Over the last two years, we’ve all witnessed state abuses of power and extreme overreaches the likes of which many average citizens had never imagined they’d see in their own lifetimes. This caused a great part of the body politic in many Western nations to revisit their previously held beliefs about what is and isn’t …
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Swiss stocking up on gold!
How planning ahead and preparing for what lies ahead is a lesson everyone needs to learn Over the last couple of months, it has become clear from conversations with friends and partners from the gold industry that there is a marked increase in retail demand for physical gold from Swiss investors. The most interesting thing …
New solutions to old problems: The CoreLedger Decentralized Token Economy Operating System
“Systems which are in an unnatural state, like our current financial system, only need a push to relax all the accumulated energy and evolve into something new.” Dr. Johannes Schweifer, Co-Founder and CEO of CoreLedger. Following the rise and fall of Bitcoin and the crypto rush-and-crash of 2017, words like “blockchain” and “tokenization” have …
REAL RECOVERY OR MARKET TRICKERY? Claudio Grass On The Everything Bubble – And The Asset Class That’s Still Cheap
Mainstream analysts and market bulls have some powerful numbers on their side: government-published unemployment figures remain low, America just had the best first quarter of a year for stocks since 1998, and the U.S. dollar is still the world’s reserve currency. But is all of this really indicative of a strong economy and a sustainable …
Lew Rockwell wins the prestigious Roland Baader Prize in Hamburg
A little while ago, I had the pleasure to step in as an Ambassador for the Mises Institute and receive the Roland Baader Prize on behalf of Lew Rockwell, as he unfortunately wasn’t able to travel to Germany due to health issues. He received this prestigious prize for his life-time achievements from the Institute for …
Death knell tolls for the euro as more European nations repatriate gold – expert to RT
The latest trend among European countries of bringing home their gold reserves has been raising concerns in Brussels. RT talked to Claudio Grass of Precious Metal Advisory Switzerland to understand what’s behind that trend. According to Grass, the process means disintegration, which usually comes with instability, unrest, more government intervention and control. “The central banks …
Responsa Liberta & Claudio Grass about decentralization and alternative currencies – German/Deutsch
Auf der Internationalen Edelmetall- und Rohstoffmesse Anfang November 2017 in München haben wir mit Claudio Grass (claudiograss.ch), unabhängiger Berater im Bereich Edelmetalle, über das Thema Währungen gesprochen.
Wie schätzt er Gold und die derzeit viel diskutierten Kryptowaehrungen ein? Und welche Vorteile sieht er in dezentralen Systemen wie der Schweiz?
In Zusammenhang mit aktuellen Entwicklungen bzgl. EU und Euro wird auch das Thema Internationalisierung von Kapital und Ersparnissen immer wieder diskutiert. Wir haben Claudio Grass auch um seine Ansicht zu Finanzplätzen außerhalb der EU wie beispielsweise Schweiz und Liechtenstein gebeten. Mehr zu seiner Einschätzung im folgenden Video-Interview:
http://www.responsa-liberta.de/mediathek/359-wae
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Claudio Grass and Jeff Deist on Whether Switzerland can Save the World – Mises Institute
Switzerland is no libertarian paradise. It has bureaucrats and a wayward central bank. But it remains an astonishing modern example of the principles of federalism and subsidiarity in action. In fact, it exemplifies Lew Rockwell’s daydream: nobody much knows or cares who is president. Its federal administrative state demonstrates humility instead of hubris. And virtually all political decisions, from taxes to welfare to immigration, are decided locally. Claudio Grass joins Jeff Deist to discuss what libertarians can learn from Switzerland, and how neutrality in two disastrous European wars shapes Swiss DNA today.
Source: https://mises.org/library/claudio-grass-whether-switzerland-can-save-world