An issue which not long ago had only the support of Ron Paul has now become a priority for the Trump Administration: the auditing of Fort Knox. At CPAC last week, Donald Trump took time out of speech to boast that he and Elon Musk were soon to be traveling to America’s largest gold depository “to see if the gold is there. Because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold.”The topic of Fort Knox is interesting itself for a number of other reasons. Its gold reserve...

Schwache Exporte und Produktionsrückgänge im Auto- und Maschinenbau belasten die deutsche Wirtschaft. Im vierten Quartal 2024 schrumpfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt um 0,2 Prozent zum Vorquartal, wie das Statistische Bundesamt am Dienstag in Wiesbaden mitteilte und damit eine erste Schätzung bestätigte. Analysten hatten dies im Schnitt erwartet.

In 2021, the main destinations for illicit waste from Switzerland were Western Europe (likely because of Schengen rules that abolished border controls, said criminologist Serena Favarin), Eastern Europe and Africa. About a third of illicit shipments are returned to Switzerland, according to the federal environment office. Keystone...

[Editor’s Note: In 2011, Congressman Ron Paul sponsored legislation to audit the gold reserves of the United States and publish the results of that audit for public scrutiny. Thanks to opposition from the usual opponents of transparency and decent monetary policy in both parties, the bill was never passed. Below is the text of Congressman Paul’s opening statement on the legislation at the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. Paul was...

Verwaltungsratschef Ian Meakins lobte Schumacher für die Neuausrichtung der Strategie des Konzerns sowie für die finanziellen Fortschritte 2024. Obwohl der Verwaltungsrat mit der Leistung von Unilever 2024 zufrieden sei, bleibe noch viel zu tun, «um erstklassige Ergebnisse zu erzielen», so Meakins. Für Noch-Finanzchef Fernandez werde nun die Suche nach einem Nachfolger gestartet. An den Zielen für 2025 sowie an den mittelfristigen Aussichten hält Unilever fest.

Beim Vermögensverwalter Bellevue sind im vergangenen Jahr weitere Kundengelder abgeflossen. In der Folge brach, wie bereits in Aussicht gestellt, der Gewinn ein. Die Aktionäre erhalten eine deutlich tiefere Dividende.

High inflation spurred Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris last November. The economy was the top issue for most voters, and inflation was the top economic issue. As Biden’s partner in economic crime, Harris could not escape the blame for the torpedoing of the dollar’s value in recent years.Inflation occurs when the government prints excessive currency, resulting in more money chasing the same amount of goods and services. Nobel Laureate economist Friedrich...

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....

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