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As Oil Plunges, Energy Junk Bonds Turn Dangerous — Again

14/11/2018(0)
      Back in 2104 oil was falling and hundreds of billions of dollars of energy junk bonds and leveraged loans looked to be at risk. Wolf Street ... Read More
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Prices When Gold Is Money

09/11/2018(0)
  We are getting ahead of ourselves here. Gold does not circulate as money – yet. It might never do so. Perhaps the end of government currency, fiat money ... Read More
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Gold Is Becoming Cool Again

31/10/2018(0)
The sentiment shift is still subtle, but it’s both real and widespread. After a few years of being ignored and/or dismissed as basically useless, gold is cool again, attracting ... Read More
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Gold demand up 42 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2018 among central banks

29/10/2018(0)
Central banks around the world are turning to gold as an alternative to the US dollar, which they see as being undermined by America’s aggressive trade policy and geopolitical ... Read More
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The biggest of big pictures

26/10/2018(0)
  I have had a request from Mrs Macleod to write down in simple terms what on earth is going on in the world, and why is it that ... Read More
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Annual inflation up to 2.1% in the euro area

22/10/2018(0)
The Euro area annual inflation rate was 2.1% in September 2018, up from 2.0% in August. A year earlier, the rate was 1.5%. European Union annual inflation was 2.2% in ... Read More
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Last week was just a taste of the coming gold short squeeze

17/10/2018(0)
The gold and silver futures markets got even more unbalanced last week, with speculators (who are usually wrong at the extremes) going as short as they’ve ever been and ... Read More
Economy

We should ditch GDP as a measure of economic activity

10/10/2018(0)
  This article exposes the false economic concepts behind GDP, which is only the visible tip of a large iceberg of economic deceit. Describing an increase in GDP as ... Read More
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House prices in the euro area rose; These are the countries with the highest increases

09/10/2018(0)
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.3% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the ... Read More
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Italy Calls Europe’s Bluff — And The Euro Loses Either Way

04/10/2018(0)
When Italy elected a bunch of rowdy populists back in March, the rest of the eurozone assumed (or at least hoped) that the weight of responsibility would bring Rome ... Read More
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