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Category Archive: 2) Swiss and European Macro

Main Author George Dorgan
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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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#RawPolitics | Euronews interviews former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

2018-09-04

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#RawPolitics |Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) draws some unsettling comparisons between the Europe of today and the one of its not so distant fascist past. www.euronews.com/live

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Swiss Consumer Price Index in August 2018: +1.2 percent YoY, Stable MoM

2018-09-04

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2018-09-04

Switzerland Consumer Price Index (CPI) YoY, Aug 2018
Neuchâtel, 4 September 2018 (FSO) - The consumer price index (CPI) remained stable in August 2018 compared with the previous month, remaining at 101.8 points (December 2015 = 100). Inflation was 1.2% compared with the same month of the previous year. These are the results from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

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Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina with Yanis Varoufakis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

2018-09-04

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‘To back down an inch is to give up a mile,’ says Maria Alyokhina in Riot Days, her account of Pussy Riot’s extraordinary rise to infamy in 2012. Following an iconoclastic balaclava-clad performance in a Moscow cathedral, Alyokhina and two of her collaborators were arrested and sentenced to two years in a prison in the …

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Tesla: Warum ich die Aktie nicht kaufe!

2018-09-03

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Warum ich Elon Musk für einen genialen Kopf unserer Zeit halte, aber die Tesla-Aktie keinesfalls kaufen würde, verrate ich euch in diesem Video. ——– ➤ Link zur Webseite von Sion: https://sonomotors.com/de/sion.html/ ➤ Mein YouTube-Kanal zum Thema Trading: http://youtube.com/tradermacherde …

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Swiss Retail Sales, July 2018: +0.3 percent Nominal and -0.3 percent Real

2018-09-03

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2018-09-03

Switzerland Retail Sales YoY, July 2018
Turnover in the retail sector rose by 0.3% in nominal terms in July 2018 compared with the previous year. Seasonally adjusted, nominal turnover fell by 0.9% compared with the previous month.

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Yanis Varoufakis w/ Scotland Tonight – (1/5) Socialism / Democracy

2018-09-01

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Yanis Varoufakis with Bernard Ponsonby on STV’s Scotland Tonight – 19.8.18. I do not own this content – Credit: STV

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Italian 2019 draft budget: a bumpy road ahead

2018-08-31

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2018-08-31

Italian Fiscal Timeline
Tensions between Rome and Brussels could lead to significant market volatility before an agreement is found. September will be a key month for gauging the Italian government’s budgetary plans for 2019. The government has communicated neither a precise timeline for implementing the measures announced in its ‘contract for government’ nor a precise cost analysis for these measures.

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KOF Economic Barometer: Falling

2018-08-30

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2018-08-30

In August 2018, the KOF Economic Barometer fell slightly by 1.4 points to a new reading of 100.3. It thus now pints to a level that is only marginally above its long-term average. Accordingly, in the near future Swiss growth should hover around its average over the last ten years.

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Was kauft Buffett jetzt?

2018-08-29

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ In diesem Video wollen wir uns das Portfolio von Altmeister Warren Buffett ganz genau ansehen. So viel kann ich schon vorweg nehmen: Er liebt Apple, er mag Banken, er mag Ketchup und Cola. Ob die Aktie von Berkshire … Continue...

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Italien ist wie Griechenland, nur viel schlimmer

2018-08-29

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Wenn die griechische Schuldenkrise ein Maulwurfhügel ist, dann ist die italienische der Mount Everest. Unter normalen Bedingungen ist Italien nicht mehr zu retten und theoretisch nicht mehr weit von der Pleite entfernt. Tatsächlich zweifeln die Finanzmärkte die Schuldentragfähigkeit Italiens bereits an. Aber wie wahrscheinlich ist eine italienische Schuldenkrise? Robert Halver mit seiner (finanz-)politischen Einschätzung

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Yanis Varoufakis on the Volcker Study Group plan

2018-08-28

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Frmr Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis explains Paul Volcker’s report to Kissinger; “Paul Volcker as a young man worked for Henry Kissinger before Kissinger became the foreign minister, Secretary of State for the United States (when he was still National Security Advisor0. Volcker was working for him. Kissinger asked Volcker, who was a young banker, …

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Employment Barometer in the Q2 2018: Sharp Rise in Employment in Switzerland

2018-08-28

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2018-08-28

Switzerland Employment Level, Q2 2018
In the 2nd quarter 2018, total employment (number of jobs) rose by 2.1% in comparison with the same quarter a year earlier (+0.4% with previous quarter). In full-time equivalents, employment in the same period rose by 2.0%. The Swiss economy counted 14 000 more vacancies than in the corresponding quarter of the previous year (+22.6%) and the employment outlook indicator is also indicating an upward trend (+1.1%). These are some of the findings from...

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Gold: Wann kaufen?

2018-08-27

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Trump wettert gegen die US Notenbank. Sollte er mit seinen Forderungen tatsächlich Erfolg haben, dann würde das den Goldpreis vermutlich beflügeln. Wann Gold konkret, aus meiner Sicht wieder kaufenswert ist, besprechen wir im heutigen Video. Los geht´s! ——– …

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Euro Area PMIs: Still Little Good News Below the Surface

2018-08-24

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2018-08-24

Composite PMIs Germany, France and Eurozone, 2015 - 2018
Although euro area flash PMI indices were roughly in line with expectations in August, some details were less positive than the headline numbers, suggesting that downside risks have not yet disappeared. True, at face value, the small rise in the euro area composite PMI index, from 54.3 in July to 54.4 in August, is consistent with resilient real GDP growth, close to the 0.4% q-o-q pace recorded in Q2.

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Kennt Ihr das Risiko?

2018-08-22

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► TIPP: Sichere Dir wöchentlich meine Tipps zu Gold, Aktien, ETFs & Co. – 100% gratis: http://lars-erichsen.de/ Wie lange kann die aktuelle Hochphase der Bullen an der Börse eigentlich noch anhalten? Steht uns der nächste Crash bevor oder kommt das Beste erst noch? Dazu hat sich der Altmeister der Börsenberichterstattung Markus Koch kürzlich in einem …

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Hans-Werner Sinn und Ernst Fehr: Wenn Ökonomen sich einmischen (ECO Talk)

2018-08-22

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Sie rechnen, sie analysieren, sie schreiben – und dann? Meistens gelangen die Forschungsergebnisse von Ökonomen nicht in die breite Öffentlichkeit. Seit 10 Jahren müssen sich Volkswirtschaftler den Vorwurf gefallen lassen, dass sie nicht vor der Finanzkrise gewarnt hätten. Wann entscheiden sich Ökonomen, ihre Meinung kundzutun? Weshalb? Und wie gehen sie mit Gegenwind um? Reto Lipp …

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Swiss Trade Balance July 2018: Slowdown to a High Level

2018-08-22

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2018-08-22

Switzerland Trade Balance, July 2018
After stagnating the previous month, both exports and imports fell in July 2018. In seasonally adjusted terms, they fell by 3.0 and 2.8%, respectively. The decline in the chemicals-pharmaceuticals sector weighed on the result in both directions of the traffic. The trade balance is closing with a surplus of 1.2 billion francs.

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Mit Griechenland wird jetzt alles gut, oder?

2018-08-22

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Die griechische Finanzkrise seit 2010 war spannender als jeder Krimi. Immerhin, nach acht Jahren und drei Hilfsprogrammen hat Griechenland den Rettungsschirm jetzt verlassen. Ist damit das griechische Schuldendrama beendet und hat auch Europa insgesamt Stabilität zurückgewonnen? Robert Halver mit seinen Beobachtungen und Einschätzungen aus dem Frankfurter Börsensaal

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Yanis Varoufakis on How Capitalism Works and How it Fails

2018-08-21

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Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek academic, economist and politician who served as the Greek Minister of Finance in the first half of 2015. He’s currently professor of economics at the University of Athens. Varoufakis recently wrote a book, just translated into English, called “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works and …

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A trying time for euro

2018-08-21

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2018-08-21

EUR/USD vs. EA - US growth differential as % (with AA&MR projections)
The euro has hit new lows against the US dollar. We are revising down our EUR/USD projections for the next few months.The euro broke to the downside from its tight trading range relative to the US dollar since the end of May. These new lows go against our expectations of a gradual appreciation of the single currency relative to the greenback in the second half of the year and indicate that we have underestimated the short-term risks related to the...

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