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Bullion – a viable alternative to fiat currencies

By Prieur du Plessis, on September 16th, 2009 posted in: Gold, Investment, Markets, Money

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Although the declining dollar has been one of the catalysts for the rise in the gold price, it is also important to note that gold bull markets are usually characterized by the metal making headway in all currencies. This is now happening with bullion rising in terms of most major (and minor) fiat (paper) currencies. Read on … […]

Prieur’s readings (September 16, 2009)

By Prieur du Plessis, on September 16th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section. […]

Buffett on Lehman’s demise and developments since

By Prieur du Plessis, on September 16th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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In these clips of an CNBC video interview, Warren Buffett discusses the fall of Lehman Brothers, the financial crisis and how close we are to seeing its end. He also says he has no regrets about any of the decisions he made over the weekend one year ago when the financial crisis was at its worst. […]

One year on – any lessons learnt?

By Prieur du Plessis, on September 16th, 2009 posted in: Humor

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The essence of the era of greed captured by a single cartoon … […]

Keeping the interest rate decision simple

By Prieur du Plessis, on September 16th, 2009 posted in: South Africa

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By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist FNB

When having to make a binary decision (yes/no, whether or not to change interest rates) one is apparently well advised to, firstly, stick to the facts and, secondly, to keep things simple.

Keeping things simple preordains a view on basically two dimensions, namely the inflation […]

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