Bitcoin “Total Crypto Breakdown” Highlights Risks To Digital Wealth – Bitcoin wallet app Blockchain suffers major security blunder – Poor tech sees multiple accounts being created using same address – Security lapses in electronic and digital currencies not uncommon –…
Why would a U.S. headquartered company use a Netherlands shell? The Netherlands is a structured finance dream especially for tax structures and work-around of messy sanctions and regulations. There is yet another reason why the Netherlands’ flexibility is so beloved.…
The EU’s top regulator for insurers and pension funds wasn’t kidding when it warned that the ECB’s money-printing and bond-buying binge was triggering treacherous “volatility” in the bond markets. “Volatility” isn’t actually the right word. It implies ups and downs.…
In this riveting unscripted interview with Mike Maloney, Peter Schiff discusses his recent chance encounter with Ben Bernanke, a man Schiff says Damned the US Economy, and explains why the mistakes Bernanke’s Fed made during the financial crisis of 2008 will result…
Is this the America we have become? A nation in which oligarchs and white collar criminals are allowed to destroy the economy, use bailout funds to pay themselves record bonuses and face absolutely no consequences, while the growing underclass of peasants are locked…
Our forecast stands unchanged; the final up cycle into the 2015 June spike top has now begun. In June 2015 the shorts will run to cover as Gold and Silver spike! The breakout point is the $17.50 – $17.75 range for…
If we had to summarize the sickness of our economy and society, we could start by noting that liberation is unprofitable, and whatever is not profitable to vested interests is marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. Examples of this abound. Liberation…
Bail-Ins Coming – EU Gives Countries Two Months To Adopt Rules – 11 countries face legal action if bail-in rules are not enacted within two months – Bail-in legislation aims at removing state responsibility when banks collapse – Rules place…
[The following post is by TDV Chief Editor, Jeff Berwick] Some people ask me if it will be decades before libertarian thought goes wildly mainstream. I usually have to feign a cough as I try to tell them, “No, we…
The only real information we have about the shady corporate giveaway known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), is via three chapters released by Wikileaks. Now, the whistleblower organization is raising $100,000 as a reward for additional leaked draft chapters……
We discuss economies faking it for so long, those in the economy have forgotten what ‘making it’ even looks like. With trickle down Potemkinism, formerly employed workers go to fake jobs and fake companies, selling fake goods where everything is…
In the past, we’ve written extensively on the threat posed by a sustained loss of electrical grid power. More specifically, we’ve warned that the most damaging threat to our grid would come from either a manmade or natural electromagnetic pulse…
Two days in a row now gold has inexplicably popped up and the dollar has tanked. Today, in fact, the dollar has gone off a cliff! I would thus suggest that unusual amount of gold volatility we are seeing yesterday…
Greece Government Favours Drachma – Vows Will Not “Bow to Blackmail” – Merkel, Hollande, Juncker, Lagarde and Draghi in “emergency” meeting re Greece – Bankrupt Greece must find €1.6 billion to pay IMF in June – First instalment of €300…