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April 20, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was penned by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the Queen would sometimes believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast. She is probably working in the bond markets now. The
March 9, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] Danish sex therapist Eva Christiansen (pictured left) stands a good chance of becoming the definitive example for future historians of our current interest rate insanity. As reported by Zero
February 23, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, London-based wealth manager.] “We are all at a wonderful ball where the champagne sparkles in every glass and soft laughter falls upon the summer air. We know, by the rules, that at some moment the Black Horsemen will come
February 9, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] There are some time-honoured signs of an impending market top. One of them is that margin debt has peaked. Another is that interest rates are going through the floor. Another is that the velocity of
January 12, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] On All Saint’s Day, 1st November 1755, an earthquake measuring roughly 9 on the Richter scale struck the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. At least 30,000 people are estimated to have perished. A little over half an
January 5, 2015 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] The start of the New Year is traditionally a time for issuing financial forecasts. But there seems little point in doing so given the impact of widespread financial repression on the price mechanism itself. Are
December 15, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] “[W]e want to use our reserves more constructively by investing in development projects around the world rather than just reflexively buying US Treasuries. In any case, we usually lose money on Treasuries, so we need
December 8, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] You can be for gold, or you can be for paper, but you cannot possibly be for both. It may soon be time to take a stand. The arguments in favour of gold are well
December 1, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] So the Swiss have decided not to force their central bank into underpinning its reserves with harder assets than increasingly worthless euros. At least they had the chance to vote. But in the bigger picture,
November 10, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, London-based wealth manager and editor of Price Value International.] In 1975, Charles Ellis, the founder of Greenwich Associates, wrote one of the most powerful and memorable metaphors in the history of finance. His essay is titled ‘The loser’s game’,
November 3, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: This essay was penned by Tim Price, a London-based wealth manager and editor of Price Value International.] Strange things are happening in the bond market. Few of them are stranger than the reports Jeremie Banet, a French fund management colleague of former Pimco executive Bill Gross,
October 27, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] Shortly before leaving the Fed this year, Ben Bernanke rather pompously declared that Quantitative Easing “works in practice, but it doesn’t work in theory.” There is, of course, no counter-factual. We’ll never know what might
October 13, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: Tim Price, London-based wealth manager, is filling in for Simon today.] “When sorrows come,” wrote Shakespeare, “they come not single spies, but in battalions.” True. And Jeremy Warner for the Daily Telegraph identifies ten such sorrows in his ‘ten biggest threats to the global economy’: 1)
October 6, 2014 London, England [Editor’s Note: Tim Price, Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK and frequent Sovereign Man contributor, is filling in for Simon today.] For the benefit of anyone living under a rock these past weeks, Bill Gross, the so-called “Bond King” and manager of the world’s
September 29, 2014 London, England [Editor’s note: This letter was written by Tim Price, frequent Sovereign Man contributor and Director of Investment at PFP Wealth Management in the UK.] “Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.” – Anonymous. The French statesman
