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Opening Your Eyes or Remain as the Fool on the Hill

COMMENT: I just had to say thank you. I kept a copy of your private post What Are the Markets Telling Us? from FEBRUARY 24, 2024. Your model called for a high in January, the false move to retest support in February, and a resumption of the trend into April. You have taught me so […]

USDA: Straight White Male Farmers Will Receive Disaster Aid Last

Admiral Rachel Levine was appointed as the U.S. Public Health Service, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Biden’s diversity cabinet. Levine has repeatedly warned that climate change disproportionately affects minorities. The US Department of Agriculture agrees and will begin prioritizing disaster aid to non-white Americans. A group of farmers […]

Market Talk – April 11, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 139.18 points or -0.35% to 39,442.63 Shanghai increased 6.91 points or 0.23% to 3,034.25 Hang Seng decreased 44.14 points or -0.26% to 17,095.03 ASX 200 decreased 34.90 points or -0.44% to 7,813.60 Kospi increased 1.80 points or 0.07% to 2,706.96 […]

Market Talk – April 10, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 decreased 191.32 points or -0.48% to 39,581.81 Shanghai decreased 21.20 points or -0.70% to 3,027.33 Hang Seng increased 311.10 points or 1.85% to 17,139.17 ASX 200 increased 24.30 points or 0.31% to 7,848.50 Kospi closed SENSEX increased 354.45 points or 0.47% […]

EU Court Rules that Women are Disproportionately Harmed by Climate Change   

Over 2,000 women from Switzerland filed a case through the European Court of Human Rights after claiming that a lack of climate change regulations has disproportionately harmed their gender.  This is the third climate-related case brought to the high court. Six young women from Portugal sued for similar reasons, as did a former mayor in […]

Market Talk – April 9, 2024

  ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 426.09 points or 1.08% to 39,773.13 Shanghai increased 1.48 points or 0.05% to 3,048.54 Hang Seng increased 95.22 points or 0.57% to 16,828.07 ASX 200 increased 35.10 points or 0.45% to 7,824.20 Kospi decreased 12.49 points or -0.46% to […]

Strong Jobs Report Does Not Mean Strong Economy

One thing that analysts fail to explain is that Americans have begun working multiple jobs since the COVID pandemic that wrecked the global economy. Nonfarm payrolls increased 303,000 in March, but there are millions of Americans holding multiple jobs who can still not keep up with the cost of living even with wages up 4.1% […]

Boris Johnson Issues Warning Against Israel Arms Embargo

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson reemerges from the shadows whenever he hears word that a war may be winding down. Johnson made an emergency trip to Ukraine when Zelensky was considering a peace deal with Russia, urging him to continue the endless war. According to Johnson, Russia was a threat to world peace, and […]

The Eclipse of ’24 – Good or Bad Omen?

  Since ancient times, eclipses and comets have been omens of good and bad events. The Babylonian priests saw the connection between geopolitical events on Earth and the movement of the stars in the heavens and gave birth to astrology. But they also could see the cycles in everything and were rather good at predicting […]

Market Talk – April 8, 2024

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 354.96 points or 0.91% to 39,347.04 Shanghai decreased 22.24 points or -0.72% to 3,047.05 Hang Seng increased 8.93 points or 0.05% to 16,732.85 ASX 200 increased 15.80 points or 0.20% to 7,789.10 Kospi increased 3.44 points or 0.13% to 2,717.65 […]