Popular discussions of inflation and the economy have produced more heat than light, if not heat and darkness. President Biden has made multiple remarks on his record, which taken singly are each incorrect. Taken together, Biden’s remarks on Bidenomics are incoherent.Biden claims that his main fiscal stimulus policy, the American Recovery Plan delivered record reductions in unemployment without causing inflation. Biden has insisted that corporate greed (Greedflation)...
Read More »Swiss corporate air travel picks up above European average
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Read More »John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Great Crash, 1929: A Retrospective
The New Deal has been a key driver behind how the Democratic Party justified its hold on political power in the United States. The precursor to the New Deal was the Great Depression, which, in the minds of many Americans, was triggered by the stock market crash in late 1929.However, is the Democratic memory of the crash and Depression thereafter accurate? Did those events justify the policies Democrats pursued through the New Deal? One way to explore these questions...
Read More »Strong Swiss franc forces Hero jam production to Spain
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Read More »US Benchmark Payroll Revisions Over-Hyped? Dollar may Benefit from Buying on Fact after Being Sold on Rumors
Overview: The preliminary annual revision to US jobs growth is front and center today. It has gotten more play that usual, amid speculation of a historically large revision. Yet, the direct impact on policy may be minimal. Federal Reserve officials, including Chair Powell, acknowledged that the payroll growth may have been overstated. Moreover, the Fed's judgment of the labor market is not based on one element of the multidimensional labor market. Indeed, given the...
Read More »The Only Type of Democracy that Actually Works
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 »Fed Funds Futures Offer Bond Market Insights
Profitable bond trading opportunities arise when your expectations about Fed policy differ from those of the market. Therefore, with the Fed seemingly embarking on a series of interest rate cuts, it behooves us to appreciate how many interest rate cuts the Fed Funds futures market expects and over what period. Equally important, Fed Funds futures help us assess the market’s economic growth and inflation expectations. Currently, Fed Funds futures imply the Fed...
Read More »Neue Schweizer Crypto Assets-Ökosystem Studie der Hochschule Luzern
In der Schweiz und Liechtenstein hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein diverses Ökosystem rund um Investitionen in Crypto Assets entwickelt. Auch in den letzten zwölf Monaten ist dieses stetig gewachsen und hat an Vielfalt hinzugewonnen. Die Regionen Zug und Zürich beherbergen die grösste Anzahl von Unternehmen. Einen aktuellen Überblick gibt die neueste «Crypto Assets Study» der Hochschule Luzern. Zwischen Juli 2023 und Juni 2024 haben sich die Preise und die...
Read More »Drogenpolitik: Liberal statt fiskal
Die Libertäre Partei (LP) begrüsst den Vorschlag der Jungfreisinnigen, weiche und harte Drogen zu liberalisieren. Im Gegensatz zur Jungpartei geht es ihr dabei jedoch um prinzipielle Überlegungen. Eine Drogenliberalisierung bedingt gleichzeitig eine Reform des Gesundheitswesens. Mit der Forderung, sowohl weiche als auch harte Drogen zu liberalisieren, haben die Jungfreisinnigen im Zuge der Street Parade für Aufmerksamkeit gesorgt. Mit ihrem Vorschlag haben sie grundsätzlich Recht....
Read More »USD/CHF approaches 0.8700 with US Inflation on horizon
USD/CHF marches toward 0.8700 as safe-haven flows to the Swiss Franc have diminished. Investors divide over the size of Fed’s interest-rate cuts in September. Investors await the US PPI and CPI data for July, which will be published at 12:30 GMT and Wednesday, respectively. The USD/CHF pair gains to near 0.8675 in Tuesday’s European session. The Swiss Franc asset strengthens as the appeal of the Swiss Franc as a safe-haven asset diminishes due...
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