Today I answer some readers questions, have a note about the Holy Ghost at The Mouth of Hell, a stock downrating, and news from China, Israel, Mongolia, Canada, Britain, and fund updates.

These are cheap prices for gold bars, but remember you will have to pay insurance after taking delivery; leaving the gold with Bullion Vault (BV) means cheap insurance.

Many years ago a genuine French Rothschild I knew commented about my recommending the Portuguese Banco Espirito Santo stock.

We examine the underlying reasons for the Russian withdrawal from the eastern Ukraine border region and the delay allowed for Ukraine to pay its gas bill.

Today's lead article is about our investment in the Internet of Things. And in a day devoted to the investment prowess of Warren Buffett I write also about the cleverness of a non-Omaha-based investment guru, George Soros.

The misuse of fiscal policy over the post-war era is little short of a tragedy... governments were happy to embrace fiscal expansion in even the mildest downturns, but then found excuses not to unwind stimulus in the subsequent upswing.