Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch -- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy -- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas -- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble --...

This paper examines whether security analyst earnings forecasts for firms primarily operating in the gold market can be utilised to predict returns on the price of gold.We first demonstrate that analysts are at least in part basing their earnings forecasts for gold firms on the return...