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The new deal is a bad old deal
July 10th, 2020
So far, the current economic situation, together with the response by major governments, compares with the run-in to the depression of the 1930s. Yet to come in the repetitious credit cycle is the collapse in financial asset values and ...
Prices are going to rise — and fast!
July 7th, 2020
With stockmarkets barely ruffled, few are thinking beyond the very short-term and they are mostly guessing anyway. Other than possibly the very short-term as we emerge from lockdowns, the economic situation is actually dire, and any hope of ...
The crisis goes up a gear
June 22nd, 2020
Dollar-denominated financial markets appeared to suffer a dramatic change on or about the 23 March. This article examines the possibility that it marks the beginning of the end for the Fed’s dollar. At this stage of an evolving economic ...
A resident of Denmark charged in $1.5 million Forex fraud scheme
May 25th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charging defendant Casper Mikkelsen, a/k/a “Carsten Nielsen,” a/k/a ...
Stocks in Europe gained; Dollar climbed against its major peers
May 25th, 2020
Stocks in Europe gained along with U.S. equity-index futures, while Asian benchmarks were mixed as investors weighed more signs of economies reopening around the world against the rise in U.S.-China tensions. Health-care and leisure shares led the advance in ...
Important Factors To Consider When Investing In Cannabis
May 21st, 2020
Cannabis is undeniably one of the most alluring commodities on the market, and it continues to grow as interested investors get onboard. However, it can be understandably difficult for beginners to know how and when to buy cannabis stocks ...
Unintended consequences of monetary inflation
May 15th, 2020
“In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US Government’s rocketing budget deficits, fund the maintenance of domestic consumption ...
Time to learn about money
May 14th, 2020
An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such an outcome, but in the coming months they are likely ...
Geopolitics post COVID-19
May 7th, 2020
Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending at a time of contracting trade and record debt. The ...
Bitcoin down 77 per cent in the past month; alt-coins follow
March 16th, 2020
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has dropped 77 per cent over the past 30-days as the market responds to sharp falls in the global financial markets. Alt-coins (digital assets launched after BTC) XRP and Ethereum (ETH) have followed suit, with 103 ...
