How it Sounds When Fed Doves Cry Part 2 – QE to Infinity?
Only three short months ago, the Federal Reserve projected its quantitative tightening (QT) rodeo to continue unabated, with reductions in its four-trillion dollar QE’ased balance sheet, the deployment of maturing bonds back into Treasuries, and at least a few more...
New York Has a Brewing Academic Controversy
Up until the middle of last decade, the education system offered a binary proposal: perform well in standardized testing, and you’ll receive admission into elite institutions. But with identity politics rearing its ugly head, simple issues have taken on unusual...
IBM Launches “Blockchain World Wire,” a New Global Payment System Using the Stellar Network!
Another Rival to SWIFT and Visa? IBM has turned heads after launching a new global payment network using Stellar’s ledger technology. “Blockchain World Wire” (BWW) allows financial institutions to connect their existing payment systems to BWW’s API to enable...
College Debt: Crisis or Opportunity?
We’ve all heard the dire warnings: rising college debt has spiraled out of control, setting in motion an irreversible economic crisis. But with so many news items vying for our attention, most of us forgot about the issue. Suddenly, though, the university-admissions...
Born a Trader or Teach a Trader – USD Technical Analysis
The dominant theme in financial markets this week that will have implications for cross-border currency valuations are monetary policy decisions by the Federal Reserve, Brazil, Russia, Switzerland, and the U.K. The China trade war negotiations will inject significant...
Core Money: Gold and Silver’s Value Universe
I personally own precious metals because it's the sensible thing to do. With the national debts of all modern nations, from Australia to Japan, the entire continent of Europe, Canada, and the granddaddy of all debtor nations, my native U.S. of A. ballooning into the tens of trillions, it's not even an option to have only fiat digits in your asset portfolio. Educate yourself on the all-important attributes of precious metals investments!