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Month: January 2025

PRIVATE BLOG – Gold New Highs & the Dollar

PRIVATE BLOG – Gold New Highs & the Dollar Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more,...

Market Talk – January 30, 2025

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 99.19 points or 0.25% to 39,513.97 • Shanghai closed • Hang Seng closed •...

Global Debt Reaches 326% of GDP

Total global debt has peaked to 326% of global GDP, adding an additional $12 trillion of debt in the last three quarters of 2024, according to the Institute of...

America’s Military Presence in Europe to Decline

Around 20,000 American troops stationed in Europe are set to return home after new orders from the commander-in-chief. Trump plans to reduce the American...

Trump’s Federal Freeze – Shrinking the Public Sector

President Donald Trump implemented a widespread freeze on federal loans and grants, ordering all agencies this week to “temporarily pause all activities related...

Free Speech in Germany Only if You Agree With Government

  Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. made it clear what Free Speech was in Schenk v. U.S., 249 U.S. 47 (1919) (1919), ruling that a restriction...

Market Talk – January 29, 2025

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 397.91 points or 1.02% to 39,414.78 • Shanghai closed • Hang Seng closed •...

US Seeks to Boost Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing

The chip shortage has been at the top of mind over the last week after the launch of DeepSeek, a novel AI service intended to compete with ChatGPT. Semiconductor...

DeepSeek Launch

It was only a matter of time before an innovative mind created the next mainstream AI tool to compete with ChatGPT. In a massive step toward AI advancement, Liang...

Trump Reinstates Military Members Discharged over COVID Vax

A massive round of applause is in order for Donald Trump’s executive order to reinstate service members who were discharged from the military for refusing the...