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Stop Treating Bitcoin Like A Stock

By silveristhenew | Published December 16, 2017

Authored by Jordan Stephens via Hackernoon.com, It’s not. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never felt so compelled to drink in my life than the past week watching Bitcoin. It’s like watching a paper airplane bounce in the wind that could either nosedive any moment or catch another swift gust upward. I get it. […]

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Paul Craig Roberts To The American Left: R.I.P.

By silveristhenew | Published October 24, 2017

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Once upon a time the leftwing of the political spectrum was committed to the advancement of the working class and its protection from political and economic abuse by the owners of the means of production. Consequently, the leftwing was politically potent and reached a pinnacle of power when Henry Wallace […]

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Government By Goldman

By silveristhenew | Published September 19, 2017

Authored by Gary Rivlin and Michael Hudson via The Intercept, in partnership with The Investigative Fund, Steve Bannon was in the room the day Donald Trump first fell for Gary Cohn. So were Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s pick for secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin. It was the end of November, three weeks after Trump’s […]

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Big Bank Bosses Are Dumping Their Stocks As “Credit Risk Ricochets Back”

By silveristhenew | Published August 30, 2017

"Credit risk is ricocheting back as a legitimate concern after years of hibernation…" warns David Hendler, founder and principal at Viola Risk Advisors, who considers recent share sales by executives at the big retail banks, in particular, to be smart, as consumer portfolios are showing signs of strain. Wall Street analysts have been urging investors […]

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Better A Year Early Than A Day Too Late

By silveristhenew | Published August 22, 2017

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, He who hesitates is lost. ~proverb Change, especially a collapse scenario, often happens quite fast. So fast that there's little to no time to react in the short frenzy between "before" and "after". This is true throughout nature. Glaciers that took millennia to form calve off into the sea […]

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The Secret History Of The Banking Crisis

By silveristhenew | Published August 9, 2017

Authored by Adam Tooze via ProspectMagazine.co.uk, Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the story of the secretive deals between banks that kept the show on the road. How long can the system be propped up for? It is a decade since the first tremors of what would become the Great Financial Crisis began to […]

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An Open Letter To The Fed’s William Dudley

By silveristhenew | Published June 24, 2017

Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, Dear Mr. Dudley, Your recent remarks in the wake of last week’s FOMC statement were notably unhelpful. In particular, your excuses for further rate hikes to prevent crashing unemployment and rising inflation stunk of rotten eggs. Crashing Unemployment Quite frankly, crashing unemployment is a construct that’s new to popular […]

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“Someone’s Going To Jail” Gingrich Warns Mueller’s Russia ‘Witch Hunt’ Too Big To Fail Now

By silveristhenew | Published June 17, 2017

After the Washington Post-New York Times-CNN axis got the public worked into a lather by effectively trying President Donald Trump and his administration in the court of public opinion, Americans are desperate to see somebody held accountable for…wait…what is it again? Collusion? Obstruction? The narrative changes so quickly, it's difficult keeping track. Enter Former Speaker Newt […]

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Paul Craig Roberts Warns “Without Glass-Steagall, America Will Fail”

By silveristhenew | Published June 13, 2017

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, For 66 years the Glass-Steagall act reduced the risks in the banking system. Eight years after the act was repealed, the banking system blew up threatening the international economy. US taxpayers were forced to come up with $750 billion dollars, a sum much larger than the Pentagon’s budget, in order […]

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Spanish Banking Crisis Spreads As Banco Popular Credit Curve Inverts

By silveristhenew | Published June 5, 2017

Having told its employees "don't panic" over the weekend (at the crashing stock and bond prices of Spain's 6th largest bank), it appears investors are ignoring that message as Banco Popular's credit curve has inverted for the first time since 2012 in the biggest red flag yet that Spain's banking crisis is systemic and about […]

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