By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 30, 202002:52 PM Eastern
At the Federal Reserve’s recent summit in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Chairman Jerome Powell made a rather alarming announcement. He officially scrapped the Fed's decades-long inflation target...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 28, 202002:37 PM Eastern
“CBDC” stands for “central bank digital currency.” It’s an attempt — by the European Central Bank (ECB), most prominently lately — to project past glory into the future.
Sure, a CBDC supported...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 23, 202002:07 PM Eastern
Stablecoins are cryptos that peg their value to another financial asset. For example, Tether (USDT), USDC and DAI all peg their values to the U.S. dollar on a 1:1 basis.
Decentralized Finance...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 21, 202003:54 PM Eastern
Google Trends is a service started by the internet search giant to analyze the popularity of specific terms, particular to region and by language, over time.
It’s a pretty cool tool based as it...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 16, 202003:37 PM Eastern
DeFi — decentralized finance — is basically borrowing, lending and asset trading on the blockchain — with no banker, broker, or market-maker in between.
Because of this, DeFi transactions are...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 14, 202006:21 PM Eastern
The simple fact that he has nearly a million followers on Twitter but follows no one would make him one of that social media platform’s most unique content creators.
But Naval Ravikant is also...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 9, 202011:51 AM Eastern
Previously, we showed you how to open accounts on Kraken and Coinbase, which are both major, widely-used American cryptocurrency exchanges.
But neither of them accommodate the small,...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 7, 202006:13 PM Eastern
Folks, we have an amends to make.
Here’s how we led the July 27 issue of Weiss Crypto Alert:
Folks, the internet giveth, and the internet taketh away.
For Twitter, it’s that times a...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
September 2, 202001:30 PM Eastern
Cardano (ADA, Tech/Adoption Grade “B-”) is a third-generation crypto that aims to knock Ethereum off its perch as the world's no. 1 smart-contract platform.
And it's been a great investment — up...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 31, 202002:56 PM Eastern
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, from basically the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, has been using the phrase “no limit” to describe restraints on his institution’s lending capacity.
...