Gold: Earlybirds Prepare for a Mania The continuing avalanche of digitally-created money and nearly-free credit provided to the megabanks “means that a hyperbolic, 1979-1980 style blow-off in the gold market is becoming … [Read more...]
Outlook After the Election
December 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Now the uncertainty of the US presidential contest has been removed, investment markets have shifted their focus to other major uncertainties – the “fiscal cliff,” the European comic opera, the China slowdown. … [Read more...]
Basic food crops evolved
December 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Basic food crops evolved over an unusually favourable period There will be increased weather instability, notably floods and droughts, but also steadily increasing heat. The climate is changing and becoming more hostile … [Read more...]
Billions moving into land buys
December 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Farmland has risen in value at an average rate of 3.4 per cent a year since 1850 in the UK, and at an average of 6.2 per cent since 1967. Farm prices in the US have risen by 150 per cent in real terms over the past … [Read more...]
CISI And FINRA Announce Cooperation
August 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority of the USA (FINRA) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will provide FINRA … [Read more...]
New East-West Alliance
August 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
China seems to be accumulating most of its additional foreign trade surpluses in euros, rather than dollars. But there could be more behind this policy than asset diversification, or support for Europe’s struggling … [Read more...]
Investing in Bonds: Is It Crazy
July 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Most advisers say it’s crazy to invest in bonds. But then they would, wouldn’t they? Nearly all of them, and their clients, missed out on what has been one of the greatest bull markets in history for this asset class. … [Read more...]
Under-exploited assets
June 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Global political power, under-exploited assets For both China and Europe, there are only strategic opportunities. A much closer partnership is clearly the route to take. For historical reasons, the European nations … [Read more...]
Green Fuels, Unpopular
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Green Fuels: Costly, Unpopular Some interesting points from an American investment banker specializing in the energy sector, Allen Brooks… Although US Congress has at last ended the ridiculous subsidy paid to farmers and … [Read more...]
US employment change
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
US non-farm employment change and unemployment rate, January 2012 Further encouraging news on the health of the world's largest economy came today as employment levels saw a strong boost and the unemployment … [Read more...]
