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Gold at $2k+. So why the fuss?
August 10th, 2020
There appears to be no way out for the bullion banks deteriorating $53bn short gold futures positions ($38bn net) on Comex. An earlier attempt between January and March to regain control over paper gold markets has backfired on ...
Euro area annual inflation up to 0.4%
August 5th, 2020
In July 2020, a month in which COVID-19 containment measures continued to be lifted, Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 0.4%, up from 0.3% in June according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of ...
Dominant currencies and the limits of exchange rate flexibility
August 3rd, 2020
Faced with an unprecedented shock of collapsing global demand and commodity prices, capital outflows, major supply chain disruptions and a generalized drop in global trade, many emerging markets and developing economies’ (EMDEs) currencies have weakened sharply. Will these currency ...
The Eurozone’s financial disintegration
July 31st, 2020
Introduction The Euro Crisis Monitor (above) shows the increasing imbalances in the TARGET2 settlement system between all its members: the ECB (itself with a €145bn deficit) and the national central banks in the Eurozone. Other than minor differences reflecting ...
The pound’s future in a dollar collapse
July 28th, 2020
In recent articles for Goldmoney I have pointed out the dollar’s vulnerability to a final collapse in its purchasing power. This article focuses on the factors that will determine the future for sterling. Sterling is exceptionally vulnerable to ...
Explaining the credit cycle
July 24th, 2020
This article summarises why the credit cycle leads to alternate booms and slumps. It is only with this in mind that they can be properly understood as current economic conditions evolve. The reader is taken through three monetary ...
Interesting Pattern on 10 Year US Notes Points Higher – Elliott wave
July 15th, 2020
10 Year US notes are trading in an uptrend since the last quarter of 2018 and unfolding a big, five-wave cycle. We specifically see price trading at the end of a triangle correction in wave (4), therefore be ...
Crypto trading volumes plummeted in June, but Altcoins are moving up
July 14th, 2020
This week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) started trading around $9,200 and quickly moved up to $9,450. A potential rally was rejected close to $9,500 and BTC’s price then moved back down to $9,150, but it has since recovered ...
EU Commission published an evaluation report on the GDPR
July 13th, 2020
Just over two years after its entry into application, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The report shows the GDPR has met most of its objectives, in particular by offering citizens ...
The new deal is a bad old deal
July 10th, 2020
So far, the current economic situation, together with the response by major governments, compares with the run-in to the depression of the 1930s. Yet to come in the repetitious credit cycle is the collapse in financial asset values and ...
