One of the world's leading experts in economic cycles and international captial flows, Martin Armstrong has been talking about high-end real estate around the world starting to decline, setting the stage

I would have expected we'd have a working memristor by now, considering they have been decades in the making. There has been progress but I'm still waiting for this technology to be ready for mass production.

Intel recently announced a neuromorphic chip codenamed “Loihi” that is designed for deep learning workloads and mimics how the brain functions. Neuromorphic computing is going to bring self-learning and

I have a confession to make. I'm a Banana Republic aficionado. To continue reading this story click here.

Updates have been scarce here recently. The reason for this is simple. As an anarcho-capitalist I have been a very early adopter of Bitcoin (2010). Here is a picture of my first 4 GPU mining rigs running

Quantum is a very promising blockchain project based in Singapore backed by a lot of talent from big Chinese tech companies. CryptoBud has a really good summary: We are just a few weeks away from the launch

While certainly no bastion of individual freedom Rwanda has been one of Africa's fastest growing economies for a long time. Paul Kagame has secured a change to the constitution that is going to allow him

While I have not yet visited North Korea personally, Jayant Bhandari has done so and shares his insider account of the situation he encountered. I have always wondered why there are no assassination attempts

This is an interesting 9 minute video clip about Mexico City's history and infrastructure challenges. It reminds me a lot of Lima (Peru) which is also a Megacity with similar water problems where water

Elon Musk's Space X will dominate the global space launch market next year with almost two thirds of the entire market: The reusable first stage of it's Falcon rocket is really a game changer. Space X

Whenever I hear Americans stupidly tell a soldier or veteran "Thank you for your service." I feel like vomiting. Thank you for what exactly?? For being a pawn in a game you are too stupid to

Yesterday the Euro went above 1.15 to the Dollar and broke out of a mid-term trading range. I recommend going long EUR/USD. This counter trend rally has some room to run. 1.2886 is most likely the maximum

Hello fellow Steemian! I recently joined Steemit and became and active member of this great community. The Graphene blockchain technology is simply awesome. Steemit has a very bright future ahead and will

Slovenia based SunContract is currently looking for suckers to send Ether to their smart contract and "Join multi trillion energy market potential" [sic] Don't be one of them! What is SunContract?

You cannot read about cryptocurrencies without coming across the term HODL seemingly every other sentence. What a ridiculous term. Way too many so called cryptocurrency "investors" are absorbed

Incrementum AG has this great chart showing the ratio between GSCI/S&P500 and commodities going back almost 50 years: You couldn't ask for a better entry point to go long commodities. I think within

This is a follow up on my earlier post on The Future Of Transportation. There has been an explosion of so called Gigafactories that produce lithium-ion batteries around the world. While Tesla is getting

I am very bullish on precious metals over the medium and long term. However the time to go long hasn't come quite yet. In fact, gold just broke the intermediate uptrend line: Chart by Gary Savage So watch

This short 3 min. video gives an overview of one of the major trends in Africa, namely urbanization and how the process differs from urbanization in the developed world. Check out chidofauxreal for more.

As speculators we need to understand technological disruptions that are going to happen on a massive scale in order to be able to position our portfolios accordingly and profit from those paradigm shifts.