Alasdair Macleod: Recession, prices, and the crack-up boom
The debate between an outlook for inflation versus recession intensifies. We appear to be moving on from the stagflation story into outright fears over monetary
The debate between an outlook for inflation versus recession intensifies. We appear to be moving on from the stagflation story into outright fears over monetary
How did people in the Great Depression make payments when money, itself, went broke and gold was confiscated? What will we do today if power
“Specie (gold and silver coin) is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level, because having intrinsic and universal value, it can
If you’re paying attention you’re probably 1) watching gold rise along with global instability, and 2) wondering if it’s finally time to load up on
When Italy elected a bunch of rowdy populists back in March, the rest of the eurozone assumed (or at least hoped) that the weight of
Seems like every few days a new developing country discovers that it can’t pay back the dollars and/or euros it borrowed back when “external foreign
Not so long ago, student debt was mostly the responsibility of students. That is, you paid for college with loans and then paid off those
In interviews, whenever I try to make the case that US policies are leading to the kinds of currency disruptions common in developing countries, I
Every day brings another scary headline from the Middle East — which makes it easy to treat them as background noise rather than a clear
It’s been a long time coming, but Illinois’ slow-mo financial disaster is now front page news. A few recent examples: Roadwork Could Shut Down Across
Last year the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, otherwise known as Calpers, cut the expected return on the funds it invests for plan beneficiaries from
It appears that Great Britain might actually do the until-recently-unthinkable, and leave the European Union. The reasons for this dramatic break-up are many, and can
Though it might yet drag on for weeks, months or even years, Greece’s drama can end in one of only two ways: Continued austerity which
Today the European Central Bank acknowledged that the currency it manages is being sucked into a deflationary vortex. It responded in the usual way with,
To say that gold is in a bear market is to misunderstand both gold and markets. Gold isn’t an investment that goes up and down.
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