Will the Novel Coronavirus Force President Trump to Resign?

As the novel coronavirus situation continues to escalate, global repercussions are becoming apparent. In the US, some people even claim how President Trump should resign before he makes things even worse.  Dealing with the novel coronavirus is no easy feat by any means.  President Trump and the Novel Coronavirus For governments, it poses many issues … Read more

Gold and Bitcoin Markets Tested, While Central Banks Try to Quell Stock Market Rout

Central banks worldwide have been bracing for the worst, as the global economy has shuddered over the last seven days. On March 11, the Bank of England slashed rates by 50 bps bringing the base rate down to 0.25%. Meanwhile, Wall Street bankers and U.S. President Donald Trump want the Federal Reserve to slash rates … Read more

Trump Pressures Fed for More Rate Cuts as Mega Banks Drain the Balance Sheet

U.S. President Donald Trump is pressuring the central bank to cut interest rates even further as a spike in oil prices has offset the Federal Reserve’s ‘normalization’ tactics like rate-cutting and overnight repos. Additionally, the mega bank JP Morgan Chase (JPM) is being blamed for the lack of liquidity in the repo market’s cash reserves, … Read more

Currency War Erupts as US and China Bring Out the Big Guns

What started out as a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies is now a full-blown currency war as the U.S. and China bring their big guns to the battlefield. The impact on the global financial markets was immediate and severe, driving up safe-haven assets as ordinary people fear losing the value of their … Read more

Ross Ulbricht Letter Questions the Wisdom of Imprisoning Non-Violent Offenders

Forced to spend the rest of his days in a cage, Ross Ulbricht has recounted his situation in a letter, which explains how he’s spent more than 2,096 days in a U.S. federal penitentiary for running a website. Also Read: Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access Coins in Court Testimony Ross Ulbricht Reflects … Read more

President Trump Mulls a National Emergency Declaration to Fund his Wall

The current financial situation in the United States continues to frown many eyebrows. President Trump has issued another plan to effectively build his wall on the border between the US and Mexico. After not receiving the necessary funding to do so, he now plans a “national emergency” to move this process along. A Bold Plan … Read more

A Heartbroken Mother Hopes President Trump Will Exonerate Ross Ulbricht

Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of convicted Silk Road administrator Ross Ulbricht, has expressed hope that U.S. president Donald Trump will pardon her son. Ulbricht’s family believes that Ross didn’t receive a fair trial and his sentencing was extremely harsh for a crime that didn’t involve violence. The interview with Lyn Ulbricht follows the recent 111,588 … Read more

Bitcoin Price Watch: Is Recovery Really Happening?

Bitcoin has jumped another $300. Following yesterday’s slight drop to $8,000 from $8,100, the currency has incurred another impressive hike and now sits within the $8,300 range. Thus far, everything analysts have predicted regarding bitcoin’s behavior in the 2018 second quarter is coming true. The coin saw a massive price jump of roughly $1,200 between … Read more

Ex-Trump Chief Strategist Bannon: Cryptocurrencies Make Central Banks Redundant

Bitcoin has always been considered by its staunch supporters a tool to bring about personal financial freedom from government control and censorship as well as taxation via inflation. As such, most political players shun the cryptocurrency when they are in power as it threatens their position. Once out of power they are freer to appreciate … Read more

Senate Releases Testimonies Ahead of Crypto Hearing

A day before a landmark hearing, a day with screaming headlines about the US stock market’s historic dump, not to mention bitcoin’s 65 percent fire sale, the United States Senate released formal testimony of Chairs from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Heads of both entities will testify Tuesday … Read more