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Adam D. Koós, CFP, CMT discusses the stock market, bond market, gold, gold mining stocks, to bitcoin, seasonality, and expectations regarding the next month and beyond. Markets may be a little overbought in the near term, but there’s no reason to be worried or to figure ou...

Risk assets - A rising tide lifts all boats. Insatiable demand meets cheap money. The rise in NFT: Bubble or new asset class? For further details see: The 'Everything Rally': Insatiable Demand Meets Cheap Money

VanEck CEO Jan van Eck's latest investment outlook explores the recent bitcoin rally and the underlying trends supporting it. He discusses what economic growth looks like in 2021 after the worst year for the economy since World War II. He also discusses the impact of higher intere...

When the economy overheats, central banks try to calm it down; when it's depressed, they try to prop it up, as they are doing at the moment. We are experiencing the most aggressive intervention in the economy and financial markets by the Fed and the US Treasury, which is why stocks ar...

Bitcoin has rallied over 75% since early September and is up over 300% since bottoming in March. It also seems to have established a near-insurmountable lead over other cryptocurrencies, currently holding 66% of the total crypto market cap. Taking a look at some of the reasons why...

Investors whose sole focus is on returns fail because they don’t structure a portfolio that properly accounts for risk. Growth in America has been going down over time, due in part to both demographics and regulation; going forward, we’re unlikely to see GDP numbers abov...

What is Stock-to-Flow? When a bitcoin miner satisfies a proof of work requirement with computational power and electricity, he or she is rewarded with a newly created bitcoin. The number of coins rewarded for a miner meeting this requirement began with fifty. It is halved every 210,000 block...

By Jim Iuorio At A Glance Despite talk of bitcoin graduating to safe haven status, the cryptocurrency still has routine 10 percent intraday moves. Gold and U.S. bonds maintain the strongest inverse correlation to risk assets like stocks. In early July, I wrote an article discussi...

By Jim Iuorio At a Glance Bitcoin's move higher against easy money central bank policies showed its potential as a hedge against inflation. Recent volatility suggests bitcoin has not yet reached status as a currency proxy on par with gold. At its high, bitcoin had rallied close t...

Tatja Karkkainen, a scholar on financial technology who is pursuing a PhD at the University of Glasgow , has written an illuminating paper on price discovery in the bitcoin markets. She begins with the observation that CBOE and CME introduced bitcoin futures in December 2017 "as the first i...