These Are The 5 Biggest Risks That Could Break Up The European Union
These Are The 5 Biggest Risks That Could Break Up The European Union by John Mauldin, Mauldin Economics The European Union was a noble dream, but as happens with most dreams, reality eventually sets in. It is simply not possible…
Avoid putting your money in these banks
A friend of mine who’s an equities analyst at a large brokerage firm recently sent out pretty ironic note to all of his private clients. He focuses on the financial sector, so his job is basically to analyze bank stocks…
Cyprus exits 10-billion-euro bailout package
Brussels (dpa) – Cyprus exited its three-year bailout on Thursday, garnering praise for its economic turnaround and leaving Greece as the only eurozone country dependent on an international rescue programme. Cyprus was granted a 10-billion-euro (11.3-billion-dollar) bailout in 2013, in…
Washington Refused to Break Up Big Banks, but Activist Investors Might
Washington Refused to Break Up Big Banks, but Activist Investors Might Washington didn’t break up big banks after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But more than half a decade on, pressure is emerging from investors who want…
The Journey From Former Hacker To Hot Commodity
Over a period of 50 days in 2011, Mustafa al-Bassam — then known as Tflow — was one of the six core members of the most notorious hacking collective on the planet. As part of LulzSec — an offshoot of…
The Unifying Theory Of Political Everything
There is so much craziness going on in the political world right now that it makes it hard to think, as random supernovas of strangeness keep exploding in the political atmosphere. But like physicists trying to explain all the seeming…
Where Will Currencies Go From Here?
Where Will Currencies Go From Here? by Jean Boivin, PhD – BlackRock In his first post for the BlackRock Blog, Jean Boivin, head of economic and markets research for the BlackRock Investment Institute, takes a close look at three important…
Why Bitcoin May Be Way Undervalued
The cryptocurrency bitcoin has seen its value fluctuate wildly in the last three years, peaking at over $1,000 in December 2013 before falling to less than $250 a year later. Over the course of the last five months the price…
DANIEL GALLINGTON: Apple-FBI encryption debate about money
While now mooted because the FBI has broken the code, the media has been all over the legal struggles between the FBI and Apple – this as the FBI sought to require Apple to go behind the access code of…
We Attacked An Android Phone To See What Would Happen If The FBI Did
William Enck and Adwait Nadkarni, North Carolina State University The Justice Department has managed to unlock an iPhone 5c used by the gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December. The…