Category Archive: 2) Swiss and European Macro

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George Dorgan (penname) predicted the end of the EUR/CHF peg at the CFA Society and at many occasions on SeekingAlpha.com and on this blog. Several Swiss and international financial advisors support the site. These firms aim to deliver independent advice from the often misleading mainstream of banks and asset managers. George is FinTech entrepreneur, financial author and alternative economist. He speak seven languages fluently.
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Brexit-Chaos: Was ich mache!

2019-01-14

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Droht das totale Chaos an den Aktienmärkten durch den Brexit? Morgen kommt es zur alles entscheidenden Abstimmung im britischen Parlament, über das Austrittsabkommen. In diesem Video möchte ich euch sagen, wie ich mich als langfristiger Investor verhalte, aber …

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Concerns about Italy have not gone away

2019-01-14

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2019-01-14

Italian Real GDP Growth and Surveys, Q1 2012-Q1 2018
Rome and Brussels reached a compromise on the Italian government’s budget plans last month. But there are plenty of reasons for thinking this will be a challenging year for Italy.After battling for more than two months over a 2019 budget plan defiantly non-compliant with the EU fiscal rules, Rome and Brussels struck a last-minute agreement in December that avoided opening an Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP).

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Warum die Riesterrente keine Rendite abwerfen wird – Heiner Flassbeck

2019-01-14

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Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Heiner Flassbeck erklärt, warum die deutschen Sparbeiträge ins Ausland wandern und warum die #Riesterrente keine Rendite abwerfen wird. #Riester #Rente Ganzes Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT36zak5XUY Aktuelles Buch von Flassbeck: https://www.amazon.de/Gescheiterte-Globalisierung-Ungleichheit-Renaissance-suhrkamp/dp/3518127225

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UK Politicians remain stuck in the mire

2019-01-13

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2019-01-13

Brexit - Simplified view of possibilities ahead
Next week’s vote on the divorce deal is likely to be defeated, and there is precious little time for an alternative before the Brexit deadline in March.The British parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s EU divorce deal will be on 15 January. The deal is likely to be rejected, as there has been little progress since December, when a first vote was called off for lack of support.

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Heiner Flassbeck: Better economic prospects for Africans require a different economic policy

2019-01-12

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Emmanuel Ametepeh, a political scientist from Ghana and project leader of the Black & White initiative, interviews the German economic politician and economist Heiner Flassbeck about his views on the economic policy that would be needed in Africa in order to eliminate the causes of flight. He is a professor at the University of Hamburg …

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Germany is Stagnating

2019-01-12

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2019-01-12

Germany Industrial Production and Manufacturing PMI, 2012 - 2018
Sagging industrial production and confidence figures point to weak Q4 GDP. German industrial production (including construction) fell by 1.9% month-on-month in November, extending the sector’s decline to five out the six last prints. Year on year, industrial production was down by 4.6%, the worst performance since November 2009.

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…And Get Bigger

2019-01-11

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2019-01-11

Germany Industrial Production, Jan 2007 - 2019
Just as there is gradation for positive numbers, there is color to negative ones, too. On the plus side, consistently small increments marked by the infrequent jump is never to be associated with a healthy economy let alone one that is booming. A truly booming economy is one in which the small positive numbers are rare. The recovery phase preceding the boom takes that to an extreme.

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Euro Credit: 2019 Outlook

2019-01-10

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2019-01-10

Euro Credit, 2015 - 2018
Last year was a difficult one for euro credit, with both the ICE Bank of America Merrill Lynch (ICE BofAML) investment grade (IG) and high yield (HY) indices posting negative total returns. This was entirely due to wider credit spreads, as medium-term German government bonds yields fell slightly.

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Horror-Jahr für Hedgefonds!

2019-01-09

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ In diesem Video möchte ich nicht nur darüber sprechen, warum es für die Hedgefond-Branche in den letzten drei Jahren so hundsmiserabel gelaufen ist, sondern ich möchte auch darüber sprechen, was wir als Privatanleger davon lernen können, was wir …

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Swiss Consumer Price Index in December 2018: +0.7 percent YoY, -0.3 percent MoM

2019-01-09

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2019-01-09

Switzerland Consumer Price Index (CPI) YoY, December 2018
09.01.2019 - The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.3% in December 2018 compared with the previous month, reaching 101.5 points (December 2015 = 100). Inflation was 0.7% compared with the same month of the previous year. The average annual inflation reached 0.9% in 2018.

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Swiss Retail Sales, November 2018: -0.2 percent Nominal and -0.5 percent Real

2019-01-08

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2019-01-08

witzerland Retail Sales YoY, Nov 2018
Turnover in the retail sector fell by 0.2% in nominal terms in November 2018 compared with the previous year. Seasonally adjusted, nominal turnover rose by 0.2% compared with the previous month.

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Bernie Sanders y Yanis Varoufakis lanzan nueva Internacional Progresista

2019-01-08

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VEA ESTE CONTENIDO EN enperspectiva.net Bernie Sanders y Yanis Varoufakis lanzan nueva Internacional Progresista El senador demócrata estadounidense Bernie Sanders y el ex ministro de Economía griego Yanis Varoufakis lanzaron junto a un grupo de intelectuales la nueva Internacional Progresista, una “red global” de izquierdas para combatir la corriente de gobiernos de derecha como los …

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Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky: The Neoliberal Assault (and Hypocrisy)

2019-01-08

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Yanis Varoufakis talks to Noam Chomsky about the neoliberal assault on the world’s population in the last generation. Subscribe to Progressive Wisdom: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Relaxotron ====================================== Ioannis Georgiou “Yanis” Varoufakis is a Greek economist, academic and politician, who served as the Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015. Varoufakis has published a...

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Apple: Nach dem Crash kaufen?

2019-01-07

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Apple war einstmals das teuerste Unternehmen der Welt. Jetzt ist der Kurs massiv eingebrochen und ich möchte die Aktie kaufen. Wie ich das machen will, das verrate ich euch in diesem Video. Los geht´s! ——– ➤ Mein YouTube-Kanal …

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Einblick in die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Würzburg

2019-01-07

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“Für mich ist ganz wichtig, dass die Wissenschaft nicht im Elfenbeinturm stattfindet. Das spielt für mich eine große Rolle in der Lehre.”, Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger, Wirtschaftsweiser und Lehrstuhlinhaber ist froh sich für Würzburg entschieden zu haben. Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Würzburg verfügt über 20 Lehrstühle, eine Professur und drei Juniorprofessuren. Aktuell sind über …

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Dein GELD 2019 – was ändert sich?

2019-01-02

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ In diesem Jahr gibt es mehr Geld für Rentner, das Telefonieren wird billiger und mit vier Tagen Urlaub kann der clevere Arbeitnehmer gleich elf Tage frei machen. Was sich sonst noch rund um das Geld im Jahr 2019 … Continue...

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Yanis Varoufakis, Slavoj Zizek with Julian Assange – EU and the World – Sept 2016

2019-01-02

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Yanis Varoufakis – The Euro Has Never Been More Problematic – Oxford Union – 23 Dec 2018

2018-12-31

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Warnsignal für 2019?

2018-12-30

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Der Kurs einer Aktie steigt, wenn es mehr Käufer als Verkäufer gibt, wenn also immer mehr Marktteilnehmer sagen: Bei der Entwicklung dieses Unternehmens möchte ich dabei sein. Ist das tatsächlich so? Nicht immer, denn auch das Unternehmen selbst …

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A Brief History of Capitalism | Yanis Varoufakis Interviewed by the The Young Turks

2018-12-29

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In this immersive interview with Nomiki Konst of the The Young Turks Politics #TYTPolitics, former Greek Finance Minister and Professor of Political Economy, Yanis Varoufakis talks about the genesis of his latest book “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism”. Click here to listen to the audiobook version of this …

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