Tuesday, December 26, 2017

26/12/17: U.S. Wars Budgets: More Lessons Never Learned

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An interesting report on the official accounts for war-related spending in the U.S. is available here:  http://www.ibtimes.com/political-c...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

23/12/17: Bloomberg View on Asymmetric Military Budgets: Russia v U.S.

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I have written before about asymmetric conflicts and power balances in the context, among other bilateral comparatives, the U.S.-Russia mi...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

21/12/17: Of Taxes and Whales: Bitcoin's New Headaches

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I have recently mused about the tax exposures implications of Bitcoin 'investments', and in particular, my suspicion that many tod...

21/12/17: Blockchain is Just Your Cup of Tea...

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Undoubtedly, undeniably, and absolutely consistent with the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, the Long Island Iced Tea rebranding as a Long Bl...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

20/12/17: My Forex Analytix Interview Link

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My today's interview with Forex Analytix  on Cryptocurrencies and Central Banks is now on youtube, here:  https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Monday, December 18, 2017

18/12/17: Of Winners and Whiners: Bitcoin's Path to Value

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One of the key Bitcoin issues is concentration of miners. Concentration in Bitcoin markets occurs primarily due to high cost of energy use...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

16/12/17: Remember the Russian Attack on the Internet?

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In 2016, a bot, named Mirai, wrecked havoc over the global internet with massive waves of DoS attacks on anything, from French telecoms, t...

16/12/17: Dancing towards the end of QE

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My article on the Super Thursday: monetary policy decisions by ECB, the Fed, PBOC, Norges Bank, SNB et al for Sunday Business Post : http...

16/12/17: Long-Term Stock Market Volatility and the Influence of Terrorist Attacks in Europe

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Our paper Corbet, Shaen and Gurdgiev, Constantin and Meegan, Andrew, Long-Term Stock Market Volatility and the Influence of Terrorist At...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

13/12/17: Why cryptos might not prevail? Because of their supporters...

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Why cryptos might not prevail? Because of this: Or, put differently, because the entire hype around cryptocurrencies, and increasing ...
Monday, December 11, 2017

10/12/17: Folks, there isn't a Russkie in the Alabama waste collection ditches

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No, it is not Russia Today, nor Sputnik, nor some other 'foreign agent' reporting this, but the U.S. own Newsweek . The mass media...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

10/12/17: Rationally-Irrational AI, yet?..

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In a recent post ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.com/2017/10/221017-robot-builders-future-its-all.html ) I mused about the deep-reaching i...