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Gold & the Dow

QUESTION:  Dear Martin, I have been following your blog for years now. I am not a trader or financial person in any sense of the word but I take a keen interest in...

Market Talk- August 29th, 2017

Back to geopolitical risks again today after North Korea spooked markets with yet more missile test, but this time flying over Japan. All Asia markets were hit as a...

Private Blog – Gold Close for August & North Korea

Private Blog – Gold Update for August Close & North Korea Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates...

The Cycle of Civilization

COMMENT: Interestingly enough, in Switzerland the -in majority- leftish and Pro-EU government has been trying to push Switzerland into EU for years as you’re...

New Proposed Regs You Must Declare if you have more than $10k in Crypto Currencies

According to the new draft law proposal, all persons who enter the US will have to declare their holdings in crypto currencies with a value over 10,000...

Trump is He His Own Worst Enemy?

QUESTION: You seem to have given up hope on Trump getting his agenda through Congress. Do you agree that the Trump presidency is a failure? BV ANSWER: There is no...

Next Target for North Korea Sept 11th/12th

Our models seem to be right on target for the escalation of military threats from North Korea. We gave our two targets for the opening of  this window for a...

Market Talk- August 28th, 2017

When a major market contributor is away the markets are always quiet but today with the UK off, there really was very little action anywhere. China continued its...

Is the Stock Market Really Overvalued?

All we have been hearing since 2011 is how the stock market is going to crash and then there will be hyperinflation and all sorts of strange relationships that...