It’s the thirty-first anniversary of the worldwide stock market crash known as “Black Monday,” and Eric Sprott stops by to remind us of the lessons learned from that chaotic day.

Our intrepid world traveler returns this week—and just in time! Gold is up after its best day in nearly two and a half years, but is it time to celebrate yet?

In this edition of the Weekly Wrap-Up, Special guest Rick Rule, of Sprott US Holdings, joins me to discuss the employment report and how it's affecting wages south of the border.

Precious metal fund manager Ned Naylor-Leyland joins us to discuss the current status of gold, silver and the mining shares.

Michael S. “Mickey” Fulp, AKA The Mercenary Geologist, is a well-known and highly respected analyst, writer, and speaker.

Fraser Buchan is a co-founder of Tradewind, a technology platform for digitizing the trading, settlement and ownership of precious metal.

Don Luskin likes what he sees. The economy, he says, is strong and poised for growth. The tax cuts are working, particularly in the small cap segment. Furthermore, the President’s approach to trade negotiations is sound.

“As a speculator, I’ve come to prefer questions … [that] begin with ‘when,’ not ‘if,’” Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott U.S. Holdings explained. “And I believe that a question on the turnaround in the uranium market is a question where the answer begins with: ‘when’, not ‘if’.”

Rick Rule, Chairman of Sprott US Holdings, discusses the increasing trend of M&A's in the Gold Mining Sector. He covers what's likely to come next, the types of companies which attract M&A, and how M&A's are impacting the mining sector overall.