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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Why you should diversify into ‘alternatives’ ?
30 November 2010 Guest blogger – Richard Broughton Everyone knows you should diversify your investments. Academic studies show that this reduces investment risk and smoothes-out volatility. Indeed, the benefits of diversification are felt most during recessions and bear markets. But too few … Continue reading
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Truth emerges, eventually, from error.
24 November 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Francis Bacon—but it seems often to take an inordinately long time to do so! Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Irish Central Bank, said earlier this week that he’d welcome offers to buy … Continue reading
Dream of things that never were, nor ever will be.
Guest Blogger – Roger Nightingale John Kennedy, Speech in Dublin in 1963. Was he addressing the EU’s Commissioners? His track record was as bad as theirs! What has happened to Ireland? Has its economy really changed so much? A powerful … Continue reading
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Tagged economic analysis, economic comment, economic newsletter, interest rates, Ireland, QE, spending cuts
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Physical Gold – 6 reasons it beats paper gold investments
19 November 2010 1. While ETFs have provided an accessible way for investors to gain exposure to the gold market there are many fears circulating about their security and integrity. For starters, the fact it is a structured paper asset … Continue reading
Posted in Best of Physical Gold blog, Gold bars, Gold coins
Tagged economic analysis, Financial crisis, gold, gold bars, Gold coins, gold investment, gold price, investment
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Posted in Diary announcements, Pensions
Tagged financial planning, pension gold, pensions
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In any society, economics progress implies turmoil.
Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Joseph Schumpeter—but turmoil doesn’t necessarily imply economics progress The rule is simple: the good can succeed only provided the bad are permitted to fail. It’s a rule that the authorities break at their peril. Sadly, … Continue reading
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Tagged economic analysis, economic comment, economic newsletter, Financial crisis, GDP, interest rates, Ireland, QE, spending cuts
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Gold Demand Trends – New World Gold Council Report
New Gold Demand Trends and updated Supply and Demand Statistics GDT AND DEMAND STATISTICS FOR Q3 2010 We published the latest issue of Gold Demand Trends for Q3 2010 today, which suggests demand for gold for the rest of 2010 … Continue reading
Posted in Gold market news, Gold mining & supply
Tagged gold, gold demand, gold investment, gold price, gold supply
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By dint of railing at fools, we risk becoming fools ourselves!
12 November 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Gustave Flaubert—be kind to politicians and central bankers, therefore! Currencies have been too stable for too long. The European monetary authorities havesuppressed changes in EZ exchange rates. And a number of Asian … Continue reading
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Tagged economic analysis, economic comment, economic newsletter, Financial crisis, GDP, gold, QE
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In international politics, as in high finance, intelligence is unimportant, duplicity essential.
10 November 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Mikhail Bakunin—economies are performing as well as the public had hoped they would, and politicians are being blamed. At the G20 meeting in Seoul this week, the Press focused on international tensions: … Continue reading
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Tagged China, ECB, economic analysis, economic comment, economic newsletter, Financial crisis, GDP, gold, interest rates, QE, spending cuts
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Economics crises are boring; here today, and here tomorrow as well.
26 November 2010 Guest blogger – Roger Nightingale Binnie Barnes, there’s a suspicion that politicians encourage them to justify their own existence! A good many countries have now published estimates of GDP in third quarter 2010. A sizeable majority of … Continue reading →