We’ve been warning about an oncoming financial crisis for a while now. The fact that a financial crisis would occur was all but inevitable, given the massive bubble blown by the Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily loose monetary policy over the last 12 years. But despite the numerous warning signs that markets were flashing, many investors just […]
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Looking at news from Europe, it seems incredible how draconian their governments are at combating the coronavirus. France, Italy, and Spain in particular have banned their citizens from leaving their homes, except for a handful of exceptions, such as getting food, medical care, etc. And those people who do leave their homes are expected to […]
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In recent weeks markets around the world have been going nuts. Stocks have plummeted, safe havens like gold and silver have also dropped, oil continues to sink, and cryptocurrencies are joining them. It seems like investors and savers around the world are eschewing any sort of investment or hard asset and fleeing for the safety […]
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It seems that every day brings more and more knee-jerk panics from government at all levels throughout the country. Our entire way of life is being upended as we’re asked to trust people whose only qualifications are that they were elected to office by a small percentage of the population. Even the so-called medical “experts” […]
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You’ve probably heard it said that you can’t time markets. There’s definitely a lot of truth to that. Try to time when to get in and out of markets and you can second guess yourself into losing thousands of dollars. In many respects, trying to time markets is just gambling, not investing. But that’s not […]
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The raft of Federal Reserve actions to bail out Wall Street had many people thinking that we’re going back to the days of 2008, when big banks got bailed out while the little people were forced to suffer. Major banks received trillions of dollars worth of federal assistance to stay afloat, then turned around and […]
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Those who want to invest in cryptocurrencies often may not know how to go about doing so. There are undoubtedly many cryptocurrency investors who hit it big in the early days of cryptocurrencies just trading on standard exchanges such as Mt. Gox, keeping their assets in online wallets or stored at exchanges. In the early […]
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The early 20th century saw a number of small-caliber pistol cartridges developed, in an attempt to get better performance than the large, slow revolver and pistol cartridges that remained popular with many military and civilian shooters. While .30-caliber cartridges such as the 7.62x25mm Tokarev became popular in some areas, 9mm cartridges quickly became the most […]
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Back when it looked like Mike Bloomberg’s Presidential campaign was going to start gaining some traction due to his free-spending ways, Democrats (and Republicans) were doing their best to tear him down. Thankfully, there was no better way to do that than by quoting Bloomberg himself. The man has an ego larger than just about […]
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Social media giants have established new rules to flag what they consider to be “manipulated media” – deceptively edited pictures or videos. And guess who was the target of one of the first flagged pieces of manipulated media? That’s right, President Trump. While most people would think of photoshopped images or deep fake videos as […]
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