Demand for mortgage loans in Europe fell by 74 percent in 2022’s final quarter, European Central Bank (ECB) data shows, the steepest quarterly drop since 2003 when the bank began tracking the figure.
LAST WEEK: STOCKS RALLY ON INFLATION NEWS, INTEREST RATE HOPES
U.S. equity markets slipped Friday on news that the economy added 517,000 jobs in January, raising concerns that the U.S. Federal Reserve might keep interest rates higher longer.
THE ENTIRE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS ON A KNIFE’S EDGE
Today, at its core, the world financial system is in crisis. More specifically, liquidity in the system is drying up. What this translates to is this, without world central banks both issuing, and then buying back exponentially more debt the entire system implodes.
SPOTLIGHT: WAR WITH CHINA
With each passing week, the West keeps ramping up its war talk, military advancements, and military strategies that are trending toward warfare with China. The following are key events that are ramping up the conflict between East and West.
CREATIVE CONTENT INFRINGEMENT OF DEEP LEARNING AI HAS MONUMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
All that hard work you spent creating informative content on your website?
PUTIN SAYS GERMAN NAZIS ARE AGAIN AT WAR WITH RUSSIA
In marking the 80th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Battle of Stalingrad last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the current conflict with Ukraine to the country’s fight against the German Nazis in WWII.
AFRAID COVID WILL KILL YOU? MICROPLASTICS FOUND IN VEIN TISSUE
“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? Enough said.”
Economy
BREXIT DAMAGE HAS SET IN SOONER THAN EXPECTED
Since England and Ireland left the European Union (EU) in January 2021, the two countries’ value of trade with the EU has fallen 7 percent, according to official government data.
U.K. ECONOMY TANKS AS PEOPLE STOP WORKING
The British economy is in recession and will be hard-pressed to grow even when the recession ends, the Bank of England (BoE) said this month in one of its most dismal forecasts on record.
GERMANY’S TRADE SURPLUS SHRINKS FOR FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
In December, Germany’s trade surplus fell 6.3 percent from November, almost double the 3.3 percent analysts had expected.
Geopolitics
SPOTLIGHT: WAR WITH CHINA
With each passing week, the West keeps ramping up its war talk, military advancements, and military strategies that are trending toward warfare with China. The following are key events that are ramping up the conflict between East and West.
WHAT DRONE STRIKE? NETANYAHU DODGES QUESTIONS ABOUT ATTACK ON IRANIAN MILITARY FACILITY
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to confirm or deny involvement in last month’s drone attack on an Iranian military facility that Tehran blamed on Israel.
ISRAEL KEEPS KILLING PALESTINIANS
Israeli forces left a house in ruins in the occupied West Bank’s city of Jericho after an early morning raid on Monday that resulted in at least five Palestinian deaths.
Top Trends 2023
TOP TREND 2023: CELENTE’S HOMELESS SOLUTION
Homelessness is still a top concern in cities across the U.S., and with poverty, crime and government corruption accelerating across the planet, waves of immigrants flooding into safe-haven nations has—and will—make the homeless crisis worsen.
TOP TREND 2023: ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT—NEW POLITICAL PARTIES
Get ready for new anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-immigration, anti-tax political parties to spring up across the globe.
TOP TREND 2023: ANTI-IMMIGRATION
Inflationary pressures, declining economies across the globe, lack of basic living standards... topped off by an expanding war in Ukraine will lead to more people fleeing impoverished countries for Europe and the U.S., which will, in turn, result in the continued growth of anti-immigration policies and movements in the West.
Hi-Tech Science
ARTIFICIAL BLOOD IS ON THE WAY
A wide-ranging team of bioscientists and biotech firms are collaborating to concoct artificial blood that can be freeze-dried, then reconstituted by medics on the spot when people are injured in war, car accidents, and other traumas.
RESEARCHERS SEE LINKS BETWEEN CANCER AND ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS
After finding correlations between cancer and a diet heavy in ultra-processed foods, researchers at Imperial College London are urging warning labels be put on the offending products.
IT’S SCIENCE: TRAFFIC SMOG DAMAGES YOUR BRAIN
Breathing diesel exhaust while gridlocked in traffic can begin to de-wire your brain in two hours, a new study from the University of British Columbia found.