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Market Talk – February 12, 2020

ASIA: China’s Hubei province reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January. This gives officials hope that the outbreak may be approaching its...

The Fate of Europe

  For those looking for a broader view of why Europe is the source of the major financial crisis that will bring down governments globally, you should look at...

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

PRIVATE BLOG – The Crisis Building in Europe Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more,...

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...