The Brexit chicken game
At last, there are signs a sense of reality is dawning on the EU’s negotiators about the futility of trying to force the UK to agree to a...
Goldmoney Insights
Further thoughts on Gibson’s paradox
“The paradox is one of the most completely established empirical facts in the whole field of quantitative economics.” – John Maynard K...
The fiscal benefits of free trade
Western governments have an overriding problem, and that is they have reached or exceeded the bounds of taxation, at a time when legally man...
Follow the money
Since 2009, equities and other financial assets have climbed a wall of worry. Initially, it was recovery from the threat of a complete finan...
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. N...
Time for a new gold standard for Asia
Over half the world’s population, living in the Eurasian land mass, understands that gold is money. The leaders of the Asian nations also...
Brexit, Germany and Asia
Britain’s general election went horribly wrong, with the Conservatives forced into a putative coalition with the Democratic Ulster Party....
How gold can rescue pensions
The World Economic Forum, in conjunction with Mercers (the actuaries) recently estimated that the combined pension deficit currently stands...
Safety in banking
There was a time when banks acted as custodians of their customers’ money. Indeed, keeping a person’s money and using it as if it belong...
Update on Brexit
This article looks at the background to Brexit negotiations and concludes that Britain is negotiating from a position of strength, while the...