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"There's no fix for this ever," says Keith Weiner, CEO of Monetary Metals. "Every time the crisis erupts, lower interest rates makes credit easier." As we are seeing an exponentially growing problem in the financial system, how does the average person protect themselves financially? Weiner says everyone should own some gold because gold is money. "Money is the thing you own when you don't want to bet on anything else." 0:00 Intro 1:02 Gold outlook 8:30 Fed's...

Die Situation in Ottawa spitzt sich weiter zu. Offenbar haben nun Einwohner Ottawas eine Klage eingereicht, die das Ziel verfolgt, das an die Trucker gespendete Geld zu beschlagnahmen und es an die Bürger der Stadt zu verteilen. Auch die gespendeten Bitcoins könnten davon betroffen sein. Bitcoin News: Kanada will Bitcoin des Freedom Convoys beschlagnahmen Inzwischen wurden Cryptocoins von über 120 Wallet-Adressen im Zusammenhang mit dem Freedom Convoy in Ottawa...

In Switzerland, Phase II of Project Helvetia has been completed, successfully demonstrating that it is possible to integrate a wholesale CBDC (wCBDC) running on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms into existing core banking systems. Kickstarted in 2020, Project Helvetia is an experimental initiative by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and financial infrastructure operator SIX that...

While geopolitical commentators are fixated on Russia’s border with Ukraine, a more interesting development is slowly boiling underneath the surface of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that could potentially reorder international relations—namely, the death of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Founded in 1949, NATO began with only twelve member nations. Presently, NATO counts on thirty member nations, with national security elites in the Anglo-American...

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW: Douglas Tuman interviews Keith Weiner, CEO of Monetary Metals, a platform for products that offer investors a yield on gold, paid in gold. Keith shares why he believes in the gold standard and his reasoning for why he does not see crypto as capable of being a better form of money. Unfortunately Keith’s time was limited so Doug was unable to fully dive into Monero with Keith to explain the nuances of things like, Monero’s fungibility and tail emission, in...

Other airlines in the Lufthansa Group also announced plans to halt flights to the country. © Keystone / Christian Beutler Amid further escalations of the crisis in Ukraine, Swiss International Airlines has decided to temporarily suspend flights to Ukraine from next week. This affects flight connections in Kyiv. This content was published on February 19, 2022 – 17:22February 19, 2022 – 17:22 Keystone-SDA/jdp All flights will be cancelled from Monday, February 21...

Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the technology becomes more mainstream, companies need scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which to grow their businesses and support their networks. Google Cloud believes it can play an important role in this evolution. Building on their existing work with blockchain developers, exchanges, and other companies in this space,...

This week, 118,555 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Switzerland, down 25% from the 157,683 cases reported a week earlier. The reported number of Covid-19 patients hospitalised also fell 20% from 492 to 392 across the week. Photo by Polina Tankilevitch on Pexels.comCovid-19 deaths were also down. Across the week, 61 Covid-19 related deaths were reported, a figure 13% lower than the 70 reported the week before. In addition, the number of Covid-19 patients in...

Keith Weiner is the CEO & Founder of Monetary Metals. He is a leading authority in the areas of gold, money, and credit and has made important contributions to the development of trading techniques founded upon the analysis of bid-ask spreads. Keith currently serves as President of the Gold Standard Institute USA. He earned his PhD from the New Austrian School of Economics. 0:00 Introduction 0:44 What are gold bugs getting wrong? 2:43 Inflation commentary 10:08 Commodities outlook...

Swiss consumer price inflation increased in January, data from the Federal Statistical Office showed on Friday. Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent in January, following a 1.5 percent increase each in December and November. Economists had forecast inflation to remain unchanged at 1.5 percent. On a monthly basis, consumer prices grew 0.2 percent in January, after a 0.1 percent fall in the previous month. Prices for hotel accommodation and second-hand cars increased in...