ASIA: In December, Hong Kong’s retail sales continued their upward trend for the 13th consecutive month, driven by improving tourism. Official data revealed a 7.8% year-on-year increase to HK$36.3 billion ($4.64 billion), following a 15.9% jump in November. The government anticipates further growth in visitor arrivals and attributes this to increased handling capacity recovery. Additionally, […]

  While Jamie Dimon says he is barely a Democrat, let’s get real. The major bankers in New York are all closet Republicans, but they play both sides because they know the profits from Democrats are never-ending. While Dimon concedes that Trump was right about immigration, China, and trade policies, to my real shock, he […]

Many government officials around the world look at our political forecasts, which are done by our computer and are not influenced by personal opinion or bias. These were our projections for the 2016 election. As you can easily see, this is all data-driven. The computer has a political database from around the world; all correlated […]

  Often, people ask me about my legal background. Because I have had to deal on an international basis, even restructuring multinational companies, it was imperative that I understand the law around the world, how it developed, and the stark differences. For example, European law adopted Canon Law from the Catholic Church, which is far […]

  Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution calls for reducing representation in the U.S. House of Representatives for any state, denying voters the right to vote, which was designed to prevent the Southern states from disenfranchising black citizens after the Civil War. However, Section 2 makes an exception for denying voting […]

COMMENT: Marty, Just like leading the country in election cheating (this isn’t a great site to reference, but it does list some of the “irregularities” https://www.factcheck.org/2009/01/mining-the-minnesota-recount/).  It appears Minnesota was also ahead of the con game with the results of the last census where Minnesota kept all its congressional seats even though it should have lost […]

COMMENT: Name: Dear Martin Re your Blog: Poland’s New Government, Pro-War, Pro-EU I kept a copy of your blog ‘Poland & Niger ‘ Posted Aug 9, 2023. along with a screen-shot of the August projected ECM for Poland highlighting October 26th as the next turning point: FYI, it was this day that President Duda called for a […]

We need more people to come to America illegally – so I can keep my job in Congress. If you want to know why Ds support illegal immigration, here’s your sorry answer. It's stunning she said it. https://t.co/NxzJbG5sgN — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) January 9, 2024 Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke is running for re-election this year […]

Approximately 1.9k migrants from Floyd Bennett Field will be temporarily relocated to James Madison High School The school will be shut down and students will attend virtual classes This incident confirms what we knew all along, the camp at Floyd Bennett Field is unsustainable pic.twitter.com/SsNi41vFty — Thomas P. Sullivan (@Sully4Assembly) January 9, 2024 The US […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 678.54 points or 2.01% to 34,441.72 Shanghai decreased 15.55 points or -0.54% to 2,877.70 Hang Seng decreased 92.74 points or -0.57% to 16,097.28 ASX 200 decreased 52.00 points or -0.69% to 7,468.50 Kospi decreased 19.26 points or -0.75% to 2,541.98 […]