But after that, hard assets such as houses and oil might be more profitable.
When a currency drops, the nominal price of hard assets in that currency generally rises.
Back in the day, gold and other hard assets were often seen as hedges against stocks.
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But the phone business requires a big investment in hard assets, rather than just intellectual property.
And they are buying hard assets, which right now are essential for China's development.
It also tends to drive appreciation in hard assets, such as real estate and gold.
But tying down a trading and marketing company like Lornamead with hard assets may cause trouble.
He spoke to Kitco News Friday on the sidelines of the Hard Assets Conference.
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Gold and other hard assets have, over the last few years, also been influenced.
Hard assets are the likely benefactors of the U.S. sovereign debt downgrade on Friday.
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That's weakening the dollar, so investors are pouring their money into hard assets, like oil.
He spoke to Kitco News on the sidelines of the New York Hard Assets Conference.
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When currency markets become over-inflated, hard assets like commodities come into more favor with investors.
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The partnerships are typically formed when big companies decide to raise cash by hiving off hard assets.
This freshly minted cash would then flee into hard assets, and off goes a new asset bubble.
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That a company has more debt than hard assets does not mean that we therefore declare it bankrupt.
It is true that Russia's problem is a lack of hard currency, not a lack of hard assets.
He spoke to Kitco News on the sidelines of the Hard Assets Conference in Chicago Friday.
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It may be that hot, fast money prefers liquidity to hard assets right now, especially if leverage is involved.
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Investors are dumping not only financial stocks but dollars, and they're plowing money into hard assets like gold instead.
The increased inflation could be bullish as hard assets tend to be in favor when inflation becomes more problematic.
Granted, many wealthy Chinese prefer to invest in hard assets than in the stock market or low yielding bonds.
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With the Fed trashing the dollar, money went into housing and hard assets.
Brokers also point to a rush of affluent investors looking for hard assets that offer a view and other amenities.
Without software, the world's supply of hard assets and brains can't combine fast enough to produce wealth that outpaces population growth.
In addition, the rapid expansion of the money supply causes the currency to lose value against hard assets and foreign currencies.
The result was a bubble in inflation-hedging hard assets (housing above all), followed by a bust that precipitated a financial crisis.
Beyond the hard assets that can be quantified--the cash and factories and receivables--are intangibles like trademarks, patents and ways of doing business.
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