Beiträge mit dem Tag ‚Claudio Grass‘

Blatant security deficits and rampant fraudOver the last year, news of crypto hacks and heists became so prevalent that the new breaches were hardly worthy of reporting anymore. Among the headliners, however, was the Coincheck case, the Japanese exchange that lost over $530 million worth of the NEM cryptocurrency, as was Zaif, another exchange also from Japan, that saw $60 million worth of digi...

2018 was an Annus Horribilis for the entire crypto industry. Believers and crypto enthusi-asts, swept up by the rally of 2017, found themselves on the wrong side of a crashing market. On the right side where the early critics, who were once accused of cynicism and a lack of imagination for calling the crypto market a bubble, and were finally vindicated.As the media eventually turned on the sect...

Until recently, Germany has been the seemingly unbreakable workhorse that has pulled the European economy back from the brink and kept it ticking along through a myriad of internal and external pressures, as well as political crises, over the last decade. As the undeniable leader of the bloc, the country has spearheaded and supported rescue plans for the Eurozone’s weaker links, as well as a nu...

When the first demonstrations on the streets of Paris were reported seven weeks ago, nobody could have foreseen the endurance, the tenacity and the viral effect of the Yellow Vests movement. After all, the French are known to protest and to strike, it’s part and parcel of their culture. However, by the time this article is being written, protests, marches and demonstrations have broken out in a...

Corporate America living on borrowed time and moneyThe perverse incentives created by the monetary experiment of the past decade might be unsurprising to many responsible investors, who recognized its inherent dangers early on. However, the catastrophic consequences of artificially low interest rates and ultra-loose money policies are likely to be of a far greater scale than previously anticipa...

Over the last years, Venezuela has become a modern poster child for the failure of socialism and with good reason. It offers an abundance of lessons and stern warnings for many western nations, but it also provides a very insightful and relevant reminder for individual investors too.Economic, social and human costsWithin the space of 5 years, a combination of plunging oil prices and extreme soc...

Nun, am besten erzähle ich Ihnen meine Geschichte. Alles begann im Jahr 2004. Während ich mich im Mittleren Osten für die Vereinten Nationen (UNO) als Schweizer Offizier engagierte, las ich ein Buch meines Landsmannes und Bankiers Ferdinand Lips. Der Titel: „Die Gold Verschwörung“.Wie Sie sich vorstellen können, war ich damals ziemlich verwirrt; wieso auch sonst hätte ich begonnen, für die UNO ...

Mehr als 80 Jahre war die Schweizerische Nationalbank eine unabhängige Institution – alleine der Geldwertstabilität und dem Wohl der Schweizer Bevölkerung verpflichtet. Garant hierfür war die Goldbindung des Franken.Geschichte lässt uns „Spuren der Vergangenheit“ erkennen und die damit verbundenen Trends beurteilen. Beispielsweise lässt sich so relativ einfach feststellen, ob sich eine Gesellsc...

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 Entwick...