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President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and that this is simply the price that Americans ought to be forced to pay. The second admission was that sanctions haven’t worked to change Moscow’s policies, and that “sanctions never deter” the targeted regime from carrying out aggression. So, Biden has helpfully now...

Severin Schwan is also CEO of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche. Keystone / Georgios Kefalas Credit Suisse announced on Monday that Vice-Chair Severin Schwan would not stand for re-election. This follows a reported rebellion by large shareholder groups at the Swiss bank. “Severin Schwan, who joined the Board in 2014 and has acted as Vice-Chair and Lead Independent Director since 2017, has decided not to stand for re-election,” Credit Suisse said in a statementExternal...

One of the most notable economists and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises, in the course of a long and highly productive life, developed an integrated, deductive science of economics based on the fundamental axiom that individual human beings act purposively to achieve desired goals. Even though his economic analysis itself was “value-free”—in the sense of being irrelevant to values held by economists, Mises concluded that the only viable...

Die Crypto-Community hatte gehofft, dass Honduras dem Beispiel El Salvadors folgen würde. Doch nun hat die Zentralbank des Landes in Mittelamerika angekündigt, dass man nicht auf Bitcoin setzen wird, sondern stattdessen an einem staatlichen Cryptocoin arbeitet. Bitcoin News: Honduras lässt Bitcoin links liegen und setzt auf CBDCSchlechte Nachrichten für die Mass Adoption: Honduras setzt auf eine Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), die schon bald offizielles...

Dave Russell of GoldCore TV welcomes back Gareth Soloway of InTheMoneyStocks.com where we ask if the bull market for stocks is back and if $2,500 on gold is still on the cards for 2022? What role does the inversion of the yield curve play in signaling a US recession? [embedded content] [embedded content] You Might Also Like Gold Gives You Personal Sovereignty 2022-03-09 Dave Lukas of Misfit...

Switzerland plans to open negotiations with Qatar over the potential delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies. The Alpine state is scouting for new energy suppliers, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer brought up the subject with Qatari Energy Minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi in Doha on Tuesday. Gas makes up roughly 15% of Switzerland’s final energy consumption and is mostly used for heating and cooking. Around half of this...

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Wieder einmal bedroht ein Konflikt in Osteuropa den Weltfrieden. Der Streit um den Status der Ukraine als unabhängiges Land bringt das alte Problem der nationalen Souveränität wieder auf den Tisch. Es muss eine diplomatische Lösung gefunden werden. Ein Ausweg bestünde darin, dass die Ukraine frei sein wird, der Europäischen Union beizutreten, aber militärisch neutral bleibt. Diese Lösung zeichnet sich ab, wenn man die Ideen Ludwig von Mises berücksichtigt, die sich...

This desire for compliance and consensus dooms the autocracy to failure and collapse because dissent is the essence of evolutionary churn and adaptation..The various flavors of autocracy (theocracy, kleptocracy, dictatorship, etc.) look remarkably successful at first blush but they all share a fatal flaw. To understand the flaw we must start with the dominant dynamic of all organisms, natural selection. Things change. Those organisms which adapt quickly and...

With the Fed (sadly) taking center stage last week, and market rejections of its rate hikes at the forefront, lost in the drama was January 2022 TIC. Understandable, given all its misunderstood numbers are two months behind at their release. There were some interesting developments regardless, and a couple of longer run parts that deserve some attention. Picking up where TIC left off from December, when more indicated bad (tight money) than good (not as tight),...