Top Ten Videos — February 7
Dan Oliver: $10,000 gold sounds crazy, but it’s easy to get to … Lobo Tiggre: The current silver market could blow away the Hunt Brothers
Dan Oliver: $10,000 gold sounds crazy, but it’s easy to get to … Lobo Tiggre: The current silver market could blow away the Hunt Brothers
Michael Oliver: The gold bears have shot their wad; this year gold blows through its all-time highs … Jim Rickards: What wins and what loses
The idea that “bitcoin is its own asset class” and should therefore be judged based on its own highly-constrained supply rests on the assumption that
Bitcoin has had a helluva week. And many of its fans see its recent spike as just the beginning of a run that converts it
Steve Keen: You don’t get asset prices at these levels without soaring leverage … Thom Hartmann: The coming war with Iran is yet another US
Rick Rule: The macro environment is pretty constructive for gold … Kyle Bass: China’s house is on fire; if you have money invested in Asia
After an artificial pause in 2017, US government debt has resumed its inexorable climb… …the dollar has fallen by around 5%… … and inflation –
Financial crises tend to start at the periphery and work their way into a system’s core. Think subprime mortgages (a tiny little niche of a
There’s a debate raging over what, exactly, bitcoin and the thousand or so other cryptocurrencies actually are. Some heavy-hitters are weighing in with strong, if
For what seems like decades, other countries have been tiptoeing away from their dependence on the US dollar. China, Russia, and India have cut deals
The global financial system’s ever-increasing leverage pretty much guarantees another crisis in coming years — unless it’s pre-empted by new weapons that can, in theory,
The Bank For International Settlements just released a report stating that the spread of negative interest rates hasn’t caused the world to end. From this
Gold bugs around the world got a shock a few weeks ago when a tiny Canadian start-up called BitGold bought venerable GoldMoney, the second biggest
Business Insider just posted a Deutsche Bank chart that illustrates the difference between life under the Classical Gold Standard and today’s “modern” forms of money.
Now that bitcoin has subsided from speculative bubble to functioning currency (see the price chart below), it’s safe for non-speculators to explore the whole “cryptocurrency”
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