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Market Talk – January 8th, 2016

January 8, 2016

  As you would have expected, all eyes were on Shanghai as the stock market opened with no limit restrictions imposed. It was not to be the session from hell that some dealers had feared but was almost calm. It … →

Dow Correction November High

January 8, 2016

The high for November was 17977.8, not 17210.43. I quoted the low instead of the high. See, we humans do make mistakes. Socrates was correct. That is why people ask, “What does the computer say?”

Looking for Sanity in an Insane World

January 8, 2016

Why has China become so important? Largely because global investors are in this transition mode and do not understand how or why the foundation of everything is changing beneath them. The market turmoil in China spread around the world on Thursday as … →

Disease Is Cyclical – It’s Time We Understand the Implications

January 8, 2016

COMMENT: Hi Martin, regarding your recent blog post about dengue fever, a similar pattern is apparently seen also in the African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness”. Looking to Wikipedia’s sources, several newer studies were published in recent years, some of them … →

Britain Hit with Coldest Winter in 58 Years

January 8, 2016

When I lived in London back in the 1980s, there was a touch of snow and everyone was running around photographing the snowfall in the city. Now, Britain is getting hit with their coldest winter in 58 YEARS. London was hit … →