Free Markets - Money Morning Australia

14/07/2020

The Coinbase IPO and ‘Digital Gold’ — Your Best Chance at ‘FU’ Money

Coinbase wants to list on the stock market by the end of the year. In my opinion, this could be the most important IPO of the decade. What makes Coinbase very interesting is, it’s a tech company that trades in ‘digital gold’...

Ryan Clarkson-Ledward

10/07/2020

Watch Out: Weaponised Currencies Are Coming — Currency Wars

Money has become important not only as a tool for transactions, but as a means to exert influence and control. Make no mistake about it: money is a weapon. The US knows it, China knows it — and you need to know it too...

Ryan Clarkson-Ledward

07/07/2020

China on Track to Repeat Its 2015 Blunder

See, driving this incredible one-day result was a flood of retail investment. Everyday people in China are rushing to get into stocks. Following the guidance of their beloved leaders. According to early reports, a front-page editorial in the China Securities Journal is the culprit.

Lachlann Tierney

04/07/2020

The Trust Quotient: Gold and Bitcoin versus the Fed

Trust is an ethereal term, but one thing you can be sure of is that endless rate tinkering and debt-funded growth leads to the decay of it. And I think there is another asset which thrives in a low-trust environment. This is cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin...

Ryan Dinse

22/06/2020

Embedded Banking: Can Aussie Banks Survive the Financial Shift?

Even if you’re not the kind of person who is interested in investing in speculative fintech companies, you should be interested in knowing if your bank can survive in a new financial landscape. I don’t think it can...

Ryan Clarkson-Ledward

23/05/2020

Target’s Collapse Reinforces Retail Shift — The Decline of Retail

Target, an iconic department store brand, is on its last legs. Controlling entity Wesfarmers confirmed that 167 Target stores will be no more. With 92 set to become refurbished Kmarts and 75 set to close for good. The bigger question though, is whether it is indicative of a broader retail decline...

Carl Wittkopp

21/05/2020

Afterpay Share Price Hits All-Time High (ASX:APT)

Australia’s largest buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd [ASX:APT] hit an all-time high this week. At the time of writing, the APT share price moved up to $44.75

Sam Volkering

21/05/2020

The Key to Beating a Stock Market Bust: Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is power, And the right knowledge applied at the right time — coming from the right sources — gives you every fighting chance to beat the market in booms, busts, and everything in between...

Sam Volkering

14/05/2020

Bitcoin Revolution: Who’s the Next Billionaire to Roll Over?

This is the start of the crypto revolution that will last generations (and beyond) taking hold and eclipsing the legacy systems and networks we rely on today. When you see JPMorgan taking on the likes of Coinbase and Gemini as clients, that’s further validation of the potential of crypto...

Ryan Dinse

11/05/2020

The US Dollar Money System in Meltdown, What Comes Next? — Bitcoin

I explain why the US dollar’s days are numbered. The Fed is putting out fires for now, hoping that the money system can resolve itself before it collapses. This leaves space for a new reserve asset. My money is on a cryptocurrency like bitcoin...