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Gold took a beating on Wednesday, amid media chatter about the mythical notion of tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve. Evidence for this appears no more convincing than at anytime since the start of the Fed’s QE programmes back in 2009, but that hasn’t stopped the speculation, with one trader telling WSJ that ...
The purpose of keeping accurate accounts is to quantify net worth at any given point in time – as well as the change from a prior date. It goes without saying that the measure used, money, should be constant if comparisons over time are to mean anything. Only then do prices of capital goods, consumer goods and services truly reflect ...
As if last year's new regulations from the Indian government had not caused enough turmoil at the local gold markets, tomorrow the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be publishing new regulations aimed at raising gold import taxes to 6%. Gold dealers are appalled at these new measures and argue that the ...
The Liberal Democratic party’s election victory in Japan has given equity bulls something to cheer about the start of this final full trading week of 2012, as has news that the Chinese government is scrapping the US$1 billion ceiling on investments into China by foreign sovereign wealth funds and central banks. Chinese regulators ...
Much has been made in the press of the manipulation of LIBOR, without much explanation of the consequences for prices of all things that depend on supply and demand for bank credit. Outrage focuses on the activities of avaricious bankers, which is why the connection never gets made between relatively minor manipulations of credit pricing ...
As a student (and teacher) of the Austrian School of economics, I despise the interventionist ways of the Federal Reserve. But as a gold investor, I appreciate the Federal Reserve’s “help” in boosting my portfolio. Like any prudent investor, I aim to buy low and sell high, and Fed policy right now can only lead ...
My father, who at one time was an education minister in the Kenyan government, used to tell a story of a long-forgotten crisis when the leaders in the educational establishment could only turn to him and ask: ”minister, what shall we do?” The point of the story is that these were all highly qualified senior academics, while my ...
There was an interesting note from Agora Financial a few weeks ago raising the following question. If Operation Twist and the previous QE programmes were successful, then why is there a need for more? And if they were not successful, then why are they are there going to be more of them? While the current status of major global ...
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