Bitcoin Gets the Gold Treatment- Futures Roll Over FOMO Crowd
We Told You First- Bitcoin is Going to Be made To Heel per its Banking - Government Overlords. Written by Soren K., Bon Scott, and Fay Dress for the Soren K.Group There is no Bretton Woods agreement...
View ArticleFinra Issues Warning On Crypto-Related Stock Scams
Yesterday morning we explained the latest and greatest get rich quick scheme in the stock market as follows: Now that it is abundantly clear that for a stock to explode higher, all that is necessary -...
View ArticleIt Is What It Is But It's Not What It Seems
It Is What It Is But It's Not What It SeemsWritten by Craig Hemke, Sprott Money News & TF Metals Report That line was only recently penned by the great Irish poet and philosopher, Paul Hewson....
View ArticleSEC Suspends Trading In Crypto Company Which Soared To $11 Billion Amid...
Following last night's chaotic appearance of LongFin CEO on CNBC's FastMoney, it appears The SEC has finally had enough of the unusually explosive price gains of previously tranquil publicly-traded...
View ArticleOverstock Belatedly Launches $250 Million ICO After Unspecified Technical Issues
Nearly two months after CEO Patrick Byrne first announced that it would hold an ICO of its own to help build out its blockchain infrastructure, Overstock – the...
View ArticleRussia, China, India Unveil New Gold Trading Network
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.comOne of the most notable events in Russia’s precious metals market calendar is the annual “Russian Bullion Market” conference. Formerly known as the Russian...
View ArticleRussia, China and BRICS: A New Gold Trading Network
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.comOne of the most notable events in Russia’s precious metals market calendar is the annual “Russian Bullion Market” conference. Formerly known as the Russian...
View ArticleWonder Who Was Buying Yesterday's Market Breakout? Here's The Answer
Wonder who was buying the euphoria blow-off top stock market breakout yesterday? One clear answer, according to Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Research, is answer is “Mom and Pop”. Nick looked at the...
View ArticleUK Banks Can Withstand "Disorderly Brexit" But Need Additional £6BN; $35...
For the first time since it (belatedly) began conducting stress tests in 2014, none of the UK’s major banks need to raise additional capital. More importantly, the Bank of England and the system could...
View ArticleStocks Whipsawed As Europe, US Futures Rebound From China Selloff; Dollar Slides
The traditionally illiquid post-Thanksgiving week has started with a series of whipsaws across stocks and bonds, as European stocks turned positive after starting the day on the back foot, initially...
View ArticleWhy Capital Controls Usually Fail, China Versus Bitcoin Edition
In September 2015, we first brought the world's attention to the quasi-capital controls being implemented by Chinese authorities, and more importantly, the way in which Chinese citizens were skirting...
View ArticleFANG Futures Launch
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,The other day, after reading one of my posts, my old boss sent me a note. It was a comment about the madness of investors chasing the hot momentum tech...
View ArticleNew LME gold and silver Reference Prices: Will anyone notice?
Submitted by Ronan Manly, BullionStar.comOn 29 August, the London Metal Exchange (LME) began publication of a set of daily reference prices for gold and silver. These reference prices aim to capture...
View ArticleTo Satisfy Soaring Bitcoin Demand, China's Exchanges Find A Loophole
It’s been nearly two months since Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges were abruptly shuttered by local regulators, part of President Xi Jinping’s ongoing crackdown on capital outflows and potentially...
View ArticleLedgerX Trades Over $1 Million In Bitcoin Options And Swaps In First Week
Bitcoin derivatives clearinghouse LedgerX has announced that the first bitcoin derivatives trades have taken place on its platform - an important milestone for the nascent digital currency market that...
View ArticleRay Dalio Is Shorting The Entire EU
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,A point BOE Governor Mark Carney made recently may be the biggest cog in the European Union’s wheel (or is it second biggest? Read on). That...
View ArticleEthereum Goes Mainstream: First Ever Ether ETN Launched On Nasdaq Stockholm
At a time when the SEC is still debating whether to permit bitcoin-based ETFs in the US, Europe has been one step ahead thanks to the Swedish-based XBT Exchange Traded Notes (from provider CoinShares)....
View ArticleBitcoin Surges Above $4400 As World Realizes Jamie Dimon & China Don't Matter
Bitcoin just topped $4400 for the first time since in over 3 weeks and has now erased all of the plunge losses from Jamie Dimon's "it's a fraud" and China's shuttering of all local exchanges.It didn't...
View ArticleCredit, Crypto, & Kuroda's "Bat-Shit-Crazy Monetary Expansion"
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist,Today’s post will be about Japanese yen vol, but I am sure to bore some readers with that topic, so I am starting with something a little more interesting....
View ArticleBIS Finds Global Debt May Be Underreported By $14 Trillion
In its latest annual summary published at the end of June, the IIF found that total nominal global debt had risen to a new all time high of $217 trillion, or 327% of global GDP... ... largely as a...
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