Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. ( NYSE: GOLD ), the second-largest mining company in the United States, has been recommended in the Five Star Trader advisory service for not quite two months and already is up 40% in that time. Barrick Gold is the top-performing recommendation in the trading service of economist Mark Skousen, PhD, a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, recipient of the inaugural Triple Crown in Economics in 2018 and one of the 20 most influential living economists.