Euro Disaster Plans
The Netherlands and Germany have disaster plans for the Euro. Do you?
The Netherlands and Germany have disaster plans for the Euro. Do you?
A good sign for the future: Fed economist attacks the Gold Standard.
The Swiss are set to vote on a new initiative requiring the central bank to keep at least 20 percent of its assets in gold." How would such a measure be enacted and how would it affect Switzerland's economy?
The Daily Bell skewers the Swiss banking class for its hostility to the upcoming gold referendum. Still, as the article points out, central bankers are now on the defensive.
If you read German: Thorsten Polleit has written a rather detailed analysis of the Swiss gold initiative
The quasi-gold standard promoted by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames in their new book has more in common with the Bretton Woods system than with the classical gold standard.
During the past two weeks, James Florio, a former Democratic governor of New Jersey, and Steve Lonegan, the 2013 Republican nominee for U.S.
Jeff Deist and Claudio Grass discuss the uniquely Swiss mindset behind the upcoming Swiss gold referendum.