Van Eden has no credibility in my opinion. I used to read his posts on Kitco, but I began to notice he was wrong most of the time. He usually would comment on the dollar and gold, and he called that wrong in most cases,,,,, not sure why he decided to come out against NOT.
I would bet he has ulterior motives.
(While we are on the subject, I've been getting J.B. Willie- Golden Jackass for a while. Mostly Macro Economic analysis and such. I have been very impressed. He called the housing crash over 1 year ago. I have to tell you, at the time I thought he was scaremongering. But he was dead on. And at the time, no one was talking about sub-primes and ARM Interest rates resetting.)