The American economy is not all right. But to see why, you need to look beyond the dramatic numbers we keep seeing in the headlines and establishment talking points.Take, for instance, the latest jobs report. For the third month in a row, the American economy added significantly more jobs than most economists had been expecting—a total of 303,000 for March. On its face, that’s a good number.But as Ryan McMaken laid out over the weekend, things don’t look as strong...

Die Glarner Kantonalbank und die St Galler Kantonalbank haben fristgerecht die Entscheidungen zur Ausübung von Call Optionen für ausstehende AT1-Anleihen getroffen.

Wenn die Nationalbank (SNB) ihr Ziel der Preisstabilität erreichen will, dann muss sie neben den Zinsen auch auf andere Mittel setzen. Martin Schlegel betont, wie wichtig dabei auch weiterhin Devisenmarktinterventionen und die Wechselkurse sind.

For decades, the exchange rate has played a key role for the Swiss economy and for the Swiss National Bank's monetary policy. However, it was only with the global financial crisis in 2008/2009 that the SNB started to intervene in the foreign exchange market on a large scale.Foreign exchange interventions were necessary to achieve the SNB's mandate of price stability. To maintain price stability, the SNB influences monetary conditions - primarily by setting the SNB policy...

Dr. Paul is right! People need to look at the money issue. Wars, spending, debt accumulation, subsidies, and foreign aid are intimately linked to the money machine known as the Federal Reserve.Central banks have two main purposes: inflate the money supply and bail out the big financial firms. By inflating the money supply, governments can finance their operations cheaply and surreptitiously at our expense. If we wish to expose the state and all its...

Sonja Laud ist Chief Investment Officer (CIO) bei Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). Sie leitet das Investmentteam des Unternehmens, das sowohl den Handel als auch die Bereiche Anlagelösungen, aktiv gemanagtes Fixed Income, Index, aktiv gemanagte Aktien-, Anleihen- sowie Multi-Asset-Portfolios umfasst. Zu ihrem Aufgabenbereich zählen alle Aspekte des Investierens von der Research-Analyse bis zur Portfoliokonstruktion; Schwerpunkt ist dabei die Leitung der ESG-Strategie von...

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus recently sent an open letter to the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, demanding lower interest rates.The letter is full of the economic illiteracy one would expect from progressives, especially those in Congress. For example, it misreads price inflation data and argues that the failure to lower interest rates endangers home affordability and increases income inequality. These...

Der Anteil an CO2-ärmeren Zementsorten blieb mit 96,5 Prozent derweil stabil. Zudem nahm gegenüber dem Vorjahresquartal der Anteil der per Bahn transportierten Menge leicht zu: 38,2 Prozent des Schweizer Zements wurde auf der Schiene transportiert (+1,1 Prozentpunkte).

“The public be damned” is a statement by railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt that has been twisted out of context. While the American ruling classes insist that private enterprise is the enemy of the people, it really is our government that bears that distinction. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

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