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Brave New World of Negative Interest Rates, the Quanto Contract Reigns Supreme
Both Europe and Japan are now solidly in negative interest rate territory. The US is almost there. The Fed has…
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Critical Market Meltdown – Here’s What Happens Next
I wrote this in my last post of 2020“I now like cash. I’m putting more of that in my portfolio.…
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Waiting for the 500 Pound Piano to Drop (On My Head)
Bitcoin was born out of the financial crisis of 2008, when a group of libertarian coders wanted to build a…
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A Very Bad Day in the Market (Except for Crypto)
At close of trading today, the Dow Jones was down 4.4% for the day and down 11% since Monday. For…
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What I’m Buying (And What I’m Not) in February
Gold stocks. Again. This week, I bought a small amount of Prime Mining Corp (PRYM-TSXv, PRMNF-OTC) on the back on a…
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Up or Down, It Doesn’t Matter, We Still Profit
Volatility has returned to the crypto-markets, as indicated by the funding rate of bitcoin perpetual futures.It has been a while…
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What Happens to the Price of Gold When it Goes Virtual?
Not many people paid attention to the announcement made last week that Tether is issuing a new gold-backed stablecoin. After…
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The Plague is Upon Us, What do We Say?
Newsletter writers HATE to put out copy when terrible afflictions grip the world, as they so often do: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/ In…
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What to Say If Your Friends Ask If it’s the Time to Buy Bitcoin?
Every once in a while a friend, family member, or acquaintance asks me if they should buy bitcoin. And the…
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It’s Getting Weird out There
The first story of the year usually writes itself.January is traditionally the slowest time of the year for cryptocurrency, as much…
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