This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Mohamed El-Erian and Ramin Toloui (Financial Times): How to fill the gaps left by dollar decline, November 5, 2009. We should expect to see more discussion in the next few years on new types of reserve assets.

• James West (GoldSeek): Gold price is no bubble, November 4, 2009. The price performance of gold recently has all sorts of armchair economists waxing philosophical on the idea that this is the advent of a price “bubble”. While certainly everyone has and is entitled to their opinion, there are other features of humanity that we all possess, and much like many opinions, are best obscured from view. Declaring that gold is in a “bubble” demonstrates complete ignorance of or disregard for

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Caroline Baum, Bloomberg Bond traders are boubters, lemmings or sissies, September 28, 2009. Where are those gunslingers of yesteryear, ready at a moment’s notice to assert themselves in the marketplace, challenge the Fed on its easy-money stance and punish the federal government for its profligate spending? Why are bond traders so blasé when short-term interest rates have nowhere to go but up, the US economy is recovering, the Fed is ending its purchases of Treasury notes and bonds, the Treasury is continuing to sell notes and bonds, the dollar is sinking, and foreign central banks are making noises about the out-of- control US budget deficit?

• Jeremy Warner (Telegraph): The dollar is dead - long live the renminbi, September 25, 2009.

This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Bill Gross (Pimco - Investment Outlook): Investment potions, August 2009. A 3% nominal GDP “new normal” means lower profit growth, permanently higher unemployment, capped consumer spending growth rates and an increasing involvement of the government sector, which substantially changes the character of the American capitalistic model. There is no investment potion for this new environment other than steady income-producing bond and equity investments in companies with strong balance sheets and high dividend yields, as well as selectively chosen emerging market commitments where nominal GDP growth prospects are tilted upward as opposed to gravitating to new lower norms.

• Economist.com: After the fall, July 27, 2009. The collapse in world trade has stopped, but there is no sign of a