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Unemployment

Whispers in the wind Late last year during an obscure policy discussion in the bowels of the USA, a Federal Reserve governor raised the prospect of an ‘inflation averaging approach’. The idea being that inflation would be allowed to overshoot 2% for a period of time to bring the longer term average back in line.

01
Oct

Paul Keating

Who will win? As far as the our funds are concerned it doesn’t really matter who wins the next US election. Biden would likely outspend Trump initially, so we marginally favour him from a performance perspective. Longer term, no difference. Whoever wins will look to pass a large and popular stimulus bill so we

18
Sep

I’ll wear cashmere and you’ll eat cake

Debt works You might look around and wonder. I do. Here is Australian retail store Harvey Norman with their latest offer. The offer has some interesting components: No interest for five years. Quite compelling, except that most things Harvey Norman sells will be obsolete in that time. The gift card is worth 5% if you

10
Sep

It’s a Bubble

Bitcoin price falls Cognitive dissonance Thinking one thing, behaving differently, getting stressed as a result I accept and have accepted since I first discovered it, that bitcoin could go to zero. I remind every investor of that possibility. I believe the possibility recedes with time, particularly as the code base ossifies, but it exists as

13
Aug

The confidence game

The confidence game “We have every confidence in the ability of [person about to be sacked]” It happens all the time, particularly in sport. Confidence needs to be reinforced which means, it’s gone. Fiat currency is a confidence game too. You cannot redeem it for gold any longer and when confidence goes, the stampede for

06
Aug

Death or Glory

Q2 2020 You wont forget Q2 2020 for the rest of your life. For many businesses it was hard, for some it was the end. For others, like Square in the US, it will be remembered as a break out quarter. Their bitcoin sales increased to $875m in Q2, up 185%. Bitcoin miners mined $1bn

24
Jul

You are being primed to get poorer

In December last year we pointed out an obscure speech by a Federal Reserve governor and speculated that they were testing the water on a higher inflation policy. It was the first drip feed that the US inflation target will exceed 2%. The governor in question, Lael Brainard, said the Fed might target an average

17
Jul

Depression

Is it really bad for bitcoin? You would likely have read about the huge twitter hack on Thursday targeting well known accounts, nearly all of them “blue ticks”. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk to name a few. Once again this will bring the focus to bitcoin and how it is very often associated

17
Apr

Good money, bad money, no money

The Bank of England The Bank of England, established in 1694, is a proud institution. With 325 years of operation they must be doing something right. Indeed, perhaps one of the things sustaining it is the pragmatism and honesty of its leaders. Nearly a century ago in 1927, a director of the bank, Sir Josiah

10
Apr

Pussy Galore

Pussy Galore This week Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, died at 94 years of age. One of the best Bond films and certainly one of the best villains in Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger’s plan was quite clever, he intended to set off a nuclear device at Fort Knox, thereby contaminating the US gold