Markets

May 31, 2011 at 18:37

Legislation to modify debit-card interchange fees cannot compete with celebrity gossip. Yet ... The Huffington Post explained: "A full 118 ex-government officials and aides are currently registered to lobby on…

May 31, 2011 at 18:35

William Phillips was many things before he became an economist. The man behind the Phillips Curve was a dairy farmer, crocodile hunter, cinema manager, electrical engineer, member of the Royal…

May 31, 2011 at 17:34

Last week, I discussed the fact that markets were behaving as if they were waiting for something bad to not happen. I suggested that having something not happen is inherently…

May 31, 2011 at 17:01

At the start of the year we wrote about what we could expect from the gold stocks and juniors over the first half of the year. All of these markets…

May 31, 2011 at 16:50

The gold price reached a new all time high of almost US$1,575 on May 2nd. This was followed by a brief and violent correction that stopped just above the 50-day…

May 31, 2011 at 16:17

It was the perception of getting something of value without any meaningful sacrifice that initially fostered the EU Monetary Union. Though the countries of Europe were fiercely nationalistic they were…

May 31, 2011 at 10:14

If you follow the price of physical gold then I recommend - in the strongest of terms - that you read Another Volcker Moment at Hand? An Appraisal of $1500…

May 31, 2011 at 10:05

An interesting article in the Financial Times got me thinking once again about the popular notion that the Yuan is about to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

May 31, 2011 at 09:59

Tit for tat. The English call that "equivalent retaliation". If you are stubborn as a mule, you have to expect to take some knocks in life. If you insist on…

May 31, 2011 at 09:50

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