One of the traditional push backs against attempts to predict "black swan" events is that they are by default unpredictable, rendering the entire exercise moot. However, for the second year in a row, Nomura's Bilal Hafeez has found a loophole, or rather loop-animal: the grey swan.
Authored by Paul Tustain via BullionVault.com,
Governments have abused and distorted our money. How about a 'Bitcoin standard'...?
THIS is a subsection of a book that's coming later.
It seemed worth publishing now, writes Paul Tustain, founder and chairman of BullionVault and co-founder of WhiskyInvestDirect.
What is money?
Bankers were thrilled last year when Wall Street bonuses climbed for the first time in years after falling more than 15% in 2015. But unfortunately, even with equity markets around the world at record highs in 2017, volatility across asset class plunged this year - with the Dow seeing its least volatile year on record by some measures - has plunged, decimating bonus pools across asset classes, Bloomberg said.
Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog,
Investors were finally treated yesterday to some of the most important compromise provisions to come out of the House-Senate conference on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Among them were:
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
On Friday, Kevin Brady of the House Ways and Means Committee was on my radio program discussing the “Tax Cuts & Jobs Act” bill which was released later in the day.
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Here are the details of the release he referenced in the interview.
Of course, the real question is how are you going to “pay for it?”