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PortuguêsLast week saw the third-biggest outflow from stock funds in history, and the dollar is the strongest it’s been since April. Here’s what’s going on. On this edition of The…
Continue ReadingThe founder and lead market strategist at NorthmanTrader explains how the Fed has boxed itself in and why our fundamental economic capacity fails to grow. Sven Henrich is the outspoken…
Continue ReadingIn August, the volume of personally owned stock sold by corporate executives reached its highest level since 2015, followed by a 10% decline in the S&P500 in September. August saw…
Continue ReadingHow the Fed and the rise of passive investing and volatility strategies have combined to make market movements faster and more severe. Corey Hoffstein is the founder and Chief Investment…
Continue ReadingFollowing the 2008 financial crisis, both Main Street and Wall Street agreed that power was too concentrated at the financial institution level. People wanted more control, birthing the era of…
Continue ReadingCrypto prices may still be weighed down by a difficult global economic atmosphere, according to Joel Birch, co-founder of automated crypto investing platform Stacked. “I don’t necessarily think that 2020…
Continue ReadingA wide-ranging conversation about the state of macro, why central banks can’t really do anything and why private markets are leading the future of money. Raoul Pal is CEO and…
Continue ReadingEvery time the Federal Reserve meets, it’s important to remember the only real monetary policy tradition at the 107-year-old institution is that a bunch of people will get together and talk about…
Continue ReadingGovernments have significant discretion over economics and finance today, but decentralized network-driven alternatives threaten that control. Our main discussion: The battle for the soul of finance. In this episode, NLW…
Continue ReadingBlockchain-based lending and trading systems known as “decentralized finance,” or DeFi, have dominated recent cryptocurrency-market headlines, with collateral locked into the semi-automated platforms surging 10-fold this year to more than $9 billion. DeFi trading platforms like…
Continue ReadingThe percentage of companies that can’t afford to pay the interest on their debt has reached a new all-time high in the wake of central bank intervention. Our main discussion:…
Continue ReadingOne of the interesting things about cryptocurrency investors is that they really do look at the world very differently from many of their counterparts in traditional finance. The thinking goes something…
Continue ReadingAccording to a number of reports and commentary from financial analysts, the world is “drowning in U.S. dollars” after the Federal Reserve decided to pump billions of dollars into the…
Continue ReadingSince the outbreak of COVID-19, the world’s 14 largest banks have lost $635.33 billion in market capitalization. This is more than three times the current market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC)…
Continue ReadingAs Oracle wins a bid for TikTok U.S., a look at how tech competition, culture competition and currency competition shape the business of geopolitics. Today on the Brief: Crypto exchange…
Continue ReadingA reading of “How to Diagnose Your Own Dutch Disease,” a look at the problems of America’s dollar trade. On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW looks at recent statistics…
Continue ReadingRecapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI. On this edition of the…
Continue ReadingThe Crescat Capital portfolio manager gives his take on the flashing macro warning signals and why it is an explosive moment for gold, silver and (potentially) bitcoin. Tavi Costa is a…
Continue ReadingA legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices. Our main discussion:…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was rising for a second straight day, to about $10,281, after a rapid sell-off earlier in the week. “In a flash, investors have gone from running for the hills…
Continue ReadingThe Hedge Fund legend says in a new interview the Federal Reserve’s policies have created a massive asset bubble while making both inflation and deflation more likely. Today on the…
Continue ReadingFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and…
Continue ReadingYou’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team and edited by Bradley Keoun, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto…
Continue ReadingDespite the stock market returning to all-time highs, many can’t shake the feeling that all is not well in the economy. Today on The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap: People aren’t buying…
Continue ReadingRampant inflation is affecting Turkish residents’ confidence in the lira fiat currency. According to a Reuters report on August 14, locals are dumping lira and converting it to dollars and…
Continue ReadingInvestor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, recently warned in an interview that recent central bank bailouts will bring about the worst economic meltdown in his lifetime. Central banks globally…
Continue ReadingA Bloomberg article claims that Americans are foregoing the safety of the dollar for more speculative assets like stocks, gold, and Bitcoin (BTC). High saving rates, low yields Because of…
Continue ReadingSince Black Thursday, Bitcoin (BTC) has become a better hedge against the U.S. dollar than gold. At the same time, its correlation with the S&P 500 Index reached unprecedented highs.…
Continue ReadingThe South Korean police have launched an investigation into the source of leaked information about the government’s new crypto tax legal amendments. Social media users and private blogs had revealed…
Continue ReadingRenters Threaten US Real Estate Market, 20 Million Americans Face Eviction The aftermath of the coronavirus-provoked business shutdowns in the United States caused a number of market observers to focus…
Continue ReadingSouth Korean private sector members recently discussed a crypto-related taxation bill meant to establish capital gains tax for cryptocurrencies. During these discussions on July 13, members indicated crypto gains taxes…
Continue ReadingDuring a gaming-focused Unitize digital conference panel, Mike Termezy, vice president of token economics at blockchain technology services company Forte Labs, explained blockchain can alter gaming market ecosystems. Blockchain can…
Continue ReadingDuring a Unitize panel on Monday, Balaji S. Srinivasan commented that COVID-19 has changed everything — and it could ultimately end up accelerating Blockchain adoption. Srinivasan is known for numerous…
Continue ReadingThe host of the rapidly growing Rebel Capitalist podcast joins to talk macro, inflation and the almighty battle for ideas. What would you do if you were approaching your 40s,…
Continue ReadingA digital Canadian dollar should imitate traditional banknotes in terms of availability and accessibility, according to staff from the country’s central bank, the Bank of Canada. In an analytical note…
Continue ReadingSergei Guriev, professor of Economics at Paris’ Sciences Po and a critic of Vladimir Putin, told Cointelegraph how Bitcoin can be used as a tool to combat authoritarian regimes despite…
Continue ReadingSergei Guriev, professor of Economics at Paris’ Science Po and Vladimir Putin’s critic, told Cointelegraph how Bitcoin can be used as a tool to combat authoritarian regimes despite having “no…
Continue ReadingWilshire Phoenix Files Publicly-Traded Bitcoin Trust to Challenge Grayscale’s $3.4 Billion Dominance Wilshire Phoenix has filed to launch a publicly-traded trust called Bitcoin Commodity Trust (BCT) – putting the firm…
Continue ReadingAs states shutter economic activity because of preventable COVID-19 outbreaks, it’s deja vu all over again. This is a movie we’ve seen before: Rise in what could have been preventable…
Continue ReadingChamath Palihapitiya, the billionaire CEO of Social Capital and Virgin Galactic Chairman, has called Bitcoin a type of disaster insurance against governments making bad financial decisions. In an interview with…
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