Recent Posts

Hedge funds suffer from metal fatigue

Commodity funds are going soft. The investors who helped bid up the price of LME copper to a four-year high of $7,348 a metric ton last month are beating a path to the door. Holdings of investment funds in Chicago copper futures this month crashed to a net short position for the first time since the election of US President ...

Read More »

Initial coin offerings are getting a bad rap

Initial coin offerings are a hot topic, but the focus tends to miss the most important innovation. Attention naturally is on the 81 percent that are frauds, but the honest ones raised $7 billion for cryptocurrency initiatives in 2017. Those were predominately for double-block-chain ideas, which is blockchain funding to support a blockchain project. Frauds permeate crypto projects because they’re ...

Read More »

Trump hasn’t fixed the border crisis he created

The Trump administration claims that it has mostly met a court-ordered deadline to reunite migrant families separated at the border. Even to the extent that’s true, this is a story without happy endings. More than 700 of the nearly 3,000 children originally separated from family members remain in government hands, either because their parents have already been deported or they ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend