Bitcoin is a lifeboat for escaping a broken system, but one needs to understand that system in order to see that.
The record-setting rally in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is being attributed to this week’s listing of the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF), using the ticker...
Futures Slide On Renewed China Slowdown, Rate Hike Fears US equity futures and world shares drifted lower following poor Chinese macro data which saw the country's...
Overview: Weak growth impulses from China and a continued rise in energy prices greets the new week. Equities are struggling. Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and...
Dollar trading sideways The US dollar continued to tread water versus the major currencies on Friday. The dollar index maintaining a 94.00 close for the third...
Futures Jump On Profit Optimism As Oil Tops $85; Bitcoin Nears $60,000 One day after the S&P posted its biggest one-day surge since March, index futures...
Voluntary modifications to behaviour – such as mask wearing when it’s not mandatory – are probably helping to keep the virus in check.
A Quarter Of Football League Players Say They Won't Get Vaccinated Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, At least a quarter of Football League...
Futures Surge As Banks Report Stellar Earnings; PPI On Deck US equity futures, already sharply higher overnight, jumped this morning as a risk-on mood inspired by...
Futures Reverse Losses Ahead Of Key CPI Report For the second day in a row, an overnight slump in equity futures sparked by concerns about iPhone...
Inflation fears persisted overnight with the US dollar continuing to march higher, despite long-dated US yields falling. New York markets seemed more preoccupied with the yield...
After seven consecutive months of gains, global equities fell by 4.3% in September (the MSCI AC World index in US dollar terms), cropping their year-to-date growth...
IMF Issues Global Stagflation Alert: Cuts Global GDP As It Warns Of Rising Inflation And "Dangerous Divergence" In its latest World Economic Outlook report published on...
Overview: A weak close in US equity trading yesterday and the widening of China's "cultural revolution" for a two-month investigation of the financial sector stopped a...
Futures Rebound From Overnight Slide As Oil Keeps Rising US equity-index futures erased earlier declines, rebounding from a loss of as much as 0.8% helped by...
Futures Slide As Soaring Oil Nears $85 While cash bonds may be closed today for Columbus Day, which may or may not be a holiday -...
Overview: Equities are softer and yields higher to start the new week. The dollar is mixed. Oil and industrial metals are higher. There are several developments...
Asian markets in positive territory With the Fed taper trade alive and well, despite a shocking Non-Farm Payrolls print, US yields moved higher sending Wall Street...
This article discusses the distinctions between corrections and recessions, the definition of each, and publicly available metrics to help investors use probabilistic decision making. The post...
US rates and the dollar hardly responded to the disappointing jobs report. The 194k rise in the nonfarm payrolls was the least this year, but of...
The 'War On Cash' Endgame Is Here Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, “Programmable Digital Currency”: The next stage of the new normal? The war on...
Blockchain technology promises to be the foundational network layer for many systems underpinning successful smart cities. Smart cities are steadily garnering attention worldwide as they become...
One Ring To Rule Us All: A Global Digital Fiat Currency Via SchiffGold.com, We’ve written extensively about the “war on cash.” In a nutshell, governments would...
The Economy Needs Higher Rates Submitted by The Swarm Blog, In a RealVision interview, Greenlight capital’s founder David Einhorn recently said: “I’m not in the transitory-inflation...
This article discusses the distinctions between corrections and recessions, the definition of each, and publicly available metrics to help investors use probabilistic decision making. The post...
With so little to like about Japan’s own economy, the Japanese long ago had come to count on putting their money and their efforts elsewhere. General...
Futures Drift Before Taper-Triggering Jobs Report US equity-index drifted in a tight range overnight, in a tight range before key jobs data that could provide clues...
Overview: The dollar is narrowly mixed and bid ahead of the jobs report. The Scandis lead advancing major currencies, while the yen and Australian dollar are the...
The US dollar edges lower on Senate debt deal The US dollar gave back some of its recent gains overnight after a short-term US debt ceiling...
The US Senate has slapped a fiscal band-aid over the US debt ceiling saga this morning, voting to raise the USD 0.50 trillion and temporarily extend...