Following the presidential election this week, the new President of the United States will face an economic slump. Long before the covid-19 lockdowns, economic and financial developments threatened to ...

Veteran financial analyst and former bank director Alasdair Macleod has issued a stark warning about the gold market, suggesting that its liquidity is far more constrained than official figures ...

Macleod emphasized the significant surge in gold being stood for delivery on the Comex exchange. "Since January 1st, the rate at which the stands for delivery have been increasing has been at roughly ...

Economists who understand credit cycles expect the current cycle to enter its crisis stage at any moment. Furthermore, it combines with increasing trade tariffs between the two largest economies to ...

There is a myth prevalent today that the gold price always falls when interest rates rise. The logic is that when interest rates rise it is more expensive to hold ...

There is some evidence in the UK of a pick-up in consumer spending, probably echoed elsewhere. There are two likely factors behind this, the first perhaps being seasonal, aided by the fine weather.

Alasdair started his career as a stockbroker in 1970 on the London Stock Exchange. In those days, trainees learned everything: from making the tea, to corporate finance, to evaluating and dealing in ...