Walls Going Up… and Closing in
February 16, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher The tax code is like a growing zit. It’s painful and I want so desperately to pop it. There are nearly 74,000 pages in that code. And code it is, because you need attorneys, CPAs, and computer algorithms to decipher it. Ever hear the old adage, “Ignorance of […]
The Beauty of Deflation
January 30, 2015 By: Claudio Grass, Managing Director at Global Gold Switzerland The Eurozone has been hovering around a 1% inflation rate, getting closer to zero during 2014, nothing close of the ambitious 2% benchmark set by central banks. Any small downward adjustment in the inflation rate will put it in the negative territory, allowing […]
The Swiss Surprise
January 19, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher So an interesting headline crossed my path the other day: “Swiss National Bank unexpectedly scrapped its three-year policy of capping the Swiss franc against the euro.” The move shocked many in the EU, especially many Swiss exporters. The Swiss Frac soared, while business stocks were sent in the […]
Steen Jakobsen: Things Are About To Take A Different Turn In 2015
January 16, 2015 By: Claudio Grass, Managing Director of Global Gold This article is based on an interview conducted by Claudio Grass, the Managing Director of Global Gold based in Switzerland, with Mr. Steen Jakobsen. Mr. Jakobsen is the Chief Economist and Chief Investment Officer at Saxo Bank, where he has served for a total […]
What Do Record Profits for U.S. Treasury Mean?
January 12, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Well, this week, the news came to me! I usually have to root around the financial corners of the internet to find something to write about, but this one just dropped in my lap. I was scrolling through Facebook, and this one self-proclaimed liberal Democrat posts this article […]
Money, Gold, Liberty In 2015 And Beyond
January 9, 2015 By: Claudio Grass, Global Gold 2014 was quite an eventful year for global markets: Janet Yellen became the new Chairman of the Federal Reserve; we were on the brink of war in Crimea, and Germany won its fourth world cup title. Many countries around the world held elections, the Scotts and the […]
Developing Plots Around the World
January 5, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher Happy New Year! Have you ever seen the movie Pulp Fiction? One of the notable features of that film was how it started off following various unrelated events and characters, but as the movie continued, it shows how those characters and events would culminate into one plot. This […]
Japan On Track For A Textbook Bust
December 31, 2014 By: Claudio Grass, Contributor from Global Gold Recently, we wrote a paper about the dynamics behind the boom and bust cycles, based on the view of the Austrian School (the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, or ABCT). The key takeaway was that central banks don’t help in smoothing the amplitude of the cycles, […]
2015 Prognosis
December 29, 2015 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher What a year! This is my last installment for the year 2014. The next time you see my writing, it will be 2015. Without question, the United States has lost its economic luster, but so have parts of the EU and Asia. Yet, there are countries who have […]
What Do Such Low Gas Prices Mean?
December 22, 2014 By: Kelly Diamond, Publisher A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Russian Hooker Index, which had to do with the increasing cost of living in Russia. Meanwhile, however, the US is enjoying some very low gas prices. I am NOT complaining about the prices one bit! (Just wanted to be […]
