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Monetary Metals CEO Keith Weiner defends the future of gold against bitcoin podcaster Pierre Rochard. https://reason.com/video/2022/08/08/gold-vs-bitcoin-a-soho-forum-debate/?post_type=video ------------------ Will gold remain an important form of money, or are cryptocurrencies like bitcoin set to overtake it?  That was the subject of a Soho Forum debate held on July 26 at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, as part of Mises University, an annual instructional program in the...

Overview: The dog days of August for the Northern Hemisphere are here and the capital markets are relatively subdued. Equities are firmer. The notable exceptions in Asia was China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has advanced for the last three weeks. Europe’s Stoxx 600 slipped almost 0.6% last week and has recouped most of it today. US futures are steady to firmer. The US 10-year yield is struggling to stay above 2.8%, while European benchmarks...

CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced it plans to further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offering with the introduction of Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures on August 29, pending regulatory review. Designed to match their U.S. dollar-denominated counterparts, Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures contracts will be sized at five bitcoin and 50 ether per contract. These new contracts will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF...

CME Group, the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, announced it plans to further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offering with the introduction of Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures on August 29, pending regulatory review. Designed to match their U.S. dollar-denominated counterparts, Bitcoin Euro and Ether Euro futures contracts will be sized at five bitcoin and 50 ether per contract. These new contracts will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF...

Starting this week on Instagram, Meta is testing digital collectibles with select US creators and collectors to share NFTs that they have created or bought. Meta/Instagram started with the international expansion to 100 countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas. Additionally, they now support wallet connections with the Coinbase Wallet and Dapper, as well as the ability to post digital collectibles minted on the Flow blockchain. In order...

How To Build Wealth During The Next Cycle As Desperate Governments Have Only 1 Choice Left! 🔥 JOIN ME LIVE Special Presentation with Q&A. https://go.1markmoss.com/central-bankers 🔥 The Federal Reserve Has No Control over the Markets! I know that's a big statement as we all are waiting on every word from the Federal Reserve itself. Are they going to lower rates or raise rates and by how much? Will they stimulate the markets? Or will they continue to hike and cause the markets to...

The Payroll Report (Establishment Survey) is not wrong but it is inappropriate. Heavy statistical dampening prevents the payroll report from showing economic inflections. Meanwhile, the Household Survey - note statistically constrained - is emitting recession warnings. ****EP. 271 REFERENCES**** Same Labor, Different Worlds: http://www.marketsinsiderpro.com/ RealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7 Epoch Times Columns: https://bit.ly/39ESkRf ****THE EPISODES**** YouTube:...

Joseph Sobran discovered these Garet Garrett essays “one night, long ago, at the office of National Review, where I then worked.” As the flagship of modern conservatism, National Review supported the Cold War and the hot war then raging in Vietnam. “Two questions occurred to me,” Sobran writes. “One: ‘Why haven’t I heard of this man before?’ Two: ‘If he’s right, what am I doing here?” I discovered these essays at 16 in a Seattle bookstore that specialized in...

(Traveling and unable to provide a technical overview this week.) Rising price pressures, stronger and more persistent than generally expected, has been the main challenge for consumers, businesses, and policymakers. It will stay top of mind in the week ahead as both the world's two largest economies, the US and China, report July consumer and producer prices.  During the Great Depression, the central governments discovered their balance sheets, and budget deficits...

Die Entkopplung des Cryptomarktes vom traditionellen Aktienmarkt hat noch nicht stattgefunden. Stattdessen sieht man weiterhin eine enge Bindung zwischen den großen Indizes, wie dem S&P 500 oder dem NASDAQ, und Bitcoin. Bitcoin News: Bitcoin und Aktienmarkt immer noch eng verbundenWeiterhin verhalten sich Cryptocoins natürlich volatiler als die Indizes – so verlor der BTC bisher im Jahr 2022 51%, der S&P 14% und der NASDAQ 22%. Doch die Kursbewegung dieser...