ASIA:   Japan’s core consumer inflation hit a fresh four-decade high as companies continued to pass on rising costs to households, data showed, a sign price hikes were broadening and could keep the central bank under pressure to whittle down massive stimulus. Japan’s core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fresh food but includes energy […]

During the reign of King George III (1760–1820) the first issue of halfpennies actually was not issued until 10 years after his accession to the throne in 1770. Consequently, the vast number of halfpennies in circulation were actually all counterfeits. Indeed, counterfeiting became rampant at first because there was a coin shortage. In 1771, it […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 103.94 points or 0.40% to 25,820.80 Shanghai increased 31.70 points or 1.01% to 3,155.22 Hang Seng increased 259.06 points or 1.25% to 21,052.17 ASX 200 increased 4.40 points or 0.06% to 7,063.60 Kospi increased 8.67 points or 0.38% to 2,264.65 […]

  Zelensky is just an actor and he has been playing the entire world into handing him money without any accountability. He claims he is fighting for freedom and democracy when he refuses to comply with the Minsk Agreement which falsely was to allow those in the Donbas to vote on their own future. Now […]

Our inflation models came in at 32% for 2022. This does not include things like paper clips to bring down the entire average. This number is the basic core inflation that consists of food, energy, and transportation. We do not include housing values which rose about 11% in 2022, but because that is the national […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 377.64 points or -1.45% to 25,716.86 Shanghai increased 7.00 points or 0.22% to 3,123.52 Hang Seng increased 647.82 points or 3.22% to 20,793.11 ASX 200 increased 113.00 points or 1.63% to 7,059.20 Kospi increased 37.30 points or 1.68% to 2,255.98 […]

  COMMENT: Marty, I am impressed. Your contacts are unsurpassable. You put out two months ago that Ukraine lost 100,000 soldiers. Some did not believe you. It turns out that was classified information. Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, had released a video and then edited it deleting that very information at […]

  ASIA:   China’s economy grew at least 4.4% in 2022, according to leader Xi Jinping, a figure much stronger than many economists had expected. But the current Covid wave may hobble growth in the months ahead. China’s annual GDP is expected to have exceeded 120 trillion yuan ($17.4 trillion) last year, Xi said in […]

Zelensky’s forces of the Ukrainian military had fired four long-range missiles that had been provided by the US (HIMARS) with US training to kill Russian soldiers in the barracks on New Year’s Eve. Russia says that they shot down two of the four. Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, Ukrainian missiles were fired and […]

Klaus Schwab has shown his true colors of authoritarianism. He is against democracy, freedom, and basic God-given human rights. With his Davos group next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF), Schwab who is a control freak by nature, has endorsed the cancel culture banning Twitter, and listing the various Chinese state-controlled social media apps to […]