Welcome to the latest edition of The Paper Trail, a monthly compilation of the most interesting, thought-provoking and informative investment research I can find. Housekeeping items:...
Cryptocurrencies have fees, but so do payment cards. Credit card providers charge merchants a cut of the payments they accepted, called interchange fees or swipe fees....
The Top 10 Takeaways From JPMorgan's Conference Call On Asset Bubbles
This week, the liquid energy markets exhibited some serious stress. Oil surged in both $WTIC (North America benchmark) and $BRENT, an international benchmark to levels not...
BTC drops alongside tech stocks as the cryptocurrency crashed on Monday and continued crashing into early Tuesday and got down from its ATH at $57,000. However,...
Futures Rebound From Asia Rout, Bitcoin Back Over $51,000
Central banks send dovish message to markets Fed Chairman Jerome Powell stayed on message overnight, acknowledging the improvements seen in the economy but highlighting that it...
Powell's promise of more of whatever it takes (which is exactly what he has now said consistently for a year) sparked the standard buying panic
Is Square overvalued? Some would say so, but not Mizuho’s Dan Dolev...
The M31 Capital Bitcoin Access Fund could provide institutional investors with another avenue for investing in BTC. M31 Capital, a New York-based global investment firm, has...
David Rosenberg: "We're Getting Closer To A Breaking Point" Submitted by Christoph Gisiger of TheMarket.Ch David Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist of Rosenberg Research, worries that...
Global stocks, US equity futures and cryptocurrencies all tumbled on Tuesday as the recent surge in inflation, bond yields and commodity prices continued to hammer technology...
The Microsoft founder thinks anyone with less money than the world's richest man should “watch out” when it comes to Bitcoin. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has...
US dollar dips, markets eye Powell testimony Financial markets have an every man for himself look about them today, as various asset classes diverge in their...
The Only Reason To Be "Bearish" Is "No One Is Bearish" Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I had to do a double-take recently when reading...
The Cape Cod leading Medical center received $800,000 in a Bitcoin donation after the Massachusett-based NPO opened an account capable to accept crypto funds so let’s...
Futures Tumble, Cryptos Crumble As Yield Blowout Accelerates After a week when everyone was focusing on the i) blowout in bond yields and ii) how much...
As Bitcoin wobbles following a spurt to above $58,000, concerns mount about the depth of a possible inbound correction. Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new high over...
I had to do a double-take recently when reading a CNBC headline that stated: "The only reason to be bearish is there’s no reason to be...
Mark Carney, one of the most prominent central bankers of the post-financial crisis era, has officially joined the digital payments company. Stripe has all but abandoned...
A kilogram of gold is now less expensive than one Bitcoin at a price of $57,705 and with no signs of stopping so let’s take a...
BTC crossed the $57K price range less than two months into 2021 with the price of the coin rising 95.4% as we can see more in...
Community isn’t a single Slack group or event or newsletter. It’s an aggregation of all of these touch points, and includes both customers, eventual customers and...
After garnering an estimated 8 million downloads since its launch, Clubhouse’s popularity continues across the world and even outside of its original tech-focused seed community. The...
Bitcoin’s value is a complex topic spanning numerous aspects; however, its value could be attributed to several factors...
"It's A National Crisis" - Officials Admit Billions Lost In "Veritable Tsunami" Of Pandemic Aid Fraud With so many people needing unemployment benefits during the pandemic,...
JPM Joins "Overheating" Bandwagon: Sees 6.4% GDP As Stimulus Forecast Doubles To $1.7TN Just a week after Goldman unleashed a wave of worry about tighter financial...
Bitcoin price hit a new high at $56,368, cementing its status as one of the most valuable assets on the planet. As Bitcoin (BTC) price pushed...
You’re next, Google. At approximately $1 trillion, Bitcoin’s market cap has blown past Tencent, which holds a valuation of roughly $917.8 billion at time of publication,...
Bitcoin Tops $54k, Joins 'Cuatro Comas Club', Overtakes Tesla & Tencent Market Cap Update (1115ET): Well that escalated quickly... Bitcoin has just topped $54k... By the...