Posts Tagged ‘ inflation ’

Opinion: The specter of “Somethingflation”

August 7, 2010
By Ron Andersen
Opinion: The specter of “Somethingflation”

There is a moment in every horror movie between the first appearance of a ghost and the pretty lady’s scream. It begins with an unrecognizable shape, a strange color, or the glimpse of a sudden unexpected movement on the periphery of vision. The heart leaps, the adrenaline flows, and the brain begins a wild...
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Opinion: Currencies of last resort

November 15, 2009
By Ron Andersen
Opinion: Currencies of last resort

As one of my favorite bloggers, Sybil’s Star often says, “you can take the gold out of the standard, but you can’t take the standard out of the gold.” A case in point was the 1970′s. In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S., and the rest of the world, off the gold standard. Gold...
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Bernanke’s inflated market

September 18, 2009
By Ron Andersen
Bernanke’s inflated market

There’s not much argument that Ben Bernanke has been one of the more active Federal Reserve Board Chairmen. The “cash injections”, covert buys of Treasury Notes, and some rather strange occurrences in the metals markets over the past year, has everyone outside the CNBC cheerleaders wondering if this stock market rally is real. A...
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Lt. Dangle’s Reno Rap