SNB & CHF

The Federal Reserve's rate hike increased the reverse repo program rate, the so-called rate "floor". But why then are the 4- and 8-week US Treasury Bills trading BELOW the floor? Because there's a collateral shortfall. A monetary deflation perhaps? ----EP. 207 REFERENCES---- The Fed Inadvertently Adds To Our Ironclad Collateral Case Which Does Seem To Have Already Included A ‘Collateral Day’ (or days): https://bit.ly/3wFfRv2 Alhambra Investments Blog:...

This year was supposed to be about the easing of the pandemic and the normalization of policy. Instead, Russia's invasion of Ukraine threw a wrench in the macroeconomic forecasts as St. Peter’s victories broke the brackets of the NCAA basketball championship pools. The war has pushed up the price of energy, metals, and foodstuffs, which seemed to be advancing prior to the conflict.  High-frequency economic data are important because of the insight generated about...

With inflation at a forty-year high, it is the topic on everyone’s mind. US core inflation has reached 7.5 percent year over year, and the prices of certain goods, such as used cars and steak, are up as much as 50 percent over the past year. This is a major threat to the current administration, with a recent poll showing that 70 percent of Americans disapprove of Joe Biden’s handling of inflation. Inflation is incredibly unpopular with voters, and there is a strong...

The phenomenon of currency devaluation and its consequences is a process that not only occurred in modern times, but has much deeper roots, going back to antiquity. With the collapse of the Roman Republic, Caesar’s grandnephew Gaius Octavianus, renamed Augustus, rose to power and soon implemented a far-reaching monetary reform for the Roman common market. The old republican trimetallic system of different denominations of silver, brass, and bronze became a new...

Governor Ron DeSantis hat angekündigt, Steuerzahlungen mit Bitcoin und anderen Cryptocoins für Amerikaner mit Wohnsitz in Florida zu ermöglichen. Schon jetzt wurden staatliche Institutionen im Bundesstaat damit beauftragt, die notwendigen Infrastrukturen zu schaffen. Bitcoin News: Florida ermöglicht Steuerzahlungen in BitcoinDie Nachricht kam im Zusammenhang mit einem Gesetz, welches Schulklassen verpflichtend macht, die Schülern finanzielle und ökonomische...

The US Treasury yield curve inversion is EXPANDING. It has now subsumed the 3-year note under a tide of negative economic expectations. This is the monetary system's warning claxon, but are the authorities listening? (No.) ----EP. 205 REFERENCES---- Inversion Is The Real March Madness, Just Don’t Take It Literally: https://bit.ly/3JF2lLt Alhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWlin RealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7 -----SEE ALL EPISODES----- Alhambra...

Each century presents its unique set of problems for lovers of freedom, peace, and prosperity. While the great vanguards of liberty in the twentieth century dealt with the looming shadow of centralization and were engaged in a battle against socialists and statists who argued for centralization and adjudication of individual liberty for the sake of universal material opulence, free markets with the fall of the curtain on the twentieth century have definitely shown...

President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and that this is simply the price that Americans ought to be forced to pay. The second admission was that sanctions haven’t worked to change Moscow’s policies, and that “sanctions never deter” the targeted regime from carrying out aggression. So, Biden has helpfully now...

In our new satirical format, we explore this ambivalence and say "sorry" to the world - for minor and major transgressions. Realised and developed by Swiss comedian, writer and director Patrick Karpiczenko, the segments are intended to inform and entertain, especially on social media. The first episode discusses the new museum built by the city of Zurich to display the art collection of controversial arms dealer Emil Bührle - a collection whose legitimate acquisition during...

Bitcoin is not a Ponzi Scheme, Bitcoin is a Pyramid Scheme Keith Weiner In Conversation With Daniel Lacalle about Bitcoin. He says: "Bitcoin is not a Ponzi Scheme, Bitcoin is a Pyramid Scheme" More about the Difference-https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/ponzi-vs-pyramid.asp