Your regular editor Boaz Shoshan remains on holiday. And Kit Winder is busy researching the stocks you’ll want to buy in coming months. So it falls to me, Nick Hubble, to carefully avoid talking about Brexit today. Was yesterday the…

Editor’s Note: The Bonner & Partners offices were closed last Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In lieu of our regularly scheduled Diary, we share the below guest essay from Bill’s righthand man, Dan Denning. As Bill reported previously, central…

Have you been investing in Iranian nuclear technology? If you have, I applaud your audacity. Fortune favours the bold, and investing moves don’t get much bolder than trying to profit from Iranian nukes. To be clear: I have not been…

BALTIMORE – Last week, we attended a conference in Miami. Several crypto enthusiasts were there… including Teeka Tiwari and our own “in-house” expert, one of our sons. The price of bitcoin has fallen from a high of around $20,000 to…

Blockchain is the technology that makes bitcoin function. But bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are only one application for blockchain technology. In fact, they might not be the most important one. Right now, the Australian Securities Exchange is preparing to convert…

Cryptocurrencies are marketed as an anti-government and anti-establishment alternative. But can they survive a government and establishment onslaught? Because they’re getting one. Facebook, Google and potentially Twitter will ban cryptocurrency advertising on their platforms. That includes advertising of related products….

Ever found yourself with a Scottish banknote south of the border? Or a Northern Irish one on the wrong side of the water? Britain still has ten note-issuing banks. These are banks who issue their own pound banknotes. They look…

The next financial crisis is coming. Never mind what it is though. You don’t really need to know. What you do need to know is that they happen with a certain regularity. And we’re well overdue. We don’t look at…

Bitcoin continues its bear market. Or is it a correction? The cryptocurrency has lost about 60% of its value from the highs. And it’s heading down in a steady trend of lower lows and lower highs. That’s a bear market,…

Charlie Morris of The Fleet Street Letter bought a glass of wine in Chamonix with bitcoin. It’s not a terribly remarkable event to you and me. But this one event might enlighten us about the future price performance of bitcoin…

Last night it hit me. With bitcoin well over the $12,000 mark thanks to his foreign policy, you have to wonder how much bitcoin President Donald Trump owns. There’s little question the awesome power of the US president includes the…

It took me a month to open a bank account in the UK thanks to terror-related financial regulation. In the end I opened a very basic account, got the branch to print the bank statement, walked out of the bank…

BALTIMORE – The big news last Friday was that the Dow hit a new record of over 25,000. We’ll get to that in a minute… we’re still looking over our shoulders at last year’s performance. Let’s see, the top-performing U.S….

half the fun of crypto is how incredibly autistic and irrational it is. I’ve only made a couple grand with an initial investment of a couple hundred bucks and I don’t even give a s*** about losing it because s***posting…

Cryptocurrencies continue to make their way into Wall Street. With futures up and running, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are next. And yet, there are signs that the best way to profit is a little more traditional. The American stockmarket regulator put…

RANCHO SANTANA, NICARAGUA – Yesterday, we wrote about business as usual. Despite the sound and fury of the last 12 months, nothing much has changed. Headed for Bankruptcy The U.S. is a little further advanced toward the final stages of becoming…

Well, that worked. But has it really? I’m not so sure. The mainstream financial world has elbowed in on the bitcoin bonanza. Cboe Global Markets launched bitcoin futures on Sunday. After two days of trading, it seems to be a…

“The mind shudders to contemplate the havoc of our time” – St Jerome What a ride. A little over a month ago, I read about a Dutch family selling their house and all of their possessions to buy bitcoin. What…