Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Inflation-Proof Deflation Hedge

  Published 23 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Knowing how governments will respond to deflation, the case for inflation-proof gold looks increasingly clear to cautious wealth... USELESS for pretty much everything except storing…

• Gold Gets All Political

  Published 19 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The Punch-and-Judy distraction of Glenn Beck vs. Brooklyn and Queens' finest... IT WAS CERTAIN to happen at some point. Because we all have a choice…

• Gold E1000: Crisis Insurance or Bubble?

  Published 14 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Rising insurance premiums don't negate the need to insure... IS GOLD in a bubble at €1000 an ounce? Let's hope so. Because if not, it…

• Selling Gold to Save the Euro

  Published 12 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Is the Eurozone one final U-turn away from a 20-fold rise in gold prices...? HAPPY SELLERS a decade ago when gold hit rock-bottom, might the…

• Gold's 800(pound) Goodbye to Gordon Brown

  Published 06 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As Britain goes to the polls, gold says "Goodbye" in fine style to the man who dumped half the UK's reserves on the market in…

• Gold, the Euro, and the Sins of the Fuhrer

  Published 05 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  With or without hyperinflation, today's welfare-state obligations - just like 1919's war reparations - are simply too big to be paid... The EUROZONE'S PROBLEM? In…

• Where'd the Greek Money Go?

  Published 30 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  How to flee the worst currency crisis in three decades... THERE IS NO last mover advantage in fleeing a debt default. Not least when it's…

• The Ultimate Currency Hedge

  Published 28 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Nothing works like gold when you need to hedge against your own currency... WEDNESDAY'S NEWS that, at last, Standard & Poor's has caught up with…

• How the Banks Print Their Money

  Published 25 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Gosh! Banks print money, bleeding tax-payers and savers for ink... RESCUING THE BANKS was supposed to be about saving the savers. Just as in the…

• Sex and Drugs and Savings Plans

  Published 16 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  What the New York Times can't even see in today's record-low bank interest rates... LESTER BANGS getting loaded on speed, brandy and casual violence...throwing empty…

• Voting for Gold vs. Voting for Gordon

  Published 12 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Dave Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher, but Gordon Brown is very much a friend to gold... SOCIALIST GOLD-OWNERS are rarer than Tory foxes. But should…

• Moneys "Common Destiny" on the Wrong Side of Gold

  Published 09 April 2010 | viewed 975 times

  With Euro-rates stuck near zero, which currency will be next on the right-hand side of XAU...? FOR THE FIRST five years of its life, the…

• The Bong of Forced Risk

  Published 07 April 2010 | viewed 1,118 times

  If you're queuing up for a lug on the bong of forced-risk, just take a moment before you inhale too deeply... THE LONGER that interest…

• Global Gold Index - Higher Again

  Published 02 April 2010 | viewed 1,021 times

  The world's money has lost almost 75% of its value against gold in the last 10 years... SAID IT BEFORE, but we'll say it again.…

• Buying China? Buy Gold

  Published 31 March 2010 | viewed 1,099 times

  Wanted to buy China's growth story but didn't know how...? The WORLD GOLD COUNCIL'S excellent new 74-page report on Chinese gold demand - Gold in…

• China Buys Gold!

  Published 29 March 2010 | viewed 2,368 times

  Still waiting for that headline, plus the $5000 rapture it will bring...? "CHINA BUYS GOLD" is the story that all commodity journalists want to break,…

• Class Warfare in the Housing/Gold Ratio

  Published 26 March 2010 | viewed 1,192 times

  Updating the big-picture charts of US housing priced in gold ounces... HARD TO SAY what all the tax-payer cash thrown at US housing will do…

• The Case for Silver

  Published 24 March 2010 | viewed 1,290 times

  Four crucial twists in the case for inflation-friendly, growth-friendly silver... SO CASH-in-the-BANK remains the nearest thing to "risk-free" that the finance industry offers. But risk-free…

• The Economic Impossibility of John Maynard Keynes

  Published 19 March 2010 | viewed 1,052 times

  What shall we do with those people deprived of work by wealth and technology...? HOW TO FILL the days, hours and minutes? It's now seven…

• He Who Has the Gold

  Published 17 March 2010 | viewed 1,183 times

  The decline of the West, measured in tonnes... AS THE AGE-OLD Golden Rule puts it, "He who has the gold makes the rules" - an…