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UT Study Argues That the 2017 Bitcoin Price Spike Artificially Manipulated
Remember Bitcoin’s inflated price surge last December? Well, according to a University of Texas study, authored by John Griffin and Amin Shams, later reported by the New York Times, half of that price surge was due to price manipulation. Fraud in all its various forms...
MasterCard Disrupts the Industry with Its New Blockchain API
The mainstreaming of crypto-technologies has brought about a brutal schism: on one hand, you have digital currency, and on the other, blockchain--two distinct fields of operation, two separate paradigms of commercial use, two opposing “regimes” of function--both...
Are Americans Getting Conned by the Numbers?
Numbers have a fascinating power. No, it’s not the numbers themselves. And no, it’s not the units that the numbers explicitly represent (a million dollars versus, say, a million grains of sand). The power of numbers come from what they implicitly stand for: a kind of...
Market Insights 6-13-18
Conned by Numbers – America’s Real Growth Rate We often assume that “numbers don’t lie.” The power of numbers is not necessarily attributable to the numbers themselves or what they represent, but rather in the inherent bias that we attribute to them. So, if someone...
Market Insights 6-7-18
With Trump’s Support, STATES Act Could Legalize Cannabis Nationwide The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Entrusting States (STATES) Act is being introduced this morning on Capitol Hill. Should President Trump support it, the STATES Act would allow every state...
The Genesis of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology
As cryptocurrencies are slowly finding their way into the mainstream, with banking institutions beginning to adopt them as tradeable asses,t and government bodies stepping in to regulate crypto-transactions, many crypto enthusiasts have forgotten the philosophical...
Cronos Group (CRON) Technical Update 6-6-18
This current week is the period in which Canada is expected to pass sweeping legislation to legalize recreational cannabis use. Investors are currently positioning themselves for the outcome. On May 3, we covered Cronos Group, a Canadian cannabis produced that...
Market Insights 6-5-18
World’s Biggest Hedge Fund is Bearish on all Financials The scariest projection is that of what might happen toward the end of 2019. Note that most “permabull” projections end here. Bridgewater’s forecast sees “an unsustainable set of conditions”...government deficits...
Cannabis Industry Insights 6-5-18
New Gallup Poll Shows Majority Sentiment Toward Cannabis Usage It appears that “religiosity” is the determining factor as to moral sentiment regarding recreational cannabis use. Age does too, to a certain extent, although more than 50% of Baby Boomers seem more...
The Six Vicious Circles of the World According to Ron Paul
Are you familiar with the Nine Circles of Hell from Dante's Inferno? Well, here's Ron Paul's version of the same concept, updated to reflect geopolitical and economic Hell on Earth. Have we been here for some time? The risk of loss in the trading of stocks, options,...
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