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How Long Until Inflation Breaks Germany?

14/12/2021(0)
During the 1923 Weimar Republic hyperinflation, newly-destitute Germans burned their life savings to keep warm or carted wheelbarrows of cash to stores to buy bread and milk. This wipe-out ... Read More
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The Strangest ‘Safe Haven’ Asset Ever?

29/09/2021(0)
Not so long ago, companies that make recreational vehicles were great indicators of market tops. Since RVs were frequently the final pointless toy that people bought (after motorcycles, boats, ... Read More
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Wall Street Journal proves it doesn’t understand gold

16/08/2021(0)
Gold bugs should never assume that the mainstream investing community actually understands finance. That includes the Wall Street Journal, which recently published an article (Gold as an Inflation Hedge: ... Read More
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Banking faces seismic changes

13/07/2021(0)
  The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. ... Read More
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Inflation, asset and consumer prices

25/06/2021(0)
  “The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest ... Read More
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Technical analysis and market psychology

16/06/2021(0)
  This article examines the relevance of technical analysis to today’s financial markets. Its genesis springs from two branches, Dow theory and the Elliott wave principal. Originally, Dow theory ... Read More
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The Geopolitics of Gold

10/06/2021(0)
  A number of events are coming together which are set to push gold prices higher. Besides a combination of continuing inflationary policies and massive future budget deficits undermining ... Read More
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The real point of cryptocurrencies is not their price

27/05/2021(0)
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an email conversation between columnist Andy Kessler and billionaire Mark Cuban in which Cuban explains the real point of cryptocurrencies. Hint: It has ... Read More

The end of the LBMA is nigh

20/05/2021(0)
  Basel 3 is on course to regulate the LBMA out of existence. And with it will go all the associated arbitrage business and position-taking on Comex, because most ... Read More
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Why interest rate management fails

23/04/2021(0)
  This article explains why attempting to achieve economic outcomes by managing interest rates fails. The basis of monetary interventionist theories ignores the discoveries of earlier free-market thinkers, particularly ... Read More
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