Spending on assets that appreciate, rather than consumption goods such as vacations may very well be the ultimate lesson to employ in the new-year. At least that was the logic this Indian man employed when deciding to buy his $231,014 gold sh ...
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Blog Post - January 6th, 2013
Feature - July 25th, 2012
Despite dire warnings of fuel shortages and a forced return to a Stone Age lifestyle, the fact is our world contains an abundance of energy sources. As has happened throughout human history, new energy sources are developed and commercialized in respo ...
Blog Post - May 4th, 2012
Peer-to-peer lending, often known as P2P lending, gained great traction that has continued in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, as banks got tighter with loans and lending criteria and investors grew frustrated with the miserly returns on their ban ...
All terms: banks, China, India, Inflation, loans, Personal Finance, Personal Finance
Blog Post - April 9th, 2012
Today we saw gold shoot up $10 at the open of the futures market on news over the weekend that three weeks of strikes by Indian jewelers would come to an end as they won concessions from the Indian government. Reuters reports the announcement ma ...
Blog Post - April 2nd, 2012
In two large spurts, the Federal Reserve's banknote, the dollar, lost much of its sway over the people who comprise some of the largest economies in the world last week.
Turkey agreed to cut oil purchases from Iran by 20%, but was allowed to get awa ...
All terms: China, Commodities, currency, Euro Crisis, Federal Reserve, Gold, Government, India, Russia, The Dollar Crisis, Trade
Feature - February 15th, 2012
Nowhere in the world is gold a more significant cultural touchstone than India. Last Sunday, CBS broadcast news magazine 60 Minutes examined India’s deep cultural and religious attachment to gold , a connection that has made India one of the world’s ...
All terms: BRICs, buy gold, Current Analysis, fiat currency, financial education, financial history, Gold, India, Monetary History, Money
Blog Post - January 3rd, 2012
If you have a credit card, you might be aware of what a big bill feels like. After all that holiday shopping, the pain will eventually come through in the form of a big fat bill. This is the nature of borrowing—consume or invest now, but sacrifice some ...
All terms: Central Banks, Currency, Debt, Federal Reserve, global economy, India, Japan, Monetary Policy, Russia, U.S. economy
Blog Post - December 30th, 2011
Free markets and capitalism have been getting a bad rap for decades, providing disingenuous justification for all sorts of meddling by governments and central banks. The truth of the matter is that modern society has never really given free markets a ch ...
All terms: economy, financial markets, Free Market, Free Market, Government, India, Oil, Personal Finance
Blog Post - February 7th, 2011
Asian investors are demanding more and more precious metals, and fund managers are gladly obliging by providing them with new exchange-traded securities—like ETFs —in order to quench Asia’s thirst for precious metals. ETF Securities, a European-based ...
All terms: China, cycles investing, Exchange Traded Funds, Gold, Government, India, Monetary Policy