Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• World’s Largest Hedge Fund Turns Bullish On Gold

  Published 18 July 2019 | viewed 7,594 times

  Gold is just coming off a turbulent 3-week period after a much-expected rate cut in July  failed to materialize courtesy of a stronger-than-expected jobs report…

• Contrarian Investors Are Beating The Stock Market

  Published 17 July 2019 | viewed 3,567 times

  One heuristic approach when solving complex problems involves working backwards. But what about flipping things completely over? Well, it turns out that a 100-percent contrarian…

• Bulgaria’s Revenue Agency Falls Victim To Biggest Cyber Heist In History

  Published 17 July 2019 | viewed 5,651 times

  When you hear of large-scale cyber-attacks, you probably conjure up images of nefarious computer geeks outmaneuvering state-of-the-art infosec systems and spiriting away mountains of precious…

• Bezos’ Next Big Project Could Be Worth $100 Billion Per Year

  Published 16 July 2019 | viewed 3,608 times

  Back in 2006, Amazon launched its cloud-Infrastructure-as-a -service arm, Amazon Web Service (AWS) to little fanfare. Fast forward to the present and the business is…

• 3,600 Years Later, Climate Change Turns Mammoths Into $40M Market

  Published 16 July 2019 | viewed 5,245 times

  In one of the world’s last great wildernesses, an underground business has been running for years—clandestine crews of treasure hunters digging up hundreds of tonnes…

• Chinese Police Bust Largest Ever Illicit Crypto Mining Operation

  Published 15 July 2019 | viewed 9,924 times

  Bitcoin HODLers constantly fret over the specter of crypto whales suddenly dumping their holdings en masse leading to a spectacular crash. Now they have one…

• What Will Finally Slay The Bull Market?

  Published 04 July 2019 | viewed 4,301 times

  The current equity bull market, about 10.3 years old, is already the longest in history. It’s been a phenomenally profitable time to invest, with the…

• Gold Rally Back On Track As Geopolitical Concerns Grow

  Published 03 July 2019 | viewed 4,606 times

  Just a few days ago, this year’s fairy tale gold rally--the biggest in six years--was stopped in its tracks after the U.S. and China struck…

• Tobacco Stocks May Not Be As Terminal As They Appear

  Published 02 July 2019 | viewed 2,594 times

  It Ain't What You Don't Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It's What You Know for Sure That Just Ain't So—Mark Twain At a casual…

• EU Political Battle With Switzerland Unfolds On Stock Exchange

  Published 01 July 2019 | viewed 2,543 times

  Another trade war has been simmering away from the limelight for years, and the seemingly absurd has finally come to pass—the EU has flexed its…

• The Winners And Losers Of A Tentative Trade War Truce

  Published 01 July 2019 | viewed 1,815 times

  For months, the world’s top economies have been playing a dangerous game of high-stakes brinkmanship that threatened to topple the world order. They have finally…

• Leonardo DiCaprio Backs Anti-Wells Fargo Fintech Bank

  Published 28 June 2019 | viewed 11,093 times

  Wall Street banks are big, rich, powerful and successful--not to detract from the fact that they are also known to be pretty scandalous, too. Somehow,…

• Bitcoin Rally Sets Stage For The Big Short

  Published 26 June 2019 | viewed 7,917 times

  Bitcoin has enjoyed another fairy tale run in the current year, with the digital coin recording an impressive 240-percent gain in the YTD to trade…

• VCs Are Pouring Billions Into Cannabis As Legalization Looms

  Published 26 June 2019 | viewed 13,958 times

  With marijuana still classified as a Schedule I drug by the U.S. federal government, few institutional investors have been willing to write checks to cannabis…

• Gold Smashes Through $1,400 As Global Uncertainty Mounts

  Published 24 June 2019 | viewed 5,722 times

  It’s the kind of rally gold bugs everywhere have been silently hoping for-- but one that has looked increasingly unlikely amidst an overly brawny greenback. …

• Investors Are Spooked As Negative Bond Yields Hit $12 Trillion

  Published 20 June 2019 | viewed 2,873 times

  The universe of government debt with yields below zero has continued to swell to alarming proportions, raising the specter of a market starved of safe…

• The World’s $100-Billion-Club Now Has Three Members

  Published 19 June 2019 | viewed 2,544 times

  French luxury goods titan and Europe’s richest person, Bernard Arnault, has just joined the rarefied world of the extravagantly wealthy. Arnault, 70, has become the…

• Will Facebook’s Crypto ‘Libra’ Challenge Bitcoin?

  Published 18 June 2019 | viewed 9,795 times

  The world’s leading social media company says it’s ready to challenge bitcoin’s hegemony as the pre-eminent digital currency. Facebook, Inc. has just confirmed that it…

• For American Businesses, The Fairy Tale Is Already Over

  Published 17 June 2019 | viewed 3,715 times

  Last week, business leaders from more than 600 American companies and trade associations including Costco, Walmart, Levi Strauss, GAP, Foot Locker and Target descended on…

• Would You Give Up Your Privacy For A Few Bucks From Facebook?

  Published 16 June 2019 | viewed 5,704 times

  Picture this: You are on Facebook chatting away with your friend about your next holiday destination or your broken washing machine when ads for the…