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Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer at US Global Investors. Mr. Holmes has received various honors over the years, including being named America's Best Fund Manager by the Mining Journal. He is also the co-author of the book The Gold Watcher: Demystifying Gold Investing, and is a regular guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, and also right here on the Money Metals Podcast.

Frank, welcome back and thanks for joining us again.

Frank Holmes: It's great to be back in a day that the market is up and it's all good for us.

Mike Gleason: Yeah, exactly. We'll get into that. Well, Frank, we focus a lot on federal debt around here. Of course the numbers there command a lot of attention. The national debt is $22 trillion and has grown exponentially, as we both know, particularly over the past two decades.

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