Axel Merk
Merk Hard Currency Fund
FSU Contributor
ARCHIVED ARTICLES
08/15/2008 The Dollar: Short-Term Rebalancing Of Expectations... by Joseph Brusuelas
08/13/2008 The Case For and Against the Dollar
08/08/2008 Premature Celebration: The Market and the Fed by Joseph Brusuelas
08/01/2008 US Budget Deficit to Grow Much Worse by Joseph Brusuelas
07/25/2008 Tale of Two Economic Releases by Joseph Brusuelas
07/18/2008 Dissolve Fannie and Freddie by Joseph Brusuelas
07/11/2008 An Economy In Trouble by Joseph Brusuelas
07/02/2008 Coming Wave of Regulation and the Risk to the Dollar by Joseph Brusuelas
06/20/2008 US Current Account - Still A Drag On The Dollar by Joseph Brusuelas
06/17/2008 Europe’s Ivory Tower Politics
06/13/2008 The Hawkish Illusion: Calling Bernanke’s Bluff by Joseph Brusuelas
06/06/2008 Inflation One-Year Ahead by Joseph Brusuelas
05/30/2008 Purplehaze by Joseph Brusuelas
05/23/2008 Condition of the Consumer by Joseph Brusuelas
05/16/2008 On Inflation and
The Fed by Joseph Brusuelas
04/30/2008 Federal Reserve may Want Inflation
03/25/2008 What's Up
with Asian Currencies?
02/27/2008 Ambac Bailout
May Cause Crisis
01/30/2008 The Failure
of Inflation Targeting
12/18/2007 Leadership
Emerges to Resolve Subprime Crisis
12/12/2007 Hard and
Asian Currencies in 2008
09/25/2007 The Federal
Reserve Interest Rate Cut Does Not Help Americans
09/05/2007 If you want a Subprime Bailout, do it Properly!
06/25/2007 Banks Fight to Postpone Day of Reckoning
05/17/2007 Strong Dollar in U.S. Interest
04/27/2007 Ron Paul Not a Myth
04/26/2007 Dollar Myths
03/27/2007 Fed Jeopardizes Dollar as it Neglects its Mandate
02/22/2007 Bernanke the Dove
02/06/2007 How the Fed Lost Control of Money Supply
11/14/2006 A Lower Trade Deficit Unlikely to Save the Dollar
11/06/2006 The Dollar May Fall After the Election
10/05/2006 Bernanke Passes the Buck
09/21/2006 An Economy In Denial: Fallout from the Bursting Housing Bubble
07/21/2006 Bernanke's Transient Hopes
06/15/2006 Will Bernanke Save the Dollar?
06/08/2006 Will Paulson Save the Dollar?
05/24/2006 The Currency Account Deficit Matters
04/25/2006 China: Embrace the Competition
03/16/2006 Protectionism May Hurt Dollar
02/17/2006 Bernanke Fallacy
02/07/2006 Psychology of a Falling Market
01/13/2006 Retiring With Bernanke -- Are You Prepared?
12/15/2005 Will Bernanke Create Hyperinflation?
11/22/2005 Bernanke: Go, Get the Helicopters!
11/10/2005 Globalization and the Dollar
10/25/2005 The Dollar, Gold, and Stagflation - Greenspan's Conundrum
10/10/2005 Is a Dollar Crisis Looming?
09/22/2005 China is Open for Business: Will China's Growth Eliminate Inflation?
09/12/2005 Is the US Economy Shock-Resistant?
08/21/2005 Fed May Not Stop Inflation
08/12/2005 China's Basket of Currencies Impacts Trading Partners
Axel G. Merk is the portfolio manager for the Merk Hard Currency Fund, a no-load mutual fund that provides U.S. investors with exposure to a basket of hard currencies from countries with strong monetary policies to seek protection against the depreciation of the U.S. dollar. He is also founder and president of Merk Investments, an independent investment advisor implementing growth, value, gold and cash strategies. He closely follows trends that affect world markets and watches global currencies with a macroeconomic approach focused on building long-term value for his clients. For more information, go to www.merkfund.com
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Axel Merk | Portfolio Manager, Merk Hard and Asian Currency Funds | Palo Alto, CA USA | Email | Website
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