financial

Ron Paul: Tax-Free Crypto Could Help Avoid a Fed-Induced Recession

21 Century Wire - 2018-11-01 - Original post - Cached copy

It didn’t take long for the US government to move in with aggressive tax procedures for policing earnings on crypto currency. As a result, a burgeoning industry has popped up in crypto-accounting and tax law, leaving crypto traders with volumes regulation piling up on tax requirements, liability, deductions and procedures. Clearly, this is an attempt by government to slow down the growth of crypto entrepreneurs until Wall Street moguls can corner the market and thus work in collusion with Big Government manipulate crypto as they have fiat money. 

Davos in Desert: Pakistan Takes Advantage of Spurned Saudi Summit, Scoops up $6 billion in Funding

21 Century Wire - 2018-10-24 - Original post - Cached copy

Despite gruesome reports of the death of Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi, the Kingdom’s Future Investment Initiative conference, dubbed, “Davos in the desert,” still drew many CEOs and investors.
Pakistani PM Imran Khan took advantage of the vacuum of support left in the international community and scooped up a lucrative finance deal for his country.

INTERVIEW: William Engdahl on Washington’s Financial Warfare Tactics

21 Century Wire - 2018-10-23 - Original post - Cached copy

There are emerging signs in the global financial system which combined with some disturbing political developments and the Neoconservative proclivities of the Trump Administration – may spell trouble for the global markets. Is financial warfare a sustainable tactic for Washington going forward? What are the risks of blowback? Tensions also mount in Western China’s Xinjiang Province and the ethnic Uyghur issue. How will this issue affect the Belt and Road Initiative?

Top 15 Richest People In History (Adjusted for Inflation)

21 Century Wire - 2018-10-13 - Original post - Cached copy

One running problem with contemporary punditry is an inability to put ‘rich’ into historical perspective. One of the reasons for this is the simple arithmetic hurdle of adjusting yesterday’s net worth to today’s monetary inflation. The following presentation does just that. 
Here are the top 15 richest people to ever live. These billionaires, and trillionaires, most of whom would put people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to shame. Watch:

US Sanctions on Iran Hurting Iraqis Too

21 Century Wire - 2018-08-16 - Original post - Cached copy

Here’s a concept the sanction-crazed bullies in Washington should take into consideration – their sanctions on Iran have consequences beyond the target state. The press corps should ask about this at the next US State Department briefing…
IMAGE: North Tehran by day. Many Iraqis have invested their life savings in Iran. (Photo: Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE)
Antiwar.com

Trump Ups Ante, Targets Federal Reserve as Media Defends Bankers

21 Century Wire - 2018-08-12 - Original post - Cached copy

By Mark Anderson
21st Century Wire
President Trump had already said and done enough to unnerve the powers-that-be on various fronts—from hedging on free-trade deals to making bold foreign-policy strides with North Korea and Russia—when he upped the ante even more July 19, speaking out against the Federal Reserve central bank that’s seen by worshipful monopoly capitalists and their media cohorts as being too kingly for presidential criticism.

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