Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should be considered as investment advice.

This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.

So, while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining, please do your own research

or speak to a financial advisor before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets.

And now, on with the show.

Welcome everybody to another edition of the Grant Williams podcast, coming thick and fast to begin the year,

because I've had so many great opportunities to have interesting conversations.

And I always said at the very beginning of this podcast that I wasn't going to stick to a set schedule

and find out that it was Tuesday, so I needed to find someone to talk to,

but rather have conversations as and when I thought they would be interesting for me.

And of course, by extension, interesting for you.

And I've had so many great opportunities that I think this may be my 12th or 13th podcast

since the start of the year, which is quite the run rate.

It will slow down, I promise you, if you're still trying to catch up. But every single one of these conversations I've found fascinating, and hopefully you have

too. Today's guest is a gentleman who I last interviewed 10 years ago, which I know that

he nor I can believe that amount of time has disappeared between our sitting down to talk to each other.

That's Ronan Manley. Ronan writes a subset called Bullion Brief. He's also been a prolific writer on the Bullion style website, as well as a contributor

to the must-read incrementum in Gold We Trust Report, which is published by my friends Ronnie

Sturfler and Mark Vallack every year from Incrementum. Ronan's done a lot of work on the

inner workings of the gold market and with the price

nearing $3,000 and an awful lot of crazy headlines around deliveries and wait times and all

kinds of conspiracy theories coming forth, I thought it was a perfect time for the people out

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