2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (121+ words) Merry Christmas to everyone around the world. Christmas is a reminder that history does not move in straight lines. It moves in cycles. Every civilization has faced moments where confidence was tested, institutions were stretched beyond their limits, and the…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (280+ words) When Athens rose as the financial capital of the world after defeating the Persians, here too we see imitations of the Athenian Owls throughout the Mediterranean region. Even Egypt, which never issue coinage of their own like India, they too…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (134+ words) The corruption on the Pharmaceutical Industry is no different from the Financial Industry. They pay big finds giving regulators gold stars for racking in the money, but nobody goes to jail " that is not profitable because they can't get billions…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (579+ words) Government spending per person in the United States has soared nearly 10,000 percent over the last century, as reported by the Federalist. The number is staggering, but the true question isn't how much has been spent but what was bought and…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (219+ words) October retail sales were flat following a downwardly revised 0.1% rise in September, missing expectations yet again. This is precisely the type of number that gets spun as "resilient" or "temporary softness," depending on the political agenda. But when you actually…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (487+ words) Christine Lagarde is now warning that Europe faces an "existential crisis" unless urgent reforms are enacted. What she is really admitting is that Europe has reached the end of the centralized model. These are 28 independent nations that were never intended…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (645+ words) QUESTION: Marty, Socrates has forecast a global recession into 2028. Unemployment remains low, yet layoffs continue to make headlines. Inflation has slowed, but grocery prices keep rising. Corporate profits have climbed, but small businesses are struggling. Europe is imploding as you…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (626+ words) A lot of question have come in about the fall of the Eurozone. One thing that they are already discussing is to allow the member states with a debt crisis like Italy that is unsustainable to exist the Eurozone. They…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (620+ words) QUESTION: You have said you disagree with Trump about lower interest rates because he has been a borrower and not a lender. There was dissent at the Fed about Powell's third cut. You have also said that the ECB has…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (486+ words) The Federal Reserve was divided this December; hawkish members of the FOMC were outnumbered, and the central bank approved its third consecutive cut of 2025. "We're in the high end of the range of neutral," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added....