The economics of gold and silver in 2013
The New Year should see some major changes in how gold and silver are regarded in the West, if it becomes obvious that confidence…
Outlook for 2013
I have not faced the prospect of a new year with so much trepidation as when I contemplate what is in store for 2013….
Japan in 2013
The Japanese government for the last twenty three years has employed the Keynesian tools of deficit spending and more recently the monetarist policies of…
Goodbye to liberty
The human race, in its advanced economic form, is committing euthanasia. The US, UK, Europe and Japan are all implementing economic policies that must…
Alasdair Macleod on safety issues with GLD and SLV
Episode 79: Andy Duncan interviews Alasdair Macleod, Head of Research at GoldMoney. They talk about possible security issues with the big gold and silver…
Central bank money printing knows no limits
Episode 74: GoldMoney’s Alasdair Macleod talks to John Butler – Chief Investment Officer at Amphora Commodities Alpha and publisher of the Amphora Report, as well as…
Shadow banking: the next landmine
The Federal Reserve Board originally led us to believe that it was necessary to expand money supply through quantitative easing to offset the contraction…
Niall Ferguson on the rise of China
Episode 69: Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson talks to GoldMoney’s Alasdair Macleod about global politics, with special emphasis on China’s prospects and challenges in the years ahead. They…
Understanding Asian gold demand
There is growing awareness that gold is accumulating in Asia. Indians have for a long time been the largest buyers of gold and have…
Green shoots of a US recovery?
There is growing hope in some quarters that economic recovery is at last under way in the USA. Is this just an election-inspired pick-up…