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By David Dittman On February 23, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Focus for many mainstream market participants and observers early this week is on inflation.
The U.S. dollar is softening, yields on U.S. Treasuries are rising and commodity prices are surging....
By Tony Sagami On January 29, 202108:00 AM Eastern
“Are you serious?!” I howled at my son.
It was about three years ago. He’d just told me he’d invested half of his college fund into cryptocurrencies.
That money was for tuition. It was not for...
By David Dittman On January 26, 202104:15 PM Eastern
Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates. On Sunday, Dalio said, “I believe we are on the brink of a terrible civil...
Decades of near-zero interest rates have left millions of investors frustrated as hell at no longer being able to earn a decent return on their savings.
But crypto’s Decentralized Finance (DeFi)...
By David Dittman On October 6, 202004:04 PM Eastern
Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu boiled down Monday’s action shortly after noon.
“It’s ‘risk on’ across the board, and it all boils down to ‘stimulus,’” said the financial network’s markets reporter. “And...
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...
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 Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On September 21, 202009:56 AM Eastern
In the last big cycle, investors could have made 2,300% gains in a global asset that almost always surges in this kind of environment.
But in this cycle, the environment is far more favorable...
By Sean Brodrick On September 15, 202006:00 AM Eastern
Why are the markets running around like actors in a “B”-rated horror flick?
Because investors know something is lurking out there.
Growing.
Spreading.
This thing is like The Blob … all...
By David Dittman On August 4, 202004:49 PM Eastern
Of course, it’s never just one thing.
But when the President of the United States, in the midst of a pandemic that continues to ravage the economy and challenge his leadership, suggests the...