Global Intelligence
Most investors and traders are constantly analyzing data, and painting the economic picture based on it. But far too often we forget what’s creating the data. Economics is a measure of the real economy, which is driven by real forces. Monopolies are one thing to study, but how do monopolies or oligopolies exert their economic […]
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Inflation is rampant in most currencies. We all hear stories about the older generation filling up their gas tank for a quarter. Let’s take a look at what you can buy for 10 bucks in 2013: 2 reams of copy paper, 500 sheets each ($4.99 each) – low quality paper 1 movie ticket ($7.93 national […]
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When you think of large banks, you probably don’t think of an eat what you kill approach to keeping your job. Probably it’s not commonly known that behind the scenes, most who work in financial institutions are paid very low wages, and are under constant pressure to sell financial products to customers, to earn a […]
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Just as income disparity is reaching a historic high, so are the conditions in the ‘real’ America, as expressed by conditions in Camden, New Jersey. New Jersey is one of the wealthiest states in the USA, and also home of some of the most violent, crime ridden counties. Here’s Matt Taibbi’s description of a real […]
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Another government fraud doesn’t seem surprising, but we should look closer at this recent employee of the EPA; in fact their highest paid employee, who was thought to be an expert on climate change. He was a liar, embezzler, and overall bad employee, according to his lawyer, he didn’t work for periods of 18 months. […]
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This chart outlines main key considerations when creating a cash portfolio. It assumes the user wants to protect the portfolio from various fees and regulations such as ‘bail-ins,’ negative interest rates, counter-party risk, insolvency risk, etc.
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When the IMF suggests increases in tax rates potentially as high as 71%, we should listen. The IMF has been at the forefront of global financial political agendas such as the one world currency (SDRs), default of the USD from the Gold standard (thus creating Forex market), and the backing of international ‘death’ loans as […]
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Paul Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to Reality Asserts Itself. A few weeks ago, we did a series of interviews with Chris Hedges, and one of the things we talked about was the weakness of the left, the weakness of the people’s movement, if […]
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The debate over the institutional use of Bitcoin continues, as Fidelity allows IRA investment into Bitcoin, but then quickly reverses their position: Following what we can only imagine was uproar following our discussion of Fidelity “allowing self-directed IRA holders to ‘invest’ in Bitcoin,” [3] the company has very quickly reversed policy… As MarketWatch notes [4], “On an individual basis, we […]
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Real Estate is one of the most discussed asset classes (if you can call it that), while not the least understood, those in the business promote certain aspects of real estate through marketing in order to sell their developments, whether they be industrial, commercial, or residential. Inside any crisis portfolio should be some land, land […]
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