August 7, 2012 – Money should always be separated from politics. Germany learned this lesson the hard way, and the Allies wanted to make sure ...
May 23, 2012 – The Grexit, or Greece’s exit from the euro, is becoming more likely, judging by how frequently it is mentioned these ...
May 5, 2012 – Back in 2009 when the Greek crisis was just starting to make headlines, I wrote an article concluding that sovereign debt defaults ...
February 26, 2012 – Greece remains in debtor’s prison. That horrible fate was confirmed this past week with the ...
June 14, 2011 - The solvency of the European Central Bank is being called into question by some brilliant in-depth research from ...
January 3, 2011 – It is that time of the year again to record my expectations and outlook for the year ahead. But before looking at 2011, ...
December 21, 2010 – Last week the British pound fell 3.0% against the US dollar. Some say it was because of UK bank exposure to Spain, ...
November 17, 2010 – Iceland, Dubai, Greece – and now Ireland? Will the Emerald Isle be the next domino to fall as a consequence of ...
June 3, 2010 – Icelanders voted in a referendum to address their debt problem. Germans have a problem too, but they are voting with their ...
May 5, 2010 – Much has been made over the gold purportedly owned and controlled by the IMF. There are many unanswered questions about this ...
April 30, 2010 - Greece’s debt troubles are well known. Less recognized is the worrying truth that Greece is just the tip of the ...
February 12, 2010 – “There are rules, and these rules need to be adhered to." This quote could easily have been made by Sir ...
February 4, 2010 – Every once in a great while, the market offers a unique opportunity to buy precious metals ‘on the cheap’. ...
December 19, 2009 – Socialism has come to mean many different things to many people, but regardless how it is defined, in the months immediately ...
January 11, 1999 - One of the biggest issues facing the Gold market over the past couple of years has been the weight of Gold sitting in European ...
May 18, 1998 - A full contingent of European finance ministers and central bankers met on May 2nd to take additional steps toward the creation of the ...
February 16, 1998 - I think it was Helmut Kohl who compared the political process to sausage making - by advising facetiously that in politics like ...
November 10, 1997 - On October 24th a committee of government bureaucrats from the Swiss finance ministry and the Swiss National Bank shocked the Gold ...
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