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Virtual reality lawsuit costs Facebook $500m
February 2nd, 2017
Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been ordered to pay out half a billion dollars to rival games company ZeniMax. The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax centred on allegations that Oculus chief executive officer Palmer Luckey had violated a ...
Gold – a primer for 2017
January 22nd, 2017
You know when to buy gold: it’s when nearly every trader and commentator tells you that gold is going lower and you should sell it. This is Harry Dent on 10th January: “I still see gold landing somewhere between ...
Malice in Wonderland
January 15th, 2017
Malice in Wonderland Recently, I was quietly reading in my armchair, eyes closing and trying to stay awake, and the next moment I was falling down a rabbit hole. After falling into the void, I found myself outside a ...
How Did We Get 2016 So Wrong?
January 12th, 2017
Go through the late 2015/early 2016 articles published on this and similar sites and you’ll find a consensus that 2016 was going to be a really bad year. Corporate profits were falling, business inventories had spiked, and deflation was ...
The Pound vs Dollar: What dealers predict
January 12th, 2017
Analysts at Citi – the world’s largest foreign exchange dealer – have confirmed to clients they are bearish on the Pound-Dollar exchange rate. In a communication released on Tuesday January 10, technical strategists have communicated expectations for further falls ...
FMQ breaks $15 trillion
January 9th, 2017
Since August 2014, bank reserves at the Fed have fallen by $646.6bn, while the sum of cash, checking accounts and deposits held by the public has risen by $1990bn. The fiat money quantityi has now breached the $15 trillion ...
Drifting into fascism
December 30th, 2016
Most people regard governments and their central banks as forces for the good. Financial crises and suchlike are therefore blamed on capitalism, and people believe our leaders do their best to pick up the pieces from market failures, because ...
The Big Questions For Mobile In 2017
December 29th, 2016
Well, the gifts have been opened, the roast beast is a memory being celebrated in cold sandwich form this week and the malls are once again full of shoppers — who are now returning the wrong gifts and getting ...
Bitcoin crushed every other currency in 2016. Here are five reasons why
December 20th, 2016
Bitcoin, that nebulous digital currency that trades in cyberspace and is “mined” by code-cracking computers, emerged as a better bet this year than every major currency, stock index and commodity contract. The electronic coin that trades – and is ...
Trump, Russia and China
December 19th, 2016
Even before he takes office, President-elect Trump is turning the world upside down. It has become clear his attitude towards Russia and China is very different from that of his predecessors. Amazingly, he is already wresting power from the ...
