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Willem Middelkoop (Geneva, August 21, 1962) is a Dutch publicist, photographer, entrepreneur and former market commentator for RTL Z television in the Netherlands

Middelkoop was born in Switzerland. Between 1980 and 2000 he worked as a photojournalist and between 1998 and 2000 he was picture editor in chief at Het Parool in Amsterdam. Additionally Middelkoop also worked briefly as a TV-reporter in 1991 at the start of the Amsterdam local station AT5.

Publicist From the 90's Middelkoop invested in real estate and started writing about the economy and financial markets. He was pronounced pessimistic about the survival of the US dollar system and also negative about investing in financial institutions while being positive about investing in gold and silver, oil and other commodities.

In September 2007 his first book was published: Als de dollar valt (If the dollar falls). Middelkoop warned about the risks of a crash of the dollar system and warned about a possible collapse of the world wide full financial system. He has sold over 50,000 copies of this book, which currently is in a 17th print run. In 2008 he published, De permanente oliecrisis (The permanent oil crisis), in which he predicted a peak in global oil production around 2015. In 2009 he published his third book, Overleef de kreditcrisis (Survive the credit crisis), followed by Goud en het geheim van geld (Gold and the secret of money) in 2012. In that same year he also published his photo book CODE WILLEM, with news photos from Amsterdam from the period 1980-2000. Early 2014 he released his first book in English, The Big Reset, with a prediction the current global monetary system will have to be reformed drastically around 2020. His books have been translated into nine languages including Arabic and Chinese.

In 2008 Middelkoop Amsterdamgold.com founded, a bullion web store. He sold the company in 2011 to the listed Value8 when sales had reached over 100 million Euros was. In 2008 he also founded the Commodity Discovery Fund.