Signalling a desperation for tangible wealth, customs officials arrested eight South Korean men for smuggling gold out of the country…in their rectums.
January 17th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "cash"
Differing Views of Wealth Creation
What’s the latest news on wealth creation?
No one knows exactly how it will work out. Some are betting on a recovery and a new bull market. Others have put their money in gold or cash to preserve their wealth…expecting more crises and more calamities.
November 24th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Fed Vows to Maintain Public Financial Health
Extend and pretend…That’s the government’s way of handling the crisis. Extend credit and cash to those who don’t deserve it. Then, pretend that everything is okay…But the problems don’t go away. They just get stretched into the future…What did the feds do for GM? They took over the company.
September 6th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | Continued
Earnings Aren’t What They Used to Be, Part II
They just don’t make earnings like they used to. In many industries, the quality of earnings has deteriorated in recent quarters. Banks are among the worst offenders. On the downside of the biggest credit cycle in history, many banks are slowing the pace at which they’re provisioning for credit losses.
August 25th, 2010 | Dan Amoss | 0 comments | Continued
Protecting Your Cash
Interviewer: Doug, we recently talked about getting assets out of your home country, especially the US, where to take them and what to do with them. In so doing, you touched on the inevitability of currency controls just ahead, especially for Americans. Can you tell us more about that?
August 17th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 2 comments | Continued
Monetary Avalanche
Barron’s highlights the big one on this week’s cover:”Why the Fed will soon print $2 trillion,” is its headline. The idea behind the headline is simple enough. The recovery is a flop. All that stimulus spending has done nothing. Unemployment is not getting better. Consumers aren’t shopping. Banks aren’t lending. And the money supply is actually falling.
August 11th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 22 comments | Continued
More Likely to Beat Inflation in Stocks than Cash
This is not a value-based argument. But it IS an argument for why nominal gains in stock markets are not inconsistent with rampant or even hyper inflation. We’re not saying that’s what’s going on right now. And of course, in our one-two Big Crash dance card, asset deflation precedes the Melt Up.
March 23rd, 2010 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
The Banks Should Hold More Capital
The US system of capitalism has become a system where the capitalists have no capital. The big banks have too little in savings…not enough ‘buffers’ to protect them from unexpected crises. They made a fortune during the boom years…
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Buying and Holding a Bad Strategy if Bank Earnings Remain Unpredictable
If we’re right, households have just begun reducing their debt loads. It will take years for the leverage in the system to be wound down. See Bill’s comments about that below. If you’re buying bank stocks you’re assuming credit and debt growth will resume once this recession is over. That’s a big assumption. And probably stupid.
August 12th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
How the Stimulus Works
“The cash that salvaged a county,” says the headline. Perry County, southwest of Nashville, must be one of those places you don’t want to stop when you’re driving across the country. With 25% unemployment and no significant industry, it sounds dreadful…
July 30th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
People Flee Back to the U.S. Dollar
But what you can’t count on is how much that cash will really be worth. And there lies the great trap for the lumpen investoriat. The lumpen, as you know, get their investment ideas from TV and the newspapers. The poor rubes are the last to buy in a boom and the last to sell in a bust.
July 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Your Actively Managed Superannuation Fund Cannot Beat the Market
There are at least two points worth noting in this survey, three actually. First, actively managed funds, on average, don’t beat the market. Unless you know a genius manager, paying for results doesn’t deliver them.
July 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
Zombie Money and the Abolition of Cash
One more note if you’ll indulge me. It relates to zombies and the money system which you currently live under. From when I write, that system is just another bad but undead idea. But most of your contemporaries take it quite seriously. Let me make a comparison which I hope you’ll find useful in your efforts to warn people about the dangers they face with zombie money…
June 24th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
The Magical Investment Corporation
“For the record, I must make a correction to the statement that all investment trusts look liked monkeys at the time of the boom and crash.” So writes Fred Schwed in his 1940 investment classic Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?
February 25th, 2009 | Chris Mayer | 0 comments | Continued
Tips from an Obama Insider on the Next Two Years
Now that Obama has officially dropped the “elect” from his title, what can we expect from his administration…and what does it mean for the country? Byron King passes along some rather grim predictions from an “Obama insider”, and gives us some advice on how to deal with the coming fallout…
January 23rd, 2009 | Byron King | 0 comments | Continued
