The spectre of “Japanification” has been a concern in western economies for a long time. Copying the “Japanese model” of debt, weak economic

The Bridgewater team has put out an interesting Special Report on gold, which you will find worth your time to read. With their 'perspective

According to the IMF, the pandemic response by governments around the world will drive up global public debt to a new record high. In aggreg

We all know that polling is an imprecise science, if not more of an art. After the last US election in 2016, everyone recognized that polls

Climate change has become one of those taboo topics best avoided at dinner parties, like religion and politics. That is, unless you happen a

Our latest Special Report, “On the Brink of a New Era – Are You Prepared?” was published recently and we have clearly already hit a nerve.

During the last 8 decades, mankind has been on a pretty good run. Much has been achieved but there is a circularity to human history, and it

More and more people are getting out of the beautiful state of California. This is nothing new. However, what has changed lately is the cali

I ask this question because I fully understand that most people prefer going along with the masses. So, if you’re not interested in non-cons

Interview with Edward Chancellor, with Gregor Mast of The Market, NZZ - Financial Historian Edward Chancellor has never observed more bubbles

We love the following cartoon. It sums up so much in a simple picture. It does really appear that people trust the news – and the jibberish

As we already covered in previous articles, we see financial repression and wealth transfer policies as potential tools that could be employ

In my nearly two decades with the BFI Capital Group, the last 3 years with Global Gold, we’ve lived by the mantra, “you can follow your asse

The last decade has presented excellent opportunities and considerable gains for equity investors, as the longest bull market in history, st

This is an interesting Bloomberg Opinion piece by John Authers, published September 11th, 2020.

Everyone seems to agree: stock markets are in bad need of a major correction… and yet, the markets march on and investors are in love with t

Niels Bohr, my fellow countryman and Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model, is quoted as saying, “Prediction is very diff

As governments around the world increase their spending in order to support their economies and battle the impact of their lockdown measures

If you haven’t seen it yet, the recently published World Gold Council Mid-Year Outlook for 2020 is worth reading. Very much in line with our

Pollsters, mainstream analysts, and political pundits all appear to be increasingly confident in their predictions that Joe Biden will be th