Why Does the Bitcoin Fork Make You Richer?
As a traditional investor I’m intrigued by what has happened with Bitcoin in recent days. Because the bitcoin community, developers, miners, exchanges, and so on, couldn’t agree on how to […]
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Bitcoin As An Asset Class – An Update
Bitcoin is making headlines every day. Investors are increasingly treating it as a new asset class, sometimes referring to it as gold 2.0. But how does bitcoin stack up as an asset class?
Bitcoin As An Asset Class – An Update
Bitcoin is making headlines every day. Investors are increasingly treating it as a new asset class, sometimes referring to it as gold 2.0. But how does bitcoin stack up as an asset class?
Bitcoin As An Asset Class
The price of bitcoin shot up again and that hasn’t gone unnoticed. Interestingly, the rise of the ‘crypto-currency’ is, at least partly, attributed, to recent developments in traditional financial markets. […]
Negative Yields – A Flight to Safes!
Here’s a quick blog devoted to everything that is going on in the bond markets right now. As you must have noticed, bond yields are collapsing around the globe. Again! […]
15 charts that defined 2015 in financial markets
Before you start, ‘yes’ there are probably more charts that define 2015 in financial markets. But, at least I tried! 1. Swiss Bond Madness ‘Swissification was born after an admirable, […]
Week End Blog – Commodity Blues hits Investor Sentiment
What started as a friendly week, turned out to be an ugly one, instead. Another leg down in commodity prices triggered investor pessimism, which was reflected in falling equity prices […]
Week End Blog – Zero is NOT the Lower Bound!
Zero is not the lower bound! The graph below shows this was already the case, but this week the ECB and Sweden’s Riksbank hinted at even lower rates going forward. […]
Week End Blog – A Swiss Earthquake!
This already wasn’t the smoothest of starts of the year, but the Swiss Central Bank decided to make things really interesting. In quite a surprise move (there were some rumors […]
Week End Blog – With Central Banks, (dis)inflation and QE
Another week in which central banks took center stage. Again, it became pretty clear that the performance of equity markets is still heavily impacted by the actions, speeches and ‘internal […]
