Where do we go if the U.S. dollar really fails. What is left? What is the ultimate currency? The prerequisites of a currency are durability, divisibility, desirability, portability, fungability and rarity. Gold has these values more than almost any other element on earth. So when currencies fail gold and other [...]
Published on January 8th, 2004
There is a combination of disappointment and anger moving the masses, especially in emerging countries, right now. After decades of struggle, workers are poorer than they have been in many years. Their cultures have been changed and they have been given dreams of greater material wealth. Now these dreams are dashed. This [...]
Published on January 7th, 2004
October has traditionally been a month when we see stocks markets fall. This is based on statistical analysis (see our message about seasonality at http://www.garyascott.com/archives/2003/11/03/934/index.html shows that shows that basically in all major equity markets, nearly all returns are achieved from the beginning of November through the end of May. So October [...]
Published on January 6th, 2004
In the past five decades there has always been too much money and too much of it has been spent unwisely. This can bring economic disaster. See one of seven ways to survive this here at.
See another plush, deeply carpeted room. The curtains are drawn. Traffic sounds are muffled, [...]
Published on January 5th, 2004
A recent message at http://www.garyascott.com/archives/2003/12/24/963/index.html summed up global fundamentals as two gigantic forces struggling one against the other. The positive force is the added efficiency mankind has gained by shifting into a computer driven industrial revolution, which is opening a global economy. Individuals are empowered to do more, make more and have more. [...]
Published on January 2nd, 2004
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Evening mists rose like white smoke from the dense jungle in tiny cyclones of purity that masked the forest’s deep green below. Shadows played purple harmonies on sharp angles in a [...]
Published on January 1st, 2004
White evening mists hung over a purple saw-toothed mountain and the temperature crashed faster than the setting sun. The landscape seemed to go straight up and as I slipped in the wet grass and mud, I realized why these darn shamans don't talk much. I was deep in the Amazon basin and had been [...]
Published on January 1st, 2004