Jim
Sinclair is primarily a precious metals specialist
and a commodities and foreign currency trader.
He founded the Sinclair Group of Companies (1977),
which offered full brokerage services in stocks,
bonds, and other investment vehicles. The companies,
which operated branches in New York , Kansas
City, Toronto , Chicago , London and Geneva
, were sold in 1983. From 1981 to 1984, Mr.
Sinclair served as a Precious Metals Advisor
to Hunt Oil and the Hunt family for the liquidation
of their silver position as a prerequisite for
the $1 billion loan arranged by the Chairman
of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volker. He was
also a General Partner and Member of the Executive
Committee of two New York Stock Exchange firms
and President of Sinclair Global Clearing Corporation
(commodity clearing firm) and Global Arbitrage
(derivative dealer in metals and currencies).
In April 2002, shareholders of Tanzanian Royalty
Exploration (formerly Tan Range Exploration)
approved the acquisition of Tanzania American
International, a company controlled by the Sinclair
family, for shares in Tan Range . Following
this transaction, Mr. Sinclair became Chairman
of Tan Range and now leads its efforts to become
a gold royalty company. He has authored numerous
magazine articles and three books dealing with
a variety of investment subjects, including
precious metals, trading strategies and geopolitical
events, and their relationship to world economics
and the markets. He is a frequent and enormously
popular speaker at gold investment conferences
and his commentary on gold and other financial
issues garners extensive media coverage at home
and abroad. In January 2003, Mr. Sinclair launched,
"Jim Sinclairs MineSet," which now
hosts his gold commentary and is intended as
a free service to the gold community.
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas enjoys a national
reputation as the premier advocate for liberty
in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading
spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional
government, low taxes, free markets, and
a return to sound monetary policies based
on commodity-backed currency. He is known
among both his colleagues in Congress and
his constituents for his consistent voting
record in the House of Representatives:
Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless
the proposed measure is expressly authorized
by the Constitution. In the words of former
Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul
is the "one exception to the Gang of
535" on Capitol Hill.
Ron
Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Gettysburg College and the
Duke University School of Medicine, before
proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the
U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his
wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he
began his medical practice in Brazoria County.
As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology,
Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies!
He and Carol, who reside in Surfside Beach,
Texas, are the proud parents of five children
and have seventeen grandchildren.
While
serving in Congress during the late 1970s
and early 1980s, Dr. Paul's limited-government
ideals were not popular in Washington. He
served on the House Banking committee, where
he was a strong advocate for sound monetary
policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal
Reserve's inflationary measures. He also was
a key member of the Gold Commission, advocating
a return to a gold standard for our currency.
He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life
and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently
voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending,
and regulation, and used his House seat to
actively promote the return of government
to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984,
he voluntarily relinquished his House seat
and returned to his medical practice.
Dr.
Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent
the 14th Congressional district of Texas.
He serves on the House of Representatives
Financial Services Committee, and the International
Relations committee. On the Financial Services
Committee, Rep. Paul serves as the vice-chairman
of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee.
He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction
in the size of the federal government and
a return to constitutional principles.
Dr.
Paul is the author of several books, including
Challenge to Liberty; The Case for Gold; and
A Republic, If You Can Keep It. He has been
a distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von
Mises Institute, and is widely quoted by scholars
and writers in the fields of monetary policy,
banking, and political economy. He has received
many awards and honors during his career in
Congress, from organizations such as the National
Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government
Waste, the Council for a Competitive Economy,
Young Americans for Freedom, and countless
others.
Dr.
Paul's consistent voting record prompted one
Congressman to comment that "Ron Paul
personifies the Founding Fathers' ideal of
the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that
his principles will never be compromised,
and they never are." Another Congresswoman
added that "There are few people in public
life who, through thick and thin, rain or
shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul
is one of those few."
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