Journal
February 2024
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Incrementum Year-End Competition 2024-Edition
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen “Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” by Frank Zappa First-timers For those who have joined our readers recently, every year, I organise a year-end competition in guess, for example, the price of gold, silver, crude oil, the SMI, a cryptocurrency or the S&P 500 Index. Predictions […]
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Freedom needs Laws
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen “Regularities are characterised by the fact that they are stable over time; otherwise, they would not be regularities.” by Dr. Philipp Sterzer John Locke John Locke, the great pioneer of liberalism, described freedom as freedom from the coercion and violence of others. However, freedom does not mean that everyone […]
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George Orwell
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen “It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.” by George Orwell Last week Many thanks for all the messages and comments I received for last week’s «Stefan’s Weekly». I want to share some excerpts from my email conversations with Shauna and with John, […]
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Fed Policy Meeting / Outlook
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen “The battle between ‘capitalism’ and ‘communism’ is back.” by Mr. Thomas Straubhaar, Professor of International Economic Relations at the University of Hamburg Last week’s policy meeting vs this week’s inflation numbers Last week, we were looking at the ECB policy meeting. There has been no change after their […]