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Gold, Goldmoney and Menē
November 3rd, 2017
Gold, ornamentation and money: that was the sequence of events. Man discovered gold, found it malleable, durable and attractive. It was first used for ornamentation, then as social economics evolved into the division of labour, its value as ornamentation ...
Fragmenting Countries, Part 1: Catalonia Is Just The Beginning
October 31st, 2017
Picture a life where you do most of your shopping through Amazon.com and the local farmers’ market, most of your communicating through Facebook and Instagram, much of your travel via Uber, and much of your saving and transacting with ...
Oil for gold – the real story
October 27th, 2017
Following an article in the Nikkei Asia Review, which reported China will shortly introduce an oil futures contract priced in yuan, there has been some confusion about what it means. The article pointed out that in combination with existing ...
Apple’s Co-Founder Says Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold
October 26th, 2017
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is betting on Bitcoin, saying that the cryptocurrency could become a better standard of financial value than gold or the U.S. dollar. Wozniak argued that Bitcoin is more stable and less prone to arbitrary supply ...
Beware of these unauthorised Forex providers
October 26th, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), regulators of the financial markets in France, warn the public against the activities of several websites and entities proposing Forex investments without being ...
CNMV advise: Be wary of fraud through internet and social networks
October 25th, 2017
The Comision Nacional Del Mercado De Valores (CNMV), a financial markets regulator in Spain, has issued an information statement to advice public and investors regarding unsolicited investment offers. Non-registered entities may have sophisticated and fast websites. The anonymity of ...
Bitcoin market cap tops $128 billion for the first time in its history
October 23rd, 2017
Institutional investors are avoiding Bitcoin, saying it is the most crowded trade in global markets. On Monday, the crypto-currency experienced a surge in trading volume that boosted it to $7710 a coin ($US6026) and surpassed a market capitalisation of ...
Former Fed Chief Bernanke described bitcoin as a “mostly speculative venture”
October 17th, 2017
Bernanke Thinks Bitcoin Will Fail (But He Likes Blockchain) What does the former head of the Federal Reserve think of a digital currency that operates outside the control of central banks? The answer, unsurprisingly, is not much. “Bitcoin is ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
CySec warns regarding Interactive Company JSC formerly Global Markets JSC
September 25th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform investors regarding the following decision by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), concerning Interactive Company JSC (formerly Global Markets JSC), and the procedure which clients who ...
