The year of the 🐰
Today I’m thinking of China… I’ve got some #xag for solar power. Some #cwr because that’s where the progress will be (in my opinion – not financial advice) And some…
Good grief! They’re gonna start printing 💸 again aren’t they?
Not yet but the hint is in today’s article. Members of the Financial Policy Committee confirmed that the BoE will double the counter-cyclical capital buffer rate to 2% of risk…
Yen throwing some moves ..
This is just a quick chart relevant to my post on systemic risk – clearly you can see that the Japanese 10 year treasury bond has been under some pressure…
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Economic doom and gloom I’m afraid ⛈️
There is, as we're beginning to see with the rampant inflation that's taking off in much of the world, only so much that Quantitative Easing and helicopter money can achieve,…
Don’t try to catch a falling knife…
This morning I was reading about the demise of bitcoin and blockchain in general in an opinion piece in the Telegraph written by some bloke in "tHE cITY".
jeez ….. the press … a very quick one …
The FT report today ….. “Bitcoin tumbles back to $30,000 in volatile trading” From an all time high over the weekend of $35,000 … Is that bad news!? OR reason…
Money creation in the modern economy
Hi All OK – this is an old subject and one which was probably responsible for me starting blogging in the first place. But I think it’s probably more relevant…
New World Economics
I haven’t had a rant for a while about the parlous state of the world economy or central banking monetary policy and quantitative easing (“QE”) etc., etc., This is because…
Bitcoin has been “Wall Streeted”…
It’s been a crazy week for bitcoin and personally I’m waiting for a significant price correction as I believe it’s hugely overvalued. It’s also not serving the purposes it was…
Bitcoin transaction costs…
My twin brother is a banking analyst in the City working for a well known US asset management company. As you can imagine from the nature of this blog… we…
A third way?
Straight from www.dummies.com we have the following two excellent definitions of money: <quote>A fiat system is based on a government’s mandate that the paper currency it prints is legal tender…
Cryptocurrencies Don’t Belong in Central Banks
Cryptocurrencies Don’t Belong in Central Banks A great article from Bloomberg.