Media Appearances

Here is a link to video from my appearance on Max Keiser's On The Edge, where we talked about market making, high frequency trading, flash crashes, deflation and hyperinflation.

Here is the complete audio of my interview on The Korelin Report, where we discussed the implications of European bailout.

Back in 1990, a market maker at the Pacific Exchange named Rick Ackerman helped the FBI catch a criminal trader from Merrill Lynch who had poisoned several packages of Smith-Kline (now Glaxo Smith-Kline) drugs and purchased out-of-the-money put options in hopes of cashing in. Today, it's much harder to commit securities fraud with all the tools put in place and active monitoring. But back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, there was no internet. No free charts service. No options listings in the paper. But what seemed like the perfect crime would ultimately be foiled by one man: Rick Ackerman. Read more...

Is Gold's correction from the record highs of early December about to run out of steam? Rick sees some encouraging signs, which he discussed recently with Al Korelin.  Click here for the interview at Kitco.     

In the good old days, the price of gold could always be counted on to reflect the ebb and flow of geopolitical tensions. Nowadays, though, you wonder whether it would take a mushroom cloud over the Middle East, or the sinking of a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, to get a rise out of bullion.  This is the topic of my latest interview with Al Korelin at the Korelin report. Click here   to access it.

My latest interview with Al Korelin of The Korelin Report concerned the inflation vs. deflation conundrum.  Click here  to access it.

Rick waxed bullish on gold -- and bearish on Obama -- in a recent interview with radio host Al Korelin. Here’s the link.

Rick Ackerman  gives his views on the continuation of the rising conventional stock market in this concluding segment of The Korelin Report.  Click here for audio.