David Hague

Contributor since: 10 Sep 2012

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• @Jackson Hole: Be Very Afraid, Bankers are Channeling their Inner Rothschild

  Published 04 September 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader, There is a melancholy overtaking economic commentators such as myself. The kindred spirits amongst the economic intelligentsia who stridently, constantly, warn of the…

• Gold Price to Plunge: My Remarkable Visit to Fort Knox

  Published 08 August 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader, my apologies for the stunning revelation regarding the upcoming cataclysmic drop in the value of gold. I realize that my fellow gold bugs…

• Truth: The First Casualty of Economics, Banking and the Ukraine

  Published 03 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader, I opened my eyes and stared at the hard packed dirt that substitutes for grass in Paris's famed Tuileries Garden. I struggled to…

• You Have Got To Be Joking! Bitcoin? My Report From The World Economic Forum

  Published 11 February 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader, I must apologize for my tardiness in filing my report on last month's World Economic Forum [WEF] in Davos. This annual gathering of…

• Canada Puts The 'Funk' in The Word Dysfunctional [And Why You Should Care]

  Published 28 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader, you probably said to yourself that the premise of this article is absurd and preposterous. Canada is a paragon of fiscal responsibility. It…

• Sex, Drugs and Derivatives

  Published 13 January 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Dear Reader I recently returned from two weeks of 'high level' meetings with a group of Bankers [this is code for two weeks of subsidized…

• NSA Inks Landmark Deal to Share Information With Central Banks

  Published 08 December 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader put away your charts and graphs. Forget about fundamental and technical analysis. Ignore financial statements and trends. The extraordinary agreement to share information…

• How My Time in Jail Helped Me Understand The Global Economy

  Published 29 November 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I must apologize for the dearth of my commentaries that are my attempt to help us interpret the complex global economic issues that…

• My Excellent Adventure at the Federal Reserve Headquarters

  Published 14 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I was afforded a most extraordinary experience recently that has given me unique insight into our global financial and political systems. I intend…

• Gustavo Speaks! Confessions of a Central Banker

  Published 02 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, decorum and etiquette demand that I give you fair warning. This commentary regarding central bankers may contain content and images not suitable for…

• A Modest Proposal [updated]

  Published 25 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, in 1729, Jonathan Swift suggested in his "Modest Proposal" that, "'in order to Prevent the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden…

• Shocking Revelation Regarding Moscow G-20 Summit

  Published 13 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I have been given access to shocking information regarding the upcoming G-20 Summit in Moscow. I am going to share with you the…

• @Davos, LOL, I Just Read an Economics Text Book!

  Published 27 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I am on assignment at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Unfortunately my previous commentaries irked the organizers so profoundly that I…

• Global Crisis: There is an App for That

  Published 15 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I am feeling optimistic today that there is a light at the end of the tunnel for our global economic crisis. To be…

• The Debt Crisis is so Boring: But 'TOP SECRET' ECB Report on the Debt Crisis is Anything But Boring

  Published 05 November 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, by now you will have read at least 1000 articles discussing the debt crisis and/or the fiscal cliff. Like me, you have probably…

• All it Will Take is a Spark to Set the Debt Crisis on Fire: Could Canada be that Spark?

  Published 19 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, you probably said to yourself self that the title of this article is absurd and preposterous. Canada is a paragon of fiscal responsibility…

• An Interview with a Central Banker: 'To Infinity and Beyond'

  Published 15 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I recently conducted the most important interview of my nascent journalistic career. The information I uncovered in my interview will, I suspect rival…

• Wall Street is the key to World Peace and a Reduction in Defense Spending

  Published 12 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, it will not be necessary for Wall Street and Main Street, or the European Union to be concerned with budget deficits, world peace…

• 204 Million Economists Cannot Be Wrong

  Published 09 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, I believe that after thorough investigation and great expense I have discovered to the solution to the debt crisis and the economic malaise…

• Global Economy Sails into the Bermuda Triangle

  Published 04 October 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Dear reader, Paul Getty once famously said that 'a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be'. Clearly one could now say that 'a…