Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Dr. Ponzi goes to Congress

  Published 28 March 2007 | viewed 6,141 times

  "...The sorry tale of a subprime fraud officer who defrauded himself...and Florida swampland bought for $16 an acre..." WHAT'S NOT to love about falling real…

• Mistrusting Money Whatever the Price

  Published 23 March 2007 | viewed 3,881 times

  "...Raising interest rates is supposed to restore confidence in a currency. But what if it fails like it failed in Mexico '94...Britain '92...and the US…

• Cash, Trash, and the Cheapest Houses in England

  Published 19 March 2007 | viewed 5,778 times

  "...The cheapest housing in England - empty, vandalized and boarded up - now costs the equivalent of $40,000..." MONEY, money, money...the more the world gets…

• A Lender Who Will

  Published 16 March 2007 | viewed 4,549 times

  "...The bold step in finance - the market-leading decision - now comes by retreating from credit and refusing all risk..." INNOVATIVE new debt products so…

• Subprime Foreclosures: The Prisoner's Dilemma

  Published 13 March 2007 | viewed 7,519 times

  "...When house prices fall, foreclosure rates rise. But that only tempts mortgage lenders into making the crash worse..." "HOUSE PRICES to recover next year," said…

• And I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Fund Managers

  Published 09 March 2007 | viewed 5,156 times

  "...What will happen to non-monetary assets when the bear market in money shows up on Wall Street...?" THE LAWS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS state that observing…

• A Bowl of Rice Topped with Chicken and Egg

  Published 05 March 2007 | viewed 4,276 times

  "...The problem of the chicken and the egg applies going forward. Just when will the markets regain their appetite for risk...?" Oyakodon is a lunchtime…

• How (not) To Fix the Subprime Mortgage Collapse

  Published 02 March 2007 | viewed 6,251 times

  "...Every year new investment products are created that are entirely unsuitable. Professional funds then group-blunder into the worst, wholly ignorant of the underlying risk..." BEN…

• Instant Alpha - Just Add Boiling Risk

  Published 28 February 2007 | viewed 4,451 times

  "...With insurance in place, what's to fear from the global bubble in credit...?" BEATING the market - the search for "alpha" - takes sharp thinking…

• Bad Advice About Gold

  Published 23 February 2007 | viewed 5,095 times

  "...It's clear Bernanke's been dealt a bad hand by the Maestro. But will the gold market fold, raise, or call his bluff...?" GOLD'S bull market…

• Ghouls, Gold and the Real Rate of Interest

  Published 16 February 2007 | viewed 4,417 times

  "...You don't need Armageddon to hit to make big money in gold. Just a gaggle of central bankers refusing to offer a decent return on…

• Gold Shocker! "Rising Prices a Bullish Sign"

  Published 13 February 2007 | viewed 5,987 times

  "...There's a glib idiocy at work in the way Wall Street and the media cover the gold market..." Spot gold hit $669.50 per ounce in…

• Wishful Infeasibility: Fine Art and the Bubble in Money

  Published 09 February 2007 | viewed 4,049 times

  "...If you like your theatre absurd, keep an eye on the fine-art market in London..." "Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only…

• The Yen, Gold and a Losing Hedge Fund in London

  Published 02 February 2007 | viewed 4,948 times

  "...Gold investors often think they'll make big money when other asset prices collapse. But that might not prove true in the short term..." WHATEVER happened…

• Who Needs the Fed -- Really?

  Published 31 January 2007 | viewed 3,829 times

  REMEMBER when soaring oil prices threatened to push inflation higher? Jean Claude Trichet at the European Central Bank warned again last week that rising energy…

• Gold goes all Google! Outlook for 2007

  Published 26 January 2007 | viewed 7,852 times

  "...Gold suddenly looks like a crowded trade. But does Wall Street's love of the metal really have to mean the end of the bull market...?"…

• Never Mind the Price Tag, Part II

  Published 19 January 2007 | viewed 4,478 times

  "...Fancy a St.Tropez villa with its own infinity pool? Keep your eye on the junk bond market..." The real estate agent blinked into the warm…

• Never Mind the Price Tag, Part I

  Published 12 January 2007 | viewed 4,957 times

  The gap between the 'haves' and 'have-yachts' keeps growing with the stock market. Watch out for that iceberg More than 1,000 yachts went on display…

• Gold: what might India's first gold ETF mean for the gold price?

  Published 10 January 2007 | viewed 5,810 times

  "...India is the world's largest gold market by far - and it's going to get its first exchange-traded gold fund (ETF) in the next two…

• Whatever Happened to Moral Hazard?

  Published 05 January 2007 | viewed 4,221 times

  "...If you thought the bond market couldn't get any crazier, you haven't seen the price of East European junk today..." "It was risky," says a…