Broad Oak Magazine

Jim Willie (a notable gold proponent ) submits an interesting essay on China's influence in the currency and commodity markets. Gold bug...

Brad Setser looks at data from the US Treasury International Capital System (TIC), trying to work out what's been going on in the money ...

... foreign central banks now are in a position where they can influence, through their asset allocation, the allocation of credit inside th...

From Brad Setser's blog . I've said before now that 2003 was the year the UK and USA blew it, with reckless credit expansion.

Read Karl Denninger on how the Fed has been forced to prop up shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to please foreign equity holders such as...

Simon Watkins and Helia Ebrahimi in The Mail on Sunday (p.58) give a graph showing that sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) purchased over £20 bil...

BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interesting programme on sovereign wealth funds tonight. Is it not possible the oil exporting and trading surplus ...

Shares are supposed to be the best long-term investment, better than bonds or cash. The usual concern is the time horizon of the investor. W...

Doug Noland sees the debt crisis spreading to the corporate sector; David Jensen writes a letter to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, incl...

In a sock-to-the-jaw article that I think everyone should read , Nadeem Walayat shows the political-economic forces tides beating against ou...

Adrian Ash in Financial Sense : BCA Research in Montreal thinks that "sovereign wealth funds" owned by Asian and Arabian governme...

I have had a comment (on an earlier piece about sovereign wealth funds) from a Shromon Das, who gives his view on SWFs here and a follow-up...

Today's Daily Reckoning UK directs us to this article on FT.com, which says that sovereign wealth funds will support (if not boost) shar...

A $20 American Eagle gold coin from 1914 Bill Bonner, reflecting on news from the International Herald Tribune such as this , notes yesterd...

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