Category Archives: fiction
The 10 “Grey Swans” Events For 2018
One of the traditional push backs against attempts to predict “black swan” events is that they are by default unpredictable, rendering the entire exercise moot. However, for the second year in a row, Nomura’s Bilal Hafeez has found a loophole, or rather loop-animal: the grey swan. As Hafeez writes, while he would like to be […]
Stunning Visualization Of The Explosion Of ICO Activity In The Last Four Years
Via Elementus.io, This graphic shows every token sale that successfully raised at least $100k, from the beginning of 2014 through the end of last month, November 2017. The bar chart at the bottom displays the total dollar amount raised in each month (details below). How big is the ICO (aka token sale) market really? It […]
One Of Bank of America’s “Guaranteed Bear Market” Indicators Was Just Triggered
It is undisputed that the last 2 quarters have demonstrated an impressive jump in corporate earnings growth, if mostly due to a beneficial base effect from plunging 2016 earnings which pushed them below levels reached in 2014. And naturally, this rebound has been more than priced into a market which has seen substantial multiple expansion […]
Stock Market 2018: The Tao Vs. Central Banks
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The central banks claim omnipotent financial powers, but their comeuppance is overdue. I will be the first to admit that invoking the woo-woo of the Tao as the reason to expect a reversal of the stock market in 2018 smacks of Bearish desperation. With everything coming up […]
Meet Laikago: China’s $25,000 Robo-Labrador
The Japanese have their non-nagging synthetic wives, the Saudis have their Shariah-compliant humanoid citizens, Americans are content with a backflipping supra-human, and now the Chinese get their very own 50lb, poop-less, robo-dog… Meet Laikago – named after Laika, a Soviet dog who was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. The Chinese-made robot dog […]
Abu Dhabi Businessman Pays $2.9 Million For 19-Year-Old Model’s Virginity
Another young millennial has reportedly sold her virginity for millions on the famed site Cinderella Escorts. Back in April, a Hong Kong businessman paid $2.5 million for an 18-year-old Romanian model’s virginity. Just yesterday, we outlined that millions of millennials in the United States could be trading sex for their next debt servicing payment on […]
World Largest Reseller Of Virtual ‘Skins’ Raises $40M With An ICO
ICO Investors are about to experience something that’s almost never happened in the brief history of the $3 billion market: An offering by a company with an actual product. Bloomberg Businessweek has managed to find the one ICO being launched to solve the rare problem that could actually benefit from decentralized, monetized tokens. The company […]
“Bitcoin Jesus” Is Trying To Create A Sovereign “Libertarian Utopia”
Roger Ver – a.k.a bitcoin Jesus – and Olivier Janssens are trying to transform a long-sought after libertarian ideal into a reality. As CoinTelegraph reports, the pair has announced that they’re in the process of creating the first independent state governed by libertarian values – and they’ve invited any like-minded individuals to join them. The […]