The Fraser Institute has released another report ranking the countries around the world in terms of economic freedom. One key thing in this is that the United States now is… read more →
When our rulers took money directly from people’s bank accounts in Cyprus earlier this year, accounts they had promised to protect, I posted the following comment: “And why do they… read more →
Around the world, you can read about the surprising move by Ben Shalom Bernanke and the Federal Reserve. Big Ben decided to not taper, i.e. to not cut back on… read more →
Do you have a UK private or occupational pension? Do you know the financial health of the guardian of your pension? Pension Scheme Review I have immediate access to reviews… read more →
Here is an interesting piece of creative accounting by the current US government. They manage to fool most of us into believing that the debt limit is an absolute limit,… read more →
Have they turned bullish on gold? And commodities as well? They appear to see a buying opportunity, and I think they are right. But on the other hand, I said… read more →
Like most other markets today, also the gold market is completely dominated by what a small group of people decide. Here is an interesting summary of how this happened in… read more →
Here is what the sometimes brilliant Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has to say on the subject: “We no longer have a free market. The world’s financial asset prices have become a plaything… read more →
Here is an excerpt of some important facts: “Margin debt—that’s the amount of money borrowed to purchase stocks—on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) reached its all-time high in April.… read more →
I’ve been interviewed about my time running a business in China before, but one interview has now been published in a book with the above title. Author Tim Swanson is… read more →