Business travel will prevent the updating of the blog in the coming days. It resumes October 19 with the Week Ahead. Overview: The lack of details from China's fiscal briefing, the soft CPI (and deeper PPI deflation), and a smaller than expected trade surplus did not prevent Chinese equities from advancing (CSI 300 +1.9%). Industrial commodities, such as oil, copper, iron ore, are mixed. Among the G10 currencies, the Australian dollar often acts as the China...
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Read More »Will Politicians Toxify Freedom Forever?
The official theme song of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign is “Freedom” by Beyonce. But a more accurate theme would be the Rolling Stones classic, Under my Thumb. Vice President Harris is seeking the presidency as the greatest champion of freedom in modern times. But Kamala-style freedom will only unleash the government, not private citizens.The original Bill of Rights created a row of bulwarks for citizens to prevent government oppression. In the era of the...
Read More »Ignore The New Power Demographic at Your Own Risk: Young Male Voters
Cries of “Trump is Hitler!” and attempted assassinations have dominated coverage of the upcoming presidential elections. This deprives an intriguing issue of attention. An August 24th New York Times article by culture columnist Claire Cain Miller states the issue: “In some ways, this presidential election has become a referendum on gender roles.” Gender gaps between how men and women vote are not new. But “it is now close to, or certainly in the ballpark of, the...
Read More »Victory Is Our Goal
[This article is adapted from Murray Rothbard’s 1977 keynote address to the Libertarian Party.]I used to think that adopting the victory of liberty as the overriding goal must be almost self-evident to all libertarians — until I began to find those who turned pale and fled when the word “victory” was mentioned. For there are all too many libertarians who apparently believe that the point of the whole enterprise is not triumph in the real world, but all sorts of other...
Read More »Weekly Market Pulse: Questions
As we enter the final quarter of 2024, there are a lot of questions facing investors. There are, of course, always a lot of questions because investors are always dealing with the future, but today’s environment does seems to have more than usual. Some of these questions concern short-term considerations and while they are important, it is more important to remain focused on the long-term trends. Here’s what I’m thinking about lately: Let’s get the one everyone is...
Read More »About half of the Swiss cantons expect a deficit for 2025
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Read More »Week Ahead: Is the US Rate Adjustment Nearly Over? Be On Guard for Reversal Patterns
The combination of the stronger-than-expected US September jobs report and the slightly firmer inflation readings lifted US interest rates and the dollar. Several Fed officials spoke, and it did not appear that the employment or price reports changed views as much as it had impacted the capital markets. The September Summary of Economic Projections found a median projection (and 10 officials) that 50 bp of cuts in Q4 would be appropriate, but seven thought only one...
Read More »Justin Bennett erklärt: So erreicht Bitcoin die Marke von 70’000 US-Dollar
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Read More »Bitcoin, Ether & Co.: Die Performance der Kryptowährungen in KW 41
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