After languishing under $4,000 for much of the year, Bitcoin has really taken off in price over the past few weeks, and just recently broke through the $6,000 barrier. But while there are numerous contributing factors for that strong price growth, there’s one factor that has gotten significantly less publicity. However it’s an important factor […]
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Along with the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives has come renewed attention towards a monetary theory beloved by many Democrats and their allies, including Bernie Sanders. That theory, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) posits that a government cannot ever default on its debt because it can just print money to pay off that debt. […]
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If you thought the worst excesses of the 2008 financial crisis were well behind us then think again. While the first few years following the crisis brought a return of some sort of sanity on the part of financial markets, lenders, and investors, the lessons of the crisis are increasingly being forgotten. That’s especially the […]
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While the $20 double eagle gold coins have long gained attention from collectors and investors, the less-appreciated $10 eagle coin was for decades the standard gold coin intended for circulation. The $10 denomination was one of the original gold coinage units described in the Coinage Act of 1792, along with the half eagle ($5) and […]
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By now many investors are aware that stock markets aren’t going to continue rising above their all-time highs. The meteoric rise of the past few years is unsustainable, which is why markets continue to push towards but never break through their previous records. The only way from here is down, with a massive correction on […]
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Recent comments made by Iranian government officials have raised the possibility that OPEC might be on the verge of collapse. The cartel, founded in 1960 in Baghdad and headquartered in Vienna, has long sought to control world oil prices by requiring its members to manipulate production in order to keep oil prices elevated (when they […]
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The 9mm Luger cartridge, aka 9x19mm Parabellum or 9x19mm NATO, has become perhaps the most popular firearms cartridge in the world. Originally introduced in 1902 by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) for their Luger semiautomatic pistol, the 9mm Luger cartridge is the most popular cartridge in the United States, just ahead of the .223 Remington/5.56x45mm […]
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It seems like only yesterday that Bitcoin trading began on financial markets. The first futures markets for Bitcoin opened in December of 2017 to great fanfare. But since that time new developments in Bitcoin trading have been few and far between. Proposals for Bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs) have languished before regulators for months and […]
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Now that the Mueller report into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential election has been published, Attorney General William Barr has vowed to investigate the FBI’s actions with relation to the Trump campaign in 2016. President Trump has already stated that he will declassify all the documents related to the FBI’s application for a […]
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