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Een ‘kwakkeleconomie’ zoals in Japan zou in Nederland ook zijn intrede kunnen doen. Daarvoor waarschuwde financieel deskundige Willem Middelkoop maandagmorgen in het radio-1 programma Dit Is De Dag. ‘Mensen lopen niet huilend over straat en verliezen niet massaal hun baan, maar echt goed gaat het ook niet.’

Russian premier Vladimir Putin has ordered a halt to all exports of wheat and other grains from August 15, raising the stakes dramatically in the crisis over wheat supplies.

“This is very serious,” said Abdolreza Abbassanian, chief grain economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. “It’s a desperate situation because it has caught everybody off guard. We’re not facing the situation of two years ago but there is a risk of destabilising panic.”

President-directeur van Franco Nevada in een oprecht gesprek met Mineweb over waarom de goudprijzen volgens hem waarschijnlijk zullen blijven stijgen, de noodzaak van nieuwe exploratietechnologie en de veranderende rol van goud als investering

UBS says thermal coal, copper, zinc and gold are the commodities to watch. But, was investors to take their time accumulating assets.

The history of fiat money, to put it kindly, has been one of failure. In fact, EVERY fiat currency since the Romans first began the practice in the first century has ended in devaluation and eventual collapse, of not only the currency, but of the economy that housed the fiat currency as well.

 

Why would it be different here in the U.S.? Well, in actuality, it hasn’t been. In fact, in our short history, we’ve already had several failed attempts at using paper currency, and it is my opinion that today’s dollars are no different than the continentals issued during the Revolutionary War. But I will get into that in a moment. In the meantime, I will show you that fiat currencies have not been successful, and the only aspect of fiat currencies that have stood the test of time is the inability of political systems to prevent the devaluation and debasement of this toilet paper money by letting the printing presses run wild.

Afgelopen weekend ontvingen wij een interessant vraag per e-mail van Gert Jan Grosman. Uiteraard hebben wij deze vraag aan Willem voorgelegd:

“Onlangs zag ik ergens op inteet dat de regering in de VS een wet in voorbereiding zou hebben om met ingang van 2012 iedereen te verplichten zelfs een kleine aankoop

Franco Nevada’s Chairman speaks frankly to Mineweb about why he thinks gold prices are likely to continue climbing, the need for new exploration technology and the changing role of gold as investment.

“When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.”

 

Sir Winston Churchill

 

De goudprijs kan de komende jaren oplopen tot 3000 dollar, zo voorspelt Joe Foster van het Amerikaanse Van Eck Associates. Economisch zwaar weer stuwen de vraag naar edelmetalen, en goud in het bijzonder.