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Homes Wrongly Overvalued (Appraisal Fraud)

Have home appraisers illegally overvalued properties to raise property tax income for local municipalities? Mitch Vexler of Mockingbird Properties say yes!

Sep 14, 2024 by Sachs Realty
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The Case Against Bitcoin: Once a Radical Internet Currency, Now Just Collateral for Banks and a Useless Veblen Good Finance Blogs · May 30, 2024 by Tom Rodgers Substack

Built by heretics, hermits, dreamers and rebels -- but still "rat poison squared"?


Hindenburg Research blasts Carl Icahn's hedge fund as 'Ponzi-like' in latest short-seller campaign Finance News · Apr 02, 2023 by New York Post

Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn's conglomerate is allegedly bilking investors with a "Ponzi-like economic structure," according to bombshell allegations from prominent short-seller Hindenburg Research on Monday.


How a Chinese American Gangster Transformed Money Laundering for Drug Cartels Finance Blogs · Dec 28, 2022 by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg - Propublica

In 2017, Drug Enforcement Administration agents following the money from cocaine deals in Memphis, Tennessee, identified a mysterious figure in Mexico entrusted by drug lords with their millions: a Chinese American gangster named Xizhi Li. As the agents tracked Li's activity across the Americas and Asia, they realized he wasn't just another money launderer.


Has GLD been failing to disclose gold held at the Bank of England during 2022? Finance News · Dec 28, 2022 by Ronan Manly - BullionStar Singapore

Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.


Record number of UK mortgage deals pulled in one day as market mayhem takes hold

Hundreds of mortgage deal offers in the U.K. have been pulled after market chaos sparked concerns about interest rates rising as high as 6% for 2023.

Oct 15, 2022 by Sophie Kiderlin - CNBC
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Louisiana Divesting $794 Million from BlackRock to "Protect" Funds from ESG Investing - ESG Today Finance News · Oct 15, 2022 by Mark Segal - ESG Today

Louisiana will liquidate its investments with BlackRock, totaling $794 million, in order to "protect" the state's Treasury funds "from ESG," according to a letter to the investment manager released by State Treasurer John Schroder. According to a statement from the Treasury, the divestment comes in response to reports that "BlackRock has urged companies to embrace...


The Fed Fears Something Worse Than Bear Market Finance News · Oct 15, 2022 by Jeffrey A. Tucker - The Epoch Times

Commentary The strategy of "buying the dip" went on for months, with unrelenting hope that this was all surely temporary. The economy was opening; Congress was spending. The Federal Reserve surely wouldn't crash the markets before the November election. All will be well. No reason to panic.


Novel Lawsuit Brought Against IRS Concerning Tax Implications of Staking Finance News · Oct 15, 2022 by David Zaslowsky - - Blockchain.com

According to the Coinbase website, "staking" is "the process of actively participating in transaction validation (similar to mining) on a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. On these blockchains, anyone with a minimum-required balance of a specific cryptocurrency can validate transactions and earn Staking rewards."


Microloans Don't Solve Poverty Finance Blogs · Aug 12, 2022 by Ben Casselman - Five Thirty Eight

When Benita Chikaluma's husband died in 1994, her family could easily have fallen into desperate poverty. Chikaluma lives in Malawi, a poor country in southern Africa where women often have little control over their finances.




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The Politically Correct but False Economics Finance Articles · May 09, 2019 by Tectract

Gordon Gekko: Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Scams and rackets, hoaxes and frauds ... are as old as humanity itself. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans lose in excess of $2.5 billion to fraud each year.



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Russia's Link of the Ruble to Gold Is a Practical Admission of What Money Is

On March 23 rd it was announced that buyers from "unfriendly countries" would provide rubles in return for Russian gas, instead of the traditional U.S. dollar. Eventually the announcement was extended to oil and other commodities. Will the stringency of such a decree hold? The bet here is that it won't.

Aug 11, 2022 by John Tamny
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Despite Manipulating Precious Metals Prices, JPMorgan Is Still At The Heart Of The LBMA, SBMA, & COMEX Finance News · Aug 11, 2022 by ZeroHedge

With a group of former JP Morgan precious metals traders currently on criminal trial in front of a federal jury in Chicago, accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy involving precious metals price manipulation, commodities fraud and trade spoofing, while another group of their colleagues have already pleaded guilty, now


The Federal Reserve Keeps Buying Mortgages Finance News · Jan 09, 2022 by Alex J. Pollock - Mises.org

Runaway house price inflation continues to characterize the U.S. market. House prices across the country rose 15.8% on average in October 2021 from the year before. U.S. house prices are far over their 2006 Bubble peak, and remain over the Bubble peak even after adjustment for consumer price inflation.


How the Kazakh elite put its wealth into UK property Finance News · Jan 08, 2022 by Jon Ungoed-Thomas - The Guardian

Ministers face claims they have allowed the ruling elite of Kazakhstan to secretly invest vast chunks of the country's wealth in the London property market after failing to introduce promised new transparency laws. Former prime minister David Cameron pledged at an anti-corruption summit in London in 2016 that the UK would end the secret offshore ownership of property.


Electric vehicle stocks tumble after Manchin rejects Biden's climate and social plan Finance News · Dec 22, 2021 by Michael Wayland - CNBC

Shares of electric vehicle companies tumbled Monday following the apparent failure of President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" plan that includes significant incentives for the growing sector. The stocks of EV start-ups such as Lordstown Motors, Faraday Future and Nikola all shed more than 7% Monday.


Axie Infinity Finds Ready Players in Hyperinflation-Racked Venezuela

That also explains why Axie, a metaverse "play-to-earn," animated-pet-training video game inspired by Pokemon but fueled by cryptocurrency rewards, has surged in popularity over the past year in the South American country.

Nov 23, 2021 by Coindesk
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Fold partners with Niantic to create AR-based Bitcoin rewards app Crypto News · Nov 23, 2021 by Dean Takahashi - GamesBeat

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. Fold is launching an augmented reality experience where players can earn Bitcoin in a kind of augmented reality environment.


Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook's Walled Garden Crypto News · Nov 18, 2021 by Michael del Castillo

After seven years of funding their Gemini cryptocurrency empire out of pocket, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are in the process of signing the last documents on their first round of capital, a $400 million investment that values the New York parent company, Gemini Space Station, LLC, at $7.1 billion.


This Telltale Stock Market Measure Warns A 20% Crash Is Near Finance News · Nov 17, 2021 by Matt Kranz - Investor's Business Daily

A much-watched stock market indicator that called the 2000 crash is signaling expectations are running too hot - setting up investors in many S&P 500 sectors for big disappointment, says a just-released report from Bank of America. Fifteen of the 20 stock metrics BofA monitors signal the S&P 500 is already "statistically expensive."


Crypto Addresses Holding NFTs Worth $532k are Among the Latest Sanctioned by OFAC Crypto News · Nov 09, 2021 by Elliptic Intel

A digital ape, a domain address and virtual land parcels are among the $342.5 million held in cryptoasset wallets subject to new OFAC sanctions - marking the first time that NFTs have been associated with OFAC-sanctioned entities.



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Coding the Fractal Adaptive Volatility Bands

The great Bollinger Bands are one of the first things we must learn when analyzing time series. This is because of their sound statistical reasoning, their wide adoption across market participants, and their success when deployed in trading strategies. We can also see other variations that resemble the...

Nov 05, 2021 by Sofien Kaabar
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The Sad End Of Jack Ma Inc. Finance Blogs · Jun 11, 2021 by George Calhoun - Forbes

The Chinese government is now doling out some of the best pieces of Ma's business to new "partners" of its choosing, including one of the most corrupt and financially shaky companies in all of China - the notorious and scandal-ridden Huarong Asset Management Co.... It seems like a dark joke.


The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes Crypto Blogs · Feb 06, 2021 by Adam Ciralsky - Vanity Fair

The BitMEX cofounder created a cryptocurrency exchange that has traded trillions. Now he's wanted by U.S. authorities, and insiders wonder whether he and his partners are villains-or victims of a two-tiered justice system that favors big banks over brash outsiders.


Mystery of $2bn of loans backed by fake gold in China Finance Blogs · Dec 14, 2020 by Nikkei Asia

More than a dozen Chinese financial institutions, mainly trust companies, loaned 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) over the past five years to Wuhan Kingold Jewelry Inc. with pure gold as collateral and insurance policies to cover any losses. Kingold is the largest privately owned gold processor in central China's Hubei province.


Shut Down the International Monetary Fund Finance Blogs · Jun 06, 2020 by Dan Mitchell

Do you want to understand the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) pernicious role in the global economy? Here's a simple analogy that will tell you everything you need to know. Let's say you have two friends. Friend A, who continuously gets in financial trouble because of compulsive gambling and alcoholism.


The whole banking system is a scam

www.ukipmeps.org | Join UKIP: ukip.datawareonline.co.uk/JoinOnline.aspx?type=1 * European Parliament, Strasbourg, 21 May 2013 * Speaker: Godfrey Bloom MEP, UKIP (Yorkshire & Lincolnshire), Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group - www.godfreybloommep.co.uk * Joint Debate: Banking union - single supervisory mechanism 1.

Jan 20, 2020 by Godfrey Bloom - UKIP MEPs
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The Truth About Inflation & Why You're Falling Behind Politics Blogs · Nov 29, 2019 by Nugget's News

The Truth About Inflation & Why You're Falling Behind Has the cost of living gone up? Why does it feel like everything is getting more expensive? Today we look at the way inflation is calculated with the consumer price index. There has also been several changes to the way it's calculated over the years which are very misleading.


Paul Krugman: Always Wrong, Never in Doubt Finance Blogs · Nov 19, 2019 by David Harsanyi via National Review

He's a stopped clock who has yet to be right about Trump. This Thursday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told the House Budget Committee that there was "no reason to think, that I can see, that the probability of a downturn is at all elevated."


How to Invest in Water Commodities in 2019 Finance Blogs · Jun 29, 2019 by Brian O'Connell via The Street

Yes, you can invest in water, and there are real-life examples of successful investors who have done so. Take Dr. Michael Burry, played rather eccentrically by the actor Christian Bale in the 2016 film, " The Big Short." In real life, Burry invests in water and the evidence shows that he and other aqua investors are onto something.


Anthony J James on LinkedIn: "Interesting to see the changes over time...notice how many times Bill Gates moves from 1st" Finance Blogs · Jun 02, 2019 by Anthony J James (via LinkedIn)

June 2, 2019: Chart of the World's Richest People Over Time



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The Politically Correct but False Economics

Gordon Gekko: Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) Scams and rackets, hoaxes and frauds ... are as old as humanity itself. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that over 25 million Americans lose in excess of $2.5 billion to fraud each year.
May 09, 2019 by Tectract
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