What Investors Can Learn From The Strange Saga Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
Shaky Ground: What Investors Can Learn From The Strange Saga Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac Bethany McLean, Contributing Editor – Vanity Fair, Chicago Many observers believe that the policies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the financial…
The Rise and Fall of the White Working Class
The demise of the White Working Class by Stephen W. Campbell It’s an election year and if the past is prologue, cable news outlets will devote significant attention to the Democratic Party’s struggles with white, working-class voters, despite the party’s…
Another Market Meltdown?
My father loved the United States. I still remember how impressed he was by the scale of the highways, the size of the department stores, the bigness of the cars and houses, the way Americans put three scoops of ice…
Wiretap requests spiked by 17 percent during 2015, encryption rarely encountered: Report
Not a single one of the 4,148 wiretaps requested by state and federal authorities were denied during 2015, a government report revealed Thursday. The Wiretap Report, an annual review released by the Office of the U.S. Courts, indicates investigators experienced…
Bernie Sanders: Could Brexit Style Revolt Happen In US Over Income Inequality? ‘You Bet It Could’
Bernie Sanders Warns That The Same Disenfranchisement That Made Brexit Happen Could Get Trump Elected The Western world still seems to be in shock over Brexit and Remain supporters are desperately trying to figure out what went wrong. Meanwhile, American’s…
The 15th of August
Convertibility Of The U.S. Dollar To Gold – The 15th of August by 720 Global Before reading this article we highly recommend reading “ The Death of the Virtuous Cycle” to provide better context. July 4th – June 6th –…
Bitcoin – Time to End the Block-Size Blockade
Recently I’ve seen a number of people in the Bitcoin ecosystem commenting that they think that Bitcoin blocks should always be completely full. This is analogous to thinking that Starbucks should always be completely sold out of coffee. Block space…
ISIS duped by Besa Mafia ‘dark web’ site offering murder, mayhem for Bitcoins
The Islamic State terror group is steering followers to a “dark web” mafia site that offers murder and other mayhem for hire at a price of thousands of dollars in Bitcoins, the online currency. The problem for the world’s most…
Podcast: Blockchain Revolution co-author Alex Tapscott on Brexit opportunities
Alex Tapscott is co-author of Blockchain Revolution: How the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world with his father Don Tapscott. He joins us now to discuss the opportunities that Brexit has created for blockchain, the European…
The Never-Ending Fiasco of Fiat Money
The Never-Ending Fiasco of Fiat Money There are seven points I’d like to speak to tonight. [This speech was delivered to the Commodity Club, Zurich, June 15, 2016] #1: Gold is Perfect Money. Central banks have no choice but to…