Authored by Mark Jeftovic via Medium.com, “[Bitcoin] won’t end well, it’s a fraud…worse than tulip bulbs…[but] if you were a drug dealer, a murderer, stuff like that, you are better off doing it in bitcoin than U.S. dollars,” — Jamie Dimon: CEO, JP Morgan   Headline: JPMorgan Guilty of Money

Authored by The Saker, Today, with the kind permission of Phil Butler, I am posting the full text of my contribution to his book “Putin’s Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls“.  There are a couple of reasons for that.  The main one is that I strongly believe that this book

Authored by Antonius Aquinas via Acting-Man.com, Expensive Politics Instead of a demonstration of its overwhelming military might intended to intimidate tiny North Korea and pressure China to lean on its defiant communist neighbor, President Trump and the West should try to learn a few things from

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr, A key barometer of worldwide developed markets is bumping up against 9-year highs. While the U.S. stock rally is getting a lot of (deserved) attention here in the States, a perhaps underrated theme of 2017 has been the impressive improvement on the part of international

Amid confusion over whether the massive Saudi Aramco IPO is on hold until 2019, or permanently shelved in favor of a private placement, Reuters suggests the latter is now more likely as 'sources familiar with the matter' say China is offering to buy up to 5 percent of Aramco directly (offering the