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Alasdair Macleod

gold-stones

Gold – a reasonable correction?

03/06/2016(0)
Gold weakened during May by about $100, from a high point of $1300 to a low of $1200. This, for technical analysts, is entirely within the normal correction zone ... Read More
Regulation

Regulation – the hidden curse

27/05/2016(0)
Regulations are nearly always introduced with the best intentions. In financial services, they aim to stop unscrupulous brokers and banks from ripping off the public through bad practices. Manufacturers ... Read More
European Commission

The Eurozone is the greatest danger

23/05/2016(0)
World-wide, markets are horribly distorted, which spells danger not only to investors, but to businesses and their employees as well, because it is impossible to allocate capital efficiently in ... Read More
Economy

The Endgame

18/05/2016(0)
And how we got here There is a growing fear in financial and monetary circles that there is something deeply wrong with the global economy. Publicly, officials and practitioners ... Read More
EU USA trade talks

T-TIP: Salvation or trash-tip?

09/05/2016(0)
President Obama weighed into the Brexit debate on his recent visit to the UK, saying that if Britain left the EU, she would be at the back of the ... Read More
saudi-arabia

Taking the petro out of the dollar

04/05/2016(0)
Saudi Arabia has been in the news recently for several interconnected reasons. Underlying it all is a spendthrift country that is rapidly becoming insolvent. While the House of Saud ... Read More
ECB - building

The ECB and shadow banking

19/04/2016(0)
Markets have fully adjusted to a financial world which reflects the leadership and management of money by central banks, and are increasingly frightened of any prospect of their control ... Read More
World-currencies

A tale of two currencies

05/04/2016(0)
There is a widespread and growing feeling that financial markets are slipping towards another crisis of some sort. In this article I argue that we are in the eye ... Read More
ECB - building

The ECB and John Law

21/03/2016(0)
Last week, the ECB extended its monetary madness, pushing deposit rates further into negative figures. It is extending quantitative easing from sovereign debt into non-financial investment grade bonds, while ... Read More
gold-stones

Gold is the only sound money

11/03/2016(0)
This article notes that the technical situation for the gold price has sharply improved, to the evident surprise of many mainstream analysts. It discusses possible reasons behind the turnaround, ... Read More
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