Blog Archive

Three Lies You’ll Hear from the Candidates This Year | Ryan McMaken

2016-05-26

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Ryan McMaken deconstructs the key lies of the 2016 campaign season. Recorded at “Contra Krugman: Demolishing the Economic Myths of the 2016 Election”: the Mises Circle at Seattle’s historic Town Hall, on 21 May 2016. Special thanks to the Harvey Allison family for making this event possible. Presidential candidates promise everything from living wages to …

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What Trump Would Really Mean For Mexico & China: George Friedman

2016-05-25

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Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

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You have to trust your levels in forex trading

2016-05-25

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Greg Michalowski, Director of Client education and technical analysis for ForexLive, discusses how traders need to trust their technical levels to provide insight into the next market action. Sometimes it take a while to develop but if the level is important, it often shows the way.

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Trump will be good for economy, bad for Wall Street: David Rosenberg

2016-05-25

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Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

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Diversify & Internationalize: How the West Is Changing Irreversibly by Jayant Bhandari

2016-05-25

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“Diversify & Internationalize: How the West Is Changing & Why the Trend Is Irreversible – Jayant Bhandari” Acapulco, Mexico February 2016

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Neil Howe: It’s going to get worse; more financial crises coming

2016-05-25

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Get close to 20 hours of audio sessions and video highlights from Strategic Investment Conference 2016 brimming with insights and advice for investors. Listen to over 30 leading experts… and discover how to thrive in a Decade of Disruption and a market buffeted by recession, a meek Federal Reserve, startling new technologies, and worldwide geopolitical …

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Unwritten Rules: Rachel Trevor-Morgan and James Sherwood on making a statement at the races

2016-05-25

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Top couture milliner Rachel Trevor-Morgan and luxury expert James Sherwood discuss making a statement at the races.

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Yanis Varoufakis spricht über Privatisierung, Menschenrechte & Kapitalismus

2016-05-25

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In diesem Interview mit dem ehemaligen griechischen Finanzminister und Gründer von „DiEM25“ (Demokratie in Europa Bewegung 2025) Yanis Varoufakis werden vielen Themen diskutiert, unter anderem Privatisierung, Menschenrechte, Medien, seine Erfahrung mit der EU und über die Möglichkeiten des Kapitalismus sich zu reformieren. – Werden die von der Troika eingeführten Privatisierungspläne der griechischen Bevölkerung zugutekommen? – …...

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Yanis Varoufakis on Privatization, Human Rights, Media, EU Negotiations & Capitalism

2016-05-25

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In this interview with the former finance minister of Greece and founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), Yanis Varoufakis a host of issues are discussed which include privatization, human rights, media, his experience with the EU and capitalism’s ability to reform. – Will privatization schemes, that are being implemented by the Troika, benefit …

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Yanis Varoufakis – ‘Political Economy: The Social Sciences’ Red Pill’

2016-05-25

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A lecture given by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, at the University of Sydney, to celebrate his appointment as Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Economy.

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Living below the Swiss poverty line

2016-05-24

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Despite Switzerland’s flourishing economy, some people still live below the poverty line. A single mother tells her story of her struggle to make ends meet. (SRF, swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. …

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Othmar Simeon, Leiter Swisscanto Vorsorge

2016-05-24

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2015 war für die Schweizer Pensionskassen ein schlechtes Jahr. Wie reagieren die Kassen darauf – und müssen zukünftige Rentner mit deutlich weniger Rendite rechnen? Dazu Swisscanto-Experte Othmar Simeon im Interview mit cash.

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Monetary Policy Committee | 19 May 2016 | Interest Rate Review and Outlook

2016-05-24

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The MPC left the repo rate unchanged at 7.0% at the May MPC meeting following prior increases of 0.75% in Q1 2016. Five of the MPC members preferred rates to remain on hold whereas one member preferred a hike of 0.25%. Tertia Jacobs, treasury economist at Investec, provides some additional context and rationale to the …

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Yanis Varoufakis Guerilla interview – PART I | DiEM25

2016-05-23

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Forex Video: I spent my Saturday, working on how I was going to say…

2016-05-22

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Greg MIchalowski, Director of Client Education and Technical Analysis for ForexLive.com, has a different sort of video on Forex and Forex Education. You might say it is an invitation to better forex trading.

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Robots helping cancer patients

2016-05-21

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Individual transfusion bags for chemotherapy patients have been produced with the help of a robot since last year at the University Hospital of Geneva. Automation guarantees a more precise and reliable way of handling these highly toxic drugs. (SRF, swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is …

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Yanis Varoufakis on EU Negotiations

2016-05-20

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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis discusses what he believes will happen in the next round of negotiations between the European Union and Greece and explains what he feels is fundamentally wrong with the terms upon which those negotiations will proceed. Watch economist Yanis Varoufakis in our latest RSA Spotlight – the edits which take …

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Forex Trading Education: Take a step back and see what the big picture is saying

2016-05-20

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In this video, Greg Michalowski of ForexLive demonstrates how to look longer term at forex charts. Sometimes we get caught in the minutia of the shorter term swings. Non-trending periods can tend to do that as the focus is on the break. We as traders have to make sure we divorce ourselves from the shorter …

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RecoVR: Mosul, a collective reconstruction | The Economist

2016-05-20

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In February 2015, Islamic State militants posted a video online showing the destruction of antiquities in and around the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq. For our first virtual reality project and 360° video, we have built a virtual museum to house those destroyed objects. This reconstruction of the Mosul Museum in Iraq was commissioned …

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Getting gas from solar power

2016-05-20

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A hybrid power plant in Solothurn can convert electricity from solar energy into gas. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our …

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