This week in our musings, we have some thoughts of our own – and thoughts of others that we have found interesting…. Some thoughts on China… Marc Faber – If the Chinese were to develop a taste for coffee, to the extent that, on average, every adult were to drink one cup of coffee per day, China would consume the entire world’s coffee crop…. The...
Marc Faber: The dollar to go up short term but go to zero in 10 years
Dr Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report recently was on Bloomberg (video below) stating that while the US dollar may be oversold in the short term, in the long run, over say 10 years, it will go to zero .ie. be worthless. On price deflation versus inflation he thinks we could get both concurrently. Cash and US treasury bonds will be the big losers,...
Weekly Wanderings 25 August 2009
In this new addition to the site we try to make some sense of the financial world. These weekly meanderings, will introduce you to commentators that we find to be sharp and on the ball, and to news items that have grabbed our attention over the past week, and why we see them as important. Don’t forget we continually update our articles elsewhere on the...





