{"id":815,"date":"2014-10-29T06:58:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=815"},"modified":"2014-10-29T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:58:57","slug":"this-little-piggy-bent-the-market-things-that-make-you-go-hmmm-investment-newsletter-mauldin-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"This Little Piggy Bent The Market | Things That Make You Go Hmmm&#8230; Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/ttmygh\/this-little-piggy-bent-the-market\">This Little Piggy Bent The Market | Things That Make You Go Hmmm&#8230; Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-Text\" style=\"margin-top: 0.35em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">About 18 months ago, I had a very pleasant chat with a gentleman by the name of Luzi Stamm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-Text\" style=\"margin-top: 1.357em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\nBut Herr Stamm was different.You may detect some measure of surprise in my words, and the reason for that is quite simple: Luzi Stamm is a politician; and, as regular readers will know, I am no fan of that particular class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-Text\" style=\"margin-top: 1.357em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">An MP representing the Swiss People\u2019s Party, Stamm was spearheading a federal popular initiative which needed 100,000 signatures in order to comply with the Swiss parliamentary system\u2019s rigid framework regarding referendums. (OK all you \u201creferenda\u201d people out there, I know, OK? But I\u2019m going with \u201creferendums,\u201d so pipe down).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-Text\" style=\"margin-top: 1.357em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">That initiative was one of three being pursued: firstly, a motion to limit immigration into Switzerland to 0.2% per year; secondly, a drive to abolish the flat tax system and for resident, nonworking foreigners to be taxed based instead on their income and their assets; and thirdly, Stamm\u2019s initiative&#8230; Well, we\u2019ll get to that shortly; but before we do, we need to understand a little about how Swiss democracy works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body-Text\" style=\"margin-top: 1.357em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Little Piggy Bent The Market | Things That Make You Go Hmmm&#8230; Investment Newsletter | Mauldin Economics. About 18 months ago, I had a very pleasant chat with a gentleman by the name of Luzi Stamm. But Herr Stamm was different.You may detect some measure of surprise in my words, and the reason for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[223,284,775],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-ebola","tag-european-union","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}