Money & Markets – Week of 08.13.17

Bitcoin Bond in Japan Wants to Bring Cryptocurrency into ‘World of High Finance’
RT | 18 August 2017
Digital currencies into …

Investment Firm VanEck Calls Bitcoin a ‘Fad,’ then Files for Bitcoin ETF
CNBC | 14 August 2017
Mny risks…

Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote to Pay Foxconn $3 Billion to Get New Factory
Market Conservative | 18 August 2017
59-30 on…

Wal-Mart Slides, Free Cash Flow Fails To Cover Dividends And Buybacks
Zero Hedge | 17 August 2017
$3.4 billion worse than…

Fed, Split by Inflation, Should Forge on with Rate Hikes: Mester
Reuters | 16 August 2017
Global economy against uncertainty over…

Dimon “Furious” As Washington Business Councils Implode
Wealth Advisor | 16 August 2017
Uphold the values that …

Pennsylvania Municipalities and Utilities Benefit from Privatization, says Moody’s
Bond Buyers | 15 August 2017
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Local: How Electricity Cooperatives in the US are Paving the Way…(Local Ownership)
Shareable | 19 June 2017
This example: The German Energiewende, or energy transition, is a case-study in how…

U.S. Pension Funds Sue Goldman, JPMorgan, others over Stock Lending Market
Reuters | 17 August 2017
Colluded to maintain…

Beware at the Pump: Black Market Fuel is Making Millions
Herald and News | 13 August 2017
Tanks hidden…

Governments to Control Large Cash Transactions
Armstrong Economics | 15 August 2017
Report…

Dick’s CEO: “The Retail Industry Is In Panic Mode”
Zero Hedge | 15 August 2017
Crashing after…

Death Fall: Married City Trader ‘Jumps’ to his Death from Seventh Floor of London Stock Exchange in Front of Horrified Colleagues
Sun | 15 August 2017
Climbing over a…

How China Squeezes Tech Secrets from U.S. Companies
CNN | 14 August 2017
Cost to the U.S. economy at up to…

China Warns Against ‘Trade War’ with US
Yahoo | 14 August 2017
Follows through on new…

Top Fed Official Tells AP: Bond Portfolio Could Shrink Soon
CNBC | 14 August 2017
Investors expect…

US Launches Quiet Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies
Zero Hedge | 12 August 2017
Finance threats…

IMF Proposes Central Bank Digital Currencies To Crush Cryptocurrencies
Technocroacy | 11 August 2017
Demand for central bank money and the transmission…

Puerto Rico Judge Skeptical of PREPA Receivership
Bond Buyer | 10 August 2017
Rejected steps to…

Economic Forecasts: Long Rates to Stay Low
Kiplinger | 01 August 2017
Kiplinger’s latest forecast on interest rates…

The American Working Conditions Survey Finds That More Than Half of Retirees Would Return to Work
Rand | 2017
Workers want, and is the workplace…