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The dollar has suffered a landslide of scrutiny and negative sentiment over the past eight months. Yet just nine months ago it was the currency that every investor and central banker in the world wanted to own! [More...]
The gold stocks have ridden on the back of the gold rally, which in itself is partly the result of the high level of fear surrounding the economic outlook. Contrary to popular belief, gold tends to perform well in periods of...
by William Pesek on Sunday, 22 November 2009 It's a, well, golden opportunity. As these well-known market personalities duke it out, they're doing us a favour by highlighting a critical debate: Which is the bigger threat -...
With an alteration for the inflation of the past 70 years, the highest economic successful movie of all times is "Gone with the Wind" starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. With the inflation adjustment this film has grossed a...
"Crybabies need not apply" Barack Obama has decided to push the economy back into recession, and no one can figure out why. Perhaps the impressionable Obama has come under the spell of the deficit hawks and crystal gazers who...
In October UK inflation rose sharply with the Consumer Price Index up 1.5pc annually compared with 1.1pc the month before. Most prominent British economists say this is a "blip" and that "deflation" remains the most serious...
Is Japan back in a deflationary trap? WHILE investors have been fretting recently about Japan’s huge debt, another of the dreaded D-words has come back to haunt them. On Friday November 20th, Japan’s Cabinet Office issued a...
The word “nutter” and Bank of England are only occasionally used in the same sentence. It was used soon after Bank independence in 1997 when Diane Abbott, the Labour MP, accused the governor, then Eddie George, of being an...
With no signs of green shoots, Mervyn King is right to be downbeat - whatever the Queen said So: the government has a fiscal plan, confirmed by the Queen, under which it will halve the budget deficit in four years and eliminate...
What is the world going to do about budget deficits? Yes, the world, because while this is a particularly serious problem for the UK, it is a problem for almost every developed country. It is as serious as the great inflation...
