The headlines are dramatic, ugly and depressing to anyone who holds gold right now. Broad market sentiment has shifted from disdain and dismissive to highly negative. Hedge funds are shorting gold aggressively, hedge funds that own gold are being “outed”.…
There’s nothing quite like a grotesquely lopsided “economic recovery” in which a handful of cities boom, while the rest of the nation stagnates. Even worse, millennials living in such chosen cities face one of two options. Either live in mom and dad’s basement, or…
Watch Senator Bernie Sanders (D. Vermont), candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 U.S. presidential election, interview Nomi Prins, frequent Keiser Report guest and author of It Takes a Pillage and All the Presidents’ Bankers. The interview is as…
George Galloway wants bitcoin tech to bring transparency to London’s spending
We are joined by Guy Standing, co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network and author of The Precariat: The Dangerous New Class, to discuss the problem of declining incomes, automation of many jobs, and the rise of the Precariat. As…
The idea that human life subdivides rather naturally into stages is based on our natural progression from childhood into adulthood and eventual (if we’re lucky) old age. Confucian thought views life as a developmental process with seven stages, each roughly…
A major reason Vlieghe was not required to fully sever his ties with Brevan Howard was that the partnership — unlike company shares — is an illiquid asset that cannot be sold, the person familiar with the arrangement said. So…
London mayoral candidate George Galloway proposes putting city budget on blockchain
George Galloway wants to use the blockchain software that underpins bitcoin to keep track of the Mayor of London’s spending.
“My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains, or his signature, would be on the contract.” …
– Perth Mint sees surge in demand and cannot keep up with demand – “Our biggest restriction is the amount of unrefined gold we’re getting in from producers” – Very high demand for Perth Mint coins, bars coming from Asia,…
In this double-header special episode of the Keiser Report, we discuss whether or not there is such a thing as post-capitalism, whether or not we are actually in this phase and examine the solutions to the multiple crises of neoliberal…