Several new technologies that appear separate and unrelated will soon converge, creating a giant digital trap that will easily entice the uninformed masses…
Who Is Bill Gates?…
Bill Gates is no public health expert. He is not a doctor, an epidemiologist or an infectious disease researcher. Yet somehow he has become a central figure in the lives of billions of people…
Why We Must #ExposeBillGates…
Welcome. If you’re reading these words, then it’s likely that you’re here because of the #ExposeBillGates global day of action…
The Subtle Approach Apple Is Using to Become a Bank…
At WWDC a few weeks ago, there was a short segment where apple introduced a new feature for iMessage. In iOS 11, they now allow people send cash to one another. It’s the same thing as Venmo. They don’t charge you a fee. It’s just, “Hey Bobby, here’s $20 that I owe you from dinner […]
IMF Tells Governments How to ‘Subvert’ Public Resistance Against Elimination of Cash…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington has published a Working Paper on “de-cashing”. It gives advice to governments who want to abolish cash against the will of their citizenry. Move slowly, start with harmless seeming measures, is part of that advice. In “The Macroeconomics of De-Cashing”, IMF-Analyst Alexei Kireyev recommends in his conclusions…
The-Other-“Ban” that Was Quietly Announced Last Week…
Most of the world is in an uproar right now over the travel ban that Donald Trump hastily imposed late last week on citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries. But there was another ban that was quietly proposed last week, and this one has far wider implications: a ban on cash…
A $500B Pot of Gold: How Boston Consulting and Google Pushed Modi to End the Era of Cash…
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the omnipresent US-consulting company, and Google, the global data miner, issued a joint report in July 2016 on the “$500 bn Pot of Gold”, which is the Indian digital payment market. Even though the authors deny it, the report gives much reason to suspect that the authors knew that something radical […]
What’s Really Behind the Rise of the Cashless Economy? (VIDEO)…
Cash Means Freedom, Which Is Why So Many Officials Hate It…
Opponents and proponents of folding money agree that the stuff protects you from the state—but they differ about the value of that protection…