Only three short months ago, the Federal Reserve projected its quantitative tightening (QT) rodeo to continue unabated, with reductions in its $4 trillion dollar QE’ased balance sheet, the deployment of maturing bonds back into Treasuries, and at least a few more...
Dear Reader, Hard-asset investors are seeing quite the ride in March of 2019. After gold had its flash crash below $1,290 earlier this month, we are already seeing it back with conviction at over $1,310 and climbing: We’re even seeing strength in the crypto market...
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...
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...
Much ado has been made about the sovereign debt that America has amassed, and justifiably so; $22 trillion and counting is nothing to sneeze at. We can blame the government ’til we’re blue in the face, but soon enough we’ll all be forced to look inward for the...
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...