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How Asset Price Inflation Is Different from Goods Price Inflation

There has been no constant concept of asset price inflation through the modern age of fiat money even amongst those who recognize the condition. The term has become most popular in the present period of inflation targeting coupled with the use of radical monetary tools. The historian of economic thought could doubtless find some common threads through the evolving concept going back into the nineteenth century or earlier (indeed the first big example is the Dutch...

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Google admits defeat in disputed Swiss cloud tender

US technology giant Google argued that it had the capabilities to offer the cloud data services to Switzerland. Keystone / Bernd Von Jutrczenka The Swiss federal authorities can proceed with awarding a cloud computing contract to five US and Chinese companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Alibaba, after Google dropped an appeal against the decision to leave it out of the project. “The appeal lodged within the framework of the procedure having been withdrawn, the...

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Schweizer Betreibungsauszüge auf der Blockchain

Betreibungsschalter-Plus.ch bietet neu mit Blockchain-Siegel versehene elektronische Betreibungsauszüge an. Damit hat der Empfänger oder die Empfängerin eines Betreibungsauszugs die Sicherheit, dass die Daten echt sind. Die Blockchain-Technologie bietet einen innovativen Ansatz für die Versiegelung von Dokumenten. Betreibungsauszüge mit einem Blockchain-basierten elektronischen Siegel sind absolut fälschungssicher. Die Echtheit und Unveränderbarkeit der Daten sind...

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Dienstag-Abend ist Corona-Abend

Am kommenden Dienstag, 16. November 2021 finden gerade zwei interessante Anlässe zu Corona, der Covid-Impfung und der Covid-19-Abstimmungsvorlage statt. Offene Diskussionsrunde zum Covid-19-Gesetz Experten aus den Bereichen Recht, Ethik, Medizin und Wirtschaft geben Antworten: Prof. Dr. iur. David Dürr, Anwalt und NotarDr. theol. Ruth Baumann-Hölzle, EthikerinDr. med. Stephan Rietiker, Arzt und UnternehmerAndreas Kyriacou, Präsident Freidenker-Vereinigung Zeit: Dienstag 16....

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Geneva-Lausanne train link remains suspended

The holes were caused by tunneling work under the tracks carried out by a private company, which was working on a thermal energy project using water from Lake Geneva to heat an industrial zone not far from the train line. Keystone / Jean-christophe Bott The main rail link between Geneva and Lausanne in southwestern Switzerland will not re-open until Friday morning, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF) has confirmed. The line has been suspended since Tuesday after land...

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Why There Is No Free Lunch

No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught and Probably Believe by Caleb S. Fuller Freiling Publishing, 2021. 110 pp. Caleb Fuller, an economist who teaches at Grove City College, thinks that many people have a mistaken conception of economics. It is, they think, a dull and dry subject, the “dismal science,” of primary interest to specialists. Fuller disagrees. He says that “economics changed my life” (p. 11; all page references are to the Amazon Kindle...

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American farmers pursue Syngenta over herbicide’s link to Parkinson’s disease

Paraquat has been sold in the US since the 1960s and through acquisitions, mergers and spin-offs it ended up in Syngenta’s product portfolio. Keystone / Charlie Neibergall The Swiss-based multinational has already set aside $187.5 million (CHF 171 million) to settle legal cases filed by farmers exposed to paraquat. But the total bill could run into billions as lawsuits pile up. American farmer Doug Holliday has helped feed the nation for decades, growing corn and...

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Price Inflation Hits a 31-Year High as Janet Yellen Insists It’s No Big Deal

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday morning that prices rose 6.2% on a year-over-year basis in October. That’s the highest YOY rate since December 1990 when the CPI was also up 6.2 percent. October’s rate was up from 5.3 percent in September, and remains part of a surge in the index since February 2021 when year-over-year growth was still muted at 1.6 percent. Not surprisingly, producer prices surged in October as well. The producer price index for...

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The Problem with “Stakeholder Capitalism”

Writing in the Investment Monitor on March 18, 2021, Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, was urging the replacement of the present economic system. According to Schwab, the present system is deficient, since it only benefits a small minority of the population while leaving all the others at a visible disadvantage. Schwab is of the view that a system that strives at attaining maximum profits, which he labels as shareholder capitalism, is bad news...

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