“By providing users a way to securely and instantly move funds across exchanges, Liquid allows participants to take advantage of trade opportunities like never before, minimizing spreads and increasing liquidity…” Zane from Bitfinex Sidechains no longer vaporware as Blockstream launches

In what is being described as the largest German protest in recent years, hundreds of thousands of enraged citizens descended upon Berlin over the weekend to voice their collective displeasure at the government’s attempt to consolidate corporate dictatorship by passing a democracy

With silver shortages occurring around the world, Bill Murphy of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) explains how governments and central banks manipulate the paper price of precious metals, the use of derivatives to affect the markets, the lack of

We look at gold’s vital diversification benefits in the latest edition of Executive Global. “Tis the part of the wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket” – Cervantes in Don

Conditions are far more fragile in this Housing Bubble #2, as the global recession that is rapidly spreading around the globe can’t be reversed with the same bag of tricks that worked in 2008-09. Expect home valuations to fall rather quickly

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm, holed up in the US for six years, has been sensationally arrested by US marshals in Boston, paving the way for his extradition to Ireland. —– just in time for the General

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We discuss debt gorillas ripping the face off any investor, consumer or politician who dares challenge them. We discuss Glencore, Deutsche Bank, 3-month Treasury yields and the Federal Reserve as failed zookeeper. In the second half, Max interviews Ian Fraser,

Stacy Summary: These are some of the headlines I’ve read so far this morning. The first one is most important with lots of juicy info and tidbits about one of the vastest criminal conspiracies to ever stalk the global economy.

You don’t need me to tell you how disastrous the Obama Administration’s Syria “strategy” has been. After all, he pretty much admitted as much by announcing a pullback earlier today. While the retreat in itself is garnering all the headlines, with people

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Is the world ready for a US$3 trillion crash? The IMF tells us it’s on the way whether investors are prepared or not. In a recently released white paper, the IMF identified a “triad” of risks that made a global

Historian Peter Turchin identified “the degree of solidarity felt between the commons and aristocracy” as a key ingredient of the Republic of Rome’s enormous success. Turchin calls this attribute of social structure vertical integration, a term that usually refers to

– IMF warn of “fresh financial crisis” – German exports fall 5.2%, largest slump since recession of 2009 – German imports also fall 3.1% – Many sectors across German economy see unexpected declines in factory orders and industrial production –

Nick Szabo, in his most recent post introduced a concept called the Index of Worry.