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The shifting tectonic plates that inspire earthquakes in the markets are interest rates. Bond yields are at all-time lows, a quarter what they were in the 1980s, and savings accounts offer comically low interest rates that begin with point oh and get worse from there. When you get...

The existing European chip ecosystem will become stronger with additional investments in research and design. The automotive and industrial sectors are the biggest end markets for semiconductors in Europe. There are no large fabs in Europe that produce leading-edge chips. Fo...

Should crypto markets continue their struggle in the coming months amid my bearish macro outlook, Ethereum could potentially go as low as $1,800. The deteriorating macro environment is taking its toll on crypto assets in a similar manner to traditional risk assets. Funding rates a...

We explore crypto lending and where yield comes from, as well as the impact of Bitcoin and crypto price volatility and the importance of traditional credit analysis. One of the more notable cryptocurrency developments in recent years is the ability to earn yield by lending digital ass...

Companies that can raise prices because they want to, and know the market will bear it, are in the ultimate power position. Companies seek efficiencies as inflation rises, which may include automating payroll and outsourcing human resources. Indispensable goods or services have en...

Money always has to be defined in a unit of account. The property that makes something a very good MOE is its short-term nominal stability because this gives its users short-term predictability. No financial instrument can be a perfect short-term MOE and also a perfect long-term S...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips No phrase seems more oxymoronic than “sustainable crypto.” Over the last year, investors, executives and activists have been in conflict over the impacts of crypto mining on the environment. It’s a...

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, discusses his thoughts on the top themes to watch going into 2022. The world economy came into 2021 like a car going 200 miles an hour, which fueled by the biggest stimulus we'd gotten since World War II. The Fed is sort of the cause of the uncertainty ...

We have seen crypto disruption expand across the financial system and expect this to continue. Inflation pressures may linger through 2022 and pose a risk of spiraling into a more persistent economic factor. Historically in these market environments, real assets—including n...

Total crypto market cap fell 14% in the last month as looming central bank rate hikes spooked market participants into selling high growth, high valuation assets such as unprofitable tech stocks and crypto. While liquid token prices may have struggled, the private fundraising market r...