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How Future Bitcoin Can Prevent a Future Greece
July 14th, 2015
The digital currency is at a turning point, evolving much more quickly than some observers realize Bitcoin, the volatile digital currency, cannot help the Greeks of today. But it could mean a great deal to those caught up in ...
A guide to China’s stunning stock market crash
July 13th, 2015
In China, local stock markets, which rose to dizzying heights over the past year, plummeted back to Earth last week. They then rebounded sharply on Thursday and Friday, as the Chinese government worked to restore faith in the markets. ...
Eurozone’s Greek Deal: What investors, analysts and strategists are saying
July 13th, 2015
Stock markets in Europe rose sharply Monday after eurozone leaders said they would give Greece another bailout provided that the government implements a round of austerity measures in the coming days. Here is what some investors, analysts and strategists are saying. Matthew ...
EU Demands Complete Capitulation From Tsipras
July 13th, 2015
European leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a straightforward choice: ditch his principles or quit the euro. Tsipras was presented with a laundry list of unfinished business from Greece’s previous bailouts at an emergency summit that stretched in ...
Total confusion about a Greek deal
July 12th, 2015
EU Council president Donald Tusk announced this morning that the planned EU summit is cancelled and that a separate euro zone summit meeting will start at 1400 GMT (1600 local time). Tusk said the eurozone summit would last until we ...
Justice Department Announces Two Banks Reach Resolutions under Swiss Bank Program
July 10th, 2015
Banque Pasche SA Will Pay $7.229 Million Penalty and ARVEST Privatbank AG Will Pay $1.044 Million Penalty; Both Continue to Cooperate With Department of Justice The Department of Justice announced today that two banks, Banque Pasche SA and ARVEST ...
Greece Enters Its Crack-Up Boom
July 9th, 2015
The Austrian School of economics has a concept called a “crack-up boom” in which a critical mass of people conclude that their government is actively trying to devalue its currency. Consumers respond by front-running the government, spending their paychecks ...
George Osborne pledges lowest corporation tax in G20 but new bank tax hits UK small lenders
July 9th, 2015
Chancellor pledges lowest corporation tax in the G20 – but casts punitive net over the UK’s small lenders Chancellor George Osborne ushered in a new tax regime for British banks yesterday, dialling down the controversial bank levy while introducing a new ...
Ragin’ Contagion: When Debtors Go Broke, So Do Mercantilist Exporters
July 7th, 2015
Papering over the structural imbalances in the Eurozone with bailouts or bail-ins will not resolve the fundamental asymmetries in trade. Beneath the endless twists and turns of Greece‘s debt crisis lie fundamental asymmetries that doom the euro, the joint currency that ...
FSMA Warnings: Providers of binary options and forex products
July 7th, 2015
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) once again warns the public against the activities of various providers of / intermediaries in binary options and/or forex products which engage in unauthorized activities in Belgium. Some of these providers are, ...
