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Bitcoin futures are here...

Small Caps and Trannies were today's biggest losers as Nasdaq led...

The S&P 500 has not been this overbought since 1995...

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,

And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept!

Is there one in ten thousand of the millions of people who sit at desks all day long from sea to shining sea who have a clue how this works? Or what its relationship is to the real world?

Authored by Jerry Brito via CoinCenter.org,

Bipartisan bill will make it much easier to use Bitcoin to pay for every day goods and services.

In April, Coin Center explained how the tax laws affecting digital currency transactions create serious friction for consumers and merchants and discourages the use of Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) as an everyday payment method.

Something just snapped in the cryptosphere...

First, we noted that the spread between Bitcoin spot and futures was tumbling...

Something we would expect to close:

“Arbitrage will close that gap, but it will be days and weeks,” Cboe Chief Executive Officer Ed Tilly said on Bloomberg Television Monday, less than a day after launching the product.

 

With Donald Trump's historic tax reform on the verge of passage, and with the Fed continuing its rate hiking cycle so far undeterred, and according to the Fed's own dot plot still having another 7-8 rate hikes to go, China is getting nervous because, as the WSJ reports, it fears "a double whammy sapping money out of China by making the U.S. a more attractive place to invest." In other words, those capital outflows which China was confident it had finally bottled up, are about to return. And that's even as the U.S.