Currencies and Gold

Forbes: Weakening Dollar Trend Isn’t Good

“Everyone understands the basic need for fixed weights and measures in daily life: the amount of liquid in a gallon, the number of ounces...

Paul Singer Epically Savages Bitcoin

You can count hedge fund manager Paul Singer as among the bitcoin skeptics. He recently savaged bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a form of investment...

CNBC Blows the Whistle on Blockchain Abuse

When Bioptix Inc. changed its name to Riot Blockchain Inc., investors flooded in to the company they thought was working on blockchain technologies. CNBC...

Bitcoin: Bubble, Ponzi Scheme, and Environmental Disaster

Bitcoin is a “combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme and an environmental disaster,” a top central-banking official recently cautioned, referring to the large...

Bitcoin is Interesting, But It’s Not the Next Gold

Last year the word bitcoin became part of the everyday lexicon in America, and many parts of the world. The phenomenon "investment," was being...

Bitcoin Down 70% from High

A central bank official quoted by the Wall Street Journal's Steven Russolillo and Andrew Jeong referred to bitcoin as the combination of a bubble,...

Bitcoin Plunge

The price of bitcoin is plunging as regulators begin to recognize the real threat alternative currencies pose to their fiat currencies and begin to...

Gold Strong on Dollar Fears

With dollar weakness spurred on by comments from Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at the World Economic Forum in Davos that suggested the Trump administration...

How Much Bitcoin Has Been Stolen?

Apparently hacking crypto currencies is a $200 million annual revenue industry. That's according to Lex Sokolin, who was asked by Bloomberg's Olga Kharif. Kharif...

How Will Americans Pay Tax on Their Crypto-Currencies?

As I explain in my four part series on bitcoin (read parts one, two, three, and four), I'm a skeptic of crypto-currency trading and I don't own any...