Dan Denning is the author of 2005's best-selling The Bull Hunter (John Wiley & Sons). He began his financial publishing career in 1997 and has covered financial markets form Baltimore, Paris, London and, beginning in 2005 Melbourne. He’s the editor of The Daily Reckoning Australia and the Publisher of Port Phillip Publishing.
What Australia has – commodity wealth – is strategically important. But what it doesn’t have – capital – is economically urgent.
The banking crisis will mean small Aussie businesses may start to feel the crunch of Europe’s credit crisis in 2012.
December 19th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
The Raw Materials of Civilisation…
Before we get stuck into the glaring omission in the government’s assessment of Australia’s energy resources – energy could be the single-best investment sector of 2012 – a reminder: today is Wednesday. You know what that means!
December 14th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
There are no more risk-free liquid assets in the market. Maybe there never were. But it’s one of those sacred cows that has never been gored before. It is now (gored, in painfully slow fashion). The dirty little secret of the bankrupt Welfare State is out: government bonds are just another liability.
December 13th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
In yesterday’s article on Europe’s fiscal integration we managed to ruffle a few feathers of those (presumably from) the English island. We’ve taken the liberty of reprinting some of their comments. First let’s start with a nice (warm) beer… then let’s talk money.
December 13th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
What stock investment decisions should you make when you recognise: government debt is no longer risk free, bank failures resulting from bond defaults by governments will feed asset deflation and lower stock prices and real money is better than unsound money.
December 12th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Financial markets will tell you whether private investors believe greater “fiscal integration” is the long-term answer to Europe’s debt problem. We can save you the trouble and tell you the answer now: Europe is still doomed.
December 12th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Basic economics of scarcity, supply and demand, and investment demand won’t be less important in supporting commodities. But in a world of collapsing financial asset values, tangible assets are about to become the hotly contested objects of a great global strategic game.
December 9th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
I suppose if I had to put it to you philosophically, I’d say that trade forces us to make our lives useful to one another by producing things people actually want and are willing to trade for. That is real capitalism and free trade uncorrupted by unsound money. It only has two basic rules: do what you say you’re going to do and don’t take what’s not yours.
December 7th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Apparently, a nine-person working group set up by Treasurer Wayne Swan after the recent tax summit, has come up with this corporate tax gem – the “Allowance for Corporate Equity”.
December 7th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Europe is begging for money but claiming it has plenty. Meanwhile, ordinary Europeans are voting with their feet and taking their money out of banks and up north, while they still can. An economic system based on command and coercion is collapsing. And meanwhile, stock markets and investors trundle along in an information-soaked stupor.
December 7th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
The Aussie market is still tightly correlated to the US market. This, we suspect, is because global asset prices are keyed off of the global supply of credit. If we’re in a credit depression, US stocks will stagnate. Aussie stocks will track that stagnation.
December 6th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
If you believe the French and Germans, what Europe really needs to become more competitive is a new treaty. If you believe Standard and Poor’s, which just put most of Europe on “creditwatch negative”, Europe needs to sort out its underlying monetary problems before it’s too late. Who are you going to believe?
December 6th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
With the big four banks – traditionally high dividend players – being downgraded by Standard and Poor’s overnight, we thought it was a great time to revisit why dividends are important and how to safely buy the companies that issue them.
December 5th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Well you can forget about today’s modest little overnight rally in the US and Europe. Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s rained on everyone’s parade after the market closed. S&P downgraded 37 global banks. It upgraded two.
You’d think banking would be a low-profit, low-growth business to be in during a Credit Depression. At least we’d think so.
November 30th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
We resolved not to be depressing today. And in truth despite the growing global debt problem – we’re not, for two reasons…
November 29th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
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