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The Fat Cat Bonus
Although there have been some populist backlash – the emergence of the Tea Party movement in the US, the electoral advance of the Far Right in Sweden – it’s surprising how generally apathetic voters have been towards the bias in policies in response to the bursting of the credit bubble. The score so far has been Fat Cats 10, Employees and Small Businesses nil. [Read more…]
The massive “printing” of money and supply of virtually-free credit by central banks is destroying the foundations of valuation on which investment choices are based.
Printing Money Madness
That’s why we are now experiencing such oddities as investors’ buying index-linked bonds to lock in a negative return. That’s why bonds and equities and gold have all been rising together – they are not offering conflicting forecasts about deflation or inflation, merely rising together on the floodtide of money and credit. [Read more…]
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