Among other things, Bitcoin has been criticized for price volatility, use in illegal transactions and thefts from exchanges. It has also proven highly controversial for the sheer amount of energy it requires. The University of Cambridge maintains an on…
A new Eurobarometer survey shows where Europeans struggled the most with lockdowns. Since the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, authorities across the EU implemented restrictions varying in severity, ranging from national lockdowns to local lockdowns and curf…
Bears took yesterday’s screen game with 38 sell signals and 10 buy signals. That reverses Monday’s output, It’s just a flesh wound.
Call it a pothole. Call it a mini flash crash. We’ve had a few of these lately, and yesterday’s was epic.
I call it, Dealers Shake the Trees. They’re low on inventory because of relentless customer buying. They needed to shake some loose before t…
The cryptocurrency Ethereum soared this week to a new record value, a touch over $3,500. When looking at the currency’s journey to this price, it is clear that ‘soar’ is the correct verb to describe this rapid rise.As with many cryptocurrencies this ye…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
What’s left are the ‘fatal synergies’ of soaring debt and leverage, diminishing returns on stimulus, the substitution of credit for savings and the coming deflationary…
Dogecoin may have been grabbing the headlines over the past few weeks, but it’s not just been an astonishing year of growth for what started out as a meme – 2021 is fast turning into the year of the cryptocurrency.As this infographic shows, when compar…
If gold’s trading feels like an indecisive mess to you, it is because it is. Short term and intermediate cycles are all opposed to one…
According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for 28.7 percent of global manufacturing output in 2019. That puts the country more than 10 percentage points ahead of the United States, which used to have the worl…