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By Adrian Ash |
May 8, 2012
Given this financial crisis, you might expect Spanish savers and investors to be choosing gold investment instead. Yet the Spanish media's financial press, stuffed full of crisis headlines like everything else, isn't pointing to possible escape routes.
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By Adrian Ash |
April 5, 2012
Suddenly financial repression is everywhere. Apparently there's no escaping it. The forced imposition of real losses on savers, aimed at cutting the real value of government and banking debt, financial repression has become a hot topic for analysts and hacks alike.
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By Jeff Berwick |
October 27, 2011
For those who have already been financially destroyed by the system, hang in there and follow this advice. For those who have been lucky enough to keep your assets intact, move now to protect them from the prying claws of government.
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By Adrian Ash |
June 22, 2011
Growth in global gold demand is indeed rapid. And another decade of quintupling prices isn't a certainty. But neither of those facts mean gold is a "bubble" today. In fact, anyone calling gold a bubble right now is talking through their hat - at best.
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By Adrian Ash |
March 28, 2011
Gold investing used to be seen as contrarian - a rejection of the happy-clappy bullishness that fueled the late-20th century's last and greatest bubble, the Tech Stock Bubble. So price movements aside, what about mass participation in gold.
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By Adrian Ash |
March 11, 2011
The chief mischief of cheap money is back - the idea that, with low-risk returns at zero and less, it's safe to seek a little fillip from leveraging what would otherwise be higher-risk trades. Right until they blow up.
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By Adrian Ash |
March 9, 2011
How the Fed's cheap money has got (and will continue to get) into the costs of foodstuffs remains unclear. But that it has pumped up the cost of getting by worldwide is clear, we fear. Call it speculation, hedging, hoarding or profiteering if you like.
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By Adrian Ash |
November 5, 2010
How gold's one-trick "inflation hedge" more than trebled amid the modern world's template deflation.
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By Lorimer Wilson |
January 26, 2010
The cosiness that exists between the U.S. Congress and the financial elite has not worked, and is not working, in the best interest of the average American. But what does it mean for gold?
