Plus, Restaurants Are Trying to Increase Your Bills…Without You Noticing Welcome to your Sunday digest…my breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First up this week…NFTs. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are those one-off, one-of-a-kind cryptos that first emerged as a way to own digital art, but which [Read More] …
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Why Are So Many Countries Loading Up on Gold?
The Answer Should Concern You… In today’s performance of The Ant and The Grasshopper, the role of the Ant will be played by the Czech National Bank. Just recently, I saw a news item here in Prague that the incoming governor of the Czech National Bank, a guy named Aleš Michl, has announced a plan [Read More] …
Video: Have Central Banks Been Lying to Us All Along?
Last year, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and pretty much every other major central bank was insisting that inflation wasn’t a big problem and that they wouldn’t have to raise interest rates. And now all of them have reversed course… The ECB had been one of the last holdouts, until it finally admitted [Read More] …
How Do You Get $1,462.50 Without Doing Anything? You Invest in NFTs
Airdrops: The Amazing, Hidden Benefit of Trading Non-Fungible Tokens I wonder if Dire Straits was just being prescient when, back in 1985, the British band sang Money for Nothing? I mean, you really can apply that idea to this often-bonkers world of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. This crazy space with crypto tokens that represent digital [Read More] …
Anyone Can Make Money Trading NFTs… Just Ask My Wife
You Don’t Need Technical Know-How to Profit From NFTs I have created a mini-me. A Junior Jeff. A petite, brunette, Russian-Ukrainian girl with a burgeoning addiction to NFTs. She is my wife, Yulia. And I found her the other day, curled up on the couch, laptop on her lap, scrolling a website where NFTs trade [Read More] …