full bio is here: Josh Crumb is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of BitGold. He is an entrepreneur with a background in early stage global businesses. Josh was previously the Senior Metals Strategist at Goldman Sachs in the Global Economics, Commodities and Strategies research division in London. He also held various positions within the Lundin group of companies, serving as Director of Corporate Development and Special Project Analyst for group chairman Lukas Lundin. Currently, Josh is a director of three Canadian listed public companies and plays a large role in many philanthropic organizations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mineral Economics, a Graduate Certificate in International Political Economy, and Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks Josh why he and his co-founder of Bitgold, Roy Sebag decided to get into the gold business? Next, Jason asks Josh for an explanation of how Bitgold works. Josh says it allows for people to immediately buy and transact in gold close to spot prices, store in 6 vaults in different countries and also take delivery of the gold quickly even in small amounts. Josh thinks Bitgold allows the individual to be on a personal gold standard without governments backing their currencies with gold. To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Josh to address some very common and prevalent objections and misconceptions about Bitgold in the gold community and among gold bugs.