Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Gold Confiscation: Lessons from the 20th Century

  Published 07 December 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Three nasty examples of how people lost the gold they owned... Today's chatter in the trading rooms says some gold owners fear a punitive US…

• Gold's Big Fuss Over Nothing

  Published 30 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  How the gold price has gone nowhere - fast and aggressively - ahead of 2013... What a fuss over nothing! Gold crept back Friday morning…

• Marc Faber, Gold and a Special Picture of Ben Bernanke

  Published 16 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  What Marc Faber said in Hong Kong this week... You always get great presentations from the biggest players in gold and silver at the annual…

• Where Now for China's Gold Market?

  Published 12 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The latest from the London Bullion Market Association conference in Hong Kong... THE ANNUAL conference of the London Bullion Market Association - the "premier professional…

• Hope, Change and Gold

  Published 07 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Ten years after the American century ended, should an optimist choose to buy gold...? Gold doesn't mind a bit of hope or change. It doesn't…

• Household Deleveraging: Are We There Yet?

  Published 31 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Who killed the UK recovery? UK households of course... Deleveraging, like Hamlet's nothing, is only good or bad when you come to think about it.…

• Big Jump in London Gold Trading

  Published 26 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Wholesale gold trading through London's global center just leapt towards summer 2011's records... Gold trading in London - heart of the world's wholesale bullion market…

• James Bond, Buffett's Martian, and Europe's New Gold Standard

  Published 24 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Europe's huge gold reserves are currently more useless than Bond-villain Auric Goldfinger could wish... Let's say you owe the world €2 trillion, but you also…

• Unthinkable Iceberg for Europe's Unsinkable Ship

  Published 12 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Sorry, but history didn't end sometime between your birth and your breakfast today... Back in 2009 when Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize just…

• Putting on My Top Hat

  Published 10 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Hardly nice while it lasted, austerity is running out of friends fast... It's a common myth that the Labour government in power when the Great…

• So, Who's Been Bidding Gold Higher?

  Published 03 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  A unique, innovative tool for seeing just what private investors are doing in gold... Gold was up, up and away in September. But who was…

• Why Didn't Anyone See It Coming?

  Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  - And what do you do? - I ignore the biggest bubbles in history, ma'am... So, like the Queen asked, why didn't anyone see it…

• Supra Mario, Bond Vigilante

  Published 07 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  "The objective of this programme? It is to repair monetary policy transmission and to recreate the singleness of monetary policy for the euro area." ~…

• Northern Rock vs. Gold

  Published 05 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Five years on, what does the Northern Rock crisis mean for gold investing...? Early on the morning of Friday, 14 September 2007, nervous savers formed…

• Quanticipation in the Gold Price

  Published 31 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Will he, won't he? Either way, gold says more QE is coming in due course regardless... So Here's a turn-up for the gold price. Today…

• Render Unto Caesar, Part II

  Published 29 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Just what do those bridges and windows on Euro banknotes mean...? So in trying to match ancient Rome's monetary reach, the Euro is running pretty…

• Render Unto Caesar, Part I

  Published 24 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  What the history of ancient gold coinssays about Europe's kingless, faceless money today... So when Vespasian was proclaimed Emperor by the legions in Egypt in…

• Little Silver, Big Gold

  Published 27 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Store-of-value gold has never been so expensive against industrial platinum... Both platinum and gold are useful metals. But where gold's use is ultimately social -…

• Why Won't Fine Art Collapse?

  Published 20 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  What were once merely baubles are now being touted as investment necessity... The oddest thing about today's Great Depression? asks Adrian Ash at BullionVault. The…

• Seasonal Recycling in Gold

  Published 18 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Even paying July/August's top price for gold has averaged 5.1% returns by New Year's since 1968... It's a hardy perennial for anyone studying the gold…