The Greater Depression – Part 1
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, There are several movies I will watch every time they are aired on one of my generally useless 600 cable channels. They all have the same thing in...
View ArticleHFT Legend Exits The Business: “It’s Harder To Make Money”
To those who have followed the rise and fall of the HFT industry, and certainly the far more dramatic rise and fall of one former Goldman trader and programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, the names Misha...
View ArticleSomething Wicked This Way Comes
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, I stopped trying to predict markets back in 2008 when the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Wall Street bankers, and their propaganda peddling...
View ArticleA Biased 2017 Forecast, Part 2
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In Part One of this article I discussed the failure of our brains to think rationally due to our biases and the relentless propaganda flogged by...
View ArticleThe A.I. Economy: “Why The Market Never Crashes”
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, How are they keep this dying patient, the economy, together? Perhaps we are long past the point of an organic, “real” economy. Instead, autotrading and...
View ArticleA “Mysterious Antenna” Emerges In An Empty Chicago Field; Billions Depend On It
Readers are familiar with the various microwave and laser arrays located at the real New York Stock Exchange in Mahwah, New Jersey, both of which we have written about in the past. Microwave tower...
View ArticleOur Brave New ‘Markets’– How HFT Algos Risk A Sudden Massive Sell-Off
Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, One thing is clear: These aren’t your daddy’s markets anymore. Why? Because about 10 years ago the Rise of the Machines (aka high frequency trading...
View ArticleAustralia Cracks Down On Bitcoin Exchanges; Shrugs Off Banks’“Systemic”...
Australian Government Is Cracking Down On The Nonexistent Bitcoin Money-Laundering Epidemic Australia’s largest banks can’t seem to go six months without a new scandal. In April, regulators accused...
View ArticleThe Crash Of ’87 Remembered: “It Was Clear The Acapulco Cliff-Dive Was On For...
“The markets in a panic are like a country during a coup, and seen in retrospect that is how they were that day,” wrote a young Salomon bond salesmena named Michael Lewis, of the chaos he witnessed....
View ArticleUK Trader Fined 60,000 Pounds For Outsmarting Algos
Yet another UK trader is being punished by overzealous regulators for an accomplishment that should instead have earned him accolades: Outsmarting the machines. In a case that echoes some of the...
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