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PRIVATE BLOG – Euro Crisis

PRIVATE BLOG – Euro Crisis Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please...

DBS in Singapore Sends all Staff Home When one tests positive for Coronavirus

While the coronavirus has failed to prove to be any more lethal than the annual flu with a death rate of less than 3%, nevertheless, the media attention has...

PRIVATE BLOG – The Crisis Building in Europe

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The Economic Confidence Model & the Shift in Trend

While we took the back cover of the Economist for 3 weeks during July 1985 to announce the beginning of the Private Wave stating that the dollar had peaked...

Food Prices Due to the Little Ice Age

  QUESTION: What do you think about Professor Valentina Zharkhova, of Northumbria University’s department of mathematics, physics and electrical engineering,...

China Protest Forcing Review of Local Decision Making

Doctor Li Wenliang who sounded one of the first warnings on the Wuhan coronavirus, and was silenced by Chinese authorities, has died from the virus. This has...

Chaotic Weather

QUESTION: Marty; the weather is becoming as chaotic as the markets. We have one day heat in Antarctica and then snow in Saudi Arabia and Baghdad. Is this part of...

Market Talk – February 11, 2020

ASIA: China’s central bank has declared the country’s economic health as their first priority. President Xi Jinping has reportedly warned the country’s...

Chinese Tourism Has Come to a Halt

Anyone who has been traveling these past few years will notice the changes in tourism. Back in the ’90s, the number one tourist group was clearly Japanese. As...

Do Lower Interest Rates Really Produce Bull Markets in Stocks?

QUESTION: Hi Marty, Yes, the political situation in our country is out of control and you are right, there is no turning back. But this truly pales in comparison to...