On British retailing and the Portas Report
byAfter a tough few years for the British High Street, with well-known shops like Barrats, Woolworths and Peacocks announcing closures all around, retail expert…
December, 2011
The death certificate of the paper dollar
byA view from America, previously published at Forbes.com … The world dollar standard’s death certificate arrives in the mail this week. The Bank of…
Heckle sketching: why I paint instead of innovate
byI am an artist and serial entrepreneur, and I, like many, have been pillaged and plundered by the United States government. Heckle Sketch is…
Gold price set for hyperbolic increase
byI recently posted an article for GoldMoney showing how US True Money Supply (TMS) appeared to be growing at a hyperbolic rate, and that…
Philipp Bagus and Alasdair Macleod on Europe, inflation, and gold
byFrom GoldMoney.com: In this video Philipp Bagus, Assistant professor of Economics at Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and author of The Tragedy of the…
The nightmare after Christmas
byThe pathetic state of the global financial system was again on display this week. Stocks around the world go up when a major central…
Still crazy after all these years
bySo, here we are, drawing to the close of another year and still we struggle with the legacy of the last Boom, still we…
Government vs private investment
byThose of you based in London hopefully know that I have a regular column in City AM each Tuesday. Last week I discussed government…
Via Bloomberg: Kerr says euro woes may prompt return of gold standard
byFollowing his recent paper The law of opposites: Illusory profits in the financial sector, TCC Advisory Board member and founder of Cobden Partners Gordon Kerr appeared…
Eurozone government defaults looking certain
byFor some time I have taken the view that rescuing eurozone governments from their financial crises was too big a job for the European…