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Travail Suisse, an association representing Swiss employees, highlights once more the age discrimination faced by those over 50 in the Swiss job market. In March 2017, 26.8% of unemployed in the this age group had been without work for more than a year, compared to 2.3% of those between 15 and 24 and 14.1% of those aged 25 to 49. According to RTS, the unemployed over 50 take twice as long to find a new job. The number...

Summary: The dollar market is intact, despite the pullback here at the start of 2017. We have seen similar pullbacks in 2016 and 2015. Divergence remains the key driver. The Federal Reserve’s real broad trade-weighted dollar fell for the first three months of 2017, and the greenback’s heavy tone this month has raised questions about the state of the bull market.    Despite this recent weakness, we think the...

A large number of shops are illegally selling cannabis products containing the active ingredient, cannabidiol (CBD). The Bern cantonal chemist has strongly criticised the sale of these products, and the government is now adopting a tougher stance against illegal sales. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles,...

– Silver, platinum and palladium see increased role as investment vehicles– Increase in academic output on the white precious metals is in line with this– Silver and particularly gold are safe haven assets– Silver was a safe haven at times during which gold failed to be– Platinum and palladium less so but have diversification benefits– Silver manipulation is possible and indications of, if not legal proof– Benefits...

  A Disastrous Decision It is altogether fitting that the US attack on a Syrian airport, the dropping of a MOAB on defenseless Afghanistan, and the potential outbreak of nuclear war with North Korea have all come in the very month in which an American president led the nation on its road to empire one hundred years earlier. President Trump’s aggressive actions and all of America’s previous imperialistic endeavors can...

Having finally established that the economy of the “rising dollar” was appreciably worse than first estimated, we can turn our attention back toward figuring out what that means for the near future and beyond. According to the latest estimates for Industrial Production, growth has returned but in the same weird asymmetric sort of way that is actually common for the past decade. Year-over-year IP expanded by 1.5% in...

Find out what Keith Weiner, founder of The Gold Standard Institute, has to say about Rethinking the Dollar. If you enjoy this segment please share it so others can become more monetarily aware. Picture: 2006 $1 Federal Reserve Note Watch the full interview here: RTD Ep:30 "GOLD: Only Thing That Can Replace The Dollar" - Keith Weiner (Gold Standard Institute) https://youtu.be/srwSI9eTN6o *********** RTD UNIVERSITY *********** A new monetary paradigm starts by visiting the RTD...

© Mudretsov Oleksandr | Dreamstime.com A survey conducted by the advisory firm EY shows a rise in perceived corruption in the workplace in Switzerland. 18% of workers surveyed by the firm in Switzerland now think bribery and corruption are widespread in the country. While high this figure is well below the 33% average for Western Europe and the 51% average across all of the 41 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle...

Swiss Franc EUR/CHF - Euro Swiss Franc, April 21(see more posts on EUR/CHF, ) - Click to enlarge FX Rates Neither the terrorist attack in Paris nor the strong eurozone flash PMI has managed to shake investors. Judging from the social media, many suspect that the terrorist attack plays into Le Pen’s hands, but investors do not seem particularly concerned. The French interest rate premium over Germany has...

David McWilliams has written an interesting article in which he puts forward the case that Trump is likely to turn on the “enemy within,” the Federal Reserve and bully them into “printing money.” He points out that this was seen in 1971 when Nixon bullied the Fed into printing and debasing the dollar. McWilliams says this would be bad for stocks markets which would fall in value as was seen in the 1970s. This would be...