40 BRIC’S: • Bank’s Blockchain Consortium Picks IBM for Trade Finance Platform • India Taxing Gold • China’s Central Bank Has Begun Cautiously Testing a Digital Currency • Russian Central Bank Piloting Digital Cur- rency Schemes • Moscow And Beijing Join Forces To Bypass US Dollar In Global Markets, Shift To Gold Trade • China Moves to Stabilize Currency, Despite Promise to Loosen Control • Suddenly Vladimir Putin Meets Vitalik Buter- in, Endorses Ethereum • Bitcoin Surges Back Above $2700 As India “Legalizes” Cryptocurrency The End of the Bond Bull: • “Canada Hasn’t Seen A Bank Run Such As This In Decades” – Home Capital Bailout Is Possible • Loonie, Bank Bonds Drop as Moody’s Down- grades Canada Lenders • Another Poor Auction: 30Y Paper Received Badly With Big Tail, Sliding Bid-To-Cover And Indirects • Both ECB And BOJ Are Just Months Away From Running Out Of Bonds To Buy Equity Bull Markets: • One Plunging Stock Shows Exactly What’s at Risk with the Trump Trade • Calpers Looks to Shake Up Private Equity • Walmart – The Walton Family Is Selling A Lot Of Stocks • BAML: The ‘$1 Trillion Flow that Con- quers All’ Explains Everything Happening in Markets • Why an Australian Fund Manager Decided to Sell Everything • Paramount’s New Chief Jim Gianopulos Revives $1 Billion China Slate Deal • China’s on an IPO Frenszy – and it Looks Set to Continue • Guangzhou Rural Bank Launches up to $1.1 Billion Hong Kong IPO • MSCI Inclusion Points China’s Stock Market in Right Direction Negative Interest Rates Turn to Rising Interest Rates: • The Housing Bubble Is Back • Home Ownership Among US Millennials At All Time Low US Dollar: • The Dollar Just had it’s Worst Quarter in Years, and That’s Exactly what Trump Wants • Asia Shares Dragged Under by U.S. Tech Slide, Dollar Firm The Future of the Euro: • Commission Lays Out Vision to Complete Euro Inflation/Deflation: • “Central Banks Are Now In A Desperate Dilemma”… “Start Buying Volatility” • Rejoining the Dark Side • Weak Inflation Erodes Conviction at Fed on Rate Hikes • Rising Inflation Dampens Americans’ Person- al Financial Satisfaction • The Trump Reflation Fantasy Ends on Day 100 • Visualizing the Buying Power of the U.S. Dollar Over the Last Century US Budget Hot Potato: • Feds Collect Record Income and Pay- roll Taxes Through March – Still Run $526,855,000,000 Deficit • Recession Alert: Government Revenues Suffer Biggest Drop Since The Financial Crisis • Trump Budget Plan Slashes Food Stamps, Healthcare for Poor II. Inside the Pressure Cooker: Will We Expand or Shrink the Pie? A. Return on Investment to Taxpayers: Will It Turn Positive Or More Negative? • Mary Meeker Includes US Budget in Internet Trends – Reaches Upside Down Conclusions • Happy Tax Day! Here’s How Corporations Plan to Mess You Over • This Loophole Will Let Hedge-Fund Managers Dodge $18 Billion in Taxes This Year III. News Trends & Stories