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Kauf von Gladstone Commercial – Mit Immobilien Geld verdienen (REIT) 🏠💸
Ich nutze einen kleinen Rücksetzer, um die Position von Gladstone Commercial weiter auszubauen. Insgesamt verdopple ich meine Anteile von 250 auf 500 Stück. Hier geht’s übrigens zum letzten Aktien Kauf Alphabet. Kauf von Gladstone CommercialDas Investment von 250 Gladstone Commercial Aktien hat mich 5‘463.99 USD gekostet.
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The labels that show how much more international retailers charge Swiss
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USD/CHF New York Price Analysis: Dollar eases from session highs, trades below 0.9830 vs. Swiss franc
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New Swiss aid budget proposes more funds but for fewer countries
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Why It’s so Hard to Escape America’s “Anti-Poverty” Programs
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FX Daily, February 20: Covid-19 Hits Yen and Korean Won
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Swiss Trade Balance Q4 2019: Secondary sector shows positive growth rates again
SNB and CHF
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USD/CHF New York Price Analysis: Dollar eases from session highs, trades below 0.9830 vs. Swiss franc
USD/CHF prints another 2020 high and retraces down in the New York session. Bears are challenging the 0.9830 level. After hitting yet again a new 2020 high, USD/CHF is easing from session highs. The spot is trading below the 200-day simple moving averages suggesting an overall bearish momentum in the long term.
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USD/CHF Price Analysis: Bulls aim for 200-week SMA as MACD turns strongest in nine weeks
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2020-02-17 – The SNB’s Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture Series: Carmen Reinhart to hold fifth lecture
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Weekly SNB Sight Deposits and Speculative Positions
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Ein rationaler Erklärungsansatz für negative Zinsen
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“ECB Is Worst-Run Central Bank In The World” – Felix Zulauf Sees 30percent Plunge In US Stocks “Taking The World With It”
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Devisen: Euro stabilisiert sich nach neuem Tief seit fast drei Jahren
Gold and Bitcoin
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Widening Bid-Ask Spreads, Gold and Silver Market Report 17 February
The price of gold rose $14 and the price of silver fell $0.07. The gold-silver ratio rose further with this price action. Welcome to our new Gold and Silver Market Report, or “Market Report” for short. We are separating this from the economics essay, which was attached for many years. As they used to say in many toy commercials of yore, “batteries sold separately”—or in this case essays.
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Ex-cabinet members had knowledge of Crypto business dealings, say papers
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Gold Coins Worth £80,000 Found In Retiree’s Drawers In Cottage: “It Was Mind-Blowing. I Felt Like a Pirate in a Grotto”
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Former Swiss defence minister denies knowledge of Crypto-CIA links
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Investigation opened into Swiss encryption firm linked to CIA
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Gold Consolidates Near Six Year Record Highs At $1574/oz; WHO’s ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ Virus Warning
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Central banks weigh up response to Libra and bitcoin
Austrian Economics
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Why It’s so Hard to Escape America’s “Anti-Poverty” Programs
One of the most common debates that has occurred in the United States for the past six decades is the discussion of the poverty rate. As the narrative goes, the US has an unusually high poverty rate compared to equivalent nations in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
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Gold is the 7th sense of financial markets
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Some Problems with Worker Productivity Stats
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Three Reasons Why Decentralization and Secession Lead to More Open Economies
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The Secret to Fun and Easy Stock Market Riches
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Rothbard: The Constitution Was a Coup d’État
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Government “Fixes” for the Trade Balance Are Far Worse Than Any Trade Deficit
Swiss & European Macro
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Swiss Trade Balance Q4 2019: Secondary sector shows positive growth rates again
20.02.2020 - Secondary sector production rose by 1.3% in 4th quarter 2019 in comparison with the same quarter a year earlier. Turnover rose by 0.3%. This rise has continued without interruption since the 1st quarter 2017 but was slightly weaker in the reporting quarter. This is shown by provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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Weekly View – Merkel under pressure
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Swiss Producer and Import Price Index in January 2020: -1.0 percent YoY, unchanged MoM
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Swiss Labour Force Survey in 4rd quarter 2019: 0.9percent increase in number of employed persons; unemployment rate based on ILO definition falls to 3.9percent
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Swiss Consumer Price Index in January 2020: +0.2 percent YoY, +0.2 percent MoM
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Electric cars gain momentum: number of new registrations more than doubled in 2019
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Swiss Retail Sales, December 2019: -0.4 percent Nominal and 0.1 percent Real
Swiss Markets & News
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The labels that show how much more international retailers charge Swiss
To simplify labelling, many international retailers put recommended retail prices (RRP) for multiple nations on the same label, like the one below. The Swiss retail price premium laid bare.Labels such as these show how much more Swiss customers are being charged compared to customers in other countries.
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New Swiss aid budget proposes more funds but for fewer countries
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Tax on legal weed repealed
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Car emissions rising due to imported guzzlers, says report
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Portugal set to end tax holidays for foreign residents
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Swiss private bank Pictet to drop fossil fuel investments
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Swiss environmental agency sets no date for 5G launch
FX Trends
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FX Daily, February 20: Covid-19 Hits Yen and Korean Won
The increase of Covid-19 cases in South Korea and Japan, coupled with China's changing reverting back to its previous methodology of calculation, dropping clinically-diagnosed cases have again weakened risk appetites and sent the dollar broadly higher. Fears of a Japanese recession are sapping the yen's role as a safe haven, and this helps explain why Japanese equities did react as positively to the weaker yen than is often the case.
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FX Daily, February 19: Investors’ Confidence Snaps Back
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FX Daily, February 18: Apple’s Warning Weighs on Sentiment
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FX Daily, February 17: Dismal Q4 Japanese GDP Fails to Spur Yen Movement
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FX Daily, February 14: Investors Continue to Look Past the Coronavirus
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FX Daily, February 13: Surprise? China Undercounts Afflictions and Fatalities, Curbs Risk Taking
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FX Daily, February 12: The Greenback Slips in Subdued Activity
Global Macro & Emerging Markets
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The World Is Awash in Oil, False Assurances, Magical Thinking and Complacency as Global Demand Careens Toward a Cliff
This collapse of price will manifest in all sorts of markets that are based on debt-funded purchases of desires rather than a warily prudent priority on needs. Since markets are supposed to discover the price of excesses and scarcities, it's a mystery why everything that is in oversupply is still grossly overpriced as global demand slides off a cliff: oil, semiconductors, Uber rides, AirBNB listings and many other risk-on / global growth...
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European Data: Much More In Store For Number Four
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US Sales and Production Remain Virus-Free, But Still Aren’t Headwind-Free
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Drivers for the Week Ahead
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The Fed Has Created a Monster Bubble It Can No Longer Control
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You Shouldn’t Miss The Cupom
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Virus Concerns Resurface
Markets
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The Secret to Fun and Easy Stock Market Riches
Post Hoc Fallacy. On Tuesday, at the precise moment Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell commenced delivering his semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee, something unpleasant happened. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) didn’t go up. Rather, it went down.
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A Pharmaceutical Stock That Is Often Particularly Strong At This Time Of The Year
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The Triumph of Madness
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Markets on Edge as New Week Begins
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The Golden Autumn Season – One of the Most Reliable Seasonal Patterns Begins
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America’s Road Map to $40 Trillion National Debt by 2028
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Tidbits Of Further Warnings: Houston, We (Still) Have A (Repo) Problem
CHF End of Peg
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Impressive Swiss Recovery After SNB Peg Removal
Retail data shows that the SNB peg removal in January 2015 as early as April 2015 with minimal adverse impact on the economy. Trade surplus showed that Switzerland had fully recovered its lost trade surplus in May and expectations crossed an important threshold into positive territory in June. CHF strengthened since May end, as the market caught wind of the Swiss recovery, and the Grexit would further strengthen the CHF if it were to occur.
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Q1/2015: Swiss Real GDP Rises by 15 percent … in Euro Terms
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Is the Swiss Franc Really so Expensive or is Swiss Consumption anemic?
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End of EUR/CHF Peg
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Colin Lloyd on the end of the EUR CHF peg
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Why did the Swiss franc spike? Lack of Capital Outflows
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What Caused The Swiss Financial Tsunami? Three Reasons, One Trigger, One Chain Reaction
The History of the Swiss Franc
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The Secret History Of The Banking Crisis
Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the story of the secretive deals between banks that kept the show on the road. How long can the system be propped up for? It is a decade since the first tremors of what would become the Great Financial Crisis began to convulse global markets. Across the world from China and South Korea, to Ukraine, Greece, Brexit Britain and Trump’s America it has shaken our economy, our society and latterly our...
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Swiss Franc History: Volcker Shock, Oil Glut and the Breakdown of Gold and Emerging Markets
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Swiss Franc History, 2000-2007: The sale of the Swiss gold reserves
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Swiss Franc History: From Bretton Woods until the Swiss real estate crisis
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Swiss Franc History: The Gold Standard and Bretton Woods
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Swiss Franc History: Weak German and Swiss growth between 1996 and 2004
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Swiss Franc History 1986-1996: Swiss real estate Boom and Bust
Economic Theory
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Traditional Monetarist vs. Market Monetarists
Along the double mandate of the federal reserve, monetarists can be divided into. - traditional monetarists that focus on a slow increase of money supply in order to avoid price inflation. - Market monetarists that want to target growth and income instead of inflation.
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Rational Expectations, Lucas Critique and NAIRU
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7b) Major Schools of Economics
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Mainstream Economics, The Long Run
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Irvin Fisher’s Deflationary Spiral
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Minsky and Kindleberger
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Don’t Sell Economic Stability to Buy Economic Growth, Warns Tomáš Sedláček
Richard Koo and Sector Balances
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Weak Yen, Is it Really a Currency War?
Some journalists, like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the U.K.'s Telegraph and Michael Casey of the Wall Street Journal, have already claimed this to be a shot in the currency wars. Casey focuses exclusively on the BOJ activity and does not even mention GPIF. Evans-Pritchard spends most of his time talking about the bearish yen implications of the increased BOJ purchases, and mentions GPIF only at the very end of the his essay, and even then to...
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Richard Koo, Revitalizing the Eurozone without Fiscal Union, April 2012
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7d) Richard Koo’s and other Sector Balances
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How Long Will the U.S. Recovery Last? A Reminder: The False Japanese Recovery in 1998/1999
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Richard Koo: Balance Sheet Recessions
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Balance Sheet Recession becomes mainstream, four years too late
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Cultural Reasons for Japan’s Deflation: Can the U.S. Go into a Balance Sheet Recession?
