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Technology will do to banking what Uber has done to taxis He doesn’t wear a tie. He’s got long hair. Tim Vasko doesn’t look anything like a Wall Street banker. But Vasko is, if not the new breed of Wall Street, the near future of it. He’s the founder of Finaeos,…
This whole spectacle of the health of the global economy pirouetting on the decision of an American Banker, or perhaps more properly, the Viceroy of Wall Street, on whether to symbolically raise a benchmark interest rate, tied to an avalanche of internationally distributed paper claim checks for conceptual ephemera and political promises, must be one…
An interesting article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond bubble”: The global bond bubble has ballooned to more than 76 trillion dollars, and interest rates have never been lower in modern history. In fact, 25 percent of all government bonds in Europe actually have a negative rate of return…
Meet The Secretive Group That Runs The World Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/12/2015 23:03 -0400 Over the centuries there have been many stories, some based on loose facts, others based on hearsay, conjecture, speculation and outright lies, about groups of people who “control the world.” Some of these are partially accurate, others are wildly…
China first delegated the management of gold policy to the People’s Bank by regulations in 1983. This development was central to China’s emergence as a free-market economy following the post-Mao reforms in 1979/82. At that time the west was doing its best to suppress gold to enhance confidence in paper currencies, releasing large quantities…
SAYONARA GLOBAL ECONOMY Posted on January 5, 2015 by JimQ “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total…
The Rigging Triangle Exposed: The JP Morgan-British Petroleum-Bank Of England Cartel Full Frontal Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2014 Bank of England Barclays Bloomberg News Central Banks Citibank Citigroup Corruption Enron Insider Trading JPMorgan Chase Market Manipulation None Porsche Prop Trading RBS Reuters Royal Bank of Scotland Yen Zurich The name Dick…
Goodbye to one of the best years in history It might not feel like it, but we are safer, richer and healthier than at any time on record Record numbers reach retirement age as baby boomers turn 65 We are living longer, healthier lives than ever before Photo: Alamy By Fraser Nelson6:20AM…
Today, 90% of the global container trade still travels by ocean, and that’s what Beijing plans to change. November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers…
Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Attack on Movie Theaters That Screen ‘The Interview’ ….. updated IT’S OVER DECEMBER 16, 2014 and the saga begins here… Senior Film and Media Reporter@BrentALang The Sony hackers have threatened a 9/11-like attack on movie theaters that screen Seth Rogen…