On Target Newsletter
On Target is a free, moneycraft newsletter for Martin Spring’s worldwide circle of friends and contacts.
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On Target 2021.05.22
Commodity prices are surging and there’s the prospect of demand for some natural resources exceeding supplies for years to come. Some leading investment advisers now say that we’re in the early stages of another “super-cycle.”
On Target 2021.04.24
This year is the 50th anniversary of America’s decision to scrap the dollar’s link to gold. Until then, foreign governments could exchange American paper for federal government owned metal freely and without limit. Which increasingly they did, building a crisis that forced the US to abandon the dollar’s backing.
On Target 2021.03.27
Truth is, America’s mainstream news media and their allies the social media giants are rarely guilty of distributing fake news… but they are adept at hiding things that don’t suit their political agendas.
On Target 2021.02.27
The first thing most people look at when considering an investment is the annual rate of return they expect to be able to make out of it. Return is the “rent” you enjoy as payment for investing your capital rather than going out and spending it, and also the “reward” for the risk you take.
On Target 2021.01.30
On Target Newsletter 2021.01.30 Martin Spring’s private newsletter on global strategy In this issue: Wealth taxes, Vietnam, Time to exit the bubble?, American politics, Oil shares, Electric cars, Precious metals, The dollar, Looming Threat to
On Target 2021.01.02
Why Chiang Mai? Because it’s periodically rated in international surveys as one of the best places in the world to live. Safe. Friendly. Sophisticated. Inexpensive. Never too cold, but hardly ever too hot.
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On Target 2019.05.18
In managing our lives, and in particular our money, we make mistakes because we’re humans, not machines or pieces of code. They’re mistakes rooted in the ways we behave. Increasingly those ways are explained by scientists in the field of what is known as behavioural finance.
On Target 2019.03.23
In this issue: Shares outlook, Europe’s problems, Buying property, Buybacks,
Zweig’s checklist, China, Waste recycling, EU and US.
On Target 2019.02.02
Our Diamond Wedding, which Liz and I have just commemorated, got me thinking about what are the factors that make for a happy marriage… in this case for 60 years.