Archive - Oct 2015 - Blog entry

For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis.

A bursting of property bubbles in London and New York would be expected to have an impact on national economies and indeed on national property markets. Sentiment would be badly impacted. Caution should be the order of the day.

Gold’s biggest enemy is a brilliant Nobel Prize winning economist, university professor and columnist for the New York Times. Sadly, he is also a con man. 

The Hills Are Alive...

As An American, I'm FURIOUS that We've Squandered Our Strengths and Resources ...

If there's no risk of a systemic event, why are regulators moving to implement rules that would make it so firms and funds can freeze your money in the event of a crisis?

Gold will also be vulnerable towards the end of an interest rate tightening cycle as was the case in January 1980. Today, central banks including the Fed  are having difficulty raising interest rates in even a small nominal way.

For years, a rather pointless argument has been ongoing amongst economists - that of inflation vs. deflation.

This comes at the totally wrong time.

It's not a good time for this. 

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Prepare for taxes of all kinds: wealth, stealth, and even carry taxes (on physical cash).

In this symposium I literally challenge the audience (of mostly bankers) to tell me what use would the world have for banks in a Blockchain connected world. The response?............... 

After 3 ½ years of sitting in rulemaking purgatory, the SEC is finally voting on the rules for Title III crowdfunding (or retail crowdfunding, investment crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding… it has several names at this point).

An Unknown Quantity in Modern Warfare...