In this Weekly Wanderings, we report on an interesting experience, consider the outlook of John Williams of ShadowStats, and present a picture of the commercial real estate debacle in the US.…..   Experience of the week… In the office one day this week I was sitting across from a colleague of mine from Pakistan. Suddenly, out of the blue, with no prompting...

Weekly Wanderings 16 December 2009 In this weeks musings we feature…‎ • Society of Fat Cats speaks out • The Automatic Earth, on the speed of the financial collapse • Ted Butler, on the possible default of the paper Silver market • Bob Chapman, with important inside info on possible US dollar devaluation From The Reformed Broker by Joshua M...

Weekly Wanderings 10 December 2009 In this weeks musings…   ·         Meredith Whitney speaks ·         Hyperinflation, according to John Williams   Meredith Whitney was the banking analyst who predicted the looming disaster in the banking system a couple of years ago.   Now (care of CNBC in the US) she’s sounding a warning...

Aug 16, 2009

The 6 August 2009 Statistics New Zealand press release for the Household Labour Force Survey told us that… In seasonally adjusted terms, the unemployment rate continued to rise, reaching 6.0 percent during the June 2009 quarter… Both the number of people unemployed and the unemployment rate have been increasing for the past six quarters. The unemployment...