Join us as we sit down with Argenta Silver Advisor, Willem Middelkoop, for an intimate fireside chat exploring the current macroeconomic landscape and its implications for precious metals investing. This exclusive conversation will dive deep into market trends, monetary policy shifts, and Middelkoop's insights on Argenta Silver's positioning in today's volatile financial environment.
Willem Middelkoop is an entrepreneur and investor, who, earlier in his career, became well-known as a photojournalist, columnist and market commentator on TV. In 2008, he founded AmsterdamGold and the Commodity Discovery Fund. The former he sold to Value8 in 2011, after which he and two co-investors became founding shareholders of the successful business accelerator Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam. Today, as founder and director, Middelkoop works full time for the Commodity Discovery Fund and travels the world as a speaker and commentator on monetary and geopolitical issues. He has written a series of successful books on these topics. Middelkoop is a member of the Advisory Board of the London-based monetary think-tank OMFIF.
Speaker 1: Awesome, as folks are coming to the room quite quickly, I'll say good morning, good afternoon, good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in today. So there are many time zones, really appreciate everybody joining us, whether you're enjoying summer or winter. So we're on either side of the globe today as well. So I will say I'm thrilled today to have on the platform Joaquin Marías, presidency and director of Argenta Silver and Willem Middelkamp, an advisor to the company among many, many other roles in the industry, which I'll leave to Joaquin to enunciate later in today's event. I'll tell you, here's how today's going to work. So 1st off, the 2 gentlemen are going to have a conversation about Silver, Argenta, the macro, the micro, and really get into some of the details. And I'm going to ask a few questions, but then I'd love to open it up to a few questions from the audience today. That chat button in the bottom right hand of your screen you can write in questions at any time. I certainly won't promise we'll get to all questions today but we'll definitely get to a couple and I'll make sure that any we don't get to get to the Argenta team and they'll be able to get back to you particularly if you have really specific questions that don't fit with the scope of today's conversation. Speaker 1: The only other housekeeping item I'll note is that today's event is being recorded and will be available for replay Speaker 1: probably in the mid-afternoon Eastern time, so in the early evening in Europe Speaker 1: and in the early afternoon Pacific time. It will be available on YouTube, Six's YouTube channel, as well as right on this link, and it will pop right in your inbox for those of you in the room. But without further ado, I'll get into the p...