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3 May 2024 12 minute read 3 comments Heath Muchena
Market Manipulation: The Hidden Forces Behind Economic Crises In the vast theatre of global finance, the curtains rarely pull back far enough to reveal the true machinations behind economic instability. Yet, a closer examination of financial history...
10 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
The Federal reserve has decided to hold interest rates to start the year off. S&P 500, Nasdaq,Dow, and Crypto markets alike all hitting a downward trend to start the new year off. This is leaving retail investors like ourselves wondering what does 2...
9 Jan 2024 2 minute read 2 comments fmiren
The first part can be found : https://www.publish0x.com/bringing-us-treasurys-onto-the-chain/the-mystery-of-capital-xvzzjxk Dead capital Contrary to what you might think, the poor of the Third World save. A lot actually. Per de Soto’s and his resear...
8 Jan 2024 3 minute read 3 comments fmiren
Introduction “The Mystery of Capital” by Hernando de Soto is an amazing book. It seeks to answer the question, “Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else”, which is also its subtitle. The question, as you can imagine, is too compl...
4 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren
Decades of low-interest rate policy by central banks distorted economy. 2007-2008 financial crisis happened due to artificially low interest rates and cheap money. Failures of several banks recently were also due to that irresponsible policy. Henry H...
29 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
“If I was the government, I’d close it down” – Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase CEO on Bitcoin/Crypto. It’s been about a year since Elizabeth Warren and other Senators introduced the “Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act”. It outlines regulations on...
4 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
“HODL” It’s been a bumpy ride. Market contractions and expansions are a part of life. With the upward trends over the past few months in digital assets, the question always remains: did you Hodl? I sure hope so. It seems like these gains are overdue...
2 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” -Sun Tzu In the midst of this chaotic and ever evolving economy, it’s easy to focus on the negative. We can look at the overwhelming inflation and rising prices everywhere we look, or the innovativ...
2 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
Bitcoin, or Crypto as a market, is up. Consumer credit card debt is at an All time high. Mortgage rates are the highest they have been since the early 2000s, off the all time lows of 2020. Life in the United States is more expensive than it ever has...
1 Dec 2023 4 minute read 1 comment OfTheFreeMarket
“About 80% of central banks in a recent survey were looking at implementing CBDCs, and more than half have already started running experimental pilots.” –Roger Huang, Contributor to Forbes, Central Bank Digital Currencies Are Not Cryptocurrencies, Oc...
