Adrian Ash

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• Dope, Dollars and Deficits

  Published 11 June 2008 | viewed 2,923 times

  "...Take a gun-boat and 1,200 tonnes of opium, and America could close its trade gap with China tomorrow..." DO DEFICITS MATTER? Right around the time…

• Blind Faith and Liberty

  Published 06 June 2008 | viewed 2,481 times

  "The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…

• And the Ben Bernanke Award for Fiction Goes To...

  Published 04 June 2008 | viewed 3,195 times

  "...Ben Bernanke's speech in Barcelona this week hardly marks a new strong Dollar policy..." BEN BERNANKE put the wind up Dollar bears, Gold bulls and…

• The True Cost of a Pool

  Published 30 May 2008 | viewed 2,697 times

  "...So what's not to love about an inflationary boom...?" "EVER WONDERED WHY your family budgets never seem to work out as planned?" asked Harry Browne…

• rt = g rt-1 + (1-g) rt* + q [Et pt+j - p*]

  Published 28 May 2008 | viewed 3,704 times

  "If we wait until a price movement is actually afoot before applying remedial measures, we may be too late..." ~ John Maynard Keynes, A Tract…

• How to Fix Everything

  Published 23 May 2008 | viewed 3,387 times

  United States Senate, 23 May 2008 Findings of the Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs "Trading Commodities - a Very Bad Thing" AFTER DOZING…

• The Far Out Financial Chemistry Kit

  Published 21 May 2008 | viewed 4,776 times

  "...The fiat-money experiment - along with the financial life-forms and hallucinations it spawned - has broken out of the lab and onto the street..." WHEN…

• FDIC: The Fed's Deadly Inflation Corp.?

  Published 19 May 2008 | viewed 3,671 times

  "...Apparent defender of US cash savers since the Great Depression, the FDIC wants to see $50bn pumped into the very worst mortgages issued in 2004-2007..."…

• Inflate Away Debt? Three Lessons from History

  Published 16 May 2008 | viewed 4,336 times

  "...Might the scam work? Can the United States really settle its debt with devalued dollars, free of all historical fall-out...?" "WE CAN PAY ANYBODY by…

• A Valuable Backstop for Wealthy Investors

  Published 09 May 2008 | viewed 3,029 times

  "...Why are wealthy investors swapping gold futures for physical metal that they own outright...?" A LITTLE LESS than 12 months ago, the world's biggest financial…

• Inflation, Wages and the Consumer Shutdown of 2008

  Published 08 May 2008 | viewed 3,094 times

  "...Now that cheap money's vanished, where will consumers find enough cash to pay the bills...?" THE CHEAP MONEY BUBBLE might have gone pop. But everywhere…

• Greenspan's Conundrum Bites Back

  Published 02 May 2008 | viewed 2,871 times

  "...If Washington and the US consumer can't borrow cheap at the long end, then they'll just go to the short end for cheap money instead..."…

• Second-Guessing the Fed

  Published 01 May 2008 | viewed 3,147 times

  "...'Buy the rumor, sell the news' applies to all markets. Not least when the Fed is committed to reflating housing and stocks..." "EVEN THE CASUAL…

• Crisis Over, the Old Crisis Returns

  Published 30 April 2008 | viewed 3,004 times

  "...Is the foreign US bond-buyer now going on strike, just when the Treasury needs him to pay for tax rebates, investment bank bail-outs, and the…

• Weapons of Mass Inflation

  Published 25 April 2008 | viewed 3,583 times

  "...Dark secrets known only to top-level officials; the public good trumping public disclosure; urgent action needed to avert disaster - haven't we been here before...?"…

• Zen and the Art of Monetary Mayhem

  Published 23 April 2008 | viewed 4,110 times

  "...Just like the Bank of England, the US Fed seems to have Britney-sized 'issues' with its core stock-in-trade - money itself..." PROFESSOR TIM BESLEY, one…

• 40 Years of Inflation, 80 Years of Dow/Gold

  Published 16 April 2008 | viewed 4,615 times

  "...The infamous Dow/Gold Ratio just touched its long-run historic average. So which way next amid the Fed's inflationary melt-up...?" IF WALL STREET STOCKS can surge…

• Gold, Euros and Risk

  Published 14 April 2008 | viewed 2,772 times

  "...Four charts, one metal, and the whole world wrapped up in trying to price risk and reward in a fast-shrinking currency..." YOU CAN LINK the…

• Baby-Steppin' Back to the '70s

  Published 11 April 2008 | viewed 3,105 times

  "...A short-back and sides for the value of Sterling - Trim, trim! Snip, snip...!" "ON THE DOWNSIDE," said the Bank of England when it trimmed…

• Rich West Sells Gold; Asian Nations Sell Dollars?

  Published 09 April 2008 | viewed 5,296 times

  "...The growing call for pan-global government intervention might just throw up a 'Reverse Plaza' sometime soon in the future..." WELL, WHAT A BUSY WEEK for…