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The Incredible Growth of Fintech Hat tip to Josh Wardini at Expedia for a terrific infographic of the investment dollars pouring into Meraglim’s Fintech & Artificial Intelligence sectors.

About 15 years ago, a Swiss banker loaded all of the confidential information on Americans with Swiss bank accounts that he could find onto a CD-ROM. He flew to the United States and handed the information over to the U.S. Treasury and the FBI. The banker was in trouble for helping Americans evade taxes and

It’s no secret that deficit spending is out of control and the U.S. national debt is heading for nosebleed levels. When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president in January 1981, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio was 32%. When Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January 2017, that ratio had grown to 105%, the

CFIUS (pronounced SIF-eus) is one of the more obscure corners of the U.S. national security apparatus. CFIUS stands for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Even most Washington insiders have never heard of it. When you say “CFIUS” in Washington most people ask you if there’s a cure. CFIUS is a Cabinet

Gold has entered the third bull market of my lifetime. The first bull market was 1971-1980 when gold gained 2,190%. The second bull market was 1999-2011 when gold gained 655%. The third bull market started in December 2015 and gold is up almost 30% already. The new bull market should have many years to run

Remember the days (about six months ago) when bitcoin was going to revolutionize banking and disintermediate the mean nasty “banksters?” Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the revolution. Bitcoin itself has hit an air pocket with a 50% price drop last week. Meanwhile the banks are taking over the blockchain as this article

The Bubble That Could Break the World

While all the media hype lately has been about bitcoin, a sleeping giant in the monetary space has awakened. The sleeping giant is gold. The dollar price of gold per ounce was up 8.6% in 2016, 13.1% in 2017 and 2.7% so far in 2018. Overall, gold has rallied 27.3% from its low of $1,051

Sometimes an article is so funny there’s not a lot to say about it; the headline speaks for itself. I’ve warned readers for over a year that the bitcoin craze is unsustainable for a number of technical reasons. The limit on total bitcoin issuance makes it unsuitable for money; a useful form of money needs

My views on bitcoin are fairly well-known by now. It’s a fraud because proponents misrepresent the benefits by blurring the difference between the coin itself and the technology on which a blockchain is based. It’s a Ponzi because at least some of the unregulated exchanges that transact in bitcoin are pocketing investor dollars and crediting