Adrian Ash

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• Does Gold Ever Pay?

  Published 16 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Is it fair to characterize gold bullion as an investment...? Why bother investing? Five years into the financial crisis - and more than a decade…

• Useless Gold Overtakes Platinum

  Published 12 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It's more than "interesting" that platinum prices are lagging gold... Gold has risen nicely since the meltdown following Lehmans' collapse, with the gold price in…

• Call This Financial Repression? Really?

  Published 05 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Financial repression this ain't. Not unless you like playing victim... All of a sudden, everyone's talking about financial repression - the capture and torture of…

• Wanted! Bearish Gold Bulls

  Published 16 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gold's bull run is exhausted, apparently. Yet it's due only a shower, not a bath... So gold bulls are turning bearish. But not really. "A…

• Buying a Hairway to Steven with Gold

  Published 14 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  It's now 6 months since gold hit its current all-time high. How long 'til the next...? Thanks to hindsight, the bull market in gold which…

• Gold's Inflation Problem

  Published 09 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gold goes up with inflation. Except when it goes up regardless... Everybody's fretting about inflation. Central bankers say there's too little, or will be (just…

• LTRO - Fatter than El Gordo

  Published 29 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Gasp at the sheer size of El Tro, the €1 trillion money storm raining down on Europe's banks... The fattest prize in the world's biggest…

• Kill or Cure: Quack, Quack!

  Published 22 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Hold still! This might sting a little... "Treating serious medical conditions often has unwanted side effects," said Charles Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of…

• China's 'Mystery' Gold Buyer

  Published 20 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Was the People's Bank of China really buying gold at the rate of 1 ounce in every 8 sold worldwide last quarter...? So those militant…

• The Lesson of 'Half-Hearted' QE

  Published 15 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Take 40 trillion Yen, add another 22 trillion, and you still aren't doing enough! So how much quantitative easing is enough quantitative easing? Japan tipped…

• What Does the Bank of England Think It's Doing?

  Published 13 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Quantitative easing has not worked as advertised so far. Why push ahead with more...? "You've lost control - Bank of England takes over," says the…

• The Fed's BFF

  Published 03 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Cheap money was trending long before "the" Facebook lost its article and 845 million people lost the rights to their lives... The U.S. FED's status…

• Central-Bank Gold: Joining the Dots

  Published 27 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Yes, central banks are holding more gold. But they're holding very much more wood-pulp on top... The gold price on Wednesday broke up through the…

• The UK: A Free Nation Deep in Debt

  Published 20 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Take record-high debt, add record-low interest rates, and what do you get in gold...? Second only to Japan, the UK now wears the greatest debt…

• Real Risks to the Gold Price

  Published 18 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Pending the big downturn in gold, here's 3 near-term risks to beware... If you've been paying attention, then you'll remember how gold can make financial…

• Gold Bugs, Stop Laughing!

  Published 13 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Zero rates are starting to set around investors like concrete... Owning gold should make financial crises fun. Which alongside silver, it has surely done to…

• China's 2012 Gold Panic

  Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  China's latest gold figures look unrelentingly bullish. Too bullish perhaps... So "Growth has [now] replaced inflation as Beijing's top policy concern," says Qu Hongbin, Asian…

• Wall Street's Best Bet for Crisis-Beating Returns

  Published 06 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  So how did the top US mutual funds stack up vs. the gold price since 2007...? Past performance is no guide to the future. But…

• The #1 Fund Manager to Beat Financial Crisis: UK Edition

  Published 04 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

  How a lump of gold bullion beat the City of London's brightest and best since 2007... HOW QUICKLY time flies! The global financial crisis will…

• Rhetoric versus Reality at the ECB

  Published 21 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  This week, the gap between what the European Central Bank says and what it does became very noticeable indeed... I know they're stolen, but I…