Year: 2017

World Out Of Whack
Chris MacIntosh

World Out Of Whack: South Africa To Crack Up?

Here’s brief look at secession movements currently underway globally, and we hear from one of our subscribers who puts forward a convincing thesis for secession for Western South Africa over the next 5-10 years. We also ask readers – what area or region has the highest possibility of secession today?

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Echoes Of The Dot-Com Bubble

The cryptocurrency market looks more and more like the mania before the burst of the dot-com bubble. But – as we conclude in this week’s Insider Weekly – it’s not all black and white. We also look at a couple of nascent bull markets that could reward us with asymmetric

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Banking
Chris MacIntosh

The Coming Financial Disruption

Get ready for an entirely new structure whereby every value component of a business is tied to an outcome via smart contracts, and, instead of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” as that lunatic Marx wanted, we will have “from each according to his contribution”

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Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Where To For Gold?

Regular readers know I’m a big fan of discrimination. As such, I choose my friends wisely. I chat regularly with a select group of friends and colleagues whose particular areas of expertise and intellect I value deeply. Sometimes we agree… and sometimes we don’t but always the thought process is extremely

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

The Virtues Of Discrimination

I deserve to be punished! Yesterday, I received some mail from subscribers in response to my article about the end of the empire: “More buggered than an alter boy at the Vatican”. This is a witch hunt against the clergy. Can’t you see that? You perpetuate the lies and I

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Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

How Will The Empire End?

It was back in the early 1800’s that the Brits left the sodden, miserable shores of their murky island, grabbed their trumpets, tucked their trousers into the socks, and began conquering the world with the cunning use of flags. Like all good conquerors, they had a backup plan in the event

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Insider
Chris MacIntosh

Insider Weekly: Are Emerging Markets Making A Quiet Comeback?

In this week’s Insider Weekly, we zero in on emerging markets, an investment theme that has been off most investors’ radars for a number of years… but is now quietly and quickly moving higher. Another week of news providing us with more data in the ever-moving puzzle that is our

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