Currencies

It’s common for the world’s most powerful country to issue a currency that becomes adopted around the world as the standard for international trade but whenever that country reaches a point of epic, terminal decline, and especially when it rapidly debases its currency, the rest of the world seeks an alternative. This article outlines the history of the rise & fall of "world" currencies over the centuries and then comments on what the future likely holds for today's "world" currency - the U.S. dollar.

Swings in the US dollar have no long-term impact in the price of gold and gold isn't an inflation hedge either so what is it then? Read on!

Below is a highly informative infographic from Fortunly on the current state of the greenback. It will also provide you with a short history of the currency and some projections for the future. Enjoy!

Bitcoin is currently tracking the 2017 Gold fractal almost exactly and, if that should continue, we could see $16,000 in the next few days, a revisit to its previous all-time high of $20,000, and $46,000 by the end of 2019.

Many people have been comparing the new cryptocurrency with Bitcoin, and thinking that the Libra will have a lot in common with Bitcoin but the Libra will be quite different from Bitcoin in these 5 major ways.

The crypto coin is far from the decentralized solution to payments promised by its creators and it hasn't attained mass adoption but, believe it or not, there is a bull case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency that comes down to one thing; blockchain technology has utility and where there is utility there are opportunities. The cryptocurrency market has awakened after a long hibernation and is up a whopping 85% since hitting its December 2018 lows. The question now, of course, is how high can Bitcoin's price go?

Bitcoin bulls estimate that the price of each coin could hit $20,000 very soon thanks to rising demand. But there are some who believe that the price of bitcoin could very well go on to hit $500,000 - even as much as $1,000,000 - in the very near future.

Thanks to this un-imaginable innovation, cryptocurrencies managed to become one of the most popular financial assets of the 21st century. Just talking about it is not enough, though. It needs to be shown and this article does that in the following 6 maps.

Is Litecoin different than other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? Yes, and here are eight reasons why.

The U.S. Dollar’s long-term outlook is actually bullish! Research suggests that the USD will go up in the second half of 2019 – 2020 (which coincides with the long-term bearish case on gold and silver).