Dear reader The ECB has lowered its deposit rate further to minus 0.5% and announced it will start “printing” money again to buy EURO 20 Bn of Euro-Bonds a month.…
By Christian Takushi, on 7 Jan 2016, featured map from Wikipedia. (See also video from 21 Jan 2016) 1) FED to weaken USD to shield US economy Geopolitical and political…
By David Schane, USA – 29 Dec 2015. David Schane MA Int. Relations, San Francisco Bay Area, USA Now that the Fed has notched short term interest rates higher…
By Christian Takushi MA UZH, 3 Dec 2015, Switzerland. After recent events in Ankara, Moscow and Brussels we’ve updated our global outlook. Turkey may have shot down the Russian jet…
By Christian Takushi, Macro Economist, 14-15 July 2015, Switzerland. The EU-ECB-IMF deal for Greece and the US-Iran deal if implemented will bring short-lived joy and economic boosts, but they lay…
A follow up by David Schane MA Int. Relations, San Francisco Bay Area, USA, July 6 2015 The resignation of Varoufakis is a very interesting development (in the name of…
By Christian Takushi MA UZH, 11 June 2015, Switzerland. I believe that the former chief of the German Bundesbank (BuBa or German Central Bank) has put forward probably the best…
Bern sollte Stützmassnahmen auf kleine Schweizer Exporteure konzentrieren. SNB sollte meiden nochmals unter dem Druck von Politik und Exportindustrie zu handeln – wie 2011. (Geopolitical Comment from 18 Jan 2015…