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Thomas Tan

Thomas Tan

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

  • Restoring Trust in the US Dollar with Gold

    Published 04 March 2008 | viewed 2,857 times

    Similar to credit as the lifeblood of the financial market, trust is everything about money. Otherwise paper is just a paper, only with trust, a…

  • Will Citigroup Go to the Teens?

    Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 4,397 times

    What has happened since last August, is a very typical thing to the banking industry from time to time, about 5 years apart on average.…

  • How Did OTC Derivatives Get School Districts into Trouble?

    Published 13 February 2008 | viewed 3,298 times

    There was a not-well-publicized article at Bloomberg.com early last week, detailing how many school districts in Pennsylvania have got into big trouble due to OTC…

  • What Caused Home Mortgage Market Out of Control?

    Published 06 February 2008 | viewed 4,184 times

    Mortgage market used to a segregated, regional, illiquid and low margin but simple business. Local banks, acted as originators, lend money to home buyers and…

  • The Worst Market Crisis in 60 Years

    Published 28 January 2008 | viewed 5,629 times

    I didn't create this title. This is the title of an article in FT last week by George Soros, someone needs no introduction. In the…

  • Baby Boomers, Market Meltdown, Liquidity and Gold

    Published 25 January 2008 | viewed 4,239 times

    Well, we just had a very scary capitulation when both individuals and financial institutions join hands to seek liquidity around the world. Banks, bond insurers,…

  • Will CDS Replace Subprime to Cause $1 Trillion Total Loss for this Credit Crisis?

    Published 20 January 2008 | viewed 6,082 times

    It has been a while since the 8 word subprime has dominated the business and financial headlines. Last few days, it seems a new 3…

  • My Ten Predictions for 2008

    Published 29 December 2007 | viewed 8,434 times

    At the beginning of every year, Byron Wien, a former long time Chief Strategist for Morgan Stanley and now for Pequot, a hedge fund, makes…

  • Gold as an Alternative Investment

    Published 07 November 2007 | viewed 5,231 times

    Gold has had a great run lately. As I indicated in one of my previous blogs, if you look at the long term monthly close…

  • Private Equity's Boom Now Busting?

    Published 31 October 2007 | viewed 3,222 times

    There has been a great boom for the private equity (PE) sector last several years. And there are many discussions on what this sector as…

  • Meltdown from Modern Financial Alchemy

    Published 17 October 2007 | viewed 5,373 times

    Nowadays after all the 3rd quarter write-off announcements from many banks, sub-prime has been mentioned less on TV and newspapers. The market has returned to…

  • My View on HUI and Gold - Continued

    Published 16 August 2007 | viewed 4,050 times

    This is to update my previous blog and discussion on Gold & HUI in "My View on HUI and Gold" at http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=5686. Since my last…

  • My View on HUI and Gold

    Published 09 August 2006 | viewed 6,253 times

    I have been reading many articles on the topics of gold and gold miners for a few years now. Here I would like to share…