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EUR/CHF edges lower after release of deceptively-high Eurozone inflation, Swiss GDP

EUR/CHF mildly falls on Friday as markets digest Eurozone HICP inflation data for November.  The Euro weakens as it does little to change the outlook for interest rates , a key driver of FX valuations.  CHF gains marginally on stronger GDP growth data but hamstrung by comments for the SNB’s President Schlegel.  EUR/CHF edges lower to trade on the 0.9300 handle on Friday after the release of Eurozone inflation data continues to suggest European...

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Bankers, Fed Origins, and World War I

Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.—RothschildThe real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...—FDRThe American people are suckers for the word “reform.” You just put that into any corrupt piece of legislation, call it “reform” and people say “Oh, I’m all for ‘reform,’” and so they vote for it or accept it.”—G....

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Rail infrastructure cost overrun surprises Swiss government

Last weekend, Swiss voters rejected a plan to invest in road infrastructure, partly due to the CHF 4.9 billion price tag. This week, Switzerland’s federal parliament learned the CHF 16.4 billion budgeted for rail infrastructure expansion between now and 2035 could reach more than CHF 30 billion, reported SRF. Swiss Rail © Ciolca | Dreamstime.comThe cost overrun was first reported by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and later confirmed by the Federal Office of Transport (FOT). CHF 8.5 billion of...

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What’s at Stake in “Stakeholder” Capitalism?

A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims: The Ugly Truth about Stakeholder Capitalism. By Andrew F. Puzder. Encounter Books, 2024; xiii + 335 pp.Andrew Puzder, who is both a leading business executive—he was the CEO of a restaurant chain that owns Carl’s Jr.—and an experienced attorney, tells a dramatic tale. The free market is by far the best economic system and has made possible, since the Industrial Revolution, a historically unprecedented rate of economic growth....

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Frederic Bastiat

Apropos Freihandel. Hier empfehle ich den 1846 erschienenen Essay „Schutz der Sonne“ von Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850). Darin ironisiert Bastiat eine fiktive Petition der Lampen- und Leuchten-Produzenten an das französische Parlament. Sie fordern ein Gesetz zur Schließung aller Fenster, Läden und Luken, durch die das Sonnenlicht in die Häuser eindringen kann. Dies soll die Industriezweige der Lampen- und Leuchten-Produzenten vor billiger Konkurrenz durch das Sonnenlicht schützen und...

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