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Why a bear market will lead to a dollar collapse
March 5th, 2020
Falling equity markets this week are likely to signal the onset of a bear market, responding to a combination of the coronavirus spreading beyond China and persistent indications of a developing recession. This has provoked a flight into ...
150 years of bank credit expansion is near its end
November 22nd, 2019
The legal formalisation of the creation of bank credit commenced with England’s 1844 Bank Charter Act. It has led to a regular cycle of expansion and collapse of outstanding bank credit. Erroneously attributed to business, the origin of ...
Resolving creeping communism
November 15th, 2019
The thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain coincides with a popular resurgence of communism and a drift into more socialism. A collective amnesia sees a return of the Soviet Union’s failed policies in a Marxist ...
$125 million offering fraud; ongoing international trading program
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against three individuals and three entities in connection with an alleged fraudulent, ongoing international trading program ...
Negative interest rates and gold
August 30th, 2019
The reason for persistent strength in the price of gold can be found in the changing relationship between time preference for monetary gold, and a new round of interest rate suppression for the dollar. Evidence mounts that the ...
Our costly dalliance with Lord Keynes
August 28th, 2019
In “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”, Keynes virtually created macroeconomics. But Keynes was a mathematician, not an economist, and did not fully understand free markets, so he was hardly qualified to emerge as the most ...
Principal of Binary Options trading firm to a pay $200,000 penalty
August 5th, 2019
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order filing and settling charges against Curtis Dalton of Middleton, Massachusetts, requiring him to pay $200,000 for offering illegal off-exchange retail commodity transactions to U.S. and overseas customers while failing to ...
Bitcoin vs Libra
July 22nd, 2019
Bitcoin vs Libra: Here are the key differences between the two cryptocurrencies Libra and bitcoin are different in a lot of ways, from the technology behind them to the way they’re used. CNBC runs through the key differences between ...
The financial war escalates
July 3rd, 2019
Behind the scenes, the financial war between America and China is escalating dangerously into a war to secure global financial resources. At a time of growing liquidation of dollar assets by foreigners, the US Treasury’s internal analysis will highlight ...
Company charged in $147 million fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme
June 19th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendants Control-Finance Limited (Control-Finance), a purported Bitcoin trading and investment company, ...
