How a lack of credit sent markets tumbling

If you play the same trades as highly-leveraged investors, you're in for a fall. But get your hands on assets that don't suffer such 'demand destruction' and you'll have some protection.

"What we thought was a wall of liquidity, turned out to be a wall of leverage." - Paul Davies in the FT, quoting "a number of senior bankers..."

Wanna know why your stock market shares keep on tumbling, right back to what one Fox news anchor just called "the absolute lows" from the end of last week?

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Adrian has written all things gold related from if it’s worth buying, what the real price of gold should be and what’s the point of gold for MoneyWeek. He has also written for other leading money titles on his gold expertise including Business Insider, Forbes, City A.M, Yahoo Finance and What Investment Magazine. Now Adrian is head of the research desk at BullionVault, a physical market for gold and silver for private investors online.