
Paris, France In the Café des Dames... The damned bum takes a coffee break! He spends all day sitting on the sidewalk outside our office in one of the city’s marginal neighborhoods. His back to the Communist Party headquarters building, he sits on a duffle bag. ...
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You are on page 1 of 4London, England “China’s lending curb sparks a rush for safety.” That’s how the Financial Times describes what happened yesterday. Investors were more moved by fear than by greed. Dow sold off 112 points. Gold dropped $27. The dollar and bonds were up. The first ...
There are certain investment theories that are plausible but wrong. What’s worrying is they’re so widely touted that many ordinary investors just sit by and accept them.
One of the big ones is the “efficient markets hypothesis”. This says that at any point in ...
If you need another dose of doom, be sure to tune into Will Hutton's Dispatches on Channel 4 tonight. It looks at how the economy went from boom to bust, so it’s bound to be cheery stuff. It should be an interesting hour of TV, but maybe a little backward looking. ...
In a bull market people get away with some shocking things. A few years ago I met a 21-year old geography student. He had been investing in the stock market for years. He had seen some success, so now his biggest ambition was to get rich. Very rich. He wrote for a ...
The implication of billions of dollars being pumped into markets has finally hit home. The dollar is falling today. Commodity prices are rising. The credit crisis has hit commodity prices hard… but prices should rebound strongly once the financial crisis eases. ...
In 1974 I was three years old. One of my first memories involves a candle. I was fascinated by the light as it was reflected around the room. Everywhere else was dark and the light seemed to dance in magical ways. It was very exciting and fun. But the truth is ...
It’s going to be a difficult week for investors in all asset classes. The collapse of Lehman Brothers shows just what a mess Wall Street is in. It will get worse. But there’s one positive thing that you can say for commodity investors - the dollar rally ...
Commodities markets have been falling of late. My personal view is that we will likely see further downside, at least in the short run, as fears of an ongoing global slowdown affect sentiment. But there is one commodity that could buck the trend. The supply of ...
I had a bet in one of our morning meetings about six months ago. I bet everyone in the room that when British Energy was sold, it would go to EDF. If it didn’t happen, I’d eat my hat. Then, at the start of June, the deal with EDF fell through. It looked like ...
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