Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Contact Contributor

Biography

• What the World Needs Now...

  Published 18 September 2008 | viewed 4,619 times

  "...Monetize labor, monetize stocks, monetize the farmers, monetize real estate..." DAMNED IF THEY DO, damned if they don't, politicians the world over are looking pretty…

• PLIF!! Just an Everyday Emergency

  Published 12 September 2008 | viewed 4,760 times

  "...Can you say Permanent Liquidity Insurance Facility without crying, yawning or laughing like a drain...?" So U.S. Treasury Secretary HANK PAULSON - if the source…

• Trying to Pump Up What's Busted

  Published 10 September 2008 | viewed 5,804 times

  "...So today we're back where we started, with a collapse in retail investments (then stocks, now housing) and the collapse of the very biggest institutional…

• Operation Melt Down, Part III - Only 3 Weeks and 170 Tonnes to Go

  Published 05 September 2008 | viewed 5,594 times

  "...My God, this is the time. If everyone wants gold we're all going to be ruined, because there is not enough gold to go around..."…

• Operation Melt Down: Part II - Hoarding for War, Vaulting for Victory

  Published 29 August 2008 | viewed 5,854 times

  "...The 'total war' of the 20th century first required a 'total war' on freely held private wealth..." IT SEEMS AN ODD QUIRK of history that…

• Operation Melt Down: Part I - How Richard Nixon "Goldfingered" the World

  Published 27 August 2008 | viewed 2,720 times

  Fear, Mr. Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day. In a period of history when every tomorrow may be…

• Collateral Damage in the War of the 'Flations

  Published 21 August 2008 | viewed 4,085 times

  "...The shooting-match between inflation in prices and deflation in assets is still a long way from won..." WHICH WAY now for financial assets? Given what…

• Gold: Cheap as Chips...?

  Published 18 August 2008 | viewed 3,936 times

  "...Might the seasonal shape of the gold price turn this summer's collapse into an autumnal boom...?" THE SHARP DROP in world gold prices starting in…

• Last Warning? Reflation Part II

  Published 01 August 2008 | viewed 3,418 times

  "...First warning? Gold doubles as the Greenspan Fed makes real interest rates negative for the first time in 25 years. Now his successor is at…

• Curing US Inflation, Zimbabwe Style

  Published 30 July 2008 | viewed 3,498 times

  "...Three hundred billion here, $300bn there, and pretty soon you're talking about a wave of dilution hitting cash-holders, bond owners, stock investors and US Dollar…

• India's Gold Demand: A Panic for Gold?

  Published 25 July 2008 | viewed 3,299 times

  "...Just like everywhere else, Indian consumers face the problem of too much money chasing prices too high and becoming worth less each day..." IT'S HARD…

• Fly Away Money, Fly Away Home

  Published 14 July 2008 | viewed 3,984 times

  "...Inflation in prices and deflation in assets turns the Long Boom of the last 25 years on its head..." AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of booming asset…

• Decade of No Returns, Part II

  Published 11 July 2008 | viewed 3,708 times

  "...Giving money to stockholders now looks like so 20th century, it's downright Victorian...!" EVEN AFTER their dividend checks, US stock investors earned less than zero…

• The Decade of No Returns, Part I

  Published 09 July 2008 | viewed 4,571 times

  "...Ten years here, a decade there, and pretty soon you're losing real wealth hand over fist..." WHAT A DIFFERENCE a decade can make! Over the…

• How to Multiply Asias Gains by 230%

  Published 02 July 2008 | viewed 3,430 times

  "...Whatever you think investing should taste of, it no longer just comes in vanilla..." DID YOU KNOW...? Private investors like you can make 230% of…

• Too Late to Buy Gold?

  Published 27 June 2008 | viewed 5,523 times

  "...Turn up the gloom! Investors will do well merely to preserve wealth from here..." IT'S HARD TO BE BULLISH on gold when there's so much…

• Fed Meeting: The Long-Lasting Costs of Inflation

  Published 24 June 2008 | viewed 3,356 times

  "...The true cost of beating inflation vs. the cost of letting it run..." "AT THE SURFACE LEVEL", explains Bradford De Long in a decade-old paper,…

• Bank-Risk and Balance Sheets

  Published 20 June 2008 | viewed 2,535 times

  "...Ninety-five per cent of the credit created by UK banks in May went to buying back loans that they'd already sold to other investors..." BANKS…

• A "Lot of Money" Heading Back into Gold?

  Published 18 June 2008 | viewed 5,429 times

  "...The current lull in the gold market may signal a great chance to buy before the price moves sharply higher once more..." WHAT YOU MAKE…

• A Note on the Consumer Price Index

  Published 13 June 2008 | viewed 2,788 times

  "...With the cost of living always rising, not falling, it's a good job there's so much more money around to help pay for things. Right...?"…