Gold: Recent world history has been fraught with enough risk to make it a very shiny hedge
Gold prices surged by 37% in the last fiscal year, and are now 18 times higher than in 2000. This significant rise reflects ...
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Do Inflationary Expectations Cause General Increases in Prices?
Economists like to claim that expectations of more inflation lead to, well, more inflation. Such beliefs ignore the fact that ...
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The Saint-Simonians in Our Midst: Ben Bernanke and the GFC
While Ben Bernanke has accused free market and sound money advocates of pursuing “discredited” systems, he and his ...
Unilever’s surprise CEO switch marks a new era for leadership
Unilever's decision to swap out Hein Schumacher for Fernando Fernandez crosses a rubicon, says Ian Wright of Acuti Associates ...
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Biden treasury sec Janet Yellen joins Pimco Advisory Board
Pimco, the global investment management firm, has appointed Janet Yellen, former United States treasury secretary, and Raghuram Rajan, former Reserve Bank of India governor, to its Global Advisory Boa ...