War on cash update: A brighter outlook - Part I
For some time now, the future looked rather grim. After the covid crisis and all we heard and read about Central Bank Digital Currencies..
Paving the way for a 2008 déjà vu
It would appear that the central planners of the Bank of England have very short or very selective memories. After adopting unprecedented easing measures during the covid crisis ...
Whatever it takes - Part II
The threat of a far-right takeover has been around for at least three decades in Europe and Italy has been one of the best “candidates” for the “beginning of the end” since the last European...
Whatever it takes - Part I
When the collapse of the Italian government was officially announced, on July 21, many political observers both in Europe and across the rest of the West, were aghast...
Parity hysterics: What it means and what it doesn’t - Part II
Although the parity event may have captured the attention of the mainstream financial press and most western citizens, there’s a much bigger shift that has been going on in the background...
Parity hysterics: What it means and what it doesn't - Part I
There’s been a flurry of articles, news stories and headlines lately over the developments in the FOREX market, specifically over the moves of the EUR/USD currency pair ...
Unheeded warnings: Václav Klaus at the Marmara Forum
This not the first time that Václav Klaus’ astute observations and experience-based predictions turn out to be shockingly accurate years later...
A crack-up boom in the making
The great Ludwig von Mises first described the concept of a crack-up boom as part of the Austrian business cycle theory ...
Inflation outlook
After months of consumer price increases and after countless working households found themselves in dire financial straits struggling ...
Interview with Bernd Rodler (Part II)
A lot people still consider it safer to go with a huge, established corporation, thinking these solutions would be more reliable and robust, especially for business applications...