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How much gold is too much gold if you’re a fixed-income investor…? GOLD DOESN’T pay any income, of course. Which is why retirees and pensioners should hate it. But since gold cannot go bust – and because its tight supply typically finds strong demand when cash loses value to inflation in the cost-of-living – gold [...]

Your editor’s thoughts are a bit distracted today. We’ve got the weekly update and the monthly issue of Australian Small-Cap Investigator to complete within the next couple of days. So we may be all over the place today. First up, last week I gave you a link to Murray Rothbard’s “A History of Money and [...]

One of the most frequent questions I’m asked goes something like this: “I’m a newcomer to this shares lark, how do you buy shares?” Well, let’s answer that question here. Now, I’ve only got limited space in Money Weekend so this week I’ll give you a crash course in buying shares.  And in the next [...]

How much gold is too much gold if you’re a fixed-income investor…? GOLD DOESN’T pay any income, of course. Which is why retirees and pensioners should hate it. But since gold cannot go bust – and because its tight supply typically finds strong demand when cash loses value to inflation in the cost-of-living – gold [...]

So, two of the big Aussie banks have reported big profits. Not surprisingly, the share price for each stock received a nice kick-along.  Commonwealth Bank of Australia [ASX: CBA] has added over $3 since the profit announcement, helping push the share price close to the April 2010 high: Source: CMC Markets Stockbroking A half-year net [...]

“It finds that the IMF provided few clear warnings about the risks and vulnerabilities associated with the impending crisis before its outbreak.  The banner message was one of continued optimism after more than a decade of benign economic conditions and low macroeconomic volatility.  The IMF, in its bilateral surveillance of the United States and the [...]

Equities, housing, commodities and bonds viewed through the prism of what money once was… WHAT WOULD the world look like if, as a handful of economists, investors and politicians hope, gold really was money again? In a word, cheap…ish. Cheaper, at least, than much of it was a decade ago. Long used (together with silver) [...]

If you’re a subscriber to Australian Small-Cap Investigator you’ll know we’ve had a bit of a fetish for rare earths stocks. It lasted for a while, but came to a conclusion late last year when we told readers to sell Lynas Corporation [ASX: LYC] for a 190% gain, and Alkane Resources [ASX: ALK] for a [...]

“Economists were therefore left scratching their heads when it was revealed only 36,000 jobs were added but that the unemployment rate had plunged to 9.0%.  Snow or not, it just didn’t add up.  Was the result good or bad?  The answer seemed to be bad, which actually means good because it means QE2 is well [...]

“I support special levies – including most of the Howard government’s levies – because they teach a freeloading electorate the most basic economic lesson: if you want it, you have to pay for it.” – Ross Gittins, The Age We knew there was something we were supposed to write about last week – the Flood [...]