At a time of growing concern about the global financial system, it is time to remind ourselves why physical gold is so important for the benefit of the nearly ... Read More
There is a conflation of three related events that materially alter the prospects in favour of a higher gold price. The change in the outlook for US interest rates ... Read More
The month of January has been a wake-up call for complacent equity investors. From the peaks of last year stock indices in the major markets have fallen 10-20%, give ... Read More
Parents will tell you the most difficult questions to answer sometimes come from their children. Here are some apparently innocent questions to ask of economists, journalists, financial commentators and ... Read More
Well, well: who would have believed it. First the Bank for International Settlements comes out with a paper that links credit booms to the boom-bust business cycle, then Britain’s ... Read More
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to ... Read More
Markets have been extraordinarily complacent about the bad debts building up in the financial system. In the wake of the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates this week, the ... Read More
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth” – George Canning Canning’s aphorism is as valid today as when he was Britain’s Prime Minister in 1817. Unfortunately, his ... Read More
Your country faces a stagnating economy. Let us assume your Prime Minister (or President if that is who holds the executive power) seeks advice from two imaginary economists. PM: ... Read More
Believe it or not, one of the topics in economics that confuses macroeconomists is the actual role of interest rates. For the most part they just assume that an ... Read More
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