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| David McEwen's Investor Column Archive | | | | For the latest copy of David McEwen's Investors Column click here... | | | | 23rd August 2010 | | QEII IS NOT A TERM FOR LUXURY
QEII used to be the name of a flash cruise liner. Nowadays, it is shorthand for a second round of quantitative easing, the term used for central bank and government attempts to prevent economic ...more | | | | 10th July 2010 | | THE END OF PUMP PRIMING
By David McEwen
One of the reasons why the Great Depression of the 1930s was so severe was that governments everywhere, including New Zealand, believed in balanced budgets.
The logic was ...more | | | | 26th June 2010 | | TIME TO LEARN 'DEFENSIVE INVESTING'
If investors want to make money in today's investment markets, they need to learn the art of "defensive investing".
This is a concept being promoted by US author Keith Fitz-Gerald, who ...more | | | | 12th June 2010 | | AUSTRALIA DIGS RESOURCE SECTOR INTO A HOLE?
One of the biggest mistakes in investing, and arguably life, is to assume current conditions will exist into the future.
Politicians are particularly vulnerable to this and I worry ...more | | | | 30th May 2010 | | BEWARE FAT FINGERS AND BLACK BOXES
Was a ¡®fat finger¡¯ to blame for Wall Street¡¯s recent implosion?
The US Securities & Exchange Commission has launched an investigation after the main measurement of the US market, the Dow ...more | | | | 15th May 2010 | | WHY NEW ZEALAND CAN'T CATCH AUSTRALIA
I once worked for a brief period in Tanzania, East Africa.
At the time, the country was the fourth poorest in the world, despite having a wealth of base and precious metals and masses of ...more | | | | 30th April 2010 | | HOW MUCH IS A TRILLION?
By David McEwen
Imagine you have borrowed a million dollars – interest free - and you pay it back at the rate of $1 per second. It would take you 12 days to pay it back. That is not too scary.
Now ...more | | | | 19th April 2010 | | POSITIVE SIGNS - BUT CAN THEY LAST?
In the past few weeks I have seen something in shop windows that I haven’t seen for years – "staff wanted" signs.
I’m not talking about one or two but several that have been put up. Some ...more | | | | 6th April 2010 | | HOW MOVIES HELP INVESTORS
Good investors don’t concentrate just on numbers but look for ideas and trends that might help them understand the economy and markets better.
So, as odd as it may sound, a study of trends at the ...more | | | | 22nd March 2010 | | Investor Column - Perils of the crystal ball
By David McEwen
Making predictions is a difficult game, but that doesn't stop people trying. Many try to cover themselves by making vague predictions that they hope will at least ...more | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | >> Next | |
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