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Year of Change – 2020

QUESTION: This is the year of the Rat. It has often been the year of economic change. Do you realize the next year will be 2032? any comment? ANSWER: The year of...

Snow in Thailand

A reader from Thailand has sent this in. Maybe the first White Christmas in...

Happy New Year

According to Chinese Zodiac, the Jade Emperor said the order of the zodiac would be decided by the order in which they arrived to his party. The Ox was about to be...

Gold & Socrates

COMMENT: Marty, just wanted to say thank you for Socrates. It has been great on gold and even in the miners it has distinguished the lagers like Barrick from...

The Book on EBAY – Warning 3rd Edition is coming

Clients have been writing in that the book is now on EBay. Granted, this Second Edition was apparently the fastest selling book in the history of Amazon. That does...

2019 Year-End Report for WEC Attendees Is Going Out Today

This is being emailed to all...

Market Talk – December 31, 2019

We would like to wish our readers across the globe a happy new year! Market Talk will resume on January 2, 2020. ASIA: With the year coming to a close, it is the...

PRIVATE BLOG – Gold for Year-End

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

Bangladesh Death Toll from Extreme Cold – A Warning to us All!

Bangladesh has a subtropical monsoon climate characterized by wide seasonal variations in rainfall, high temperatures and humidity. The three distinct seasons in...

Repo Crisis for Year-End

  The Repo Crisis for year-end has had the Fed pumping in a staggering amount of about $234 billion into the repo markets. They are exchanging high-quality...