Because working class support for UKIP has been thought of in terms of the threat to wages and jobs posed by immigration as well as more general concerns about cultural change and, of course, the EU itself, we included measures of cultural and economic threat as well as voting intention in a Euro referendum in statistical models of UKIP voting. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money. (carnegieendowment.org)
When investors have to argue among themselves about which news event is causing them to worry, the news is probably just providing day - to - day occasions for investors to act on more general concerns, like extreme valuation. (hussmanfunds.com)