Over the past six months, the global bond market has crashed in spectacular fashion, wiping out trillions of dollars in value from supposedly ‘safe’ investments. We predicted this would happen in The Daily Reckoning Australia Weekend on 18 September 2021 and explained why it’d happen too. Today, it’s time to review, determine what happens next, and explain why the crash […]
By Nick Hubble,
Once again, Australia is proving to be the lucky country. While the rest of the world is caught up in an inflationary nightmare, prices Down Under are merely uncomfortable.
By Nick Hubble,
Australia’s ‘houses and holes’ economy is what Satyajit Das called it in the Financial Times. He’s worried about how over-reliant Australia is on its two big sources of wealth — commodities and property.
By Nick Hubble,
What if the pandemic isn’t finished with financial markets yet? The initial pandemic panic saw some of the fastest stock market sell-offs in history. So I think it’s an important question to ask.
By Nick Hubble,
While the world frets over nuclear war, and the stability of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors during the Russian invasion, a profound shift has taken place in Europe’s nuclear power policy. Almost as profound as what happened in South Korea, in fact. After campaigning most ardently indeed against nuclear power for many years, South Korea’s President Moon […]
By Nick Hubble,
Dear Reader, Napoleon, Hitler, and now Putin. Invading Eastern Europe never ends well for anyone. But does that still apply when the Russians do it to themselves? Stock markets couldn’t quite make up their minds this week as they stumbled, rose, and then tumbled on news out of Ukraine. At first, there was hope Putin […]
By Nick Hubble,
Dear Reader, It’s one of life’s great mysteries. The ultimate question of investing, the stock market and everything, you might say. And the answer may even be 42! But what is the question? Luckily for you, I have the answer…the question: How far-sighted is the stock market? You see, financial markets are supposed to price […]
By Nick Hubble,
Now I don’t know about you, but I’d consider the First World War a pretty severe crisis for investors anyway. I suspect abiding by the warnings of the skyscraper curse in 1913 would’ve served you and your capital well…
By Nick Hubble,
And all this is for the industry that was not included in the Brexit trade deal, a concern that caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the time.
By Nick Hubble,
Inflation getting out of hand is an unusual state of affairs. I mean, how hard is it to rein in inflation? You just tighten monetary policy, right? And then Goldilocks gets her porridge just right and stocks go up. Simples.
By Nick Hubble,
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