Axel G. Merk

Merk Investments

Axel Merk is president of Merk Investments and manager of the Merk Hard Currency Fund. With a unique ability to distill complex economic phenomena into easy-to-understand concepts, Mr. Merk is a regular guest on CNBC, and frequently quoted in Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other financial publications.

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The author has published the following articles

Federal Reserve may Want Inflation (05/22/08)
Ambac Bailout May Cause Crisis (02/27/08)
The Failure of Inflation Targeting (01/30/08)
Leadership Emerges to Resolve Subprime Crisis (12/19/07)
Hard and Asian Currencies in 2008: U.S. dollar bounce may be elusive (12/12/07)
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut does not help Americans (09/25/07)
If you want a Subprime Bailout, do it Properly! (09/05/07)
Banks Fight to Postpone Day of Reckoning (06/25/07)
Strong Dollar in U.S. Interest (05/17/07)
Dollar Myths (04/26/07)
Fed Jeopardizes Dollar as it Neglects its Mandate (04/13/07)
How the Fed Lost Control of Money Supply (02/15/07)
A Lower Trade Deficit Unlikely to Save the Dollar (11/14/06)
Bernanke’s Transient Hopes (07/21/06)
Will Bernanke Save the Dollar? (06/15/06)
Will Paulson Save the Dollar? (06/08/06)
The Currency Account Deficit Matters (05/23/06)
China: Embrace the Competition (04/25/06)
Protectionism May Hurt Dollar (03/15/06)
Bernanke Fallacy (02/17/06)
Psychology of a Falling Dollar (02/07/06)
Retiring with Bernanke -- Are You Prepared? (01/13/06)
Will Bernanke Create Hyperinflation? (12/15/05)
Bernanke: Go, Get the Helicopters! (11/21/05)
Globalization and the Dollar (11/10/05)

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