Heaven is high and the emperor is far away
byImagine, if you will, a small, isolated hamlet where the daily round proceeds in harmony with the gentle rhythm of agriculture. Ground is tilled,…
Scotland’s currency options
byAn article for the Wall Street Journal … Last week the U.K.’s Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties got together to administer a Flodden-style…
2014: A year of investing dangerously
byFor those rich in assets, 2013 was a good year. Equity markets, especially in the US, rose substantially. Property markets continued their recovery. Even…
Animal spirits deflating
by“The Fed insists on saving us from ‘everyday low prices’ – they call it deflation. I submit that in a world of technological wonder,…
How time and uncertainty can make us “antifragile”
byNo two buzzwords define the present crisis more than “contagion” and “robustness” in the world of economists and policy wonks. The current interrelated nature…
Why some emerging markets are heading for a bust
byIn countries such as Turkey and Argentina a tighter stance implemented by central banks has set in motion an economic bust. In Turkey the…
Emerging markets, interest rates and tapering
byThanks to the Fed’s tapering, a wider public is becoming aware of currency instability in diverse economies, from Turkey to Argentina, and India to…
Britain’s inflationary outlook
byI’ve recently written for Save Our Savers attempting to square the massive expansion of Britain’s monetary base since March 2009 with the fact that…
Not at Davos and proud of it
by“We know Carney is blagging us, he knows we know but he has to keep a straight face and essentially say – look chaps…
How the paper money experiment will end
byA paper currency system contains the seeds of its own destruction. The temptation for the monopolist money producer to increase the money supply is…