Paul Tustain

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• Your Bankrupt "Babushka" Future

  Published 07 October 2009 | viewed 3,698 times

  Those people who have saved for the future could soon form our own generation of bankrupted, Babushka pensioners... TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the Russians found themselves…

• The First Steps to Hyper-Inflation

  Published 04 June 2009 | viewed 5,343 times

  Choose your poison: the trickle of excess cash or the trickle of excess bond redemptions... NOT FOR THE first time the Financial Times says we…

• Gold and the Flood of Cheap Government Money

  Published 08 October 2008 | viewed 4,754 times

  "...If we allow governments to control finance, we give them extraordinary power over which projects are allowed and which are deemed inappropriate..." The BRITISH PRIME…

• Tale of Two Malls

  Published 02 September 2008 | viewed 4,779 times

  "...Overcapacity - first of credit, then of real estate - drove the price of renting sharply lower, bankrupting cautious investors along with big borrowers..." A…

• Why Rescues Don't Work

  Published 01 April 2008 | viewed 3,352 times

  "...Just like natural organisms, the financial system must have death to evolve into a better form..." NOW THAT HE'S wearing some sort of do-good government…

• Train Wreck Imminent?

  Published 23 December 2007 | viewed 6,658 times

  Next week may hold some unpleasant surprises - you may profit from an early warning. YESTERDAY WE LEARNED that the British government's guarantee to bail…

• Investment Landfill: How Professionals Dump Their Toxic Waste on You

  Published 03 July 2007 | viewed 11,464 times

  "...Not sure what happened at Bear Stearns? The root cause might surprise you. You might also find your own investment funds at risk, after being…

• Bear Stearns and MBS Hedge Funds: What are the real risks today?

  Published 22 June 2007 | viewed 6,300 times

  "...What people don't fully appreciate is the extent to which our financial system has geared up over the last twenty years to finance the worldwide…

• Credible Inflation Data (for a change)

  Published 21 July 2006 | viewed 5,480 times

  It is strongly in the interest of governments that inflation figures stay low, even if inflation itself is not low. An hour or so researching…

• Now you see it ...

  Published 29 April 2006 | viewed 6,560 times

  'Unallocated' gold is convenient but slightly risky. The spot gold market trades this unallocated gold. After a spot gold deal there is a separate and…

• Pricing Gold in a Glut Currency

  Published 07 January 2006 | viewed 5,873 times

  I forget the figure exactly but there used to be a tip sheet doing the rounds which predicted gold at about $17,000 an ounce. I…

• A New Year Risk Analysis for Your Portfolio

  Published 30 December 2005 | viewed 4,301 times

  By building the 'Maginot Line' France invested very heavily, if not very cleverly, in its future security. This line of forts was so strong that…

• Banking on Gold

  Published 11 December 2005 | viewed 4,846 times

  Unallocated gold is the most widely traded form of gold in the world. It hides a way of advantaging the provider - usually a bank…

• Why Gold can go Higher and Higher

  Published 06 December 2005 | viewed 6,787 times

  BullionVault's Paul Tustain explains the current attraction of gold. The number of zeros on formal statistics sometimes disguises their real meaning. The US government currently…

• Error Messages from the Economy

  Published 29 October 2005 | viewed 5,553 times

  BullionVault's Paul Tustain examines economic failure - with the help of a broken laptop. Freefall Forgive me lapsing into anecdote if I promise it will…

• Hyper-inflation: Where, Why and When

  Published 20 July 2005 | viewed 6,118 times

  This article looks at a prospective source of dollar hyper-inflation. The author is widely published on the history of money. A source of dollar oversupply…

• The Disastrous History of Money : English Wooden Sticks

  Published 15 October 2004 | viewed 5,161 times

  Charles II was king of England from 1660 - 1685, when wooden sticks were being used as a form of money until the system collapsed.…

• The Disastrous History of Money : Part 5 - Credit

  Published 25 September 2004 | viewed 4,768 times

  Like cocaine, consumer credit comes in lines and is dangerously habit forming. It has been around a long time:- "Prosperity was assisted, too, by ...…

• Is Gold in Short Supply?

  Published 23 July 2004 | viewed 4,986 times

  A question :- If all the gold ever produced in the world was formed into a single block how long would its edge be? The…

• Competition and Extinction - Darwin Tackles Modern Economics

  Published 06 May 2004 | viewed 5,292 times

  The author - Paul Tustain - has been widely published on the failures of ancient monetary systems. This article looks at how the abandonment of…