ASIA:   Coca Cola’s President and CFO, John Murphy, expressed confidence in India’s economy, stating that it remains resilient with a strong job market and robust consumption. The company has increased its availability in over 300,000 stores in India, driving 3 billion transactions in the first quarter at affordable price points. Coca-Cola is focused on […]

COMMENT: Marty; I was in a board meeting and I just wanted to let you know one guy who is there simply because his family had a stake in the company with zero worldly experience, started ranting about the end of the dollar he probably read on that biased _____________________. I asked this fool, should […]

All we hear is the same claims that the dollar is dead and it will be totally worthless any day now. Over the last few weeks, all we hear from the majority now is that the dollar is finished. Virtually every page you turn or site you visit claims the death of the dollar. They […]

QUESTION: You have suggested that we will end up at war with China, Russia, North Korea, and even Iran simultaneously. How does Socrates conclude such an event that perhaps never happened in the past? ER ANSWER: Your assumption that such a thing has never happened is not correct. Periods of war of this nature unfold […]

ASIA:   Singapore’s March non-oil domestic exports (NODX) shrank 8.3% year-on-year, official data showed on Monday, though the drop was smaller than the previous month and less than forecast. On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, NODX increased 18.4%, Enterprise Singapore data showed, versus the prior month’s 8.2% decline. Economists had forecast 1.7% growth. The trade […]

  ASIA: China’s consumer inflation fell to an 18-month low, rising by 0.7% year-on-year in March, slower than the 1.0% gain in February, indicating weak demand. The producer price index fell 2.5% year-on-year, the fastest decline since June 2020, falling for the sixth consecutive month. Food price inflation, a key driver of CPI, slowed to […]

QUESTION: Marty, You are the only worthwhile analyst. You were alerting us a year ago that the IMF was creating its own digital currency. We have all these people claiming this will kill the dollar just as they proclaimed the euro when that was created. It is also well known that you were called in […]

ASIA:   China’s top central banker told attendees at an international finance meeting in Washington on Friday that rapid interest rate hikes and recent bank failures in Western countries were the major sources of global instability. Yi Gang, the governor of the People’s Bank of China, also attributed worldwide inflation in energy prices to “geopolitical […]

The Biden crime family’s activities are coming to light after a bank with ties to China handed over records to Republican lawmakers. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa reached out to numerous banks for information without luck. “We are investigating the domestic and international business dealings of President Biden’s son, […]

ASIA:   Japan’s wholesale prices rose 7.2% in March from a year earlier, with the pace of increase slowing for the third straight month, data showed on Wednesday, offering some relief to households and firms hit by a steady rise in raw material costs. The gain in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures […]