Less than in two years ago, Francois Hollande was elected with great hope and expectations. He has wasted the public hope and trust given him by the voters in his pursuit of the rich refusing to reform the welfare state that even the French believe has gone too far. According to a poll, if the […]

The one thing to emerge from the debt ceiling crisis has been to highlight the short-term debt focus. Every Thursday the US government has had to sell $100 billion of new debt rolling over short-term with 3 month bills. This may have helped to bring down long-term rates and it reduced the interest expenditures, but […]

COMMENT: You and the people you represent are not making one dollar for the real economy, you are only stealing money from the real economy by taking money from production, mining and normal investors. REPLY: Producers need to sell risk so they can produce on a guaranteed basis. Sorry, but without the free markets nothing […]

The Global Market Watch is designed to provide an objective computer analysis of all leading world markets based upon technical price movement manifested through pattern recognition. This is not an interconnected global correlation, but each market is analyzed using the same tools and in this manner, the tables provided give you a quick bird’s-eye view […]

In Switzerland, it is a far more democratic process than in the USA. You need 100,000 signatures to create a proposition to alter the Constitution that then is put to a general vote for the people. What is going on is that the Socialists have gathered about 130,000 signatures to ban speculation in commodities. We […]

John Kerry admits that some NSA spying went TOO FAR as reported by the BBC. Kerry said he will work with Obama to “prevent” further inappropriate acts by the NSA. But what is also emerging in Asia is a rising protest that this has been a joint effort assisted by Australia and in Europe Britain. What […]

COMMENT:  Hello Martin The problem with the collectible market in the eyes of a C accountant.. You have this asset and this asset has gone up but the govt has not been able to benefit. I noticed that in Australia they have this deal where they can make you partially revalue an asset. So if […]

The French are starting to rise up forcing Hollande to postpone his eco-tax that was due to start on Monday. The new eco-tax would charge a tax on all vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, This will apply to farmers as well. The French economy is being absolutely destroyed – shaken right down to its roots. The French population […]

QUESTION: In regards to your recent collector’s market comments, are you saying that the collector’s  markets that have international backing will perform or outperform other sectors on a return on capital basis? Whereas the domestic collector’s market , like Morgan dollars, will under-perform,  if not be crushed by the contracting disposable income (deflation) in the […]

Italy has plunged into the political incapacity for over the weekend Silvio Berlusconi,split his own party. Thus, the government Enrico Letta is actually left completely incapacitated for he does not even know who the opposition is any more. Unemployment among the youth in Italy is 40%+. The EU Commission will not even allow any democratic process to […]