SNB & CHF

Enjoy this entertaining conversation on monetary matters with my special guest Keith Weiner, PhD. Thanks very much Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, for suggesting. I can't believe we discussed monetary econmoics for 45 minutes and I wasn't triggered once! Got #gold? Read more from Keith here: https://monetary-metals.com/open-letter-to-the-banks/ Visit Mickey's website: http://www.goldgeologist.com/ Thanks for watching! #PatientSpeculator

Enjoy this entertaining conversation on monetary matters with my special guest Keith Weiner, PhD. Thanks very much Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, for suggesting. I can't believe we discussed monetary econmoics for 45 minutes and I wasn't triggered once! Got #gold? Read more from Keith here: https://monetary-metals.com/open-letter-to-the-banks/ Visit Mickey's website: http://www.goldgeologist.com/ Thanks for watching! #PatientSpeculator

Gold to Enter New Bull Market – Charles Nenner “Gold is going to enter a new bull market” “The first cycle will bottom after the summer” “$1,212 per ounce is our downside target” “It’s going to top $2,500 per ounce . . . in about two years or so” “Gold is in a bull market even though it came down from $1,900 per ounce” In our featured video today, Greg Hunter interviews Charles Nenner, President of The Charles Nenner...

“It’s not concrete enough to suspect all French with a UBS account” when looking for tax evaders. Pictured here: UBS on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich (Keystone) Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has ordered the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) not to provide France with details about 40,000 UBS bank clients with French addresses. In May 2016, the French tax authorities requested administrative assistance from the...

Oil prices are weaker for the third straight day and are off in four of the past five sessions, the poorest run in two months. Supply considerations may threaten a year-old trend line. OPEC and non-OPEC, essentially Saudi Arabia and Russia are making good on their commitment to boost output, and US oil inventories unexpectedly rose. Saudi output appears to have risen by about 230k barrels per day. Production in Nigeria...

Swiss Franc The Euro has fallen by 0.19% to 1.1503 CHF. EUR/CHF and USD/CHF, August 03(see more posts on EUR/CHF, USD/CHF, ) Source: markets.ft.com - Click to enlarge FX Rates The US dollar is trading at the upper end of its recent ranges against the euro and sterling. The euro finished below $1.16 yesterday for the first time since the end of June and has not been able to resurface that level so far today. We...

Neuchâtel, 3 August 2018 (FSO) – The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.2% in July 2018 compared with the previous month, reaching 101.8 points (December 2015=100). Inflation was 1.2% compared with the same month of the previous year. These are the results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The 0.2% drop compared with the previous month can be explained by several factors including falling prices for clothing...

There was little doubt in the market’s collective mind that the Federal Reserve, which hiked rates in July, would stand pat today. It did not disappoint. The statement itself was almost identical. Growth was said to be “strong” instead of “solid,” for example, a nuance to be lost on most observers. It recognized that the unemployment rate stabilized after falling. Most notable is what is not included. The June minutes...

Capital Flight vs. The Effect of QE Mish recently discussed the ever increasing imbalances of the euro zone’s TARGET-2 payment system again in response to a few articles which played down  their significance. He followed this up with a nice plug for us by posting a comment we made on the subject. Here is a chart of the most recent data on TARGET-2 available from the ECB; we included the four largest balances, namely...

Isn’t it obvious that those at the top of the wealth-power pyramid don’t want us to know how much ground we’ve lost while they’ve gorged on immense gains? In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an era of stagflation, the Misery Index was the unemployment rate plus inflation, both of which were running hot. Now those numbers are at 50-year lows: both the unemployment rate and inflation are about as low as they can go,...