SNB & CHF

We are now well past the corona crisis of 2020, and most of the restrictions around the world have been repealed or loosened. However, the long-term consequences of arbitrary and destructive corona policies are still with us—in fact, we are now in the middle of the inevitable economic crisis. Proclaiming the great crash and economic crisis of 2022 is at this point not especially prescient or insightful, as commentators have been predicting it for months. The cause is...

Member video https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e244-video/ Full show notes https://bitcoinandmarkets.com/e244/ As listeners to this podcast know, I've been pretty well convinced of the Eurodollar system framework. Jeff Snider is the primary expert on this field today, and his popularity has started to spread rapidly. Though Jeff is an expert in the current system, his critique of bitcoin leaves room for improvement. In this episode, I breakdown part of a recent podcast he was on...

Marc Chandler, Chief Strategist of Bannockburn Global Forex, talks with Blake Morrow to discuss how the #FOMC and Fed Chair Powell may navigate further rate hikes moving forward. Marc believes that the Federal Reserve will continue to “tighten financial conditions” (i.e lower stock and housing prices) until certain criteria is met. He discusses four specific numbers for traders and investors to look at. He talks about high yield bonds, employment numbers, inflation amongst other...

Overview: Yesterday’s strong US equity gains failed to carry over into today’s session. Japanese and Australian shares fared the best among the large Asia Pacific market, with the Nikkei off less than 0.4% and the ASX off less than 0.25%. However, China’s markets were off more than 1%, while Taiwan and South Korea indices slumped more than 2%. India is off nearly 1.5%. Europe’s Stoxx 600 is down 1.5% and is giving back all of its gains in the past three sessions. US...

We do not like Purchasing Power or Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) as measurement for currencies. For us, the trade balance decides if a currency is overvalued. Only the trade balance can express productivity gains, while the REER assumes constant productivity in comparison to trade partners. Who has read Michael Pettis, knows that a rising trade surplus may also be caused by a higher savings rate while the trade partners decided to spend more. This is partially...

Die Ökonomen der Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) rechnen nach dem überraschenden Kurswechsel der SNB für das laufende Jahr und für das kommende Jahr mit einem geringeren Wachstum der Schweizer Wirtschaft als bis anhin. Neu wird für 2022 mit einem Wachstum des Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP) von 2,7 Prozent nach bisher 3,0 Prozent gerechnet und für 2023 mit einem solchen von 1,5 Prozent nach 1,7 Prozent, wie aus einer am Dienstag veröffentlichten Publikation hervorgeht....

Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong. What’s the difference between a forecast and a guess? On one level, the answer is “none”: the future is unknown and even the most informed forecast is still a guess. The evidence for this is the remarkable number of informed forecasts that prove to be as completely off-base as the wildest guesses. On another level, there is a big difference between an informed forecast...

With the acknowledged national debt now a politically and economically unpayable $30 trillion (in reality, its unfunded liabilities are far greater), Americans should start to become acclimated to the realities of the United States’ eventual, inevitable default. While it may seem unfathomable, and the results too catastrophic to imagine, in fact the likely damage to everyday Americans would be minimal in the short term and unquestionably a net plus in the long term....

Last year Congress officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday. While Very Serious talking heads attempted desperately to convince those that would listen that Juneteenth was a long-celebrated American holiday, the reality is that it was largely unknown around the nation prior to congressional action. The episode is a useful illustration of how the state weaponizes secular holidays to promote a larger cultural agenda. Prior to nationwide riots in 2020,...

What I, Max Sirius, think the Powers That Be or Deep State (which includes the Federal Reserve, the Biden Administration) or whatever you want to call it or them, want and will do now. Very big picture view. In order to save the global economic system, which is still more or less controlled by the United States, has the United States Dollar as its reserve currency, and which many of the United States based but globally acting mega corporations operate in and profit from (many big United...