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‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Dumps All Stocks but One After Predicting Market Crash
17.8.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management dumped all but one of its stock holdings in the second quarter, according to the firm’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has predicted...
Peter Schiff Warns US Faces a ‘Massive Financial Crisis,’ Economist Expects Much Larger Problems Than 2008 ‘When the Defaults Start’
15.8.2022
The economist and gold bug Peter Schiff usually has a lot to say, and this past week Schiff explained during an interview that he believes the U.S. will face a financial crisis worse than 2008’s ‘Great Recession.’ Schiff explains that the U.S. has a lot more debt than it...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Doubts SEC Has Resources or IQ to Investigate Crypto Listings on Coinbase Correctly
28.7.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, believes that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) neither has the resources nor the IQ points needed to correctly investigate crypto listings on Coinbase. Michael Burry on SEC Investigating Crypto...
Satoshi Wept: How Crypto Replayed the 2008 Financial Crisis
12.7.2022
It only took 13 years for crypto to recreate the same kind of financial crisis it was designed to prevent. Here’s how it (almost) all went down
First Mover Americas: It’s Ugly in Crypto With $200M of Margin Calls, Founders Selling Homes and Comparisons to 2008
1.7.2022
The latest price moves in bitcoin ($BTC) and crypto markets in context, for July 1, 2022
BoE's Cunliffe Cautions Against 2008 Repeat With FTX's Derivatives Rule Change Proposal
22.6.2022
The Bank of England official is skeptical whether decentralised finance (DeFi) will ever be a thing
Governor of Bank of Spain: Crypto Markets Are ‘Bigger Than Subprime Mortgages Before the Financial Market Crisis’
4.6.2022
Pablo Hernandez de Cos, governor of the Bank of Spain, has again warned about cryptocurrencies and the growth that the crypto market is experiencing. Hernandes de Cos stated that, while the market is still relatively small at a worldwide level, the cryptocurrency market is now bigger than subprime...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Warns of Looming Consumer Recession, More Earnings Trouble
30.5.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has warned of a looming consumer recession and more earnings trouble. He cited falling U.S. personal savings and record-setting revolving credit card debt despite trillions of dollars in stimulus money. Michael...
Credibility Concerns — Gallop Poll Shows Fed Chair’s Confidence Ratings Slid by Double Digits
9.5.2022
According to a Gallop poll published on May 2, the public’s confidence in America’s current economic leaders has been deteriorating. Confidence in U.S. president Joe Biden managing the U.S. economy has dropped from 57% to 40%, and faith in Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell...
Peter Schiff Warns Economic Downturn in the US ‘Will Be Much Worse Than the Great Recession’
6.5.2022
Following the Federal Reserve’s rate hike on Wednesday, economist Peter Schiff has had a lot to say since the U.S. central bank raised the benchmark rate by half a percentage point. Schiff further believes we are in a recession and says “it will be much worse than the Great Recession...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Says ‘the Fed Has No Intention of Fighting Inflation’
15.4.2022
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, says that the Federal Reserve “has no intention of fighting inflation.” He added that the Fed’s “Serial half-point hikes are for getting elevation before stocks and the consumer...
Report: Fed’s Secret Repo Loans to Megabanks in 2020 Eclipsed 2008 Bailouts, Data Dump Shows $48 Trillion in Stealth Funding
13.4.2022
Following the controversial bank bailouts and Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in 2008, reports show in late 2019 and 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve participated in providing trillions of dollars in secret repo loans to megabanks. At the end of March, investigative journalists, Pam and Russ...
No, DeFi Is Not a Repeat of the 2008 Crisis
8.4.2022
Decentralized finance does not equal shadow banking and Too Big To Fail, says CoinDesk's chief content officer
Ukraine War’s Surprising Links to the 2008 Financial Crisis – and the Parallels With 1939
27.3.2022
Ronen Palan, Professor of International Politics, City, University of London.___
The historical parallels are uncanny. A decade or so after the two most devastating financial crises in modern capitalism, in 1929 and in 2008, a terrible conflict begins in Europe that threatens to draw in...
Bitcoin Analysts Ponder Impact as Oil at Highest Price Since 2008
3.3.2022
Here's what the latest surge in energy prices might mean for the bitcoin market, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict sends crude oil over $115 a barrel
Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
10.2.2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting the days.
See, there was a little smattering of internet drama …
Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022 originally...
Global Central Bank Gold Holdings Rose to 36,000 Tons in 2021, Increase Attributed to Dollar’s Decline
5.1.2022
The total quantity of gold held in reserves by central banks topped 36,000 tons for the first time since 1990, data from World Gold Council has shown. This increase follows growth in the banks’ reported holdings of the asset by 4,500 tons over the past decade. Dollar’s Decline a Boon...
Spain Reduces ATM Numbers to 2002 Levels as Country Moves to Digital Payments
4.1.2022
The number of ATMs in Spain has been progressively shrinking to levels the country saw in the year 2002. Reports from local media suggest these actions have been taken to reduce costs and to push payment and operation digitalization in the sector. The highest number of ATMs was registered in 2008...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Says ‘I’ve Never Shorted Any Cryptocurrency’ — Warns of the Biggest Bubble
16.11.2021
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, says that he has never shorted any cryptocurrency. He further warned that the current bubble is the biggest one. Michael Burry on Bubbles and Shorting Cryptocurrencies Famous investor and founder of private...
Celebrating the Seminal Bitcoin White Paper Satoshi Nakamoto Published 13 Years Ago Today
31.10.2021
All around the world cryptocurrency supporters and proponents of blockchain technology are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper. The summary of the inventor’s creation was published on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing List on Halloween 2008, as it gave birth...