Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic. Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March — cutting them from…
The Pacific Ring of Fire has been extremely active this year, and that should deeply alarm all of us. Approximately 90 percent of all global earthquakes occur along the Pacific Ring of Fire, and we have just gotten another reminder that danger is potentially lurking every single moment of every single day. Those that were…
An idea reimagining marketplaces for equity and debt markets turned into a 16-year ongoing saga against the securities industry, government regulators, high-level infiltration, paid informants, and even the Canadian version of the CIA, Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Chris Horlacher is the CFO of The Dollar Vigilante & Anarchapulco. He is the co-founder of Equibit and…
There was a time when America’s industrial titans built railroads, steel mills, and oil companies. Today, influence is measured in data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, media, and information. Few families illustrate that transformation better than the Ellisons. Larry Ellison built Oracle from a small software company into one of the world’s largest technology firms. His…
The airline first teased Bitcoin payments back in 2022. People can now pay with Bitcoin to buy flights from Dubai-based airline Emirates. Working with Crypto.com, Emirates said Tuesday the customers now have the option to book flights using the crypto exchange’s payment feature. Crypto.com and Emirates last year announced they would work together. Emirates’ Deputy President and Chief Commercial…
It’s not just all the war, injustice, ecocide and dystopia that hurts. It’s knowing it didn’t have to be this way. It’s knowing what could have been. Reading by Tim Foley: It’s funny the things that get to you when you’ve been at this for a while. Today the thing that smacked me upside the…
Everybody who preps spends their first dollars in the wrong place. Water filters, food buckets, a generator, maybe a gun and a few boxes of ammo. All good. All necessary. But almost nobody preps for the thing that’s actually going to try to hurt them, and it isn’t the hurricane, the blackout, the earthquake, or…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS In this edition of Foreign Policy with Robert Inlakesh, definitive evidence emerges demonstrating that the US government is covering up and lying about soldier casualties in the Iran war. Yet the reason they are lying about this is an even bigger story in and of itself. Bitcoin Donations Are Appreciated:www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/bitcoin-donation(3FSozj9gQ1UniHvEiRmkPnXzHSVMc68U9f)…
Binance co-founder CZ backed crypto license passporting across ASEAN to simplify approvals, reduce compliance costs and encourage competition. Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao backed crypto license passporting across ASEAN, arguing that firms regulated in one market should be able to enter others through a simplified approval process rather than applying from scratch. Speaking Tuesday during…
Wall Street is again using insurance guarantees to turn difficult-to-rate credit exposure into highly rated securities. Assholes who wear Vineyard Vines all summer on Wall Street have once again put those Wharton PhD’s to good use by again “discovering” that assets so toxic and illiquid they make drinking cement taste like Fiji water apparently become…
