Time to Sell Gold and Buy US Residential Property?

This little piece by “Chart of the Day” suggest that in gold pricing terms US residential property  is at it’s cheapest since 1980

Time to heave out the yellow metal and get into chipboard houses US style?

http://www.chartoftheday.com/201201272.htm?T

BBC News Article – Financial Risks – Danger or Opportunity

I am quoted in this BBC article – based on the radio programme from a few days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16697406

 

 

Link to My Radio Interview on BBC “In the Balance”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00mxbx7

BBC World Service Radio – Interviewed for In the Balance

Full programme details below – on with Kenneth Rogoff & “Mrs Moneypenny”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mxbx7

Guest Interview for BBC Radio on Risk

Recording an interview for BBC World Service Radio on Risk

The programme is In the Balance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m6dzl

Broadcast date (in the next few days) to follow

Financial Derivatives – Full article now online

A short and very simple article about Financial Derivatives and their role in the Credit Crunch. Very much a simple intro for a general audience.

http://www.global-briefing.org/2012/01/financial-derivatives-how-excessive-speculation-accentuated-credit-market-problems/#auth

Working on the New E-Book Serious Money

My new e-book “Serious Money” will be out in March/April and is being published by Harriman House.

It is a short guide to the realities of trying to make money in financial markets.

Publishers information at www.harriman-house.com/seriousmoney

New Article in Global Briefing

We are living through an extraordinary time – the unfolding of the credit crunch has already lasted over four years and many would argue that the situation is far from resolved. Sir Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England has warned that many Western economies will experience a “lost decade” and there are signs that even the booming Far East will not be immune. Many commentators and financial experts have offered a variety of opinions on the true cause of the Crunch – too much financial de-regulation, easy money from Central Banks; over-extend borrowing and spending by governments, and then always lurking in the background – derivatives.

More at www.global-briefing.org

Talk at The Finance Society NBS – Complexity, Connections & Crashes

Giving a talk to the Newcastle Business School Finance Society on 30th November.

Topic is Complexity, Connections & Crashes

New Article for Financial-i “Redback to the Rescue?”

The American bank robber Willie Sutton achieved immortality by answering the question “why do you rob banks” with the much
loved answer “it’s where the money is!” Well as we all know much of the money has now gone, having been swallowed by vast losses across a variety of ill judged investments. The cascading chain of defaults has run right through commercial borrowers, banks and now many countries are teetering on the edge of default.
So where will the money come from to sort all this out?

For more see www.financial-i.com