Category Archive: 2) Swiss and European Macro

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Yanis Varoufakis: We need more ‘boring’ finance to serve communities

2016-06-21

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What does a progressive approach to financial regulation look like? Who better to ask than Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek Finance minister. We spoke at GAIM 2016, in Amsterdam from 21-22 June 2016.

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Yanis Varoufakis: Finance must support shared prosperity

2016-06-21

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What is the social purpose of finance? Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek Finance minister, gave us his considered view at GAIM 2016, in Amsterdam from 21-22 June 2016.

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Horst Lüning vs Heiner Flassbeck

2016-06-20

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Freie Menschen Bewegung widerlegt Horst Lüning Teil II Die Hauptfrage an Herrn Lüning und andere BWL’ler: Warum hat Deutschland ständig steigende Aussenhandelsüberschüsse!? Und wie wird das Problem beseitigt!? (Unsere Überschüsse sind die Schulden der anderen!) Klar, mit Wechselkurs, aber was würde dann mit Deutschland passieren!? (Deflation und wirtschaftliche Stagnation!) Hat es eventuell doch was mit …

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Elif Shafak and Yanis Varoufakis discuss Trump, Merkel and government.

2016-06-18

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Dalkey Book Festival: Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s unsustainable loan agreements

2016-06-18

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eir are delighted to sponsor the 2016 Dalkey Book Festival. Here Yanis Varoufakis speaks to David McWilliams about the loan agreement discussions. You can hear the full podcast at http://www.dalkeybookfestival.org/podcast-yanis-varoufakis-conversation/ Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former Minister of Finance, is amongst the most relevant political figures in Europe today. He is also one of Europe’s best selling …

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Yanis Varoufakis: My Message to the People of Poland #festiwalkuronia

2016-06-16

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A video presentation by Yanis Varoufakis, the ex-Greek Finance Minister and founder of DiEM25. An introduction to the “There’s no Europe without solidarity” debate, a part of 2016’s Jacek Kuroń Festival: www.festiwalkuronia.pl Wideo wystąpienie byłego greckiego ministra finansów i lidera ruchu DiEM25, Janisa Warufakisa, otworzyło debatę “Nie ma Europy bez Solidarności”, zorganizowaną w ramach Festiwalu …...

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KOF Economic Forecasts for Switzerland

2016-06-16

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2016-06-16

KOF Swiss Economic Institute calculates and presents updated macroeconomic forecasts for the Swiss economy in March, June, September, and December.

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Yanis Varoufakis — Another Europe is Possible #VoteIn

2016-06-16

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Yanis Varoufakis’ speech that he gave on 28 May 2016 at Another Europe Is Possible’s conference in London, presenting the case for people to #VoteIn on 23 June. [Subtitled by Umaar Kazmi] anothereurope.org facebook.com/AnotherEuropeIsPossible twitter.com/another_europe

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Swiss Producer and Import Price Index, May 2016: 0.4 percent MoM, -1.2 YoY

2016-06-14

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2016-06-14

Swiss Producer Prices
The strongly negative change in producer prices in 2015 reduced the Swiss franc overvaluation in terms of the Real Effective Exchange. Now, however, producer prices are approaching the zero change again. It must also be noted that producer prices had fallen by 6% in 2015, while consumer prices went down only by 1.5%. Large margins are remaining for the Swiss retail sector.

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Swiss Consumer Price Index in May 2016: -0.4 percent against 2015, +0.1 percent against last month

2016-06-08

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2016-06-08

For the third time in a row, prices in Switzerland increased against the previous month. Inflation was -0.4% against last year. Still in 2015 yearly inflation was mostly around -1.5% y/y. Now yearly HCPI inflation is -0.5%. Will this rising price tendency continue?

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Tourism accommodation statistics during the winter season and April 2016

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

The hotel sector registered 15.4 million overnight stays in Switzerland during the winter season (November 2015 to April 2016). This represents a decrease of 1.8% (-277,000 overnight stays) compared with the same period a year earlier. With a total of 8.0 million overnight stays, foreign demand showed a drop of 3.8% (-313,000). Domestic visitors registered 7.4 million overnight stays, i.e. an increase of 0.5% (+36,000). During the month of April...

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Employment barometer in 1st quarter 2016: Employment growth, but only in tertiary sector

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

In the 1st quarter 2016 total employment (number of jobs) rose by 0.6% compared with the same quarter a year ago (0.0% compared with the previous quarter). In full-time equivalents, employment in the same period fell by 0.2%. The other employment indicators also showed a downward trend. These are the findings of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

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Heiner Flassbeck – Theorien und Herkunft

2016-06-06

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http://www.Whisky.de/shop/ Linke Volkswirtschaftstheorien neigen dazu, Menschen von der Arbeit weg zum leichten Konsum zu führen. Doch am Ende landen alle nur in der Planwirtschaft und letzten Endes im Grau des Kommunismus. Wann immer man von Professoren Vorträge hört, so sollte man sich zuvor informieren, welches Parteibuch in der Tasche dieses vermeintlich neutralen Akademikers steckt. Vortrag …

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Yanis Varoufakis interviewed in Barcelona | DiEM25

2016-06-06

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“On 26th June the people of Catalonia, the people of Spain, have a unique opportunity to vote in a progressive government that will save the European Union from itself and from the disaster caused by the self-defeating austerity breeding unbearable authoritarianism. The incumbent prime minister of the right-wing People’s Party behaves like a spoilt child …

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Warum die Rettung Europas nicht gelingen kann – Prof. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck

2016-06-04

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Vortrags- und Diskussionsveranstaltung zur Krise in Europa mit Prof. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck, langjähriger Chefvolkswirt der UNCTAD Universität Passau, Hörsaal

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Heiner Flassbeck – Die Volkswirtschaft jenseits von Ideologien und Vorurteilen – 2016

2016-06-04

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Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Heiner Flassbeck am Justus-Knecht-Gymnasium in Bruchsal Thema: Volkswirtschaft jenseits von Ideologien und Vorurteilen Der weltweit

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Yanis Varoufakis & Noam Chomsky sprechen über das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen

2016-06-03

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Im folgenden Video sprechen Yanis Varoufakis und Noam Chomsky über das Konzept eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens. Für mehr Informationen diesbezüglich, besuchen Sie das „basic income network“. Ist ein Grundeinkommen in der heutigen Zeit notwendig? Wie wird es die Zukunft der Menschen beeinflussen? Wo hat diese Idee ihren Ursprung? Ist es kompatibel mit der Allgemeinen Erklärung der …

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Noam Chomsky & Yanis Varoufakis discuss Basic Income (Universal Income)

2016-06-03

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In thhis video Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky talk about the concept of a basic income guarantee also knowns as a universal income. Following topics are addressed: – Is a basic income neccessary in today’s day and age? – How will it impact humanity’s future? – How did this idea orginate? -Is it compatible with …

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Switzerland GDP Q1 2016: +0.1 percent QoQ, +0.7 percent YoY

2016-06-03

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2016-06-03

YoY Growth Swiss GDP
Q/Q GDP growth: +0.1%, YoY GDP growth: +0.7%. Until 2014, Swiss GDP was driven by net exports: Exports were rising more quickly than imports, which improved GDP. Positive change in the trade balance in goods: +8.1% YoY exports, +1.4% YoY imports in Q1/2016. Negative change in the trade balance for services: export +2.0%, import +6.7% YoY In 2015 and in Q1/2016 the main GDP drivers were consumption (+1.3% YoY in Q1/2016) and investment...

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Owen Jones and Yanis Varoufakis – British exit

2016-06-02

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Owen Jones met Yanis Varoufakis, who said a British exit from the European Union would only serve to speed up the disintegration of the EU. In the end, the only beneficiaries would be xenophobes, racists and ultra-nationalists everywhere, he says.

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