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Market Talk – March 17, 2023

ASIA:   CRISIL expects India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth to touch 6% in fiscal 2024, compared with 7% estimated by the National Statistics Office...

PRIVATE BLOG – The Metals & the Dow

PRIVATE BLOG – The Metals & the Dow Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please...

Yellen Casts Doubt of Covering All Depositors

  We have a serious problem here. Depositors in a bank are NOT risking their money as an investor in a hedge fund. They expect honesty and stability. If the...

What Reagan Would NOT Do

America should violate international law to begin World War III, or as Senator Lindsey Graham worded it: “We should hold accountable and say that if you ever get...

The Old Guy in the Corner of the Room

COMMENT: Marty, I hate to tell you but the reason you saw this coming was that you are old – like me. LOL. Do you realize that the 2007-2008 crisis was 16...

Financial Crisis of 2023

QUESTION #1: Marty, I think your warning about the collapse of leadership in government and the private sector rings true as Ken Griffin, the founder of hedge fund...

PRIVATE BLOG – The Fed, QE & China

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Market Talk – March 16, 2023

ASIA:   Asia was an outlier for Zara owner Inditex last year, the only region where profits fell as China faced COVID-19 lockdowns, while profit ballooned in...

PRIVATE BLOG – Crisis in Leadership Inside & Outside Government

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Cash Not Accepted

There once was a time when cash was the undisputed king. Merchants preferred cash payments over credit, and there were often incentives for paying with paper. I...