The Greek drama of Greek Tragedy continues with a rumored agreement to continue the stimulus in return for promised reforms, only to have Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announce a surprise referendum on July 5 after June 30, which puts the IMF payment into default. Late last week EurAsia group’s Ian Bremmer remained confident […]

Today we are seeing some large price/percentage moves in many markets, which is something we should all start to accept as the new norm for the second half of this year moving forward. Rumours started Sunday of Tspiras’s new proposal and the markets took it all at face value! DAX at best was up 3.5%; ASX closed […]

QUESTION: I can follow the reasoning for some of the capital flows into the U.S. now and a bit longer. But eventually much of this capital is going to leave the U.S. correct? Besides some off the grid investing, is China and Asia looking like the most promising economies to attract the future change in […]

COMMENT: Well it looks like Putin is doing more than reviewing your film to approve its release in Russia. He is reading your  blog. His speech today is offering tax free status for corporations exactly for your 4 year period into 2020. He only talks about the Silk Road joining with China. BW REPLY: Yes, […]

QUESTION: Do you hear anything that would indicate that Donald Trump would make a positive difference in the “Big Bang” should he become president? He says he will jawbone Ford Motor Co/ to not build a plant in Mexico and that he will use some form of tariff to “fix” the trade balance between China […]

Under Construction Glossary of Money Terminology Historical Outline The Origins of Money Primitive Period Evolution of Banking Birth of Coinage 700-550 BC 550-450BC 450-350BC 350-250BC Great Empires Greece (Mint Marks of Alexander the Great) Egypt Carthage Judaea Roman Empire Republic Imperial Rome By Emperor (Roman Mint Marks) Empires of the East Byzantium India Persia Syria […]

QUESTION:  Hello Martin, I enjoy reading your articles on historical events.  It is a refreshing change from mainstream media’s spin. It will be 800 years on the 15th June since the signing of the Magna Carta here in the UK.  I would be very interested on your views of this document and what value its […]

Part of the 9/11 conspiracy, exposed on September 10, 2001, is an unexplained $2.3 trillion missing from the Defense Budget. The plane that struck the Pentagon (if it was a plane) hit the room with all the records. That ended the investigation exposed the day before and Donald Rumsfeld promised to investigate. Well 9/11 certainly stopped […]

We have received a number of e-mails, asking if we cut a deal with Alibaba to dominate the Chinese financial marketplace. I do not know who starts these rumors, but it is not true. Yes, in 1999 we were going to provide economic forecasting for the Chinese government and over 1,000 of its agencies. Yes, […]

QUESTION:  Dear Martin, My mother language is not English and my English is very poor (especially in oral). How can you help me (and many of your followers in China) in the usage of voice version in Socrates. Will you keep the wirtten format of Socrates and so that we can read and ask by […]