Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Dear Chancellor: Inflationary Facts

  Published 25 March 2009 | viewed 3,976 times

  A draft of this week's open letter - from Bank of England governor Mervyn King to UK chancellor Alistair Darling - which BullionVault found blowing…

• Inflation: Making Sure "It" Happens Everywhere

  Published 20 March 2009 | viewed 3,816 times

  "Gold and the Euro just hooked up together again. But for how long depends on central-bank policy..." SO BEN BERNANKE SAYS the United States has…

• Gold, Gossip and Russias Tu-160 Bombers

  Published 18 March 2009 | viewed 5,644 times

  "Germany in 1944 could buy materials during the war only with gold. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody..." - Sir Alan of Greenspan,…

• Geithner Ex Machina

  Published 11 March 2009 | viewed 4,396 times

  "Deus does not exist. "But if he does, He lives above me, "In the fattest largest cloud up there..." - The Sugarcubes, Deus DEUS EX…

• Hope Now: Once More, with Feeling

  Published 06 March 2009 | viewed 3,526 times

  "Any house bought for 'No Money Down' should become a no money home, a free gift to the debtor. How's that for putting a floor…

• A Double-Top in Gold?

  Published 27 February 2009 | viewed 6,269 times

  "The bigger the top, the bigger the drop - whether in gold or the S&P index..." A DOUBLE TOP - or so technical analysts say…

• Gold vs. Euros: 7-Year No-Brainer Finished?

  Published 21 February 2009 | viewed 3,991 times

  "...No, it's not much of a punchline. But perhaps owning gold will at least raise a smile..." FOR THE BEST PART of seven years, it…

• Gold Amid Inflation and Deflation

  Published 18 February 2009 | viewed 5,378 times

  "Inflation and deflation are both a crisis in money. Which leaves gold as a secure store of wealth against both monetary panics..." THE 1970s DIDN'T…

• The Long-Run Value of Gold, Part III

  Published 11 February 2009 | viewed 4,221 times

  "...Gold is demonstrably not the ultimate inflation hedge. Nor is it anything much compared to stocks, bonds or real estate..." "THE TWILIGHT of gold appeared…

• What Iggy Pop Says About the Financial Crisis

  Published 09 February 2009 | viewed 4,427 times

  Take a gaggle of celebrities, mix into mis-guided ad campaigns, and sprinkle liberally over the financial crisis... JUST HOW MUCH LONGER and deeper can this…

• Currency Crisis: First Sterling, Now the Euro, and Then...?

  Published 05 February 2009 | viewed 5,715 times

  How to get a jump on the big central banks as interest rates race towards zero worldwide... OF SIX CENTRAL BANKS voting on interest rates…

• The Long-Run Value of Gold, Part II

  Published 03 February 2009 | viewed 4,089 times

  "Gold-backed money retained its real value for 350 years in the United States and Great Britain. It's only just clawed back to that level for…

• The Real Long-Run Value of Gold, Part I

  Published 29 January 2009 | viewed 4,178 times

  "Gold must hit $2,200 an ounce to match its real peak of Jan. 1980. Or so almost everyone thinks..." WHAT'S IN A NUMBER...? Ignoring the…

• Broke

  Published 23 January 2009 | viewed 5,061 times

  Private bank stockholders aren't so much being crowded out as thrown out the window... NOW, I'M NO banking analyst, but that gap on my resumé…

• Waiting for Gono

  Published 21 January 2009 | viewed 4,054 times

  A LITTLE theatre of the absurd guest-starring Zimbabwe's chief central banker, Gideon Gono, whose signature now adorns the world's first-ever 100 trillion-dollar bill... A country…

• Saving and Spending

  Published 16 January 2009 | viewed 4,206 times

  (with no apologies whatsoever to John Maynard Keynes) "Saving the savers is not the priority...This is surely the time to encourage people to spend, spend,…

• The "Truth" About the Gold Market Today

  Published 14 January 2009 | viewed 5,695 times

  Just what is the link between retail gold coin prices and the apparent manipulation of gold futures & options...? YOU MAY HAVE SEEN some rather…

• Gordon Brown's Gold Sales, 10 Years On

  Published 09 January 2009 | viewed 4,173 times

  "This coming May will mark 10 years since Gordon Brown's infamous gold sales..." THIS COMING MAY will mark 10 years since Gordon Brown chose to…

• Your Country Needs You!

  Published 07 January 2009 | viewed 3,986 times

  "Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy US government bonds..." - Poster from the US Treasury promoting the Third Liberty Loan, 1918 THE BRITISH PRIME…

• A Whole Lot of Quantite Going On

  Published 05 January 2009 | viewed 3,599 times

  - WHAT on earth...? - Sorry, if you could just keep turned to the wall... - But what in the hell is that?! - This?…