Adrian Ash

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• Really Real Rates vs. Gold

  Published 10 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Quantitative easing and zero rates haven't worked. So let's have much more of 'em, eh...? GOLD attracts investment capital when other asset classes fail to…

• The US Fed's May Day Riot

  Published 03 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Oh the people's flag is deepest red, just like the government's budget... As May day protests go, the US central bank's looked pretty tame on…

• Chocolate for Cocoa, Or What's Gold Really Worth?

  Published 01 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Spying direction is hard enough in precious metals right now without confusing form and location... So what's your gold or silver really worth today? Like…

• Gold's 'Bear Market': 4 Things Investors Should Know

  Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  With gold plunging, talk of a bear market has taken off... WE DON'T make price forecasts at BullionVault (one reason we're not on CNBC very…

• Iron Lady Irony in Gold

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Margaret Thatcher was a friend of gold, not of diehard gold investors... Divisive doesn't cover the half of it. Quoting Francis of Assisi on bringing…

• Cyprus and the Biggest Myth of Banking Today

  Published 19 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Bank deposit accounts should be sacred. Right up until they're not... You'd think that with all this practice, politicians would know how to handle a…

• How to Fix the Fix

  Published 15 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  US regulator the CFTC is anxious about the London gold fix. But what is the fix, and why...? So is the London gold fix a…

• Eating the Dow for Breakfast

  Published 06 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  How to get past money illusion now that it's day-break in America once again... Forget about the Apple effect. Not including AAPL in its 30…

• Gold and the Direction of Travel

  Published 04 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Yes, the real rate of interest matters to gold. But not as much as its direction... Wall Street and the City are coming to decide…

• Rusty Old Tin Can of Gold

  Published 26 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Gold has turned, apparently. Leveraged speculators in the futures market said so... "To hoarders and speculators," says Time magazine, "gold lately has had about as…

• Gold - Safety Blanket or Quilting Essential?

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The patchwork quilt of diversification looks awful smart. It's more than pretty with gold in it, too... Investment experts keep telling us two things. One,…

• Nothing At All, Then All at Once

  Published 08 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Where money was tight, suddenly it's all arrived at once. Just like trouble does... Everywhere we look, investors suddenly see nothing but blue skies, plain…

• What Changed in Swiss Gold Banking?

  Published 06 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  What the Swiss banks' move away from unallocated accounts says about gold, and about banking... Imagine you could sell someone something, but keep ownership of…

• Printing Money Laid Bare: The 'Goldbugs' Reply

  Published 30 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  What gold investors think of money printing, inflation, and the vulgar crooks behind them... Back in the final, dying days of 2012, Paul Tustain here…

• Forget Germany, Check Out Turkey's Central-Bank Gold

  Published 23 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Now here's a central bank really putting gold to good use... Amid the brouhaha over Germany's gold reserves at the Bundesbank, there's another central bank…

• German Gold: 4 Lessons for Private Investors

  Published 18 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The Bundesbank's announcement contained little news for the market. But for private investors...? The German Bundesbank is rightly famed as the world's least stupid central…

• Platinum Overtakes Gold at Last

  Published 15 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Platinum just rose above the gold price for the 1st time in 10 months... And so, as if to mark the end of the Trillion-Dollar…

• Gold in Doesn't-Beat-Stocks Shocker!

  Published 21 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gold in 2012 is set to underperform the US stock market for the first time since 2004... So the world didn't end on the shortest…

• Why Gold MUST Go Higher

  Published 19 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Ooops! Just when everyone said gold must go higher - immediately...! Markets are made of opinions, some better than others. There are always plenty of…

• Inflation-Targeting Dead, Long Live Inflation

  Published 14 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The Fed actually thinks it can drive 315 million souls through a 0.2% gap in its forecasts... Remember inflation? Central bankers do - and they…