Monthly Archive: June 2022

In Defense of Defaulting on the National Debt

2022-06-22

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2022-06-22

With the acknowledged national debt now a politically and economically unpayable $30 trillion (in reality, its unfunded liabilities are far greater), Americans should start to become acclimated to the realities of the United States’ eventual, inevitable default.

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Juneteenth and Secular Holidays as Tool of the Regime

2022-06-22

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2022-06-22

Last year Congress officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday. While Very Serious talking heads attempted desperately to convince those that would listen that Juneteenth was a long-celebrated American holiday, the reality is that it was largely unknown around the nation prior to congressional action. The episode is a useful illustration of how the state weaponizes secular holidays to promote a larger cultural agenda.

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„Bitcoin is Dead“ mit neuem Spitzenwert in Google Suche

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

Nach dem spektakulären Absturz in der letzten Woche, verlor der BTC zum Wochenende nochmals und stürzte sogar unter die Marke von 20K. Auf Google wurden darauf Höchstwerte für den Suchbegriff „Bitcoin is Dead“ registriert.

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Equities Jump, Dollar Slips, and European Yields Drop

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

Stocks are rallying. Nearly all the large bourses in the Asia Pacific region rose with China being the noted exception.

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Long shadow of Russian money raises tricky questions for Swiss bankers

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

January used to be a big month for Swiss bankers and their Russian clients. Many of the Moscow elite had made a tradition of coming to the Alps for the orthodox new year, skiing with their families, then catching up with their financial consiglieri.

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SNB hebt Leitzinsen um 0,5 Prozentpunkte an

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

Die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) hebt etwas überraschend den Leitzins deutlich an. Das letzte Mal hat sie das vor 15 Jahren getan, zu Beginn der Finanzkrise im September 2007.

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Angry April TIC Zeroed In On China’s CNY and Japan’s JPY

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

If the March gasoline/oil spike hit a weak global economy really hard and caused what more and more looks like a recessionary shock, a(n un)healthy part of it was the acceleration of Euro$ #5 concurrently rippling through the global reserve system.

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Die neue Zweiklassengesellschaft

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

Der Zweiklassengesellschaft kommt im sozialistischen Denken eine wichtige Funktion zu. Eingriffe in das Privateigentum bis hin zur kompletten Enteignung – gern auch als „Vergesellschaftung“ begrifflich verschleiert – erscheinen vor diesem Hintergrund in anderem Licht.

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How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

The most dangerous words in monetary policy and economics are “this time is different.” Argentine politicians’ big mistake is to believe that inflation is multicausal and that everything is solved with increasing doses of interventionism.

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US Holiday Facilitates Consolidative Tone

2022-06-20

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2022-06-20

Overview: Most equity markets in the Asia Pacific region lost ground today. China’s Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and India were notable exceptions.

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Powell’s “Soft Landing” Is Impossible

2022-06-20

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2022-06-20

After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and incentivizing an enormous leveraged bet on risk, the idea of a controlled explosion or a “soft landing” is impossible.

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Immobilien – Remax-Schweiz-Chef Jöhl : «Die Zinserhöhung wird den Markt für privates Wohneigentum nicht in Schieflage bringen»

2022-06-20

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2022-06-20

Wie werden sich die Preise für Schweizer Wohneigentum entwickeln, nachdem die Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) am Donnerstag die Zinsen erhöhte?

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Sorry Chairman Powell, Even FRBNY Now Has To Forecast Serious and Seriously Rising Recession Risk

2022-06-20

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2022-06-20

At his last press conference, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell made a bunch of unsubstantiated claims, none of which were called out or even questioned by the assembled reporters. These rituals are designed to project authority not conduct inquiry, and this one was perhaps the best representation of that intent. Powell’s job is to put the current predicament in the best possible light, starting by downplaying the current predicament.

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With the Central Bank Pivots Discounted, Will the Forex Market Consolidate?

2022-06-19

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2022-06-19

The dramatic moves in the money market were investors discounting the acceleration of the tightening cycle among the major economies. 

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Even after Admitting She Underestimated Inflation, Janet Yellen Still Doesn’t Understand What It Is

2022-06-19

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2022-06-19

According to the June 1, 2022, Financial Times, Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary conceded she was wrong last year about the path inflation would take.

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Will Interest Rate Hikes Fix Inflation?

2022-06-19

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2022-06-19

Senator Elizabeth Warren and President Joe Biden claim that inflation[i] is caused by greedy corporations. And they propose to solve this problem by making the corporations pay. Whether it’s extracting a “windfall profits” tax, crushing them under even more regulation, or attacking them with antitrust enforcement, the idea is the same.

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Huobi wird Lizenz in Thailand entzogen

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

Huobi, eine der größten Crypto-Börsen im asiatischen Raum, wurde die Lizenz in Thailand entzogen. Huobi ist auch außerhalb Asiens eine der größeren Börsen. Die Ursache für den Lizenzentzug sind Verstöße gegen staatliche Regulierungen.

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How Long Will Inflation Last 2022

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

What if we told you that you could predict the future? For today’s guest, this is certainly the case when it comes to future market events.

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On the Digital Future of Markets and Money

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

Thank you very much for the invitation. I am delighted to have the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on a topic I am very much interested in and that I believe is of the utmost importance to people around the globe—and that is “the digital future of markets and money.”

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No, It’s Not “Greed” or “Price Gouging” that’s Driving up Gas Prices

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

Both consumer prices and producer rose near to multi-decade highs last month. Price inflation rose to 8.6 percent while wholesale producer prices rose by more than 10 percent. In both cases, a significant factor behind rising prices—but certainly not the only factor—was high energy prices. This has been reflected in prices related to transportation and shipping.

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