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Ignore Buffett – gold’s time has come
Warren Buffett argues that gold has ‘no utility’, but if gold’s time was ever going to come, we are living through such a time now, writes Jonathan Davis
A steady hand at the tiller wins out
How much purchasing power does our portfolio need to sustain, the answer delivers the long term view investors should hold, writes Rob Arnott
Lords of finance, culprits of crises
Lords of Finance, which focuses on how the decisions of four central bankers in the 1930s led to the Great Depression, provides an important perspective to our current outlook, writes Jonathan Davis
Japan sovereign debt crisis looms
A bad situation in Japan has been made even worse by the global financial crisis, writes Edward Chancellor
Repeating the past will add to regrets
Zero interest rates and government intervention have hugely raised the cost for investors who carry on the way they have done in the past, writes Jonathan Davis
Our quest for a far less risky future
The next few years will be dominated by a search for a better way to manage risk, writes John Authers
How exactly the mighty have fallen
It could take several years before Harvard has restored its finances or its self-esteem, writes Jonathan Davis
Rubber ball recovery vs dead cat bounce
Sooner or later the fiscal economic prop must be removed. Only then will we know whether we are experiencing a rubber ball recovery or a dead cat bounce, writes Edward Chancellor
Regulator not fit to uncover fraud
The report into how the SEC missed Bernie Madoff’s fraud should be required reading for anyone who imagines that regulation alone will ever be enough, writes Jonathan Davis
Harsh reality of banking reform
From the G20 summit this week Vince Heaney would like to see less about bankers’ pay and more focus on the underlying problem,he expects to be disappointed
