They are in worse shape than the 2008/9 crash. Cracks beginning to show? I do believe they are doing almost all they can to prop this all up as 2002 approaches and 2024 shortly thereafter, as it seems like the …
The Russian Ruble is down another 23% today and has now lost 83% of its value against the US Dollar since its peak in 2008. $RUBUSD pic.twitter.com/YFMv2LsmlI — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) March 7, 2022
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-bans-cash-exports-russia-exceeding-10000-value-kremlin-2022-03-01/ MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree banning cash exports of foreign currency from Russia exceeding $10,000 in value with effect from March 2, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Via Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Investors may have been underpricing gold’s investment value for decades; rates and inflation are working in …
by laflammaster This data is one week delayed.
While most people bust their butts for a tiny salary raise – other people are stealing the most money without adding any real value to society, the biggest crime is that all government entities and tax-payer funded institutions that were …
#recession … #Fed Pushing on a String edition https://t.co/7VF5XXIZCK pic.twitter.com/Pe0Nsvjjx1 — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) January 24, 2022 To wit, the Nasdaq 100 just did something it hasn’t done since the aftermath of the internet bubble: fall more than 1% in …
by confoundedinterest17 For Bitcoin, there’s only been one constant recently: decline after decline after decline. And the superlatives have piled up really quickly. With the Federal Reserve intending to withdraw stimulus from the market, riskier assets the world over have suffered. …
Rise in global yields has pulled value of negative-yielding debt below $10 trillion for first time since summer 2020 pic.twitter.com/xUjSgvF5nd — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) January 11, 2022 U.S. 2y Treasury yield continues to rise relative to fed funds rate …
by Chris Black This is getting comical; you can’t make this stuff up: ‘define race as “a political and social construct, not a physiological one”’. NEW: The Biden administration will offer bonuses to doctors who "create and implement an anti-racism …
ISTANBUL — Lines outside bread stores and gas stations; farmers defaulting on loans; impromptu street demonstrations. The signs of economic distress in Turkey are all too clear as the lira continues a dizzying slide. Sporadic protests have broken out around …
by laflammaster Caption: Derivative Contracts by Products https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 1: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 3: DISTRIBUTION OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 4: CREDIT EQUIVALENT EXPOSURES https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-… Caption: Table 10: NOTIONAL AMOUNTS OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS BY …
by laflammaster Here’s the sauce: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/rrp_counterparties The function of the RRP is to remove the liquidity from the market, to prop up the USD.
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: The value behind money, why gold’s price has grudgingly responded to recent market turmoil and what higher …
The US economy is almost fully reopened at this point. However, several big retailers and shopping malls are either still struggling or shuttering stores and locations at alarming rates. Consumers are just now realizing how ravaging was the carnage. Over …
JOANNE JACOBS: When a D becomes a ‘pass.’ Teachers see grades as a mark of achievement, writes Darren Miller, a high school math teacher, on Right on the Left Coast. Grades aren’t supposed to be “candy.” In response to the inequities …
by confoundedinterest17 Ever since the US Dollar went off the gold standard, it is only the good faith and credit of the Federal government with its taxing authority that stands behind it. Ethereum and Bitcoin and also Fiat currencies with …
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/didi-slumps-china-regulators-order-082519039.html (Bloomberg) — Didi Global Inc. plunged Tuesday morning after regulators in China ordered the removal of the company’s platform from app stores, days after it raised $4.4 billion in the second-largest U.S. initial public offering for a Chinese firm. …
Statues are going down and statues are coming up. The latest one to come down: Teddy Roosevelt. The latest one to go up: George Floyd. What does this say about our culture?
China’s renewed crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry has wiped off around $400 billion in value off of the total digital currency market since Friday. Bitcoin, ether, XRP and other digital coins fell sharply. On Friday, authorities in China’s Sichuan province, …
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/ The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 127.1 points in May 2021, 5.8 points (4.8 percent) higher than in April and as much as 36.1 points (39.7 percent) above the same period last year. The May increase represented the …
Anonymous is still a thing??? This should be interesting… After all, were living in Interesting times… https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/06/06/did-anonymous-really-just-threaten-elon-musk-over-viral-bitcoin-tweets/?sh=6ce16c1a3279 https://www.joe.co.uk/news/anonymous-threatens-to-target-elon-musk-275396 International hacking collective Anonymous say they plan to target Elon Musk for sending the price of cryptocurrencies plunging with his tweets. In …
Bitcoin nosedived another 13% on Sunday, dropping to around $31,227. The latest selloff left the world’s top cryptocurrency down over 50% from its mid-April peak. Bitcoin recovered to $36,554 per token on Monday. It hit a high for the year …
Value of Indianapolis home doubles to $259,000 after black owner asks WHITE friend to stand in for her for appraisal visit! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article…aisal.html A black homeowner in Indianapolis has filed a complaint after her home value more than doubled after she …
An A-level student has revealed how she earns a staggering £10,000 a day from TikTok. Alicia Breuer, 17, has gone viral after videos of her miming Katy Perry have gone down a treat on social media. She has over 740,000 …
