In 2022 Switzerland rejected Denmark’s bid to provide 22 Swiss-made Piranha III infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. sda-ats Listen to the article Listening the article...
Read More »The Battle of the Confederate Monuments
Various justifications have been advanced by those removing or destroying Confederate monuments to explain why they deem it necessary to dismantle the Confederate heritage. For example, the memorial to Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina was demolished on grounds that it was “a painful symbol of racism.” In the tumult surrounding the Black Lives Matter riots, “168 Confederate symbols were removed across the United States.” In 2020 the Mississippi flag was...
Read More »«Das wichtigste Menschenrecht ist es, in Ruhe gelassen zu werden.»
«Das wichtigste Menschenrecht ist es, in Ruhe gelassen zu werden.» (Olivier Kessler, Direktor Liberales Institut) Ein bemerkenswertes Interview mit Olivier Kessler auf Hoch2 – hier abrufbar: https://hoch2.tv/sendung/240904-politik-kessler/ Freiheitsdiät für die Schweiz (00:45)Staatsquote: Entwicklung (02:18)Abspecken im Bildungsbereich (04:35)Energiepolitik: Weg von der Planwirtschaft (11:36)Umweltschutz ist nicht gleich Kllimapolitik (14:49)Zwangsversicherungen aufheben...
Read More »Week Ahead: Can the US CPI Do What Payrolls Didn’t and Persuade the Market that the Fed Will Deliver a 50 bp Cut ?
After the US jobs report and Fed speak, the market scaled back the odds of a 50 bp cut at the September 17-18 FOMC meeting. It settled last week slightly below a 30% chance. The odds were shaved for the second consecutive week. Fed officials have indicated that the full employment mandate is now of greater significance given its growing confidence that inflation is heading back toward its 2% target. Next week's August CPI and PPI are likely to be consistent with...
Read More »America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago
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....
Read More »Conceptual Clarity in Dismantling Economic Jargon
It might seem like common sense to say that good ideas should be clear, but the notion that good ideas should be obscure and inaccessible to laymen has long been prevalent in academic circles. Murray Rothbard describes Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money as, “not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely...
Read More »Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Easy-Money Bust?
Since early 2022, the big buzz in the tech industry, and among laymen in the general public, has been “artificial intelligence.” While the concept isn’t new—AI has been the term used to describe how computers play games since at least the 1980s—it’s once again captured the public’s imagination.Before getting into the meat of the article, a brief primer is necessary. When talking about AI, it’s important to understand what is meant. AI can be broken down into seven...
Read More »Where Will All the Money Go?
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....
Read More »Bitcoin, Ether & Co.: Die Performance der Kryptowährungen in KW 36
So bewegten sich die einzelnen Kryptowährungen in der Kalenderwoche 36: [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »Bitcoin-Derivate im Fokus: NASDAQ plant Einführung von Indexoptionen
• NASDAQ will Anlegern per Bitcoin mehr Risikostreuung anbieten<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen seit Mitte des Jahres an der NYSE<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen vs. Bitcoin-Index-Optionen<!-- sh_cad_1 --> <h2>US-Techbörse NASDAQ will Bitcoin-Indexoptionen anbieten</h2> Ende August 2024 reichte die US-Technologiebörse NASDAQ bei der Börsenaufsicht SEC... [embedded content]...
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