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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

8/12/15: Commodities Rot Runs Ahead

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Commodities rot continues unabated, as Bloomberg Commodities Index fell to its lowest reading since June 1999: Source: @Schuldensuehne...

Friday, October 5, 2012

5/10/2012: Did Economic Fundamentals trump QE

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Two effects of QEs and LTROs - the drivers of temporary inflation - were to boost returns on commodities and reallocate funds into Emergin...

Friday, February 3, 2012

3/2/2012: Big Bad Speculators & Little Red Riding Hoods

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That "Gotcha..." moment, you know... speaking last night at a round table discussion on the future of Europe, I was confronted wi...

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Friday, June 17, 2011

18/06/2011: Two papers - Commodities Speculation and Flat Taxes

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Some interesting studies worth reading released in recent weeks. First: Lombardi, Marco J. and Van Robays, Ine, paper "Do Financial Inv...

Monday, August 24, 2009

Economics 24/08/2009: Oil and Gold – an imperfect hedging tango

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In the last bout (right before the collapse of the financial markets in Autumn 2008) much of the inflation was driven by the rapidly rising ...

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