Adrian Ash

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Wealth Preservation 2011

  Published 28 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Call it "diversification" or "insurance", but gold tends to do badly when other assets go up... JUST SO WE'RE straight, nothing is certain to work,…

• Hard Money, Soft Metal

  Published 21 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Soft gold prices without hard-money rates? Not for long, says the world's 40-year unbacked money so far... JUST HOW MUCH ABUSE can soft money take?…

• Gold 2011: 'Old Normal' Returns

  Published 30 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  This year marked a step-change in the nature of gold investment demand... MOST PEOPLE rightly think of gold bullion as an inflation hedge. But it's…

• Twilight of the Euro

  Published 03 December 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Eurodämmerung Germany's "swivel-eyed" gold bugs simply show more imagination than journalists, policy-makers and academic economists... MONEY is always and everywhere a political phenomenon, nowhere more…

• Gold 'Hump' Shifting from Diwali to Xin Nian

  Published 26 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  China isn't the world's No.1 gold buyer just yet. But its impact is already showing in how global gold prices move... SURGING DEMAND from China,…

• Totally Standard Hyper-Inflation

  Published 24 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Hyperinflation is not simply inflation times 10. It's most likely to strike - in fact - amidst a real deflation... SO the FEDERAL RESERVE's second-round…

• Going Back to a Gold Standard?

  Published 10 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Three reasons you need your own private Gold Standard, rather than waiting on "sound money" from government... DID GOLD's first foray over $1,400 mean we're…

• A Bale in the Wind

  Published 05 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Savers and merchants worldwide are being forced to price scarce resources in ever-depreciating money... BLAME speculators, poor weather, global demand, or the Federal Reserve as…

• Gold and Twelve 11 Zeroes, Part Two

  Published 03 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  How the one-trick "inflation hedge" more than trebled amid the modern world's template deflation... LET'S IMAGINE the central bankers are right. Let's say that -…

• Gold and 12 Zeroes, Part I

  Published 29 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Where Volcker wrung inflation out of the system, Bernanke is wringing cash-savers' necks... AS WE NEVER TIRE of boring anyone who'll listen, it's not inflation…

• Gold in a Low-Inflation Environment, Part II

  Published 26 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "There is too little money in the economy." - Bank of England governor Mervyn King, 19 October 2010 SO the FEDERAL RESERVE is dead-set on…

• Be Careful What Geithner Wishes For...

  Published 22 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers..." - Teresa of Ávila, patron saint of headache sufferers IT'S FIVE YEARS and…

• Gold in a Low-Inflation Environment, Part I

  Published 19 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Why this really isn't the early '80s recession replayed... WHATEVER the problem is, a lack of money it ain't. Just so we're clear. Quite how…

• Fun with Numbers and Gold

  Published 08 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Three ways of looking at gold's current bull market... YOU MIGHT know this chart already. If not, expect to see more of it soon. It…

• Chasing Tail-Risk with Gold - Ding Dong!

  Published 06 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The "tail risk" of a currency crisis worldwide surely deserves close attention... AH, THE LOVELY Peta Todd... "[I am] delighted that gold has been found…

• Gold's Big Countdown Vs. the Big Four Currencies

  Published 04 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Over the last four quarters, the stand-out losers against gold have been the world's top four reserve currencies... The UPSHOT from last week's London Bullion…

• LBMA 2010: Back to the Future, Part II

  Published 01 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "Forget mining and central banks. Here's the single most important gold supply issue today..." IT WAS TOUGH once again to meet any gold "bears" at…

• LBMA 2010: Back to the Future

  Published 30 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "Haven't we seen this before, in 1923...?" The BIG MONEY flows from the biggest trends, of course. But even the brightest people, and with the…

• Gold - All About the Dollar?

  Published 17 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The race to debase only looks set to raise gold's global appeal still further... GOLD is suddenly all about the Dollar again. Or so you…

• Central Banking's 'Grotesque' War on Your Money

  Published 15 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Nobody wins this war of attrition, however much money they print up and shell into the market... DURING the Second World War, Nazi Germany hatched…