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Crude oil speculation is a symptom of monetary accommodation.




by admin on March 27, 2012

You might remember last year, when commodity prices were rising, Ben Bernanke referred to the pressure of rising prices as being transitory … and refused to recognize it as plain and simple inflation.

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Market Outlook for January 25, 2012

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Recap of the Latest Global News By Cory Vi & Andrew Su on Jan 25, 2012 Investor optimism was dented yesterday after European finance ministers failed to agree on the Greek debt swap deal and called for a greater contribution from debt holders. Finance ministers are pushing bondholders for greater debt relief by asking them [...]

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What’s all this talk about deflation?

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Have the deflationists not heard about quantitative easing? What about the Fed’s printing presses? What about rising commodity prices? What about the collapsing US dollar? Tags: printing presses, quantitative easing, commodity prices

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Risk Still Dominates Forex. The Dollar as “Safe Haven” is Back!

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Well over two years have passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the accompanying climax of the credit crisis. Most economies have emerged from recession, stocks have recovered, credit markets are strong, and commodities prices are well on their way to new record highs. And yet, even the most cursory scanning of headlines reveals [...]

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Pound Correction is Already Underway

May 20, 2011

Last week, I was preparing to write a post about how the British pound was overvalued and due for a correction, but was sidetracked by a series of interviews (the second of which – with Caxton FX – incidentally also hinted at this notion). Alas, the markets beat me to the bunch, and the pound [...]

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