Gordon Brown has really surpassed himself in creative alchemy. He has turned $100 billion of G20 new commitments into $5 trillion of air!
Take $100 billion of committed new money, add $500 billion of already committed money, add non-committed but discussed amounts of $500 billion and you present a headline lie of $1.1. trillion. But it gets worse, Gordon Brown then claims the largest fiscal stimulus in history of $5 trillion. This is another lie. The $5 trillion contains no new funds but only the IMF’s estimate of the rise in the G20′s government borrowings between 2008 and 2010. Read More…
Gold outperformed most assets in the first quarter of 2009.
On the Matterhorn Asset Management website the Gold charts pages show that gold gained between 4% and 7% against major currencies in Q1 2009. In spite of being well off the highs for the quarter gold still showed an excellent return.
But even more importantly the Dow Jones declined 17% against gold in the first quarter with similar falls for most major stock markets against gold. Read More…