Alasdair Macleod

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Oil-Yuan Futures To Start Later In The Month – Implications For Gold – Video

06/03/2018(0)
In this short video, Goldmoney’s Head of Research, Alasdair Macleod, shares his thoughts on the Oil-Yuan Futures and the implications for gold. How recent developments in China’s oil payments ... 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
Gold and Oil

Commodity losses

18/12/2015(0)
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
World economy

The truth about GDP

01/12/2015(0)
“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
economics

Advice to the Prime Minister/President

19/11/2015(0)
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
Central Banks

The end-point in financial credit

06/11/2015(0)
Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed ... Read More
Fiat Money Quantity

Fiat money quantity update

30/10/2015(0)
After a few months of slower growth, FMQ has picked up again. FMQ is the sum of True Money Supply (as defined by the Austrian School of Economics), plus ... Read More
silver

Silver as money

16/10/2015(0)
Gold is money, admittedly not often circulating as such today. Fiat currencies issued by governments have driven gold out of circulation. But where does this leave silver? Money-substitutes, bank ... Read More
dollar-yuan

China and the dollar

09/10/2015(0)
With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy. China executed a financial move that appeared to undermine ... Read More
Chinese flag

China’s 1929 moment

30/07/2015(0)
Anyone with a nose for markets will tell you that the Chinese government’s attempt to rescue the country’s stock markets from collapse is far from succeeding. Bubbles collapse, period; ... Read More
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