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Currency swaps – the beginning of a ‘solution’?
Alasdair Macleod – 03 December 2011 By far the most important event of the week was the joint announcement by the world’s leading central banks that they were extending existing US dollar swap...
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Eurozone government defaults looking certain
Alasdair Macleod – 15 December 2011 For some time I have taken the view that rescuing eurozone governments from their financial crises was too big a job for the European Central Bank, which should...
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Money printing to the max
Alasdair Macleod – 26 May 2012 There is a big shift in political sentiment among G8 leaders towards less austerity and more emphasis on economic growth, which was evident at their meeting last weekend....
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My kind of town (Chicago?)
Alasdair Macleod – 04 November 2012 Quite a bit of media attention has been devoted recently to a working paper by two International Monetary Fund economists that re-examines the “Chicago Plan”. First...
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Danger in bank accounts
Alasdair Macleod – April 01, 2013 The thinking behind GoldMoney’s business model was that there might come a time when prudent savers would want to protect themselves from the twin risks of a global...
View ArticleGold, the SDR and BRICS
Alasdair Macleod 23 April 2015 Last Monday there was a meeting in Washington hosted by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) to discuss the future relationship, if any, of gold...
View ArticleChina’s 1929 moment
Alasdair Macleod 30 July 2015 Anyone with a nose for markets will tell you that the Chinese government’s attempt to rescue the country’s stock markets from collapse is far from succeeding. Bubbles...
View ArticleChina and the dollar
Alasdair Macleod 08 October 2015 With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy. China executed a financial move that...
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