We are told that for example debt doesn’t matter because if a company takes out a certain level of debt, say a very low level of say 10% debt to equity, that’s irrelevant to the company’s value because the person buying shares in that company can take out 90% debt to equity ratio.
September 9th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Dr. Steve Keen"
What Assets are Going to Beat Inflation in the Coming Ten Years?
Last night was trivia night in Elwood. Your editor sat across from Australian Wealth Gameplan editor Kris Sayce. Between questions about how many venomous snakes there are in Australia and whether New South Wales is larger than South Australia (it’s not), we found the time to query him about whether buying inflation indexed bonds from the Australian government was a good investment strategy.
August 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
This Reflation is Not Yet a Monster Hyper-inflation
The market begins the month of August trying to prove that the Great Recession is over and the earnings recovery has begun. On Friday, US GDP data came out and seemed to confirm that just maybe the worst is behind us. According to the cryptic figures, US GDP is shrinking at annualised pace of just 1% – considerably less than the 6.4% from late last year.
August 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued