Hera Research provides deeply researched analysis to help investors profit from changing economic and market conditions.  Hera Research focuses on relationships between macroeconomics, government, banking, and financial markets in order to identify and analyze investment opportunities with extraordinary value and upside potential. Hera Research is currently researching mining and metals including precious metals, oil and energy including green energy, agriculture, and other natural resources.

The Hera Research Monthly newsletter covers key economic data, trends and analysis as well as in-depth analyses of companies poised to benefit from disruptive shifts in market conditions.

Hera Research is grounded in objective reality, free markets, hard assets, scientific methods and Austrian economic theory.  Governments tend to interfere in free markets and to curtail individual economic freedom through regulation, taxation, and legislation.  Economic conditions can change as a result.  Government spending and the relationships of governments and banks can contribute to economic anomalies such as asset price bubbles.  Economic distortions can in turn distort perceptions of reality and influence behavior until objective reality becomes clear.  Understanding the relationships between macroeconomic data, government actions, banking, and financial markets is vital when evaluating investments.  Economic distortions, market interventions, inaccurate data, and biased financial reporting can mislead investors into making poor decisions.  Hera Research analyzes the fundamental causes of key trends.

"He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin, whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them." - Aristotle: The Polis, from Politics

The Austrian theory of economics is the only school of economic thought based on individual liberty and independent human action rather than central economic planning by governments or central banks.  The currently dominant theory of economics advocates free markets only to a limited degree.  By manipulating money and credit, interest rates and liquidity, central banks run the risk of distorting asset prices and perceptions of risk.  Through legislation, taxation and regulation, beyond the scope of enforcing contract and criminal law, government intervention in the free market can have many unintended consequences.  Economic distortions created by governments and central banks have serious financial implications for individuals.  However, for the informed investor, economic distortions represent extraordinary opportunities.

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Ron Hera, founder of Hera Research, LLC, and the principal author of the Hera Research Monthly newsletter holds a master's degree from Stanford University and is a member of Mensa and of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  A native Californian, Ron is a self described "escapee" from Silicon Valley.  Originally a serial entrepreneur and private investor in communications software and mobile technology, Ron turned his attention to investing in hard assets after the dot-com bubble and stock market crash of 2000.  When he is not consulting for investors and resource companies, Ron writes articles and focuses on special research projects.  Ron's articles have appeared on GoldSeek.com, 321gold.com,  King World News, Seeking Alpha, the Ludwig von Mises Institute and in other professional economics and investment publication venues.

Hera, Queen of the Gods, while known today primarily as one of the twelve Olympian deities of the ancient Greek pantheon, represents a far older religion.  Worship of Hera can be traced to the primeval religion of the Achaean and Ionic tribes that preceded the civilization of the ancient Greeks.  Hera is worshiped throughout Greece and the oldest, most important temples are consecrated to her.  The Heraion of Perachora, a sanctuary of Hera established in the 9th century BCE, is situated in a small cove of the Corinthian gulf.  According to Greek myth, Hera, is the eldest daughter of the Titan Reah, known as the mother of gods, and Kronos, among the first of the Titans.  Both Reah and Kronos descended from Gaia, the earth, and Ouranos, the sky.  Hera appears as a young, beautiful woman and is the most beautiful of all goddesses.

"I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the Immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and wife of loud-thundering Zeus, - the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympos reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder." - Homeric Hymn (XII) to Hera (translated by Evelyn White)