Dirhams & Dollars

Christmas is only a week away. Huzzah! Well, not quite. A week before Christmas, and the Dirhams and Dollars journalists are struggling to find juicy stories to argue about as the news flow starts to dry out. Not to fret, though, as the international front can always keep us occupied. We discuss the expected tax reforms in the US, and what impact those will make on stock markets, which have only been going up this year. In other US news, we also discuss the most used phrase of last weekend, “Net Neutrality.” Why exactly is social media abuzz with talks about net neutrality? And what exactly does it mean for you and internet service providers? Finally, we discuss the sexiest commodity/currency of 2017; Bitcoin! (P.S. have we settled on whether we’re classifying it as a currency or a commodity yet?) With the cryptocurrency hovering around the $20,000 price level, we discuss whether shorts will start coming into that market and Bitcoin’s meteoric price rise this year.