SNB & CHF

Never before have we seen an entire generation of young Americans being censored—and self-censoring—for making innocuous statements. This does not end well. Original Article: "The Censored Generation" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

We can also predict that the next round of instability will be more severe than the previous bout of instability. Everyone is in favor of “doing whatever it takes” to “restore financial stability” when the house of cards starts swaying, but funny things happen on the way to “Restoring Financial Stability.” Whatever “emergency measures” are rushed into service to “stabilize” an inherently unstable system resolve the immediate problem but opens unseen doors to new...

San Francisco’s panel on reparations has issued a recommendation that qualified black residents in that city receive $5 million in reparations for the financial effects of slavery and/or racial discrimination. There was never slavery in the city of San Francisco, but the panel nevertheless suggested that city inhabitants must atone for racial discrimination. Such calls for reparations to black people are based on the notion of collective white guilt. But collective...

It's popular for politicians to claim they will never cut Social Security. But doing nothing now about the program means imposing an even larger hit on seniors in the future.  Original Article: "Why Biden's Spending Is Unsustainable" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...

People are arguing over whether artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will eliminate human employment. People seem to have an all-or-nothing belief that either the use of technology in the workplace will destroy human employment and purpose or it won’t affect it at all. The replacement of human jobs with robotics and AI is known as “technological unemployment.” Although robotics can turn materials into economic goods in a fraction of the time it would take a...

Die Krise der Credit Suisse wird nach Einschätzung eines renommierten Branchenexperten von JPMorgan mit einer Übernahme der Bank enden. Die Analysten unter der Leitung des langjährigen und bekannten Bankanalysten Kian Abouhossein haben drei Szenarien für die Zukunft der Credit Suisse durchgespielt. Eine Übernahme halten sie für die wahrscheinlichste Option, und als Übernehmer kommt für sie am ehesten der Lokalrivale UBS in Frage. Einer Übernahme durch die UBS...

Overview: The pendulum of market psychology is swinging dramatically. Amid the US banking crisis, Credit Suisse's long-running pressures percolated back to top-of-mind, sending ripples through the capital markets, trigging a sharp slide in the euro. The SNB support is helping the markets calm today. The odds of a 50 bp hike by the ECB today have been cut to about 50% compared with a nearly 100% a week ago. The market has about a 66% chance of a 25 bp hike by the Fed...

With negative growth now dipping below –5 percent, money-supply contraction is approaching the biggest declines we've seen in the past thirty-five years. Original Article: "Money Supply Growth Went Negative for the Third Month in a Row, and Is Near a Thirty-Five-Year Low" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...

I have previously explained how for Ludwig von Mises, democracy is necessary for the libertarian society because of its usefulness in achieving and maintaining social peace, insofar as social peace is a prerequisite for economic and civil liberty. This time I want to explain an idea that is implicit in Mises’s subjectivist philosophy and that leads him to defend democracy, understood as the consent of the governed, but which may go unnoticed because it is dispersed...

All of Al Gore's children went to Harvard. Are we really to believe that this is because the Gore kids had the most "merit"? The only real  meritocracy is in the marketplace.  Original Article: "The "Meritocracy" Was Created by and for the Progressive Ruling Class" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...