Weekly SNB Sight Deposits and Speculative Positions: SNB buying euros at high prices – February 22, 2021
2021-02-22
Update February 22 2021: SNB intervening. Sight Deposits have risen by +0.1 bn CHF, this means that the SNB is intervening and buying Euros and Dollars: The change is +0.1 bn. compared to last week.
The Problem with Mandatory “Socially Responsible Investing”
2020-12-28
The term environmental social governance (ESG) investing is relatively new. As described in Forbes, [An] approach that is slowly on the rise is ESG activism, where an activist fund will take a position in the security of a company with the aim of campaigning to make its business better in terms of governance, less environmentally unfriendly and more socially responsible.
Feudalism and Cronyism in Machiavelli’s Italy
2020-12-23
Although liberty is a recurring concern in Machiavelli’s writings, there is no consensus regarding either the definition of the concept or its relevance for his overall political thought.
The American Revolution Was a Culture War
2020-12-22
Two hundred and forty-seven years ago this month, a group of American opponents of the Crown’s tax policy donned disguises and set about methodically destroying a shipment of tea imported into Boston by the East India Company. The vandals trespassed on privately owned ships in Boston Harbor and threw the tea into the ocean.
The US Money Supply Was up 37 Percent in November
2020-12-17
In November, money supply growth rate was essentially unchanged from October and remains near September’s all-time high. The stabilization we find in money-supply growth in recent months comes after eight months of record-breaking growth in the US which came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages.
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
2020-12-12
The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Centuryby Mark ThorntonAuburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2018. Michael Novak ([email protected]) is a Ph.D. student in entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He also holds an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Double Your Gift Today!
2020-12-03
Dr. Gary Schlarbaum, one of our generous supporters, has again offered to match all donations received through December 7. That means your $10 donation becomes $20, your $25 donation becomes $50, and so on.
The Dystopian “Fourth Industrial Revolution” Will Be Very Different from the First One
2020-11-26
Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has big plans for a "sustainable" future. Most of it involves the destruction of markets and basic human rights.