If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being prominently denounced as...
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Neue Banknotenserie: Von Höhen und Tiefen der Schweiz
Die Nationalbank lanciert einen Gestaltungswettbewerb für neue Banknoten. Sie bekennt sich damit zum Bargeld – und sorgt dafür, dass die Noten auch in Zukunft sicher, funktional und ansprechend sein werden. Erstmals will die Nationalbank aber die Meinung der Bevölkerung bei der Bewertung der Entwürfe einfliessen lassen.
Read More »Deutschland: Inflation steigt stärker als erwartet
Waren und Dienstleistungen verteuerten sich im Oktober um durchschnittlich 2,0 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahresmonat. Das ist etwas mehr als Ökonomen gerechnet hatten. Im September war die Inflationsrate mit 1,6 Prozent noch auf den tiefsten Stand seit rund dreieinhalb Jahren gesunken.
Read More »Is Trump Literally Hitler?
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 »Grösste Herausforderung steht Ermotti & Co. noch bevor
Die UBS überraschte mit ihren Quartalszahlen einmal mehr die Märkte. Doch im Integrationsprozess steht ihr noch viel Arbeit bevor. Und auf einen zentralen Aspekt hat die Grossbank nur bedingt Einfluss. Eine Analyse.
Read More »Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents
The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and second place, but occasionally George Washington will come in second. In the past several years, Donald Trump has been ranked dead last in all of them while Joe Biden has ranked...
Read More »Swiss federal prosecutor receives Credit Suisse papers on Mozambique scandal
The Mozambique scandal concerns loans to Mozambique arranged by Credit Suisse a decade ago, which were taken out without the knowledge of the local parliament and the International Monetary Fund. Keystone / Georgios Kefalas Listen to the article...
Read More »What “Capitalism” Really Means
Grace Blakeley is a self-described socialist economist and author in the UK, appearing on shows like Politics Live, JOE Politics, and Novara Media. Grace throws down the proverbial gauntlet to self-described capitalists who often find themselves falling over their own logic. This should not be surprising since the “capitalists” that she often debates usually have a conservative worldview that is littered with its own inconsistencies, so socialists tend to have a...
Read More »Das sind die 21 neuen Hotels in der Schweiz
Modern, stylish, historisch – das ist die Liste mit den Schweizer Hotelneueröffnungen, Erweiterungen und bisherigen Openings im Jahr 2024.
Read More »Gold climbing from record high to record high: why buy now?
Share this article Part II of II Business as usual” will simply not cut it anymore. The “print and spend” policies of the past, the QE lifelines, the liquidity injections, the zero and negative interest rates, the blatant debasement of the currency, the market manipulation and all the direct and indirect bailouts will not work as they did before. And it’s not only because the central bankers have overused these “weapons” and have by now exhausted all their...
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