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Market Talk – August 7, 2024

  ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had green day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 414.16 points or 1.19% to 35,089.62 • Shanghai increased 2.55 points or 0.09% to 2,869.83 • Hang Seng increased 230.52 points or 1.38% to 16,877.86 • ASX 200 increased 19.20 points or 0.25% to 7,699.80 • Kospi increased 46.26 points […]

Humor for the Times

Hunger Protests in Nigeria

The world has erupted in conflict as a direct result of the economy turning down. We are seeing it across the globe, from Bangladesh, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria to name a few. There is peace when everyone is fat and happy but that is no longer the case in the majority of the world […]

Kamala on Inflation – Ignoring the Elephant in the Room

Kamala has a plan to conquer inflation – increase government spending and raise taxes! She has been avoiding the topic in recent speeches, but her past comments can give us some insight. Before the government passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest government spending package in our nation’s history, Harris praised the Build Back Better […]

Emergency Rate Cuts Never Work

COMMENT: Marty, it is always obvious why you were named Economist of the Decade, Hedge Fund Manager of the Year, and FX Analyst of the Year for the Swiss Peg break. As you said on the private blog; “Let’s see but it appears that we could have a bear trap forming with a plunge into […]

Market Talk – August 6, 2024

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 3,217.04 points or 10.23% to 34,675.46 • Shanghai increased 6.59 points or 0.23% to 2,867.28 • Hang Seng decreased 51.02 points or -0.31% to 16,647.34 • ASX 200 increased 31.00 points or 0.41% to 7,680.60 • KOSPI increased 80.60 points […]

Civil Unrest Rising in the UK over Migrant Crisis

Massive riots have erupted across the UK following the tragic fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport. The girls were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class when a cowardly 17-year-old male, born to Rwandan parents, attacked the innocent children. The law protects the murderer over the three innocent young girls, and this preventable attack […]

Americans Prepared for Lasting Inflation

Americans are preparing for a prolonged inflationary period, based on new data from the New York Fed. The New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations found that Americans are still pessimistic about inflation waning, with no one now believing it is transitory. The median expectation is that inflation will remain at the 3% level […]

Zelensky to Raise Taxes

The people of Ukraine have been terribly mistreated under the rule of Zelensky. The Ukrainian government is well-known for widespread corruption, with Zelensky himself even appearing in the Panama Papers fiasco. The war has been sold to the masses as a victory for Ukraine, and yet tens of thousands of boys and men have been […]

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