Kategorie: Wissenswertes

To understand the Plaza Accord, one has to look back to August 15, 1971. On this day Richard Nixon closed the gold window. This step de facto ended the Bretton Woods system, which had been created in 1944 in the New Hampshire town of the same name and was formally terminated in 1973.

Ronald Stöferle, Managing Partner des Vermögensverwalters Incrementum, ist überzeugt, dass die Politik im nächsten Abschwung zu extremeren Massnahmen greifen wird, um die Wirtschaft zu stimulieren. Gold sei eine hervorragende Absicherung gegen die damit verbundenen Risiken.  

The ongoing “World War of Currencies”, as the German journalist Daniel D. Eckert called it, the battle for the future of the world monetary system is not a shallow action film but more like Game of Thrones – a complex series with hundreds of actors and locations, stretching over decades and demanding full concentration from the viewer.