* During my time training to be an equity options trader, the shop I worked for required that I log 100 hours of poker training. Under the belief that there are great similarities between the decision-making required for poker, and that required for successfully trading the financial markets. Along those lines, there was a…
China’s launching of the yuan-denominated oil futures contract will shock those investors who have not been paying attention After all the preparation, all the expectation, cheerleading and doomsaying, China’s Yuan-denominated crude oil futures contract began trading tonight and appears to be off to a good start with well over 10 billion yuan notional traded within the…
This was going to be about “helicopter money” because a ton of precious metal literally fell out of a Russian plane. But now its way more than that… Please connect the dots below, but first, please do this math:1+1+1+1=? (Answer: 4, every day of the week). While it has been known that China and Russia…
“…we are witnessing the end of an empire and they all rhyme in fiscal and monetary bankruptcy. History will show…” MOPE; The Government Will Never Let It Happen… How often have you heard the phrase “the government will never let it happen”? It almost doesn’t matter what the topic is you are talking about, nothing…
John Rubino says we’re going back to basing our monetary system on physical gold & silver. Here’s why… John Rubino interviewed on Future Money Trends There is so much economic turmoil and uncertainty simmering under the surface that it’s hard to keep up with it all, but John Rubino can put the pieces together like…
It was only a matter of time. Dark pools, which are notorious for their anonymous transactions, are making their presence felt in cryptocurrency markets. According to a WSJ report, Republic Protocol, which describes itself as a decentralized dark pool for atomic trading of bitcoin, ether, and ERC20 tokens, has raised 35,000 ether ($33.8 million) from crypto…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Feb. 8, 2018) – A bill filed in the Wyoming House would define gold and silver specie as legal tender and eliminate all taxes levied on it. The new law would pave the way for the use of gold and silver in everyday transactions and could help undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.…
In 2017, Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina, and even Minnesota made progress on the sound money front. In 2018, other states could do so as well. Thirty-six states have already removed sales taxes from precious metals transactions, and bills being introduced this year by sound money advocates in Alabama and Tennessee could add to…
Over the last two years, the Federal Reserve has been nudging interest rates higher and their efforts are starting to bear fruit in the marketplace. Bond yields are beginning to climb. The question is how high can rates go before the house of cards the central bankers built comes tumbling down? As No One Watched…
For many weeks we have been waiting patiently, like vultures perched on the branches of trees, for the Large Specs to go belly up and croak, and the good news is that they just have, so it’s time for us to swoop down and feast on the carcasses, the carcasses being silver and the better…
