Adrian Ash

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• One Million Homeowners Drowning in Alphabet Soup

  Published 06 June 2007 | viewed 6,677 times

  "...The City of London leads Europe - and only just tails the US - in packaging debt as an investment product. Most especially, the City…

• Deep Mines, Cheap Money

  Published 04 June 2007 | viewed 4,072 times

  "...The supply of cheap gold looks to be nearing its end. The supply of cheap money, on the other hand, only grows greater..." ONCE UPON…

• Gold: $666 and Rising?

  Published 31 May 2007 | viewed 4,562 times

  "...Gold just closed out its fourth best month ever. Its monetary opponents, meantime, continue scrapping over which currency can sink the lowest, the fastest..." OIL…

• Housing and Gold: Baaa! Baaa!

  Published 25 May 2007 | viewed 4,678 times

  "...The only way US builders can shift unsold homes is to discount. Existing homes, in contrast, won't sell - because the discounting has yet to…

• Make That a Cheap Money Bubble to Go

  Published 22 May 2007 | viewed 5,400 times

  "...From Shanghai to Soho, the flood of cheap money is causing fresh mischief each day. Investors beware! Creating value is fast losing out to just…

• So That's It for Gold

  Published 18 May 2007 | viewed 4,767 times

  "...Golly - what a great market to short! And isn't it funny to think that gold just recorded fresh all-time highs against the world's major…

• Euro Toast and The Race to Debase, Part II

  Published 17 May 2007 | viewed 3,698 times

  "...The €500 note is more bling than a gold-plated Uzi. No wonder it's become so popular with gangsters in Moscow..." FOREIGN AFFAIRS magazine just called…

• Gold: A Gift Horse

  Published 11 May 2007 | viewed 4,647 times

  "...This week's sell-off in gold was only to be expected. It opened Monday lower from 12 months earlier for the first time since 2001..." WHAT…

• Euro Toast and The Race to Debase, Part I

  Published 10 May 2007 | viewed 3,658 times

  "...If you think the Dollar looks weak on the charts, wait 'til you see what's wrong with the Euro..." SERIOUS ECONOMISTS never much liked the…

• Global M and A: Fill in the Blanks

  Published 08 May 2007 | viewed 4,184 times

  "...The previous top of 1999-2000 feels more like false memory syndrome than a warning from history..." GOT TIME for a quick round of Blankety Blank,…

• Vote, Vote, Vote for Central Banking!

  Published 03 May 2007 | viewed 4,165 times

  "...What if the 'first win' of globalization didn't go to China? What if it went to central bank policy wonks instead - free to keep…

• Different This Time

  Published 27 April 2007 | viewed 4,674 times

  "...Previous explosions in the cost of living had taken decades...even centuries...to unfold. But the '70s bubble in guns and butter put the pedal to the…

• Inflation and Human Nature

  Published 20 April 2007 | viewed 4,428 times

  "...Scrabbling in the earth for a fresh source of cash, the gold & silver miners of 13th century Europe proved that the money supply never…

• What Price Saving the Earth?

  Published 18 April 2007 | viewed 4,370 times

  "...It should come as no surprise to find Wall Street urging us to go green. There's money to be made - tax-funded profits squeezed out…

• Whats the Two-Dollar Pound Hiding from the Markets?

  Published 17 April 2007 | viewed 8,991 times

  "With the Pound so strong, how come inflation is rising so fast...?" "SAVINGS INCOME normally has 20 per cent tax taken off before you get…

• The Latest Fed Promise - Gold Just Doesn't Buy It

  Published 11 April 2007 | viewed 5,013 times

  "...The price of gold, US consumers and the International Monetary Fund all agree the US economy is about to slow down dramatically..." SO FURTHER HIKES…

• Sterling, Gold, and the Death of Real Interest Rates

  Published 06 April 2007 | viewed 5,529 times

  "...The forex market hated the Bank of England's decision to keep Sterling interest rates on hold. But savers at home in the United Kingdom will…

• Gold Jumps as Peace Breaks Out!

  Published 04 April 2007 | viewed 3,854 times

  "...If you want to hedge yourself against oil, buy oil. Don't mistake it for gold..." WHATEVER happened to gold as a "safe haven"? "The British…

• The "Ohio Put" - Bigger than Greenspan's?

  Published 03 April 2007 | viewed 5,233 times

  "...The trouble with moral hazard is that it's just so contagious..." IN 1994 THE GERMAN mining and engineering conglomerate, Metallgesellschaft, lost $1.5 billion playing the…

• Route One to Gold Mining Profits

  Published 30 March 2007 | viewed 3,739 times

  "... Higher-risk doesn't always mean lower cost for gold mining companies. And exploration budgets are likely to shrink as M&A continues to drive share prices..."…