Currencies and Gold

How to Lose Money Fast

Don’t waste your money with stop-losses. There’s no promise that you’ll like the bid you’re forced to take like the recent EUR/USD squeeze. FXstreet.com (Barcelona)...

Escalating Currency Wars an Imminent Threat

With the cabal of central bankers and finance ministers once again denying at the G-20 meetings last weekend that the world’s largest economies are...

Covert Global Currency Wars

“The lessons for the present are clear. Today most advanced industrial economies remain, to varying extents, in the grip of slow recoveries from the...

Like a Rolling Stone

Japan’s stock market is up 9.3% this year (chart 1). But in US dollar terms it’s up only 0.6% (chart 2). As you can...

Insanity: The $1 Trillion Platinum Coin

If you haven’t heard of the latest ploy to monetize America’s debt, read onward. In the last few weeks an obscure idea has come on...

Gold Today, Gold Tomorrow

In the last five years the price of an ounce of gold has increased 93%. Easy monetary policies and the downgrade of many sovereign...

Who is Buying Gold?

In 2012 there were stunning trends in gold buying. Perhaps the most stunning was who was buying gold to lower risk from economic turmoil. The...

Time to Buy Gold?

It’s the question most frequently asked by customers over the last week: Is now a good time to buy gold? My answer is that...

Stimulus Speculation Goes Global

We have commented thoroughly on the stimulus programs being signaled or implemented in the United States and Europe, but market speculation has broadened its...

India: BRIC Broken

India, one of the much hyped BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) has seen its currency plunge in recent months. Over the last...