Currency Wars, Trade Wars... World Wars
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Gerald CelenteHistory is repeating itself. While the times are different and the names have changed, the underlying circumstances and basic fundamentals remain the same.
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History is repeating itself. While the times are different and the names have changed, the underlying circumstances and basic fundamentals remain the same.
China's leaders are loving--and hating--reform
Is there no limit to the economic pain Europeans are prepared to endure in defence of the wretched euro?
Is bitcoin money? To most readers the answer will be a resounding yes, but to many people, including former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the answer is less clear.
An offshoot threatens to throw development of the digital currency into disarray, but such disorganization comes with the territory of open-source software
A billionaire hedge fund manager linked to George Soros bought up gold shares after multiple financial experts warned a stock market crash is coming.
Could it be possible that Russian reporters have more freedom to talk about important issues than reporters that work for the major corporate conglomerates in the United States do? Of course the Russian media is far from perfect.
There's an image going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela's economy has become.
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China currency devaluation signals endgame leaving equity markets free to collapse under the weight of impossible expectations
Just two days ago we warned of the dramatic disconnect between equity insurance and credit insurance markets - at levels last seen before Bear Stearns collapse.
Paper trumps plastic as people demand hard cash in times of uncertainty
Did you see what just happened? The devaluation of the yuan by China triggered the largest one day drop for that currency in the modern era.
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There is an interesting article in the NYT on the emergence of alternative paper currencies. "Artisanal" or "low-batch" currencies have been popping up all over in the past decade.
China's surprise currency devaluation yesterday has fueled the ongoing currency wars. Escalation is on the way. Who wins? Who loses?
Almost exactly seven months ago, on January 15, the Swiss National Bank shocked the world when it admitted defeat in a long-standing war to keep the Swiss Franc artificially weak, and after a desperate 3 year-long gamble...
China has devalued its currency, the yuan, by 2%.
When China sneezes, the world catches a cold. Alternatively, when China devalues, the rest of the (exporting) world scrambles to not be the last (exporting) nation standing, and to do so next, before everyone else does.
The head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has called for a balanced approach to regulation governing financial technology development in the United States, citing bitcoin as one such example.
Blockchain technology could be used to bypass today's centralised financial infrastructure entirely, according to a report by BBVA Research US.
There's no other way to put it: Commodities took it on the chin last month.
China's central bank has just devalued its currency.
It could never happen here, right? Again...
We don't need to keep guessing when the nation's central bank is going to raise interest rates on the nation's money supply and by how much.
While the world can count dozens of important currencies, when it comes to top line financial and investment discussions, the currency marketplace really comes down to a one-on-one cage match between the two top contenders: the U.S. Dollar and the Eu
Greece may seek 24 billion euros in a first tranche of bailout aid from international lenders in August to prop up its banks and repay debts falling due at the ECB, a pro-government Greek newspaper said in its early Sunday editions.
Back in its 2013 heyday, when bitcoin soared from below $100 to over $1000 in the span of a few months (in no small part thanks to the collapse of the Cyprus banking system) there was only one real Bitcoin exchange: