SNB & CHF

In den letzten Wochen ist Bitcoin in Richtung seines Allzeithochs geklettert, beflügelt durch Spekulationen über die bevorstehende US-Präsidentschaftswahl. Doch wird das Krypto-Urgestein sein Rekordhoch noch in diesem Jahr knacken können? • Bitcoin knackt 70’000-Dollar-Marke • US-Wahl und Marktumfeld sorgen für Auftrieb • Neuer Rekord nach der US-Wahl möglich   Bitcoin nähert sich Rekordhoch Die vergangenen Wochen waren für Kryptoanleger durchaus interessant. Im...

By placing search/social media in the bucket of newspapers, radio and TV networks, perhaps we've obscured their true nature as "Digital Marketing Mechanisms." Language is a funny thing. If we don't have a word for something, in some way it doesn't exist. When we find a word in another language that describes this something, we borrow the word, for example schadenfreude from German and tsunami from Japanese. If we use an existing word to describe something...

The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against 275 individuals and entities in countries including India, Switzerland, China, and Turkey, Keystone-SDA/ Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved Listen to the article...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

The outlook for the Swiss economy is better than a month ago but still in negative territory. Keystone-SDA / Jean-Christophe Bott Listen to the article Listening the article...

Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues this Monday evening, November 4, with Don Boudreaux,  former president of The Foundation for Economic Education and current professor economics at George Mason University.  7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time.  Register here. Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference, which are being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. There is also an excellent third JFK...

The freedom of speech is today threatened in the West to a degree not seen since the nineteenth-century classical liberals battled the censorious police states of the old conservative regimes. The free-market liberals largely won that battle, yet everywhere that a ruling class knows it is both unpopular and outnumbered it will attempt to silence free speech. A common argument used by those who cling to illegitimate power is the claim that free speech will encourage...

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being prominently denounced as...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and second place, but occasionally George Washington will come in second. In the past several years, Donald Trump has been ranked dead last in all of them while Joe Biden has ranked...