According to data from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the regulator of national banks, as of March 31, 2009, five bank holding companies held $277.57 trillion in derivatives (notional/face amount)…
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Peter Thiel’s Venture Capital Firm Invests $200M in Bitcoin and Ether…
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, is investing once again in bitcoin and ether, sources said, signaling Silicon Valley’s renewed interest in cryptocurrency markets…
BRICS: 8 Banks Ban U.S. Dollar Transactions…
Iraq is moving in tandem with the BRICS philosophy as it banned eight banks from initiating transactions in the U.S. dollar…
The Global Tremors from China’s Real Estate Crisis Are Only Just Starting…
Chinese investors and their creditors are putting up “For Sale” signs on real estate holdings across the globe as the need to raise cash amid a deepening property crisis at home trumps the risks of offloading into a falling market. The prices they get will help finally put hard numbers on just how much trouble the wider industry is in…
Beijing Powerless as Chinese Stocks Crater after Trump Confirms He Will Impose 60% Tariffs…
Putting the latest collapse in context, China’s market capitalization has sunk by just over $1 trillion in the space of 13 trading days…
January Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Explode by 353K, Double the Expected and Higher Than All Estimate As Wages Surge…
Well, we did warn readers that anyone hoping for a negative print in an election year would be disappointed, and moments ago the BLS proved us right…
Justice Department Charges Three People in $400 Million FTX Mystery Hack…
The hack coincided with the crypto exchange’s meltdown more than a year ago…
Tax Cuts, Not Bidenomics Explains Surge in Consumer Spending in 2023…
On January 1, 2023, 38 states had noteworthy tax changes. 37 of the changes put extra money in people’s pockets. Here’s the result in pictures…
The Bitcoin Halving: Why This Time Could Be Different…
The fourth Bitcoin halving is approaching, and this one has the potential to be a very different experience from prior halvings…
Why Are These Five Republicans Backing a Carbon Tax?…
Last Thursday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works reported legislation (the Prove It Act) that sets the stage and lays the foundation to impose a carbon dioxide tax on American families, workers, and consumers…
An Ethereum ETF Is Coming Sooner Than You May Expect…
Bitcoin ETFs were delayed because of politics. Now that we have clarity — along with seven deadlines between May and August — Ethereum ETFs aren’t far away…
As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package…
China is having some serious stock market issue as in plummeting…
Donald Trump Vows to ‘Never Allow’ Central Bank Digital Currencies if Elected…A Man after My Own Heart…
Former President and front-runner in the Republican leadership race, Donald Trump, has promised to ban the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) during a campaign stop in New Hampshire…
Quiet Corrections Reveal Economy Added Near HALF A MILLION FEWER Jobs Than First Claimed…
Cumulative revisions to monthly jobs reports from January through November 2023 suggest that at least 443,000 fewer jobs were created in Joe Biden’s economy than the public was initially told…
U.S. Consumers Are Engaging in a Historic Debt Binge, And Delinquencies Are Ominously Rising…
Americans are going into debt as if tomorrow will never come, but of course tomorrow always arrives eventually. What we are witnessing right now is truly a historic debt binge, and to many of the experts it seems like there is no end in sight to the unrestrained spending that is going on…
Chinese Online Gaming Billionaire Is Second-Biggest Foreign Owner of U.S. Land…
A Chinese billionaire credited with pioneering the online video gaming industry has become the second-biggest foreign owner of US land thanks to his nearly 200,000 acres of Oregon timberlands…
As CBDCs Roll-Out, Elite-Backed Digital Payment Systems Vie to Build the “Global Payment Standard”…
As Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilots proliferate, a myriad of elite-gilded and blockchain-powered digital payment networks are vying for their technologies and payment systems to be incorporated in the developing digital currency infrastructures of tomorrow. Their end game? A digital financial grid prime for abuse…
The Great Taking Exposes the Financial End Game…
One of the very best exposés of the covert, very well-hidden, bellicose attempts to rob all of humanity – barring the miniscule number of psychotic individuals comprising the inimical opposition – of their material possessions and their ‘immaterial’ freedom, was published fairly recently. It is accurately titled The Great Taking (2023), and was written by David Webb, one of the most courageous and finance-savvy authors I have ever come across…
Outlook 2024: Gold Set to Make History…
The gold market is poised to make history in 2024. It enters the New Year within striking distance of new all-time highs…
Dollar Off to Best Start to a Year Since 2005…
The U.S. Dollar Index peaked in fall 2022, the highest it had been in nearly two decades, rising in response to aggressive interest rate hikes…
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