Paul Tustain

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Gold Uncertainty, the Fix and the Quantum

  Published 10 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Does one of the great mysteries of the universe shed light on allegations surrounding the Gold Fix? Or is it the other way around? When…

• British Gas: How the Bankers Conned Sid

  Published 20 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  What happens when you mix politicians, bankers and private "retail" investors...? I am reminded of this story by Vince Cable. The UK's Business Secretary seeks…

• Fractional Reserve Banking: The Source of All Evil?

  Published 11 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  I'm getting very suspicious of anything which regulators think is "safe" collateral... Fractional Reserve Banking is not responsible for the bad practice of 'creating money',…

• Can Banks Really Just Create Money?

  Published 09 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It's the banks, not their customers, who actually wind up owing each other money... Observers of Fractional Reserve Banking have noticed that your deposit into…

• The Pound's Little-Known Crisis of 2015

  Published 07 January 2013 | viewed 0 times

  It may be only a matter of weeks before the Pound's next great decline begins... Right at the top of the banking pyramid you have…

• Why Did Ben Bernanke Cross the Road?

  Published 14 September 2012 | viewed 0 times

  A play in one (very) short act... "Uncle Ben, what's that over there?" "Shush, my child." "But Uncle Ben, isn't that the place we're trying…

• Gold Breaks Out

  Published 23 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Following a quiet summer, gold has just risen to four-month highs. BullionVaultfounder Paul Tustain puts the action in context... Usually I tend to focus on…

• Destroying the Young with Permanent Bailouts

  Published 05 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The tyranny of banking deposit insurance is leading young people to hate 'the market'... Why aren't young people protesting against bailouts? Younger adults are usually…

• Gold: A Modest Proposal

  Published 06 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Zurich, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore have all detected the UK's ambivalence to physical metal... A gold sovereign coin is within the UK tax…

• How to Fix Financial Services Regulation

  Published 14 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As I was reading of yet another spectacular mismatch between bank managers' competence and their remuneration, and this time at JP Morgan no less, I…

• He Chose Well

  Published 09 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

  David Cameron was today forced in Brussels to choose between the free market and the vanities of overreaching politicians... Today is a very sad day.…

• So How Do These Sorts of Crises End?

  Published 27 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

  However this crisis is resolved, guess who'll be footing the bill... The World has endured these sorts of crises before. Somehow they come to an…

• Selling Gold? Go Ahead

  Published 19 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Gold priced too high? Don't mistake selling it for taking a profit... Yes, by all means sell gold today. Just don't be a schmuck and…

• The Economist's Perfectly Useless Gold

  Published 31 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Would you - or China - rather own gold 8 years from now, or US Treasury bonds...? On the letters' page of The Economist last…

• Calculating the 'Fair Value' of Gold

  Published 13 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  In the absence of cashflow, judging gold's present "fair value" means analysing it like an insurance actuary would... With its incredibly constant supply and unsurpassed…

• Cash Futures, Physical Forwards, and London Gold's "100-to-1 Leverage"

  Published 21 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A note on the LBMA, gold futures and forwards, and "100-to-1 leverage" in London's wholesale gold bullion market... SOME COMMENTATORS are alarmed that the amount…

• Gold - the Ultimate Bubble

  Published 11 February 2010 | viewed 4,286 times

  What George Soros said, and what the press said he said... "GEORGE SOROS warns gold is now the 'ultimate bubble'," ran the Daily Telegraph headline.…

• Gold Buyer's Checklist

  Published 27 November 2009 | viewed 4,384 times

  A nine-point checklist for secure gold investment... LOOKING TO buy gold today? Here's a nine-point check-list for secure gold investment presented to this week's Investor's…

• Towards Hyperinflation

  Published 09 October 2009 | viewed 4,158 times

  Seven short steps to the cost of living doubling or more inside 3 years... HYPERINFLATION is widely accepted as a period of out of control…

• Autumn 09's Inflation Time-Bomb

  Published 07 October 2009 | viewed 5,127 times

  It's not only the energy markets that threaten the 'low inflation' data now encouraging bondholders to keep buying... THE PUBLISHED INFLATION DATA are surprisingly unsophisticated…