Broad Oak Magazine

If you listen out for them, you'll hear them: voices telling you to prepare for disruption to normal civil life. Years ago, it'd be ...

1. Charles Hugh Smith reflects on something that's been nagging me for quite a long time, namely, the seeming impossibility of measuring...

The Contrarian Investor suggests that the next market destabilizing factor is the need for minor European nations to refinance.

A propos China and monetary inflation, please see two very useful and enlightening articles by The Contrarian Investor - this explaining wh...

Here's an interesting one: the Contrarian Investor reckons a credit bubble could be brewing in China. For now, a cloud no bigger than yo...

In a Dublin talk last week, Dmitri Orlov bears out my repeated theme of diversity, dispersion and disconnection - the way in which efficien...

The Contrarian Investor gives a lucid explanation of the potential consequences of deflation. In Australia (as in the UK, as I think I showe...

The Contrarian Investor raises an issue I've been pondering recently: in today's financial climate, are stocks and shares old hat? T...

The Contrarian Investor reports that the Chinese will have difficulty stimulating demand within their own country, if the Western buying spr...

Contrarian Investor reports that gold is being loaned out at negative rates of interest, which he thinks is in order to help short the gold ...

A most apposite article by the Contrarian Investor, in which he considers how all this economic information leaves us confused as to the fut...

The Contrarian Investor is also struck by the elasticity of fiat money, and how this vitiates attempts to make fair comparisons and store we...

The Wall Street Journal provides a grisly visual dissection of a subprime mortgage package - thanks to The Contrarian Investor for the lead....

The Contrarian Investor thinks that rather than face economic depression, voters will force the US government to destroy wealth by hyperinfl...

David Galland rehearses the argument for gold. He points out that, relative to stocks, the gold market is so small that a small shift into i...

Clearly, The Contrarian Investor (2 Dec) thinks it's a possibility. So does Frank Barbera , who looks at the jaded market response to in...

I referred yesterday to an article by Tony Allison, which reproduced a graph of the long-term inflation-adjusted price of gold. Here is the...