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Do we see a gold bubble?
In times where within less than a generation humankind has seen several asset bubbles come and go (Japan’s real estate and stock market bubbles, the tiger states, the Dotcom bubble and now housing in...
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Economic Fallacy I: Harmful Currency Undervaluation?
This is the first article in the “Economic Fallacies” series. An economic fallacy is a concept of economic policy or a statement of “fact” or the proposition of an economic “law” which often sound very...
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Bloom of Doom IV: Safe Assets and Sore Surprises
Many still think sovereign debt is safe (although I’d like to know how many “elder statesmen” still invest in these “assets” themselves today). This is astonishing at the best of times: would you give...
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Economic Musings II: The Euro as a Basket Case
How not to Introduce a New Currency The Euro has been touted as something of a capstone of the European Unification project. Now it may well prove its stumbling block. How ironic. And at the same time...
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Economic Musings IX: We could all be millionaires …
… if we hadn’t destroyed literally trillions over the last 200 years! (See statistical material in our References section!) As a child when I would put some small change into my piggy bank I always...
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Economic Musings X: Legal Tender – Legal or Tender or What?
After World War II when the German Reichsmark was discredited and people were starving they would travel from their city to the local farms … … and pawn anything they still owned in exchange for some...
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