SWIFT Sets Up Joint Venture With China Central Bank Ahead Of Imminent Digital Yuan Launch Back in August we reported that China’s Commerce Ministry had released fresh details of a pilot program for the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be...
Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk returned from his self-imposed Twitter break to send a series of tweets about joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin. “No highs, no lows, only Doge,” Musk wrote. He also posted a meme from the Disney movie The Lion King, showing the monkey...
“Even the most circumspect friend of the market would concede that the volume of brokers’ loans—of loans collateraled by the securities purchased on margin—is a good index of the volume of speculation.” -John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929 There are all...
Under a bill proposed by Democratic Rep. Noel Frame of Seattle, a 1% tax would be levied on “extraordinary” intangible financial assets held anywhere in the world – including cash, stocks, bonds, publicly traded options and futures contracts,...
The Fed has charged the investment atmosphere. Today’s investors view markets as get rich quick schemes. Stories of investors turning thousands into hundreds of thousands litter social media. The problem is that such behavior is not natural nor sustainable. It...