Bill Holter
Financial Commentator & Former Stockbroker
Bill Holter writes and is partnered with Jim Sinclair at the newly formed Holter/Sinclair collaboration. Prior, he wrote for Miles Franklin from 2012-15. Bill worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. He left Wall Street in late 2006 to avoid potential liabilities related to management of paper assets. In retirement he and his family moved to Costa Rica where he lived until 2011 when he moved back to the United States. Bill was a well-known contributor to the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) commentaries from 2007-present.
Bill Holter Articles
It is being said today's FOMC announcement is "the most important of Yellen's tenure." I could not disagree more. In the past I have written pieces regarding the potential announcements by the FOMC and come to the conclusion "what can they...
Oil has crashed…and now trading at roughly half the level it was just 6 months ago. There are winners and losers of course but this is not the point, the point is ...this is either the sign of a credit contraction, the cause of a credit...
Never before have I seen so many pieces of information to be put together in the span of just one week. This past week we were bombarded with connectable dot after connectable dot, nearly each and every one of them on their own would have...
Many who will read this work have been sitting patiently waiting for the house of cards to collapse. For me personally, I confess the current maniacal financial bubble has gone on much longer than I ever imagined. What did we miss? Are we...
Do you remember seeing old pictures of the Great Depression which depicted "lines?" There were two types, bread lines and also lines to the front doors of banks. While we don't see any bread lines today, trust me, there are bread lines in...
While wondering what to write about today I remembered seeing something that was shocking even though I was aware of it. I have not paid much attention recently to 10-year yields in the Eurozone. The non-logical yields had just slipped...
I'd like to address the outright crash of the oil market this past week. The hope was the Saudis would cut back on production to stabilize prices somewhere in the $80+ range. This was not to be as Saudi Arabia announced no cutback...
It looks as if another COMEX expiration has come and gone without any "fireworks." I must say, I in no way expected what has occurred, the longs evaporated unlike any time past…AND with the knowledge that physical supplies are very tight....
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I have had all of you as friends and associates during what has been a long war, not a good war, but a very long "financial war". As you know from these writings; this has been a war conducted by...
Gold, that “barbaric relic” from yesteryear just won’t go away even though the central banks around the world would like just that. I believe it was Keynes who first coined the phrase “barbarous relic” which has stuck for more than half a...
