central bank

Central banks globally have clearly been buying a lot of government bonds over the last decade. But just how much the world’s central banking powers own of their own...

The World Wide Pandemic Recession of 2020 will end. History is clear – all recessions have a start and an end. An economic downturn is always followed by economic...

In the last month or so, governments and central banks have been the difference between markets continuing to fall and markets starting to find a bit more support....

Q1 2020 was another positive one for gold, with the price rising by 4% in USD terms. The rally, which saw the gold price end March 2020 just below USD 1,600 per troy...

The rapid and widespread sell-off over the last four weeks is a textbook systemic deleveraging. Whilst the culprits are many; hedge funds, risk parity strategies and...

It is a sign of the times when investors are asking these kinds of questions. How do you go bankrupt in Europe (or the US) when the central bank is your underwriter?...

After a favorable “risk on” year that brought numerous new highs to many stock market indices worldwide without significant drawdowns, investors have perhaps become...