But in the universe in which your editor woke up this morning, none of that has yet happened. That makes this world, at least to these eyes, surreal. It’s not like the facts aren’t evident. In Australia, for example, the average house price remains so far out of reach for the new buyer that it’s laughable. Yet day after day, everyone in the press (and in polite society) pretends that things are going along quite normally.
January 13th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 70 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "First Home Buyers"
Will Gold Make Higher Highs From Here?
What’s more, the emergence of the gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) has put a huge portion of the gold market in a very small number of hands. If the ETFs sell…who will they sell to? Or more succinctly, a lot of the gold demand is coming from a few institutions. If other institutions (central banks and sovereign wealth funds) don’t pick up the slack, there will be more sellers than buyers and prices will fall.
October 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
