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A Modest Plan
With all the talk about the bubble market, people are once again saying Donald Trump is a fool, he should never have taken credit for a Dow that’s about to collapse.
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – Part 5
Although "Bitcoin" can’t be hacked, it’s only software and has many vulnerabilities. If held on an exchange, you have legal and financial risk. If held at home, you could have a hard drive fail and lose your passwords.
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – Part 4
You don’t only buy stocks, you sell them. And you can sell them by borrowing them from a shareholder. But what if there’s no record of delivery?
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist – Part 3
The money, the unaccountable, uninhibited release of tokens can do more than just buy centuries of hard labor in seconds, it‘s also a method of control. Banks, our present issuers of money, can approve or destroy businesses by denying loans.
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist - Part 2
An exchange is a central point where owners post collateral and thereby join and trade on the exchange. A Bitcoin exchange is the same thing.
Bitcoin Doesn’t Exist
Inequality is our society’s middle name, but maybe that is precisely the problem. Maybe bitcoin should have come with an inbuilt way to spread wealth, not just shift it around.
Brexit Is Pandora’s Gift To Britain
Getting rid of Brussels is at least as much of a relief as it is a headache. Moreover, Britain needed a makeover, badly, as has ironically been shown especially after the referendum.
Austerity, Bloodletting And Incompetence
The UK chancellor presented his Budget yesterday and declared five more years of austerity for Britain.
Preparing For EU Collapse
If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes.
The Biggest Ponzi In Human History
Ultra low interest rates mark a shift away from people’s wealth residing in their savings and pension plans, and into to so-called wealth residing in their homes, which are bought with ever growing levels of debt.
The Curious Case Of Missing The Market Boom
The CAPE ratio has been higher than it is now only twice in history: right before the Great Depression and during the dotcom bubble, when tech companies didn’t even have to be able to fog a mirror to attract billions in ‘capital’.
Bubble Fortunes
The world’s central banks have blown giant bubbles all over the place. That’s where the bulls’ "fortunes" come from. They are bubble fortunes.
America Can’t Afford To Rebuild
A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will not boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required.
Varoufakis: The Book
The general principle of globalization/centralization, of which the EU is a good example, cannot stand in times of negative growth because people won’t accept decisions about their lives being taken by far-away ‘leaders’.
Jackson Hole And The Appalachians
The Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers and other economics big shots is on again. They all still like themselves very much.
Rogoff, Orwell And Kafka
Central banks create recessions and crises. Note people, and not economies. Central banks.
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