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Market Talk – April 8, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 354.96 points or 0.91% to 39,347.04 Shanghai decreased 22.24 points or -0.72% to 3,047.05 Hang Seng increased 8.93 points or 0.05% to 16,732.85 ASX 200 increased 15.80 points or 0.20% to 7,789.10 Kospi increased 3.44 points or 0.13% to 2,717.65 […]

Norway Interview: Debt, Digital Currencies, and Political Tensions

Click here or on the image above to listen to my Norway interview with 2 Vikings Podcast. In what ways does Armstrong suggest the Eurozone’s financial practices are unsustainable, and what does he foresee as the potential fallout from such practices? Considering Armstrong’s skepticism towards digital currencies and government debt, what alternatives does he propose […]

Market Talk – April 5, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 781.06 points or -1.96% to 38,992.08 Shanghai closed Hang Seng decreased 1.18 points or -0.01% to 16,723.92 ASX 200 decreased 44.00 points or -0.56% to 7,773.30 Kospi decreased 27.79 points or -1.01% to 2,714.21 SENSEX increased 20.59 points or 0.03% […]

Scotland’s Hate Crime Law

No crime needs to be committed for someone to be prosecuted. They are using famed author J.K. Rowling of the “Harry Potter” series as their first public example to show that even a billionaire celebrity can be silenced for going against the woke narrative. Rowling was first criticized years ago when the woke left deemed […]

Market Talk – April 4, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 321.29 points or 0.81% to 39,773.14 Shanghai closed Hang Seng closed ASX 200 increased 34.80 points or 0.45% to 7,817.30 Kospi increased 35.03 points or 1.29% to 2,742.00 SENSEX increased 350.81 points or 0.47% to 74,227.63 Nifty50 increased 80.00 points […]

Market Talk – April 3, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 387.06 points or -0.97% to 39,451.85 Shanghai decreased 5.66 points or -0.18% to 3,069.30 Hang Seng decreased 206.42 points or -1.22% to 16,725.10 ASX 200 decreased 105.40 points or -1.34% to 7,782.50 Kospi decreased 46.19 points or -1.68% to 2,706.97 […]

Market Talk – April 2, 2024

  ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 35.82 points or 0.09% to 39,838.91 Shanghai decreased 2.42 points or -0.08% to 3,074.96 Hang Seng increased 390.10 points or 2.36% to 16,931.52 ASX 200 decreased 9.00 points or -0.11% to 7,887.90 Kospi increased 5.30 points or 0.19% to […]

A Blast from the Past

  PEI1990 Capital Flows COMMENT: Marty, I was cleaning out my office. I get around to once every 31.4 years. I found your report that was controversial back in 1990. You were at war against the fundamentalists who were always getting it wrong, as they still do today. I scanned it in and thought you […]

When Religion Attacks Itself

Religion has always influenced economics and geopolitical events. For nearly two hundred years, the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, known as Byzantium, had followed the traditions of just placing the emperor’s image on the obverse of their coinage as it had been done since the days of Augustus since 27BC. It was during the […]

Market Talk – March 28, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 594.66 points or -1.46% to 40,168.07 Shanghai increased 17.52 points or 0.59% to 3,010.66 Hang Seng increased 148.58 points or 0.91% to 16,541.42 ASX 200 increased 77.30 points or 0.99% to 7,896.90 Kospi decreased 9.29 points or -0.34% to 2,745.82 […]