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Winning the Currency Olympics

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For them the euro is like the cockroach motel – you can check in, but you can never check out.

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Who’s Stuffed The Most?

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Warren Buffet visited Japan for the first time in November. At the press conference journalists blinked in disbelief at his breezy assertion that their grandchildren…

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The Retreat From Hard Money

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Imagine the US economy shrinking by 30% over the past four years, the Chinese economy growing at 2%, not 10%. Imagine UK house prices down 60% and commodity prices sliding back to the levels of the mid-1970s.

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Too Much, Too Young – Emerging Market Risks

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How much more “emerging” have the emerging markets left to do? Probably not much, given the vast amount of capital and hope invested in the asset class already.

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Same Movie, Different Cast: The China Bubble In 7 Stages

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The performance of the Chinese market now comfortably exceeds that of other classic bubble markets – Japan in the late 1980s and TMT in the late 1990s. Bubble markets have much in common, including the inevitable denouement.