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Just Short The Robots

Just Short The Robots

Just two weeks ago, we detailed the launch of a new A.I.-driven equity ETF whose human 'manager' claimed:

"EquBot AI Technology with Watson has the ability to mimic an army of equity research analysts working around the clock, 365 days a year, while removing human error and bias from the process.”

According to Chida Khatua, CEO and co-founder of EquBot LLC:

Coinbase Adds A Record 100,000 Bitcoin Traders In One Day

Coinbase Adds A Record 100,000 Bitcoin Traders In One Day

Back in the summer of 2015, one tracked the euphoria of the Chinese stock market bubble by the number, usually in the hundreds of thousands, of new brokerage accounts that were opened on any one given day.

And while that bubble has long since burst, the tradition of measuring new account openings has remained, and nowhere more so than in the biggest momentum instruement of the day, bitcoin.

Can Gradual Interest-Rate Tightening Prevent A Bust?

Can Gradual Interest-Rate Tightening Prevent A Bust?

Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute,

Fed policy makers are of the view that if there is the need to tighten the interest rate stance the tightening should be gradual as to not destabilize the economy.

The gradual approach gives individuals plenty of time to adjust to the tighter monetary stance. This adjustment in turn will neutralize the possible harmful effect that such a tighter stance may have on the economy.

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