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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega New Jersey Congressman Albio Sires is complaining about financial aid that international agencies are providing Nicaragua under what he says is “the pretext of poverty reduction, disaster relief and small business support.” He points to Nicaragua’s dictatorial regime headed by socialist Daniel Ortega as the reason for his complaints.  Sires is right to complain about foreign aid to Nicaragua, but why limit a critique of governmental...

21.10.2022 – 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the entire regional economic fabric in Switzerland. National growth in gross domestic product (GDP) fell to –2.4% at the previous year’s prices and almost all cantons recorded a decline in activity. Jura was the most affected (–8.5%), followed by Neuchâtel (–6.5%), Glarus (–5.3%) and Ticino (–5.2%). Only the cantons of Zug (1.6%) and Schaffhausen (0.7%) recorded an increase. These figures come from...

Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga presents Switzerland’s winter power reserve plans. ©keystone/peter Schneider The Swiss government has put forward plans to create reserve power plants aimed at shoring up the country’s energy supplies during the winter. The proposal to create a network of reserve plants was presented on Wednesday for a period of public consultation that will end on November 23. This follows other measures, such as increasing capacity at...

Jeff Snider, EuroDollar University founder and host, and I sat down for a conversation about the FED, interest rates, the dollar crisis, and his outlook on the future of our monetary system. Jeff's work can be seen on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrXNkk4IESnqU-8GMad2vyA Most notably for me, Jeff Snider told me that we've been in a discussion for the last 15 years, and that it is only getting worse, as the issues that created the 2008 crisis, were never resolved but were...

An energy policy that bans investment in some technologies based on ideological views and ignores security of supply is doomed to a strepitous failure. The energy crisis in the European Union was not created by market failures or lack of alternatives. It was created by political nudging and imposition. Renewable energies are a positive force within a balanced energy mix, not on their own, due to the volatile and intermittent nature of the technology. Politicians have...

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Mit viel Tamtam wurden Bitcoin ETFs diskutiert und eingeführt. Vor einem Jahr war es der BTC futures-based ETF, der als BITO am New York Stock Exchange gelistet wird, der mit großem Medienhype eingeführt wurde. Genau ein Jahr später hat der ETF die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt und sogar gegen den BTC selbst an Wert verloren. Bitcoin News: Bitcoin ETF underperformed Year-to-YearDer Markt hat generell im Jahresvergleich verloren. Daher überrascht es nicht unbedingt, dass...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is planning to expand its flight schedule next summer to offer 85% of its pre-pandemic capacity. To this end, it is now busy recruiting flight attendants. In the summer timetable, which runs from March 26 to October 28, 2023, SWISS will serve a total of 112 destinations from Zurich and Geneva, it said in a statement on Tuesday. “On the intercontinental front, the emphasis will be on the destinations in North America which are in...

Overview: China and Japan continue to struggle to stabilize their currencies, while global interest rates rise. The offshore yuan has fallen to new lows but in late dealings the onshore and offshore yuan have recovered. The dollar also traded above JPY150 for the first time since 1990 and the market knows it is on thin ice as with the threat of official intervention. A risk-off mood permeates. Equity markets have retreated in the Asia Pacific region and Europe. US...

Credit Suisse is preparing to sell parts of its Swiss domestic bank as it attempts to close a capital hole of around CHF4.5 billion, according to people briefed on the discussions. With less than two weeks until the lender is due to present plans for a radical strategic revamp, executives are also in the final stages of plotting a heavy round of job cuts, which could affect up to 6,000 of the group’s 50,000 global employees. Ulrich Körner was installed as Credit...