ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: NIKKEI 225 closed Shanghai increased 20.74 points or 0.64% to 3,255.65 Hang Seng increased 258.05 points or 1.36% to 19,258.76 ASX 200 increased 56.90 points or 0.82% to 6,955.40 Kospi increased 9.15 points or 0.38% to 2,388.35 SENSEX increased 445.73 points or 0.77% […]

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South Africa is desperate for allies, economic allies. The country is failing and the people are suffering. There is international outrage right now misdirected at South Africa for its desire to host the Bric summit with Russia, China, Brazil, and India. The International Criminal Court (ICC) wants to arrest Putin for his war crimes, and […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I just wanted to thank you for the education. When you explained that Bitcoin was not some hedge against central banks or an exception to everything out there but was just another trading vehicle, you saved my life for sure my wife would have killed me during the crash. The November turning […]

President Biden’s decision earlier on Monday to veto a bill that would have killed a Labor Department rule on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, has effectively seized your pension and expropriated it directing it to invest in this failed green agenda. That is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and there needs to be an immediate class action suit […]

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  ASIA:   A new report suggests that China is reducing its imports from the United States, with a decline in US exports to China in 2022, despite suggestions of record trade. The worsening of relations between the US and China since the Trump administration began imposing import tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018 has […]

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Computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He found the horrendous, unspeakable content on Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell. John Paul thought he did the right thing by contacting the authorities, but they were in the Biden crime family’s pocket. The FBI stormed his shop […]

COMMENT: Hi Marty, Seems to me the Democrats are following the time honored practice South American governments have resorted to in recent years when one party displaces another in a national election. In Brasil, the current president, Lula, spent 3 years in jail for charges of corruption. His successor was later removed from office. Now Bolsonaro has fled […]