By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 29, 202001:42 PM Eastern
Last week’s sideways price action for crypto assets hid the fact that select mid-caps and small-caps continue to make interesting moves.
Indeed, some moves in the “Decentralized Finance” (DeFi)...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 24, 202001:59 PM Eastern
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell recently said he intends to hold U.S. interest rates near zero at least until 2023. The hell with that!
Here's how to take advantage of Nexo, a crypto lending platform...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 22, 202003:57 PM Eastern
On Friday, we highlighted the fact that during major market crises, the prices of all assets move together.
That’s because, when things get really, really bad, you sell what you can. We saw it...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 17, 202011:34 AM Eastern
Why pay attention to what hedge funds, university endowments, pension funds and other big-foot institutional investors are doing?
Because that’s where the big money is. And Bitcoin is one of the...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 10, 202002:47 PM Eastern
The vast majority of the 2,647 cryptocurrencies listed by CoinMarketCap.com trade on nothing more than hopes and dreams. Only a few have real world use cases.
And of those, almost none are as...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
June 3, 202002:29 PM Eastern
Remember back in 2017, when the Fed announced “Quantitative Tightening?”
That meant selling some of the approximately $4.5 trillion of assets it accumulated on its balance sheet in after the...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
May 27, 202003:16 PM Eastern
The main way most investors buy and sell crypto is via a crypto-currency exchange (like Coinbase, Binance or Kraken).
Recently, however, payment-service companies have been adding "buying and...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
May 20, 202002:03 PM Eastern
Figure 1. 3-month Treasury yields.
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
For most of this year and last, you’d have been lucky to earn a stingy 1.5% interest yield on the average...
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
May 13, 202001:53 PM Eastern
Fascination and enthusiasm for Bitcoin is running red-hot. And it's not hard to see why.
On the pretext of pandemic panic, the U.S. Federal Reserve is printing and spending $41 billion a day....
By
Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
May 6, 202003:10 PM Eastern
As pandemic panic crushes the life out of the global economy, central banks are pouring trillions of dollars into the global money supply.
And America's Federal Reserve is leading the way.
...