Due to the US bank holiday on Monday, “Market Talk” will resume on Tuesday, May 26. ASIA: Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday on the 20th anniversary of Macao’s return to China that the “One Country, Two Systems” principle is totally feasible and enjoys broad public support with characteristics of Macao. Xi made the […]

COMMENT: Hi Marty, Hope you’re well. Still in lockdown… there are now strict time slots when people (based on age, etc) can leave home (unless they’re going to work or to do grocery shopping), A few regions (the islands, basically) have relaxed the rules more, but not the large cities and more populated provinces. At any […]

Nancy Pelosi, who represents California rather than the nation, is about as unfit to be a leader of any party in Congress. She has pushed through her House Democrat Bill calling for $3 trillion in coronavirus spending bill Friday night, despite pushback from liberals and moderates within their ranks as well from Republicans. She knows […]

Richard Nixon had to resign over the famous scandal of the June 17, 1972 failed break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the U.S. Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Nixon re-election […]

It has been no secret that Modi of India has been desperately trying to force his nation out of cash and into the world of electronic currency. It has long been assumed that Modi has been a part of Bill Gates’ vision of the future. The left is always the most dangerous because they see […]

COMMENT: Hello Martin, My wife and I had to visit a small village near where we live today, as we needed to buy something from the pharmacist. When we arrived at the door of the pharmacist, it was locked so I knocked. About 30 seconds later a young female employee came opened the door and in […]

 ASIA: The official Urban Unemployment rate in China was 5.9% in March, as per the data published by the Ministry of Commerce. Yet, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a think tank run by the government, has published a report stating that the actual data could be far greater. Beijing’s data does not include people […]

In a new really socialist report, they make the big claim labeling Billionaires as Pandemic Profiteers. The heading makes it sound as if these people have strategically profited from from this Pandemic, which is not the case at all. The report equates their profits to simply the bounce in the stock market. They make its […]

Neither my sister nor I collect Social Security. Nevertheless, she received a check in the mail made out to my deceased mother, and it says “DECD” for her stimulus check of $1,200. Not exactly sure what to do with this check. How would we cash it? This is really confusing. It will probably cost $1,000 […]

  ASIA: China’s official index of manufacturing purchasing managers slipped to 50.8 in April from 52.0 in March, the National Bureau of Statistics said. Pandemic triggered recessions around the world have made Chinese manufacturers pessimistic about export demand. Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the United States, has said the two countries need to look beyond […]