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Market Talk – August 2, 2026

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 1,889.70 points or -2.85% to 64,325.64 • Shanghai decreased 38.501 points...

PRIVATE BLOG – Will Trump Nuke Iran?

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Marine Le Pen and the Nationalist Trend the Establishment Cannot Stop

A new poll out of France should not be viewed as some sudden political awakening. It is confirmation that the nationalist trend we have been watching throughout...

Vietnam: Another Economy Rising in Real Time

I wrote only a few months ago that the Vietnamese were feeling their economy grow in real time. Now the numbers are becoming even stronger. Vietnam’s economy...

Sanctions Undermining the US Economy Long Term

I have warned, but nobody seems to listen, that war NEVER unfolds when everyone is fat and happy. This stupid decision of imposing sanctions under the theory that...

Zelensky is Determined to Create World War III Threatens Commercial Airlines

  There is no resolution to the war between Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky is now threatening all commercial airlines that they should isolate and shut down...

Market Talk – September 1, 2026

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 96.59 points or -0.15% to 66,215.34 • Shanghai decreased 6.41 points or...

PRIVATE BLOG – Sorting Out October 5th Target – Russia, Russia, Russia!

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The Treasury Is Now Supporting Its Own Debt Market

The US Treasury has doubled the size of its buyback operations for longer-term government securities from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation after...

India Is Rising in Real Time

India has once again demonstrated that its economic rise is not some distant projection for 2030 or 2040. The economy expanded 7.8% during the first quarter of...