TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Saudi Arabia has viewed the recent protests in Iran as no less than a geopolitical opportunity as the Kingdom is currently locked in a regional power struggle against the Islamic Republic. Saudi commentators have publicly lambasted Iran, calling the protests a “fierce blow to the heart of Khomeinism” and stating that the protests had “made Iran Read More…
Today we saw a major drop in the cryptocurrency market, and simply by looking at the coordinated timing of the different government statements and releases, it becomes clear that this was a concerted effort to bring down the market. Now whether that was to be able to slide in and scoop up all the currency Read More…
If officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are bothered by allegations of incompetence and capture by Wall Street’s bankers, it is hard to tell. The Commission recently hired Brett Redfearn to serve as Director of the Division of Trading and Markets. Redfearn left a 13-year stint at JP Morgan to assume a key Read More…
Ongoing bilateral talks between North and South Korea have focused heavily on reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, but across the Pacific in Vancouver, 20 nations met at a US-led discussion on North Korea, and the message was clear, pretend the talks aren’t happening. US officials warned the world not to “be fooled” by the talks Read More…
Amazon’s fifth transparency report has revealed that the company provided more customer data to U.S. law enforcement in the first half of last year than in its history with a shocking 1,936 different requests between January and June 2017, ZDNet reported. Of those 1,936 requests, Amazon complied and replied to 1,200 subpoena requests, 189 search Read More…
In its latest reminder that China is a (for now) happy holder of some $1.2 trillion in US Treasuries, Chinese credit rating agency Dagong downgraded US sovereign ratings from A- to BBB+ overnight, citing “deficiencies in US political ecology” and tax cuts that “directly reduce the federal government’s sources of debt repayment” weakening the base Read More…