Stock-markets are falling. Does this mean that the nine-year bull market has come to an end, that shares are finally adjusting to some uncomfortable realities, as their extreme valuations have long suggested they would? [Read more…]
Shares: Should You Panic?
Planning Your Portfolio
Planning Your Portfolio – All successful investors use heuristics to shape their strategic decisions, but it’s wrong to assume they are always correct. [Read more…]
A Boom Out East
“A flood of cash into Asian investments has pushed stocks, currencies and real-estate markets sharply higher, leaving governments struggling to stem the inflows for fear they will fuel inflation,” Fiona Law reports in The Wall Street Journal. [Read more…]
Profligate money creation in Europe
Japan’s central bank is under pressure from the newly-elected government to step up its easy-money policies. [Read more…]
Gold Readies for Another Upsurge
The gold price seems to have been slowly but relentlessly sliding since it peaked at $1,920 in September 2011. This has been the strongest of the four corrections in the soaring bull market that began 12 years ago, with a fall of about 13 per cent. [Read more…]
Prepare for a Mania
Gold: Earlybirds Prepare for a Mania
The continuing avalanche of digitally-created money and nearly-free credit provided to the megabanks “means that a hyperbolic, 1979-1980 style blow-off in the gold market is becoming more likely,” says the FT’s well-known American commentator John Dizard. [Read more…]
Desalination is expensive
Desalination is a very expensive answer
- Water problems will increase to a point where gains from increased irrigation will be offset by loss of underground water and salination of the soil.
As with some other resource problems, there is an easy enough solution – desalination. But it comes with a dreadful drawback – ultra high cost. [Read more…]
Worse than the Thirties
It’s even worse than the Thirties
Two years down the track, where do things stand?
Lots of pain is being experienced, without much gain. Inflation – largely a consequence of a 25 per cent fall in sterling’s exchange rate in the global financial crisis – has soared. [Read more…]
Indonesia, emerging Asian giant
Another Emerging Asian Giant
Indonesia’s stock-market has once again been a global leader on the upside, and the best performer in Asia since the end of 2010 – but how many of us have invested there? [Read more…]