I have spent decades in Asia, and people who were sick wore masks as a matter of courtesy. Masks were not worn by people to prevent getting sick because they do not work that way. When I went to the ER and they threw me into a COVID wing, I told them I did […]

ASIA: Major carmakers are suing the US government over import taxes it has imposed on Chinese parts. Tesla is the latest auto firm to object to customs duties introduced by the Trump administration and is demanding refunds. The US and China have imposed border taxes on each other’s goods and services as part of a […]

ASIA: China’s ByteDance is planning a U.S. initial public offering of TikTok Global, the new company that will operate the popular short video app, should its proposed deal be cleared by the U.S. government, Reuters reported. ByteDance is racing to clinch an agreement with the White House that will stave off a U.S. ban on […]

ASIA: Byte Dance has abandoned the sale of TikTok in the United States on Sunday in pursuit of a partnership with Oracle Corp it hopes will spare it a US ban while appeasing the Chinese government. ByteDance had been in talks to divest TikTok’s US business to either Oracle or a consortium led by Microsoft […]

ASIA: The US says it has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 Chinese students and researchers who are deemed to be a security risk. The move follows a proclamation by President Donald Trump in May aimed at Chinese nationals suspected of having ties to the military. He said some had stolen data and intellectual […]

ASIA: The Trump administration is considering imposing export restrictions on China’s largest chip manufacturer Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). On Monday, SMIC Hong Kong listed shares plunged more than 20%. President Donald Trump said he intends to curb the US economic relationship with China, contrasting himself with Joe Biden by threatening to punish any American […]

COMMENT #1: Hello Marty; I hope all is well. Shame you are not here to see how barmy [crazy]  London has become. Just wanted to say, your forecast on BREXIT was correct against all the polls here which said it would fail. I think your computer will be correct again with Trump. We really need […]

ASIA: The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday due to its release of editions named “Free Uyghur” and “Stand with Hong Kong,” the source code and text editor announced on Twitter. Chinese firms like Xiaomi are facing delays getting approvals from India’s quality control agency for their goods, Reuters reported, as […]

ASIA: China’s retail sales slipped in July, dashing expectations for a modest rise as consumers in the world’s second-largest economy failed to shake off wariness about the coronavirus, while the factory sector’s recovery struggled to pick up pace. Retail sales dropped 1.1% year on year, missing predictions for a 0.1% rise and following June’s 1.8% […]

  Socrates not only had forecast that 2015.75 would be the peak in government and the start of the Big Bang, which was initiated by the move to negative interest rates in 2014. This would undermine the sovereign debt markets and set in motion the decline and fall of the modern monetary system, which was […]