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Month: November 2018

Market Talk- November 30, 2018

After an initial morning wobble, Asian stocks managed some positive momentum to close the day on a healthy note. The Shanghai suffered from low volume, but the...

PRIVATE BLOG – The Fed – Interest Rates – Real Winds Behind the Curtain

PRIVATE BLOG – The Fed – Interest Rates – Real Winds Behind the Curtain Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To...

The Business Cycle & the Suicide Rate

  The press is all abuzz about the suicide rate is up 33% in 20 years and they blame the lack of funding as if this alone will cure the problem. They never...

Solar Magnetic Field Oscillations Confirm Global Cooling is Upon Us

  Professor Valentina Zharkova gave a presentation of her Climate and the Solar Magnetic Field hypothesis at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in October...

US Bank Reserves 10% – EU Bank Reserves 1%

QUESTION: What mechanism prevents banks from creating fraudulent electronic deposits of currency? As an IT systems admin, I have the ability to add / subtract /...

Market Talk- November 29, 2018

The Shanghai index managed to hold onto gains for longer than the Hang Seng, but eventually both closed negative. Talk is, that a US/China Trade deal would be...

Italy’s Certified Email System has been Hacked

There was an interesting major hacking event in Italy which gained access to thousands of Italian certified email accounts, including those of magistrates and...

Why Has Farmland Exploded in Price? The Accidental Trend Correlation

  Most people have little idea WHY big money was targeting buying farmland in Canada, USA, and Australia. It was more than just Chinese investment. With...

Global Cooling – not Global Warming, that we should Fear the Most.

It is incredibly important to understand that as the weather turns bitterly cold in the north, people will begin to migrate south. This not merely caused the...

Market Talk- November 28, 2018

Asian markets were buoyant in the hope the meeting between USA and China over the next few days would prove fruitful. Early losses were quickly reversed leading to...