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Alasdair Macleod

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Alasdair Macleod runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. Alasdair has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. He is a Senior Fellow at the GoldMoney Foundation.

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The destruction of savings by inflation

In the past, insurance companies and pension funds have been keen to advertise the benefit of compounding arithmetic for savings. Over the last 30 or 40 years the rate has been lifted by inflation, but to understand the cost inflation brings you have to consider the whole savings cycle: not just the accumulation stage, but also annuity ...

2012-FEB-18 · Alasdair Macleod

fiat currency, government bonds, inflation, sound money

Katastrophenhausse

Mainstream economists seem to have a problem understanding prices. They might draw supply and demand curves and talk about elasticity. They are sure to have been taught the quantity theory of money. These are merely concepts, debating points in a classroom, with limited practical value. The consequence of replacing price concepts for ...

2012-FEB-11 · Alasdair Macleod

central banks, debt crisis, dollar, inflation, interest rates

Gold and silver price shakeout

The consolidation of gold’s bull phase from October 2008 to the peak last September was a classic three-leg correction: an initial slide, rally, and final sell-off. Silver followed a similar but more violent pattern. The psychology was there too, with the final sell-off convincing many investors the game was finally over. Those who ...

2012-FEB-04 · Alasdair Macleod

central banks, Fed, gold price, silver price, USA

FEDging the figures

Both the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are now offering limitless quantities of new money – the ECB to support the banks, and the Fed for reasons (despite explanations) that are not entirely clear. The Fed in its press release announced that it expected interest rates to “warrant exceptionally low levels for ...

2012-JAN-28 · Alasdair Macleod

central banks, ECB, Fed, inflation, USA

Morning in America?

US unemployment figures came in better than expected last week at 8.5%. While noting that the figures underrepresent actual unemployment, does this improvement mark the beginning of an American economic recovery? If so, it is the last thing the consensus expects. Let us assume for a moment that Europe’s banks are rescued from the ...

2012-JAN-10 · Alasdair Macleod

commodities, economics, Fed, inflation, USA

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