Broad Oak Magazine

I've just been asked by a client whether he should switch from cash to equities. Here's my view, and it may explain why I haven'...

A striking article by Robert Murphy on Mises today, about the earlier Depression of 1920-21, and how raising interest rates was the painful...

Karl Denninger elegantly demonstrates that compound interest on debt will always tend to blow up the economy, if the interest rate x is mor...

Jim in San Marcos envisages eventual interest rate rises worldwide, to 10-15%. Commenting on the preceding post, Nikolay disagrees and James...

A very stimulating response from "Caronte" to the earlier post on debt reduction , so I've taken the liberty to bring the argu...

Greg Silberman reveals the results of some interesting research: 1. Since 2003, if the dollar falls, all other asset classes rise; and conve...

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

Alex Wallenwein thinks the Fed will curb its impulse to drop interest rates as much as people want, because of its fear of inflation. He exp...

We are said to be heading for a recession, so I had another look at Bank of England statistics for M4 - money supply as measured by private ...

Nigel Maund (November 5, republished in SafeHaven Nov. 12 ), after a florid beginning, concludes that gold must rise and the dollar must be ...

Punch and Judy Bank An interesting article by Tim Wood in SafeHaven yesterday, in which he argues that the market is too big to manipulate...

Martin Hutchinson (Money Morning, today) sees the Fed caught between a rock and a hard place : as the dollar drops, oil and commodity price...

Chris Ciovacco in SafeHaven today reads the historical charts and concludes that recent multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts are slightly bul...

A couple of useful items from Financial Sense : Gary Dorsch (October 18) explains that a falling dollar helps the S&P 500, "which e...

" from the Chrysopoeia ('Gold Making') of Cleopatra during the Alexandrian Period in Egypt. The enclosed words mean 'The Al...

Here's a 22 May article by Cliff d'Arcy in The Motley Fool, comparing house prices and the FTSE 100. From mid-1984 to December last ...

Further to the last, it's worth struggling through Brad Setser's presentation to the Congressional committee even if (like me) you...

Some things are so simple that it takes a while to understand them. For me until now, one was the question of how anybody could lend money a...

Peter Schiff's latest commentary ( today in Forex Street ) pours scorn on the Treasury Secretary's professed commitment to a strong ...

Financial Sense, 14 July : Jim Puplava notes that there is a US credit contraction underway. Real incomes are falling by 6% per year; bank c...