A decision by a new Greek government to leave the eurozone would set off devastating turmoil in financial markets even worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, a leading international economist warned Saturday...
Singapore is going to be in news for the country is going to organize the first major cryptocurrency event. Nonetheless, continuing the largest Bitcoin event worldwide, Inside Bitcoin is headed to Singapore on January 29-30, 2015...
She Short Sells Shoes On A Shopping Site (Medium) China is Planning to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace With Homegrown Suppliers (Bloomberg) Market Fundamentalism & the Power of Bad Ideas (Boston Review) see also Slavery and Capitalism (Chronicle of Higher Education) The Army Is Building...
The start of 2015 looks very familiar to the end of 2014 for many markets around the world as the USD continues to dominate the spectrum and commodity prices fall even further. Or as my colleague Matt Weller so poetically stated already this morning, “New Year, Same Result...
VILNIUS, Lithuania — If anyone still has good reasons for joining the euro, it is the people bundled against the cold of this snow-dusted capital. The plunge of the ruble and economic sanctions have all but destroyed Russia as a market for Lithuanian dairy products and other goods...
2014: The year that nothing worked (Fortune) How to Spot a Bad Forecaster (A Wealth of Common Sense) Ten Economic Questions for 2015 (Calculated Risk) Swedroe: How To Think About Bear Markets (ETF.com) US, Europe and EM: 2015 in Bullets (Mark Dow...
EUR starts the last week of the year with hopes for some recovery to the upside. H1, H4 and Daily indicators show a process of weak recovery has started with first target between 1.2250-1.2300. Any H4 drop below 1.2185 will restore the downside move...
The globally renowned investor, Warren Buffet who is also called ‘Oracle of Omaha’ for right predictions regarding investment opportunities, has suggested the investors to stay away from Bitcoin in the year 2015. He says, “Stay away from it. It’s a mirage, basically...
Japan Approves $29 billion as stimulus package Tokyo- Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe approved $29 billion as a stimulus package on saturday to boost regional economic activity and consumer spending, right now Japan government seeking to relieve its economy from recession...
According to Wikipedia.org, New Zealand has a 2008 estimated population of around 4.2 million people, which is the first important fact for us to understand for two reasons...
Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world, and while its economic policies and practices largely conform with EU standards, the country's population rejected accession negotiations with the EU in March of 2001...
When Professor Kevin Dowd, a professor of Economics and Finance at Durham University, wrote a piece titled “Bitcoin is bust: Why investors should abandon the doomed cryptocurrency,” a lot of debate took place whether this libertarian and fierce advocate of private money over government-issued and...
Online payments expert Stripe added Bitcoin payment support to its API, following which users will able to accept payments in digital currency alongside credit cards. The new-feature is scheduled to come out of beta testing in January 2015 and will charge a fee of 0.5% per transaction...
Bloomberg recently voted Bitcoin as the 2014’s worst investment, thus beating Russian Ruble and Ukrainian Hryvnia in terms of maximum drop...
Located inside Mission Market Express in the station’s Grand Foyer, ZenBox gives the station’s 10,000-plus daily commuters a familiar way to acquire digital currency...
Charlie Shrem Found Guilty of Abetting Illicit Transactions Charlie Shrem (founder of BitInstant and former board member of the Bitcoin Foundation) was found guilty of abetting illicit transactions to online drug bazaar Silk Road...
Russia has been in trouble since plunge in oil price and western sanctions from US and Europe and it was facing economic difficulties in declining ruble value as well. Russia the biggest energy exporter, saw its currency tumble as much as 59% this year...
On Tuesday the greenback was soaring near nine-year highs versus the other major currencies, ahead of highly anticipated U.S. third quarter growth data and as expectations for a U.S. rate hike by next year continued to lend broad support to the dollar. The U.S...
The scheduled Bitcoin Expo 2015 is expected to become a huge success for the digital currency in London: according to the organizers of the event, “The year of 2015 will begin in a grand style in London...
