Formerly the City correspondent for The Daily Reckoning in London and head of editorial at Fleet Street Publications Ltd, the U.K.’s leading financial advisory for private investors. Adrian Ash is also the editor of Gold News and head of research at BullionVault.
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May 18th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
Whether inflation or deflation strikes, a growing number of people are fast buying gold for defence...
It’s common knowledge that gold bullion proved the most reliable wealth-store during the vicious inflation of the late 1970s. Yet almost un-noticed, gold has once again been the best-performing asset bar none this decade, too.
Gold ...
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Tags: deflation, Gold, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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May 6th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold, Housing
The broad sweep in housing-gold ratios is just as broad and as sweeping as both gold bulls and bears might hope...
Even the UK's small, tightly packed mainland, floating off the edge of Europe, includes disparate and distinct real-estate markets. Glasgow is as different from London as Cornwall from Cheshire. But ...
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Tags: Gold, mortgage, real estate
Posted in Featured, Gold, Housing |
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Mar 9th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Housing, Macro Economics
"Any house bought for 'No Money Down' should become a no money home, a free gift to the debtor. How's that for putting a floor under prices...?"
Remember the great hope for Hope Now...?
"Let's not harp on about the costs, absurdities or risks of governments meddling in real-estate bubbles when they ...
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Tags: foreclosure, Housing prices, mortgage
Posted in Featured, Housing, Macro Economics |
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Feb 20th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
"Inflation and deflation are both a crisis in money. Which leaves gold as a secure store of wealth against both monetary panics..."
The 1970s didn’t just curse the world with cheap German wine and the Bay City Rollers.
That decade gave us soaring inflation, too.
Gold's stellar run up to $850 per ounce, ...
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Tags: deflation, Gold, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Feb 13th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
"...Gold is demonstrably not the ultimate inflation hedge. Nor is it anything much compared to stocks, bonds or real estate..."
"The twilight of gold appeared to have arrived," wrote Niall Ferguson – now a Harvard professor, then an Oxford scholar – of the metal's 20-year bear market at the end of ...
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Tags: Gold, inflation, Keynes
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Feb 10th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
"Gold-backed money retained its real value for 350 years in the United States and Great Britain. It's only just clawed back to that level for investors today..."
By the time the War of the Spanish Succession was finished in 1715, the French King – who admitted that he "loved war too ...
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Tags: Gold, gold standard, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Feb 9th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
"Gold must hit $2,200 an ounce to match its real peak of Jan. 1980. Or so almost everyone thinks..."
What’s in a number? Ignoring the day-to-day noise, more than a handful of gold dealers and analysts reckon gold will hit $2,200 an ounce before this bull market is done.
Why? Because that's ...
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Tags: Gold, inflation, Volatility
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Jan 27th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Private bank stockholders aren't so much being crowded out as thrown out the window...
Now, I'm no banking analyst, but that gap on my resumé is starting to look like a very good thing indeed.
For who'd want to be stuck with the title "Banking Stock Analyst" now the banks are all ...
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Tags: central bank, nationalization
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Nov 24th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies
“Well, God knows you don’t need any brains to buck barley bags...”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937)
Alpha used to be what hedge-fund managers promised their clients.
Better still, portable alpha — defined in the easy bed-time reading of finance MBAs as the “generation of excess return over a benchmark ...
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Tags: Buying Gold, Cost of Audits, Credit Lines, Credit Shutdown, hedge funds, wheat
Posted in Commodities, Economics, Energy, Featured, Gold, Investing Strategies |
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Nov 10th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Gold, Housing
“I say, I say, I say — Did you hear about the joke of a central banker...?”
Shock and awe was never supposed to be the Bank of England’s approach.
“Predictable,” even “stolid” were meant to be this ancient institution’s watchwords. The current chief, Mervyn King, proclaimed it so. Time and again.
“Our ...
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Tags: Average House Prices, BOE gained Operational Independence, Consumer price Inflation, Gold Bullion Prices, Inflation popping a bubble, Long-run average of base rates
Posted in Gold, Housing |
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