The “Fear Of Missing Out” has infected retail and hedge funds alike as they ramp up exposure to chase performance. We have previously discussed the near “mania” of retail investors taking on exceptional risk in various manners. From increasing leverage, engaging in speculative options trading, and taking out personal loans to invest, it’s all evidence of overconfident investors. However, that “risk appetite” is not relegated to retail investors alone. Professional...
Read More »Modern Monetary Theory
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2021. [embedded content] You Might Also Like SNB Sight Deposits: Inflation Fear Decreasing, SNB Selling Euros 2021-08-04 Sight Deposits have fallen: The change is -0.2 bn. compared to last week, this means the SNB is selling euros and dollars. Government Land Ownership and Management 2021-08-03...
Read More »When Should Governments Ban Bitcoin?
When Should Governments Ban Bitcoin? When should governments ban new technologies? Watch on Rumble ““When Should Governments Ban Bitcoin?” [embedded content] You Might Also Like SNB Sight Deposits: Inflation Fear Decreasing, SNB Selling Euros 2021-08-04 Sight Deposits have fallen: The change is -0.2 bn. compared to last week, this means the SNB is selling euros and dollars....
Read More »Eine „gute“ Inflation gibt es nicht, aber es gibt „gute“ Preissteigerungen
Eine „gute“ Inflation gibt es nicht, aber es gibt „gute“ Preissteigerungen 19.07.2021 – Tot ist die Inflation nie, allenfalls nur scheintot – Wann Preissteigerungen Inflation sind – Inflation durch übermäßiges Ausweiten der Geldmenge – Nicht alle Preisanstiege sind Inflation – Alle Preise vermitteln Informationen, zumal wenn sie steigen – Eine „gute“ Inflation gibt es nicht, aber es gibt „gute“ Preissteigerungen – Die gute Inflation ist Humbug von Klaus Peter...
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Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU21_PPT_20. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 21, 2021. [embedded content] You Might Also Like SNB Sight Deposits: Inflation Fear Decreasing, SNB Selling Euros 2021-08-04 Sight Deposits have fallen: The change is -0.2 bn. compared to last week, this means the SNB is selling euros and dollars....
Read More »Wieviel Geld sollte man mit 30, 40 oder 50 Jahren eigentlich gespart haben? ???
In diesem Beitrag soll es darum gehen, wie viel Vermögen du in welchem Alter haben solltest. Die Zahlen, die ich dir vorstelle, gelten spezifisch für Deutschland. In einem weiteren Beitrag soll es dabei auch um die Schweiz gehen. Kommen wir aber erst einmal auf Deutschland zurück, ich habe hier eine sehr gute Grafik für dich vorbereitet, welche es auf der Seite von finanzfluss.de zu finden gibt. Deshalb auch hier einmal ein Danke an Thomas von Finanzfluss....
Read More »Biden’s Rescue Act Targets Americans’ Freedoms
Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act shows that inebriated spending is now the path to national salvation. It was a common saying in America in the 1930s that “we cannot squander our way to prosperity.” But that was before the latest “best and brightest” crop took the helm of the federal...
Read More »A Dark Side of Inflation
When the Federal Reserve inflates the money supply, the resulting debasement of people’s money is reflected in the higher prices that people are paying for things they need or want. Already, everyone is seeing, for example, significantly higher prices for gasoline at the pump. The price jump is high enough to cause people to realize that all that “free” stimulus money wasn’t as free as the government said it was. There is another dark consequence of an inflationary...
Read More »Why some wealth managers hate wealth
Ralph Hamers took up the CEO post at Swiss bank UBS in 2020. Keystone / Walter Bieri “How can we [ . . .] fight increased inequality?” railed Ralph Hamers in a recent interview. To be clear, Hamers is not the boss of Unicef, or Oxfam or the Social Mobility Foundation. He is chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the widening wealth gap. UBS’s latest results quantified that benefit. Second-quarter net profit surged 63% to $2 billion...
Read More »Ep 167- STILL No Inflation ft. Jeff Snider with Srivatsan Prakash
Jeff is the Head of Research at Alhambra Investments and here he reiterates that we won't see an elevated level of inflation. You can find the audio podcast here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/market-champions/id1450300020 Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/7KVwQ0RsTc6XN49Wg3yp5a Stitcher- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anchor-podcasts/the-elite-investing-show Google Podcasts-...
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