All Posts Tagged With: "central banks"

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A Bull Market in Gold and Gold Alone

If you bought gold when we first recommended it, ten years ago, you are in a very comfortable position. Gold sells for more than 4 times as much today. But what should you do now?

November 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
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We Can Expect More and More People to Want to Own Gold

Gold seems to be advancing towards a new milestone – $1,100. Makes us nervous. We always feel more comfortable out in the wide, open spaces…

November 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year

So far the bet has gone their way. Copper has doubled. Gold is up 20%. Stocks markets all over the world are up 60%. Foreign currencies, too, have beaten the dollar.

October 27th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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Economic Cycle Theory

We began the week wondering about the cycles of history and markets. We wondered whether Australia is following the Anglo-American cycle into a long-winter…where people lose confidence in each other, in government, and in the institutions they relied on in the past for law and order, employment, and prosperity.

October 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 29 comments | Continued
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Feds Have Used the Correction to Increase Their Power and Add to Their Wealth

Noooo… We’re talking about a worthy correction…a real correction…a noble and distinguished correction…a correction that can hold its head up in public.

October 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Inflation is an Artifice Caused by Government

Central banks ‘target’ a certain level of inflation because they think – or say they think – that a bit of inflation helps create full employment.

October 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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An Abundance of New Money that Will Destroy the Dollar’s Buying Power

The importance is dependent on your perspective. Those people who are not borrowing money to spend are thus suffering the pangs of a lowering of their lifestyle, which depended on borrowing money to spend;

September 29th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
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Gold is an Antidote to Paper

But what if you don’t own gold? The yellow stuff is now over $1,000. In fact, it looks like $1,000 could be a new support level for the metal – with most of the support coming from the Chinese.

September 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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At a Time When We Are Drowning in Debt, We Are Also Out of Money

When a debtor is out of money, he has no ability to repay. And when a creditor has borrowers who are out of money, the creditor has no income. No earnings. No power to make better loans.

September 17th, 2009 | Bill Jenkins | 3 comments | Continued
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US Dollar As Reserve Currency Not Working Very Well

Their report makes some of the right noises, “The dollar-based reserve system is increasingly challenged.” Hmm, a slight understatement there. If “increasingly challenged” is a euphemism for “dead” then we’d agree.

But we don’t think that’s what they mean.

September 10th, 2009 | Kris Sayce | 38 comments | Continued
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