Rising macroeconomic risks, low real interest rates, and a decline in the dollar versus emerging market currencies are major price catalysts for gold. Since hitting its high of over $1,900 an ounce in 2011 after a 12 year bull run,…
Let’s say you wanted to engineer a stock market rally that triggered every technical “buy” signal and wiped out those who are short the market–what would you do? First, you’d engineer a new all-time high to signal “all clear for…
Introduction The financial services industry is a highly regulated, highly technical, and highly traditional industry where ancient companies reign supreme and new entrants do not have good odds of survival. The Internet and the rise of the digital age have…
We talk first to former banker, now author, Nomi Prins, about a solution to the revolving door between Wall Street and DC. We discuss whether or not Hillary Clinton’s highly paid speeches to Goldman Sachs matter and whether or not…
Just as the dust begins to settle on Brexit, Italy’s banking system looms as the next threat to global financial markets. Previous attempts to resolve Italy’s banking sector woes have proven to be less than effective. Non Performing Loans on the…
In the July 2016 Tax Justice Network podcast: ‘Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data? I’m happy to share.‘ We talk to the two journalists who got the Panama Papers scoop, Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier who’ve written a…
Whenever an irrational and inhumane law remains on the books far longer than any thinking person would consider appropriate, there’s usually one reason behind it: money. Unsurprisingly, the continued federal prohibition on marijuana and its absurd classification as a Schedule 1 drug…
A Bitcoin IRA or Digital Currency IRA is an Individual Retirement Account in which Bitcoin or other approved digital currencies are held in custody for the benefit of the IRA account owner. It functions the same as a regular IRA, only instead of holding paper…
I often write about the Tyranny of Price, the rarely examined assumption that lower prices are all that matters. Thanks to the Tyranny of Price, the quality of many goods has plummeted.Obsolescence is either planned or the result of inferior…
Following on from the Brexit vote last month the IMF have decided to re-evaluate their forecast for global growth. Bloomberg reports that they have revised their original 3.2% forecast down to 3.1% for 2016 and from 3.5% to 3.4% for 2017.…
We talk to Dmitry Orlov, author of The Collapse Gap, about a “pathway to a different future.” Orlov suggests that “150 strong” can solve many of the problems present in our economies and societies – smaller communities of 150 who…
Or take the right to vote. In principle, it is a great privilege. In practice, as recent history has repeatedly shown, the right to vote, by itself, is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore, if you wish to avoid dictatorship by…
Imagine turning your retirement nest egg to Bitcoin. By adding a Bitcoin IRA to their investment portfolio, that’s what many people are doing, literally. The rise of Bitcoin to its current price of $668, sitting at close to 2016 highs, had many people taking…
The Fed/bullion banks have been throwing a record amount of paper at the Comex, especially in relation to the declining amount of physical metal reported to be available for delivery into that paper. And yet, they can’t push the price…
Gold has consolidated near the low of the past two weeks following on from its Brexit rally. Having increased by 25% since the beginning of the year the pause in its rally comes as Barnabas Gan, an economist at Singapore-based Oversea-Chinese Banking…