UK Stock Markets
How to Buy Stocks and Shares
Before the City of London’s financial heart (known as the Square Mile) had it’s Big Bang revolution in 1986, when it became effectively de-regulated, buying stocks and shares was a comparatively upper middle class activity.
How does the stock market work?
Despite all the fancy paraphernalia that surrounds a modern-day stock market, it is based on a very simple principle: it allows the buying and selling of mainly company stocks and shares.
The Markets work...leave them alone
By the time all this carnage is over, the markets will be blamed by the politicians...and most people will believe them. But it's the politicians, not the bankers who are to blame...
Gold is real money
Measured in gold, the DOW is now about 9 oz of gold. It was over 50 oz about 7 years ago. The DOW is down, not 40%, but about 80% in real terms...
What the hell is going on?
The current situation is basically global deleveraging....credit destruction. No intervention can stop it...intervention will just make the market mechanism of price discovery more prolonged and painful...
The European Bailout
They have to let them fail...there is no other way to avoid a hyper inflationary nightmare...but if politicians stand by and do nothing, as they SHOULD do...they will be kicked out of office...
The root of the problem - CDS
In the last few years, this market has exploded from $1tr to about $60tr as all sorts of financial institutions sought of offset risk in their dealings...
Gold is great when times are tough
For thousands of years, gold has been the store of value, the medium of exchange and the revered metal used to adorn us as jewellery...
Liquidity, Central Banks and the fly trap
The problem facing the financial system come from one common place....credit and the excesses of easy credit with a corresponding decline in the punishment for getting it wrong...
All that glistens is gold...rarely have you heard that told
I was looking for some gold coins the other day, to protect myself from the gathering maelstrom...
Investors in New Gold Rush
Investors have taken a shine to precious metals as alternative investments as confidence wanes in financial markets...
How to buy stocks and shares
You might describe entering into the stock market during the ongoing and ever deepening global financial crisis that we are going through as leaping through a flaming hoop into a lion's den....
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