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Where Are The Major Crypto Exchanges Located?

The cryptocurrency community would not exist if it weren’t for cryptocurrency exchanges.  Without them, it would be hard (if not impossible) to trade one cryptocurrency for another. Since exchanges are digital and virtual entities, their locations are not necessarily tied to specific nations.  That means some of the major cryptocurrency exchanges are located in countries […]

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Will Silver Outperform Gold?

While silver has traditionally exaggerated gold’s upward and downward moves, the roles have been reversed over the past six months. While gold has seen its worst start to a year in three decades, the other precious metal has held up well until recently. As with gold, silver rose dramatically from March lows, peaking in early […]

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What Is An “Alt Season” In The Crypto Industry?

To even begin to answer this question, you need to have an understanding of the difference between Bitcoin and ‘altcoin’. To do this, it is worthwhile to delve a little into the history of cryptocurrency. The first, and now most valuable, cryptocurrency is a name we are all familiar with, Bitcoin. Released in January 2009, […]

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Doug Casey on What Could Happen if China Restricts the Supply of These Obscure Metals

International Man: Rare-earth elements (REEs) were in the news recently. What is the significance of these 17 obscure elements from the periodic table? Doug Casey: Obscure elements seem to come into public view every few decades, typically during a commodity bull market. I remember the so-called “strategic metals” boom, back in the early 1980s, when […]

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Are You Easy Prey?

For many years, I’ve been predicting the coming of a crisis of epic proportions. I’ve focused on the economic and political aspects, although the social aspects will be no less severe. This is not the stuff of crystal balls, nor is it mere guesswork. The fundamentals for economic crisis have remained essentially the same for […]

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The Alarming Rise of the American Wealth Tax

Dateline: Bogota, Colombia Over the last century, many countries have tried taxing the wealthy at higher rates. More recently, there’s been a lot of buzz about a global wealth tax. The virus has put a lot of countries in extreme debt, pushing the issue of taxing the wealthy to cover expenses to the forefront. Just […]

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Africa Unlocked

Doug Casey’s Note: It was good to hear from my old friend Francois. He sent along this stream-of-consciousness piece touching on a few African countries. I promise it gives a lot more of the flavor of backward parts of the Dark Continent than reading some report put out by the IMF. — by Francois Houdain […]

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8 Tricks to Increase Your Learners’ Attention Span

Keeping learners interested in a class is a challenge for many teachers. Some students have a short concentration span, and others succumb to distractions during lessons. It takes effort to achieve the desired educational outcome. Whether you are dealing with elementary-level individuals, high schoolers, or college students, you need to identify ways to win their […]

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The Easiest Countries to Move to From the USA

Dateline: Bogota, Colombia 2020 was a record year at Nomad Capitalist in terms of US citizens calling us to help them create not only a backup plan for citizenship and banking worldwide to protect themselves in the event that things got worse but also requesting our help to get them out of the US before […]

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