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China Moving to Take the Lead in Technology

China is moving rapidly to advance and take the lead in technology from the United States and they will accomplish that in the years ahead. China is moving very...

Market Talk- October 25, 2017

As you probably expected, Asia opened firmer following the strong US performance. For the majority this remained the trend for the day but not for the Nikkei....

Private Blog – Dow for October 25th, 2017

Private Blog – Dow Jones Industrials for October 25th, 2017 Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or...

New Zealand to Foreigners – Get Out!

The New Zealand Prime Minister that took the country back into Marxism, has fired its first shot across the bow.  The Labour party have formally signed a coalition...

Diamonds replacing Gold?

  There has been an effort to use diamonds in place of gold since you can travel with them without setting off metal detectors. But the real problem has been...

Hillary’s What Happened – She Lost & It Was Her Fault!

Hillary is running around pitching her book – What Happened. Of course, we all know the answer – she lost. The problem is that she takes no blame for...

Saudi Arabia in Search of Cash

QUESTION: I read your blog about the Saudi’s potentially selling a large private equity position from China in Aramco rather than accessing the public...

Market Talk- October 24, 2017

  Having just seen an uncertain US session, Asia was a little confused which way to take markets from the opening bell. Still, it appears as though Shanghai...

Is Europe Repeating the 1930s?

Europe is now replicating the 1930s and the mistakes it made with austerity back then as well outside of Germany. Of course, Merkel has imposed the German view of...

The Six Groups of Investors and Traders

​ The recent report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), shows that the professional investors have continued to bet on falling Dow...