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How Central Banks Stoke Stock Prices
Authored by Thorsten Polleit via Mises.org (remixed by Halifax America) Reading through Security Analysis, the roadmap for investing first published in 1934 by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd, I learned something quite interesting: The basis of stock...
The Underlying Value of Cryptocurrencies – A Review of Lisk Academy’s Position
Prologue: Company-produced educational materials often make for a fascinating read; particularly in emerging industries, such as the crypto asset space. Aside from their informational components, educational pieces tend to be an interesting hybrid of educational...
The End Of (Artificial) Stability
-Zerohedge The central banks'/states' power to maintain a permanent bull market in stocks and bonds is eroding. There is nothing natural about the stability of the past 9 years. The bullish trends in risk assets are artificial constructs of central bank/state...
Are We Ripe for a 1987-Style Crash?
With the stock market recovering from its correction and once again approaching all-time-highs, it’s prudent to wonder how long this bull market can continue. And when it eventually comes crashing down, as all bull markets do, how bad might it be? Given the magnitude...
Fed President Sounds Panic Over Level of US Debt
-Zerohedge The Federal Reserve should continue to raise U.S. interest rates this year in response to faster economic growth fueled by recent tax cuts as well as a stronger global economy, Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Wednesday. "I...
US: Arizona Senate Passes Bill to Allow Tax Payments in Bitcoin
Authored by Helen Partz via Cointelegraph The Arizona Senate passed a bill on Feb. 8 to allow residents in the state to pay their taxes with cryptocurrencies, public records indicate. The Senate Bill 1091, which intends to enable cryptocurrencies for tax payment, was...
82.4 Million Tokens: Venezuela Launches Controversial ‘Petro’ Cryptocurrency Pre-Sale
Authored by Francisco Memoria via CCN The Venezuelan government has officially launched the pre-sale of its Petro (PTR) cryptocurrency. The Petro...is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token that’s supposedly pegged to the country’s notable oil reserves. The cryptocurrency’s...
Bulls and Bears in a Critical Faceoff?
Let’s place fundamentals aside for a moment and look at the technical situation. Right now, the S&P 500 is at a critical “technical” stage, its price hovering around 50% from its last highs and 50% from its most recent lows. What does this mean? Simply that the...
Global Trade Wars Begin with Major Tariff Recommendations on Steel and Aluminum
Authored by Tyler Durden via Zerohedge As previewed earlier, at noon on Friday the commerce department released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s investigations into the impact on our national security from imports of steel mill products and from imports of...
Cryptocurrencies and the Race for Speed
Speed modulates the technological landscape: it converts dynamic flows into conditions of relative stasis; it overruns emerging developments with a history that has left it behind; and it transforms the clarity of steady mobilization into a series of blurs. Speed,...
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