Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock Walmart will require lettuce and spinach suppliers to contribute to a blockchain database to pinpoint contamination. The New York Times reports Walmart’s Veggie-Tracking B.L.T.: Blockchain Lettuce Technology. Some think this is a publicity stunt… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff FS Staff – Gina Martin Adams of Bloomberg Intelligence spoke with us about the current nine-year bull market, and in this exclusive excerpt from her interview with Cris Sheridan, she says we may only be half way through… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights – Despite the excitement around all things crypto, the proliferation of cryptocurrency ventures is generating new cybersecurity risks. How governments and industry manage those risks may determine… …read more

By Patrick O’Hare – The spread between the 10-yr Treasury note and the 2-yr Treasury note dropped below 50 basis points on April 9 and it has remained below 50 basis points since then. It is currently at 49 basis points, up from… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Daniel Amerman CFA By Dan Amerman – Could a committee of unelected officials increase your household’s share of the national debt by $60,000 in a single meeting? In normal times – they could not. However, these are not normal times and any… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights As China transitions from prioritizing economic growth to maintaining economic stability, the government has begun levying steep penalties on high-debt private companies for “economic crimes.” Kiana Mendoza looks at… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Stratfor By Stratfor – China Remains in the US Crosshairs. The United States will impose tariffs, sanctions and blocks on investment and research in a bid to frustrate China’s development of strategic technologies. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Michael Shedlock By Michael Shedlock – The BIS blasts cryptos over scaling issues, energy, and trust. The BIS is correct. Cryptos are fatally flawed as money. A Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report examines cryptocurrencies in depth. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Oil prices are poised to head higher and are likely to spike in the years ahead, Robert Rapier, a chemical engineer and director of alternative-fuels technology for Advanced Green Innovations LLC, recently explained on Financial Sense Newhour… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Independent Institute By Independent Institute – The people who run Facebook have some very strange ideas about the speech rights of the company’s customers, which they’ve encoded into computer algorithms that act to censor voices to which… …read more From:: Financial Sense