Tag Archive: Twitter

Why Krugman, Roubini, Rogoff And Buffett Hate Gold

2016-10-10

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2016-10-10

A couple of weeks ago an article appeared on Bitcoin Magazine entitled ‘Some economists really hate bitcoin’. I read it with a sigh of nostalgia. As someone who has been writing about gold for a few years, I am used to reading similar criticisms as those bitcoin receives from mainstream economists, about gold.

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Algos, Barriers, Rumors: Some Theories On What Caused The Pound Flash Crash

2016-10-07

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2016-10-07

As reported moments ago, just around 7:07pm ET, cable snapped and plunged by what some say may have been as much as 1200 pips, dropping from 1.26 to as low as 1.14 according to some brokers, before snapping back up.

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Panama Tax Haven Scandal: The Bigger Picture

The “Panama Papers” tax haven leak is big … After all, the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned over the leak, and investigations are taking place worldwide over the leak. But the Panama Papers reporting mainly focuses on friends of Russia’s Putin, Ass...

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Chart up-date: Stocks, Bonds, Copper, Gold

2016-06-10

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2016-06-10

Well that escalated quickly...All-time highs within reach... everything is awesome...wait what... Quite a week: Gold +5.25% in last 2 weeks - best run in 4 months Silver +5.65% this week - best week since May 2015 Copper -4% this week to lowest week...

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Here Comes The Turkish Flood: EU Commission Backs Visa-Free Travel For 80 Million Turks

2016-05-04

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2016-05-04

Earlier this week we observed that in what may be Europe's latest mistake, the European Union is about to grant visa-gree travel to 80 million Turks: a key concession that Erdogan obtained as a result of the ongoing negotiations over Europe's refugee...

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With Tech Tanking, Can Anything Save The System?

2016-04-27

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2016-04-27

Submitted by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, First it was the banks reporting horrendous numbers — largely, we were told, because of their exposure to recently-cratered energy companies. Now it’s Big Tech, which is a much harder thing t...

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Futures Ignore Apple Plunge; Oil Rises Above $45 As Yellen Looms

2016-04-27

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2016-04-27

For those who thought that the world's biggest company losing over $40 billion in market cap in an instant on disappointing Apple earnings, would have been sufficient to put a dent in US equity futures, we have some disappointing news: with just over...

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Big Players (Read: Governments) Make Markets Unsafe

2016-04-07

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2016-04-07

Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke. Reportage in The Wall Street Journal on April 4th states that “A fund owned by China’s foreign-exchange regulator has been taking stakes in some of the co...

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HSBC Looks At “Life Below Zero,” Says “Helicopter Money” May Be The Only Savior

2016-02-27

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2016-02-27

In many ways, 2016 has been the year that the world woke up to how far down Krugman’s rabbit hole (trademark) DM central bankers have plunged in a largely futile effort to resuscitate global growth. For whatever reason, Haruhiko Kuroda’s move into NI...

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