Alex Kimani

Writer, Safehaven.com

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• Gold Rally Back On Track As Geopolitical Concerns Grow

  Published 03 July 2019 | viewed 3,776 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 1,795 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 1,802 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 1,205 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 8,509 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 6,949 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 10,597 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 4,691 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 2,128 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 1,795 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 5,982 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 2,205 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 3,655 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…

• Colorado Rakes In $1 Billion In Pot Revenue

  Published 14 June 2019 | viewed 18,205 times

  Marijuana might still be illegal under federal law--but that’s hardly stopping federal governments from collecting billions of dollars in fees and taxes on the burgeoning…

• Google Just Killed One Of Crypto’s Biggest News Sites

  Published 11 June 2019 | viewed 9,508 times

  What Google gives, Google can take back. Bearing some fiendish undertones eerily reminiscent of the Google ad-blocking conspiracy theories of a few years back, Google…

• The Stock Market Bulls Still Have Room To Run

  Published 10 June 2019 | viewed 4,620 times

  The U.S. stock market went through a pretty brutal period in May, correcting nearly 10 percent and looking in danger of suffering a fatal crash…

• Nothing Will Break China’s Giants: Not Even A Trade War

  Published 10 June 2019 | viewed 2,985 times

  There’s no denying that the U.S.-China tariff war has taken a severe toll on financial markets. The U.S. stock market benchmark, the S&P 500 Index…

• The World’s Wealthiest Are Dumping Cash Into Zero-Profit Businesses

  Published 09 June 2019 | viewed 2,075 times

  The world’s wealthiest have more cash than they can reasonably burn. In a past article, we highlighted how the super-rich are now hoarding unreasonably high…

• Has Bitcoin Become A Bona Fide Safe Haven?

  Published 06 June 2019 | viewed 5,654 times

  Has bitcoin officially earned its stripes as the new safe haven from economic and financial crises? After all, the leading cryptocurrency, often heralded as the…

• EV Sales Are Set To Soar 540%

  Published 05 June 2019 | viewed 4,086 times

  The United States’ electric vehicle market is amped up and surging ahead full throttle. While EVs have truly revolutionized the global automotive sector since their…