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Month: July 2025

Market Talk – July 18, 2025

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 82.08 points or -0.21% to 39,819.11 • Shanghai increased 17.66 points or 0.50%...

Medvedev Advises Putin Start WWIII Before Trump’s 50 day Ultimatum

QUESTION: After reading you for more than 10 years, I understand that you are the best at geopolitics because you honestly know history. Medvedev has called on...

US Secures $15B Energy Deal with Italy

Italy has finalized a major energy deal with the United States, which will reform energy trade between the two nations. Unlike other European countries that are...

60% of Canadians Face Rising Mortgage Payments by 2026

Canadians with a mortgage renewal in the near future are facing trouble ahead. The Bank of Canada released a new report detailing that around 60% of outstanding...

UK to Permit 16-Year-Olds to Vote

Teens in the United Kingdom were recently deemed too irresponsible to use social media and user-generated online content. Yet, the government has deemed it...

PRIVATE BLOG – NATO – TRUMP – WAR

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Market Talk – July 17, 2025

ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 237.79 points or 0.60% to 39,901.19 • Shanghai increased 13.05 points or 0.37%...

While the World Was Distracted by Epstein

While the world was distracted by the Epstein debacle, legislators introduced the GENUIS Act that would permit the US government to regulate stablecoins. The GENUIS...

EU Proposed €2 Trillion Defense and Climate Budget – Another Crack in the Bloc

The European Union has just proposed a staggering €2 trillion budget over seven years, with a major focus on military defense spending. Once again, Brussels is...

The Stripper Index

One company has been looking to one of the world’s oldest professions to gauge the state of the economy—sex work. “The ‘stripper index’ is an...