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AstroPay as a Payment Method for Online Gambling in Australia: Is It Worth?

2023-06-01

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2023-06-01

Year in and year out, online gambling continues to increase in popularity in Australia. With the industry’s growth, there has been a surge in the number of payment methods available to players. With the many payment options available, AstroPay stands out as one of Australia’s most secure and reliable online gambling options. What is AstroPay? …

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Zillow CEO: If You Can, Sell Your U.S. Home Now

2013-06-20

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2013-06-20

Via CNBC   Against the backdrop of increasing home prices and the prospect of much higher mortgage rates, it’s a “great time” to sell, Spencer Rascoff, CEO of online real estate marketplace Zillow, told CNBC on Thursday. That is, if you can find a place to buy, he added. “As mortgage rates inevitably come from …

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Adam Smith Institute: Could Deflation Be Salvation?

2013-06-11

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2013-06-11

Imagine wages and factor prices are stable.  Hence deflation means productivity growth: Higher quantities bought for a lower price. Low inflation or even deflation is the Swiss success story for decades and the success story for the United States recently. The Pigou effect seems to be saving the US economy, just as it did in …

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Jim Rogers: EU Should Address Real Problem: Their Excessive Spending Habits

2013-05-20

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2013-05-20

Switzerland's banking secrecy is under threat. EU finance ministers have agreed to put pressure. Jim Rogers EU leaders should address the real problems - like their own unchecked spending habits. Video

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Fast Fact: Germany paid 5% Interest and Had 0.5% Average Growth between 1996 and 2002

2013-04-28

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2013-04-28

10yr eurozone 1993-2012 greece ireland germany italy spain euro introduced lehman collapse
Most recently the Bundesbank critised the ECB decision to reduce Italian yields contained in the OMT program. To put things into perspective: Germany paid 5% interest for 10 years government bonds between 1996 and 2002. This at average inflation-adjusted GDP growth rates of 0.5%.   But there was no ECB that was buying German bonds …

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Credit Suisse Study: Swiss Real Estate Market Needs Higher Rates

2013-03-07

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2013-03-07

Swiss Real Estate Income vs. Price
A new study by Credit Suisse claims that the SNB needs to hike interest rates in order to avoid excessive risk taking in real estate markets; in particular around the centers of Geneva and Zurich, but also in the Southern Swiss cantons with lower income, but high real estate prices.

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Paul Krugman in 1990s: Long Live the French Franc!

2013-02-27

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2013-02-27

Krugman-in-France
Krugman in the 1990s: "France represents the most extreme case of “eurosclerosis”: of “ludicrously overregulated” labor markets and overprotected jobs. These issues and the unsuited German monetary policies to create the euro were the source of France’s troubles." View Craig Willy's...

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Will the SNB Start Financial Repression too?

2013-02-18

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2013-02-18

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
Most recent Swiss inflation data show that several items have risen by 1% in one month. Former ECB member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi claims that a currency war would lead to financial repression even by central banks that predominantly concentrate on price stability - like the SNB.

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Recreating the Asset Bubble: The Fed’s Plan for Economic Recovery

2013-02-16

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2013-02-16

U.S. Net Worth Since 1990
The Fed's plan is recreate an asset bubble, so that economic actors have enough time to forget about the latest one and adjust their rational expectations about low future growth to the upside.  Read the Circle...

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Will Switzerland finally get hit by eurozone woes?

2013-01-04

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2013-01-04

Guardian Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Switzerland and Japan are currently the leaders in currency manipulation, now even in front of the Fed and far ahead of the leader until 2009, China. Hear the interview with Guardian's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on World Radio Switzerland.

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Goldman Sachs: Reducing Wages in Periphery Is Not Enough

2012-12-28

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2012-12-28

Wage Reduction Not Sufficient NIIP
The must-read Goldman analysis on Zerohedge: it is not enough to reduce wages in Greece or Spain. These countries will see lost decade(s). Completely in-line with our analysis that

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The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics

2012-12-27

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2012-12-27

Paul A. Samuelson
John Cassidy's remarkable interview with the Nobel Prize winner Paul Samuelson maybe best describes the rise and fall of Keynesian economics. Keynesians led the world to two of its most unfortunate experiences, the 1970s stagflation and to the...

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About the Impossibilities of the Common-Currency-Recession-Austerity Cycle

2012-12-18

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2012-12-18

charles wyplosz
Charles Wyplosz, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva repeats our arguments in "Who says No to Austerity, Says Yes to the Northern Euro" about the impossibility of getting out of the common currency - recession - austerity - cycle.  Similar as we do, he proposes a public...

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Can the United States Be Really More than Just the Global Consumer?

2012-12-15

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2012-12-15

US trade deficit since 1994
The ISM PMI under 50 shows that the United States are in contraction as for industrial production. The dollar is simply too strong. The Americans consume, but the US trade deficit gets bigger. The Chinese, Japanese,  Germans and some global US firms take the profits on it. Today a worth-reading propaganda...

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Five facts you need to know about China’s currency manipulation

2012-12-15

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2012-12-15

U.S. President Barack Obama Visits China
Five facts you need to know about China’s currency manipulation Ezra Klein. Washington Post

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Wie eine Währungsunion Italiens Süden verarmen ließ

2012-12-09

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2012-12-09

Unterschiede Nord Süditlalien
Wie eine Währungsunion Italiens Süden verarmen ließ Vor 150 Jahren wurde in ganz Italien die Lira eingeführt. Der reiche Norden blieb reich. Der Süden stürzte ab. mehr in der FAZ

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Switzerland, the Paradise of Insider Trading and Intransparency

2012-12-07

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2012-12-07

Insider Trading
Switzerland is well known as the country, where even central bankers were allowed to do insider trading. Instead the whistle blowers get problems with the courts. Some new cases of insider  trading include UBS, General Electric and Valiant, see the article on 

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Poll: Austrian politicians miss economic skills or are simply liars

2012-12-07

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2012-12-07

For the Austrian public, the Greek crisis shows that 21% of politicians and so-called experts do not have the required economic skills, 60% say that these elites were simply lying Details on ORF. Latest

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SNB Losses in October and November: 8.4 Billion Francs, 1.5% of GDP

2012-12-05

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2012-12-05

SNB Assets vs. Liabilities src. UBS
According to the SNB balance sheet and the SNB data delivery to the IMF, the central bank lost 8.4 billion francs of equity in the months of October and November, the equivalent of 1.5% of Swiss GDP. Details SNBCHF.COM

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