Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

Euromoney’s 2012 FX survey results

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The money network:

The money network:

Why crowdfunding threatens traditional bank lending

March 2004

Follow the yellow metal road

Central bank and government profligacy in the west and Japan looks set to buoy up the gold price for some time to come.


The gold price shot past $400 an ounce at the end of last year and has moved higher since. I reckon it has a lot further to go.

I am a gold bug because of my mistrust of the political leadership and central bankers of major countries. In the US, Japan and the EU, governments are running unsustainable deficits and, in the first two, central bankers are also priming the system with free money.

If any one of these powers was doing this in isolation, there would soon be a currency crisis, except, perhaps, in Japan, where money is kept at home in banks no matter what. However, as all three blocs are singing the same song: a currency crisis cannot happen.

US profligacy The region with the biggest external deficit, the US, will experience a secular decline in its currency. Profligate fiscal policy means US foreign policy ambitions...


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