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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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News & Analysis by Alasdair Macleod

Gold market report: bullion banks going net-long

It has been an interesting week for gold. On Tuesday, open interest on Comex fell sharply by 6,961 contracts. The action was in the June contract which fell 12,072, only 3,000 of which appear to have been rolled into the next active month (August). The bulk of the fall in the June number must have been from bears closing their shorts ...

2013-MAY-24 · Alasdair Macleod

Comex, COT, gold price

Bank balances and gold

There has been a growing shift in favour of assets relative to bank deposits. This was initially encouraged by zero interest rates, but more recently there is little doubt that Cyprus’s bail-in has accelerated the trend. This explains the bull markets in bonds and equities, which conveniently underwrites the entire banking system. ...

2013-MAY-19 · Alasdair Macleod

central banks, Cyprus, gold bullion

The role of GLD and SLV

In August 2011 I wrote to the Financial Services Authority to seek confirmation that the London-based custodians of SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust (SLV) were being regulated as custodians, despite the fact that physical bullion is not a regulated investment. After some chasing on my part I finally got a response, kicking ...

2013-MAY-12 · Alasdair Macleod

buy gold, ETF, LBMA

Gold market report: continuing consolidation

Gold and silver continued their consolidation after the April lows, trading in narrow ranges with a firm undertone. Attention is now firmly focused on Chinese and Indian demand for gold, which between them is absorbing all non-Asian mine supply. Chinese net purchases of gold totalled 320.54 tonnes in the first quarter 2013, with purchases ...

2013-MAY-10 · Alasdair Macleod

Asia, COT, gold price

The case against deflation

Regular readers will know I am in the inflation, possibly hyperinflation camp; but there are those that think the future is more likely to be deflationary. In the main this is the view of neoclassical economists, Keynesians and monetarists, who generally foresee a 1930s-style slump unless the economy is stimulated out of it. Rather than ...

2013-MAY-05 · Alasdair Macleod

central banks, deflation, inflation, quantitative easing

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