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Market Talk – December 15, 2023

  ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 284.30 points or 0.87% to 32,970.55 Shanghai decreased 16.43 points or -0.56% to 2,942.56 Hang Seng increased 390.00 points or 2.38% to 16,792.19 ASX 200 increased 64.80 points or 0.88% to 7,442.70 Kospi increased 19.38 points or 0.76% to […]

Forecasting the Hamas Attack

QUESTION: Socrates picked up the Hamas attack, marking July as the high with a directional change, then another directional change in September before the attack, a panic cycle into November, and another directional change. The market then bounced. NBC reported that people were speculating in advance of the attack, and it may have been Hamas […]

Market Talk – December 14, 2023

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 240.10 points or -0.73% to 32,686.25 Shanghai decreased 9.77 points or -0.33% to 2,958.99 Hang Seng increased 173.44 points or 1.07% to 16,402.19 ASX 200 increased 120.10 points or 1.65% to 7,377.90 Kospi increased 33.52 points or 1.34% to 2,544.18 […]

Get Ready for a 1986 Repeat of a Real Estate Crash?

Whenever those in Congress mess with real estate, they have ALWAYS, and without exception, caused a major crash. The Entire Savings & Loan (S&L) Crisis was a catastrophic disaster that wiped out nearly one-third of all the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995. I previously mentioned that hedge […]

Why South Korea’s Youth Cannot Begin Families

South Korea hosts one of the lowest birth rates in the modern world. The nation’s population began decreasing significantly in 2021. Statistics Korea reported that only 249,000 babies were born in 2022, marking a 4.4% decline from 2021. The birth rate needs to stay at 2.1 to maintain the current population of 52 million, however, […]

Bidenomics FAILED

Government officials do not understand why Americans are disappointed with Bidenomics. Biden’s own team did not realize the term “Bidenomics” was intended to mock the president’s policies and they have adopted it as their own. “Bidenomics is about growing the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down,” Joe Biden […]

Market Talk – December 13, 2023

ASIA: In November, foreign investors significantly increased their bond purchases in key Asian markets due to a notable decline in U.S. Treasury yields and a shift in expectations for potential Federal Reserve rate cuts. They made their largest monthly net purchase since May, buying a total of $6.36 billion in South Korean, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, […]

What’s Wrong with the Australian Government?

COMMENT: Hi Martin, Further to your recent blog on Australia looking to implement digital ID’s, we are noticing more stores in Australia are moving towards “digital only”. In our recent visit to Cairns, we noted a large sign in the front window of a Ben & Jerry’s requesting that only digital transactions will be accepted. […]

Market Talk – December 12, 2023

  ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 51.90 points or 0.16% to 32,843.70 Shanghai increased 12.00 points or 0.40% to 3,003.44 Hang Seng increased 173.01 points or 1.07% to 16,374.50 ASX 200 increased 36.30 points or 0.50% to 7,235.30 Kospi increased 9.91 points or 0.39% to […]

Tomorrow (12/13) at 10 AM ET – Limited Quantities Available

Did you miss out on our recent sale? Tomorrow (12/13) at 10 AM ET we will have a limited number available of the following products:  Widowmite with Roman Nail 1st Century AD  Victorinus (268-270AD) Debased Reduced Flan Coins We expect inventory to sell out fast, and items sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. Delivery is […]