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Bitcoin surging again

Bitcoin, an online-only currency scarcely four years old, is breaking out to new highs this week and now sports a total value of $2.8 billion.  Just a few months ago, it looked like this economic experiment as the world’s first decentralized technology-based form of money would crash and burn.  Since then, ConvergEx’s Nick Colas points […]

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America’s income gap stats

According to data released by the Social Security Administration, 23 Million Americans make less than $5,000 a year, while only 166 make more than $50 Million per year.  Some other data highlights: 119,400 Americans make more than $1 Million per year 81 Million Americans make less than $29,999.99 per year 92.5% of Americans make less […]

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Overcomplicated US Tax Code has 4 Million words

The US tax code has over 4 million words, since 2001 Congress has made over 5,000 changes to it.  It’s the equivalent of 7x the words from War and Peace, and 4x the number of words in all Harry Potter books combined.Each year taxpayer advocate Nina Olsen prepares a report and delivers it to Congress, […]

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Europe’s Delusion, Dilemma, And Endgame

This 9 minute video explains succinctly the real driving force behind the EU crisis and the possible endgame, the destruction of the EU nation-state. For more economic animations see http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/ When I was still in primary school, punk rock emerged – it seemed to me – out of nowhere and re-invented music. Before, music to […]

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US DOJ confirms criminal investigation into Forex manipulation

Just days after major Forex banks such as Deutche Bank, Rabobank, and others “The Usual Suspects” have been fined billions for a Libor fixing scandal, the US Department of Justice officially announced a criminal investigation into the fixing of Forex rates. Oct 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the manipulation of foreign […]

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Lack of price discovery killing capitalism

The economic problem with government bail-outs and intervention is they act as a huge economic player, keeping rates artificially low and stimulating those companies that work directly with the government.  The economic problem with this is that while the large companies can remain afloat with this support, very little ‘trickles down’ to small enterprises which […]

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Greenspan admits markets are result of screwy people, difficult to forecast

Alan Greenspan made a shocking statement on the Daily Show: “We really can’t forecast all that well. We pretend that we can but we can’t. And markets do really weird things sometimes because they react to the way people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.” – Alan Greenspan, speaking this week on “The […]

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The Fed will ultimately debase the US Dollar

Since 1980 those in power have become used to the idea that debt is growing faster than income.  The majority of economic and policy debate doesn’t focus on the real issue causing the financial crisis (which is the rapid expansion of the Fed’s US Dollar denominated assets), it’s actually very simply as Chris Martenson points […]

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