The Wall Street Journal recently posted an email conversation between columnist Andy Kessler and billionaire Mark Cuban in which Cuban explains the real point of cryptocurrencies. Hint: It has nothing to do with the price of bitcoin or ethereum. Mark Cuban Knows Crypto The Dallas Mavericks owner explains the allure and efficiency of digital ‘ownership.’ […]
Here Comes Bitcoin’s Big Test: The Empire Strikes Back (Repost)
Repost from March 17 One of the flaws in the revolutionary mindset is a tendency towards overconfidence. Combine absolute belief in a new idea with a couple of early wins and you get an absurd level of cockiness. This leads the would-be revolutionary to underestimate the challenges involved in getting from there to ultimate victory. […]
Top Ten Videos — May 23
Russell Brand: Who’s the dictator now? … David Morgan: Will Elon Musk Start Buying Silver And Sell Bitcoin? … Rick Rule: We’ll be in a precious metals bull market for quite some time … Mike Maloney: Who really owns America’s gold? … Chris Martenson: Bad science is ruining lives … Larry Lepard: Hyperinflation will send […]
Where Are Mulder And Scully When We Need Them?
Pretty much everyone over 40 remembers a riveting but ultimately frustrating 1990s TV show called the X-Files, in which aliens show up and make some extreme demands on the world’s governments. Hopelessly outgunned, the governments not only surrender but volunteer to help with the transition to alien rule. All unbeknownst to the public, of course. […]
Charts For A Crazy World: Inflation And Other Screw-ups
It’s getting harder to tell which approaching crisis requires attention and which can be safely ignored. Sometimes it helps to see the data laid out visually. Section One: If the supply of money still matters … Inflation (as the government defines it) has tracked the per capita money supply pretty closely over the past century. […]
Top Ten Videos — May 16
Steen Jakobsen: The commodities boom is only in ‘early innings’, with much higher to go … Steve Hanke: Hyperinflation ‘wiped out’ these great currencies, is the U.S. dollar next? … Nouriel Roubini: This will kill cryptos … Andy Schectman: Basil III will force banks to scramble for physical gold … George Gammon: The dollar will […]
Top Ten Videos — May 9
Egon von Greyerz: This is the endgame for paper silver … Kevin O’Leary: There’s a big problem brewing in the cryptocurrency space … Nouriel Roubini: The Fed is ‘cornered’; will either lose control of inflation or crash markets … Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is not a currency, so it won’t be outlawed … Andrew Maguire: LBMA […]
What If “Transitory” Inflation Is Here To Stay?
One of the emerging trends in the almost-post-covid economy is companies suddenly having to pay way up to find new employees. Restaurants, truckers, even Uber and Lyft, are now struggling to track down and re-hire the people they and their competitors shed during the lockdown. It’s not going well: The Covid recovery labor shortage is […]
Top Ten Videos — May 2
Dave Cullum: The stock market crash will destroy lives … Robert Cialdini: We’re being manipulated out of our money … Edward Snowden: You don’t realize these apps are spying on you … Lawrence Lepard: The Fed is a runaway printing machine … Alasdair Macleod: The future of money is gold .., Gerald Celente: Stocks and […]
Top Ten Videos — April 25
Rick Rule: Economic collapse is horridly fascinating … Russell Brand: Leaked UFO videos are real – why’s the Pentagon admitting it now? … Lobo Tiggre: Gold is ready for a break-out … Danielle DiMartino Booth: Inflation is hitting from every angle … David Stockman: When the market unravels there will be no place to hide […]
Tom Woods: They can’t milk COVID fear forever. They themselves admit it.
From The Tom Woods Show: CNN technical director Charlie Chester said, “There’s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It’ll taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore.” But Chester said a lot more than that in front of a hidden Project Veritas camera, as reported on the Economic Policy Journal website. We’ve […]
Marin Katusa: The World is Sleeping on Commodities – 4 Things to Watch Closely
Reprinted from Katusa Research: I’ve had people from all walks of life ask me questions on this sector in the last 2 months. And the number of questions, along with the number of people asking them, is astounding. “Have you bought Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge, Cardano…?” These are people fixing my hot water tank, that work […]
What Happens When Everything Is A Story Stock?
On today’s Wall Street Journal home page, two articles appear side-by-side. One is about how a heretofore obscure, nearly-valueless cryptocurrency called dogecoin, originally created as a joke, has soared to the point of being consequential for large sections of the investing public. And it’s not unique: Dogecoin Is a Joke, but It’s No Laughing Matter […]
Top Ten Videos — April 18
Jim Rogers: If bitcoin becomes successful it will be outlawed … Stephanie Pomboy: This is the most overvalued stock market ever … Lobo Tiggre: Could gold crash? … Marc Faber: If you want to destroy a society, print money … Jim Rickards: M2 is skyrocketing as Fed stops reporting money supply data … ——————————–
Yet Another Ridiculous Stock Market Bubble, In Three Charts
The Fiat Currency Age is nothing if not repetitious. There are dozens of charts that illustrate how closely today’s financial bubble resembles its predecessors. But simple is better when expressing a hard truth, so let’s go with that old standby, margin debt. This is debt created when over-stimulated investors borrow against their stocks to buy […]
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