9+ hour, 4+ min ago  (283+ words) View this post on Instagram Europe's housing market is not recovering, it is becoming unlivable. Eurostat reported that in Q1 2026, EU house prices rose 5. 1% from Q1 2025, while rents increased 3. 0%. Compared with Q4 2025, house prices rose another 1. 2% and rents increased 0. 7%. Between the 2025 average and…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago  (538+ words) Canada's latest defence procurement is becoming impossible to ignore. The CBC reports that Ottawa is now looking beyond simply purchasing Saab's Global Eye airborne early warning aircraft. NATO itself has now selected the same Swedish system to replace its aging…...

16+ hour ago  (128+ words) ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: " NIKKEI 225 increased 924. 80 points or 1. 38% to 67, 743. 85 " Shanghai increased 65. 708 points or 1. 65% to 4, 036. 588 " Hang Seng decreased 169. 28 points or -0. 70% to 24, 030. 18 " ASX 200 decreased 22. 60 points or -0. 26% to 8, 762. 50 " SENSEX increased 238. 22 points [] Market Talk " July 9, 2026 Posted Jul…...

22+ hour, 8+ min ago  (47+ words) Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates. com. https: //ask-socrates. com/ PRIVATE BLOG " Ukraine Beware of September Posted Jul 9, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |...

22+ hour, 10+ min ago  (439+ words) The Ukrainian currency has been a perpetual short since 1998, and nothing has changed since. The central bank tried to fix the currency in 2022 when the war began. Our models could easily forecast precisely when the war would begin, for there…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (550+ words) The establishment continues to dismiss the growing support for socialism among young people as nothing more than college indoctrination. That is only part of the story. If we refuse to understand why an entire generation is losing faith in capitalism,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (601+ words) The Federal Reserve minutes from the June 1617 meeting showed policymakers divided over where interest rates should go next. The official minutes admit the problem plainly. Inflation had "increased further and remained well above" the Fed's 2% objective, while officials blamed tariffs,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (174+ words) I have received numerous requests to host a technical training conference similar to those I conducted in the 1990s. Those sessions were intensive'and at $5, 000 per seat, they were not inexpensive. By today's standards, however, that would be a bargain. Consider that…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (57+ words) Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for Socrates or to learn more, please visit Ask-Socrates. com. https: //ask-socrates. com/ PRIVATE BLOG " Here we Go Into An Unwinnable War for 2027 Posted Jul 8, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (199+ words) COMMENT: Well, Marty, Socrates is right again. You even had the week correct. Trump just announced the end of the ceasefire and cannot escape this unpopular war. It is so obvious why mainstream media will not quote you; Socrates puts…...