The Dow makes new highs. Sorry: This is an international market NOT simply domestic. The key to REAL forecasting is global NEVER in isolation. You simply cannot forecast ANYTHING in isolation. Now the gurus will come out claiming to have called it as they always do. Just ask how? This model has been unbelievable on […]

Civil Unrest in Portugal continuing to rise. The big rally to get rid of the government on March 2nd appears to be just the beginning. “Grandola”, the signature tune of the 1974 “Carnation revolution” that overthrew the fascist dictatorship of Antonio Salazar after the army rebelled, reverberated through the crowds. We should see rising civil […]

The entire world is falling apart. Europe is held together with string and bubble gum. Southern Europe will crack. There is no doubt about that and with austerity imposed, it is hard to see how Europe will survive with the Euro. Perhaps the only sensible politician in Europe is Nigel Farage. He alone has stood […]

French Assignats were paper money issued by the National Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution. Like Germany during the 1920s, this was a revolutionary government the was chopping off the heads of the rich. They send capital into hiding and the Productive class fled mostly to Geneva. When Philip IV […]

Just One More Regulation Will  Fix That! Obama’s regulation binge has impacted every sector. This is a man that clearly believes in government regulating everything just like Russia and China use to. In the EPA, he has done everything under the assumption man has created global warming ignoring ice core samples that prove the energy […]

France is awakening to a crime wave . In early December, thieves pillaged a cemetery in Alsace, ripping metal crosses, ornaments and doors from funeral vaults. It was an attack that shocked the town. It comes amid a significant 33 per cent increase in armed jewelry store thefts in France this year, compared to 2010. The […]

Russia needs money to expand its military so it can play the game of conquest. The tax burden in Russia is rising and there is a danger that it too will send capital fleeing to Asia. There is talk about adding a sales tax ON TOP of a Value Added Tax. This is also insane. […]

Britain has amazed itself as its taxes have raised nearly 50% more cash than it had expected. These tax increases on property transactions that were imposed in London over the past year has revealed the boom in London luxury residential prices. The same is taking place in New York City. What is going on is […]

We have researched absolutely everything that ever moves. We have correlated EVERYTHING and probably spent way too much money on this sort of thing than would make economic sense. But it has been a passion – a quest to figure out how things really move. Economics has assumed the world is still flat. Research approaches […]

China is set to use swelling offshore holdings of its tightly-managed currency worth around 1 trillion yuan $160 billion (106.33 billion pounds) to justify a landmark shift in tactics to relax capital controls. People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will abandon a time-table approach to liberalizing China’s capital controls. Instead, they are adopting a series of […]