In July 2023, the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) announced FedNow as their foray into the US dollar central bank digital currency (CBDC) payment service. The service is offered to insure immediate CBDC payments are made to a registered individual and/or business buying and selling products and/or services. The FRB offers CBDC as a quick payment convenience to Americans when many see it as a subtle expansion of FRB monetary management power and control.Many dollar...

SwissComply, ein führender Anbieter von Compliance- und Risikomanagement-Lösungen für Finanzdienstleister, hat Primecoach übernommen. Damit baut SwissComply nicht nur sein Dienstleistungsangebot aus.

Die Verbraucherpreise in den USA stiegen im Oktober zwar um 2,6 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat, nach 2,4 Prozent im September. Von der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters befragte Volkswirte hatten mit diesem Wert allerdings gerechnet. «Die Tatsache, dass der Verbraucherpreisindex im Einklang mit den Prognosen steht, gibt den Investoren die Möglichkeit, durchzuatmen und sich auf andere Sachen zu konzentrieren, die gerade im Fokus stehen», sagte Ross Mayfield, Stratege beim...

Der neue starke Mann an der Spitze stellt den Zürcher Real Estate Investment Manager neu auf. Dabei sieht er die grössten Chancen für Helvetica ganz bewusst nicht in den Zentrumslagen.

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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....

Once it is averred that inequality is wrong and the government ought to do “something” to make people more equal, tyranny is always around the corner. Equalization methods and strategies may vary, but some degree of coercion is guaranteed once it is decided to equalize human beings. The philosopher Antony Flew characterized egalitarianism as a procrustean ideal—some must be stretched to breaking point, while others must be cut down to size, in order to ensure that...

«Die jüngsten politischen und finanzpolitischen Schlagzeilen haben den europäischen Markt für Staatsanleihen nicht erschüttert, was darauf hindeutet, dass die Positionierung der Anleger bereits die erhebliche Negativität widerspiegelte, die in den 10-jährigen französischen OATs (Obligations assimilables du Trésor oder fungible Staatsanleihen) gegenüber Bundesanleihen eingepreist war», schreibt Luca Ferramosca, Portfolio Manager bei Aegon Asset Management.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump favored the crypto industry, including appointing "crypto-friendly" regulators. Moreover, one of the plans he mentioned several times was the creation of a federal strategic reserve of crypto assets. Trump's decisive victory, along with the Republican sweep of Congress, makes it even more likely the crypto industry and related cryptocurrencies will benefit from a Trump presidency. Accordingly, in the aftermath of the election,...

Investor exuberance has rarely been so optimistic. In a recent post, we discussed investor expectations of returns over the next year, according to the Conference Board's Sentiment Index. To wit: "Consumer confidence in higher stock prices in the next year remains at the highest since 2018, following the 2017 “Trump” tax cuts." (Note: this survey was completed before the Presidential Election.) We also discussed households' allocations to equities, which,...