Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Collateral Damage in the War on Depression

  Published 10 March 2010 | viewed 3,048 times

  "Just allow it...just admit it. It doesn't matter where the inflation comes from. Just let it stay..." SLASHING the Bank of England's base interest rate…

• Storing Wealth in Cash Paying Negative Real Returns

  Published 03 March 2010 | viewed 2,287 times

  How long will people choose to hold any wealth in cash given it's losing value thanks to negative real rates of interest...? PEOPLE don't always…

• 1931 for the Euro, Part II

  Published 24 February 2010 | viewed 3,028 times

  It wasn't called the "irrevocable exchange rate" for nothing... PRICING YOUR money in gold - in a world where everyone else does the same, and…

• 1931 for the Euro, Part I

  Published 17 February 2010 | viewed 3,027 times

  Borrowing at low German-style rates, the Eurozone states forgot to apply German-style limits... ALTHOUGH hedge funds keep confusing the two, the Euro is not gold.…

• Athens-Upon-Tyne

  Published 12 February 2010 | viewed 2,384 times

  So, who gets to play Lehmans in this comedic repeat...? ISN'T GREECE marvellous? Paying income tax, or any kind of tax it would seem, has…

• Gold's Erstwhile Bull-Market Chums

  Published 05 February 2010 | viewed 1,902 times

  Gold is now more closely correlated with US stocks than with either the Euro or silver... OKAY, this is getting weird. Too weird, in fact.…

• Daily Noise in Gold and the Euro

  Published 03 February 2010 | viewed 2,960 times

  Five stars, one Dollar exchange rate, and a 51% gain in gold... "GOLD RETREATS as Dollar gains," says a headline from Dow Jones Newswire. Which…

• Gold's Inflation Bogey, Part II

  Published 29 January 2010 | viewed 2,278 times

  It isn't rocket surgery. Gold appeals - and thus rises - when the better alternatives don't... DURING THE 1980s and '90s...when US consumer prices rose…

• Gold's Inflation Bogey, Part I

  Published 27 January 2010 | viewed 3,086 times

  This time IS different for gold. Different from how everyone sees it, that is... STOCK-MARKET BULLS are so dumb, apparently they need Bob Prechter to…

• UK Hits Worst Deflation on Record

  Published 21 January 2010 | viewed 2,905 times

  Not enough money exists for the UK to repay its private-sector debts at the moment. Where-oh-where might the cash come from...? WELL AT LEAST we…

• Deflation in Everything But the Cost of Living

  Published 20 January 2010 | viewed 3,425 times

  Well, this is a pretty pass. Deflation in all things except inflation... THEY WERE SUPPOSED to avert depression. The Bank of England continues to tout…

• US Debt: Look At It This Way

  Published 15 January 2010 | viewed 2,897 times

  Seven ways to put the United States' national debt into perspective... The SHEER SIZE of the US government's debt hasn't put off new bond buyers…

• Rearranging the Deckchairs on the QEII

  Published 08 January 2010 | viewed 2,967 times

  Shipwrecked without it, could the Pound bear a fresh slug of quantitative easing...? The BANK of ENGLAND's asset purchase program - better known as "quantitative…

• Gold: This Time Is Different?

  Published 06 January 2010 | viewed 3,364 times

  Buying gold today is a bet on things staying all too much the same... TWO-THOUSAND-and-NINE should have been the year gold took a breather. The…

• One Golden Decade, 13 Decayed Currencies

  Published 04 January 2010 | viewed 2,316 times

  Gold up, Dollar down...? Not entirely... SO THE LAST DECADE of rising gold prices simply mirrored the US Dollar's steady decline. Right...? Well, no actually,…

• China's 2010 Gold Rush

  Published 31 December 2009 | viewed 4,088 times

  Owning gold is more often an end-in-itself than as an investment vehicle...the aim of accumulation, not the means... THE COLLAPSE in India's gold demand during…

• Chicken Little Roubini

  Published 16 December 2009 | viewed 3,696 times

  Gold has no value. Whereas the Dollar...? NOURIEL ROUBINI was "one of the few to predict the financial crisis" reckons the Financial Times. Yet plenty…

• China and Gold: The Big Story

  Published 11 December 2009 | viewed 3,364 times

  Squinting at the gold news from China, both official and private... CHINA'S LATEST SLEW of positive data "raises the prospect" of Beijing tightening its easy…

• All Shall Have Prizes

  Published 09 December 2009 | viewed 3,109 times

  Another small social pleasure done to death by the socialists... WHAT BETTER WAY to mark New Labour's last budget in power than by granting a…

• Emergency Orders and Exchange Controls

  Published 25 November 2009 | viewed 3,076 times

  You can't keep a good market down. Nor a bad market up... ON 18 SEPTEMBER 2008 - three days after the collapse of Lehman Bros.…