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In this week's Looking Backwards we are talking about the tension between China and Philippines in the South China Sea, Samsung's preference between Google and Bing, and whether the Moderna CEO is the COVID winner. We are then Looking Forwards to the European Union's fate in eastern Europe, high inflation, low growth in the US, FED decision today, Apple earnings tomorrow, and jobs repo...

This week's Bygone Relics show is reminding us about the panic of 1893. Are there similarities to the current situation? Let's find out.

This week's LBLF show is bringing you Sudan's conflict, Myanmar's civil war, South America's Amazon, India's assassination, Brazil's politics, and Canada's government involvement.

In this week's Bygone Relics show, we continue digging into the partnerships between the government and the private enterprises. While doing so, we are also drawing a comparison between Elon Musk and John D. Rockefeller.

This week on Looking Backwards Looking Forwards, we discuss the boycott Bud Light beer is facing from right-wing customers, interesting idea Californian electricity companies came up with, New York shoplifters, layoffs, and Dior landmark show in India.

In this week's Bygone Relics show, we investigate how government has allowed itself to be a primary partner of many multi-national businesses such as Tesla and Apple. Does this allow the government to choose winners and losers in our version of capitalism?

This week on Looking Backwards Looking Forwards (LBLF) we talk about American national security secrets leaking, US presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and China China China: Tesla sealing the deal to build a megafactory in China, Chinese state TV publishing Taiwan invasion blitz video, Macron and Ursula von der Leyen's visit to China and the interesting remarks afterwards.

We often cover the US federal level budget and debt issues. But what is the situation at the state level? This week's Bygone Relics show is answering this question: To start with, California had a $100 billion surplus causing governor Newson to say ‘no other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.” Last month, Newson had to eat those words because the state i...

This week's LBLF (Looking Backwards Looking Forwards) show is warning California on the sanitary crisis that might be faced very soon. Not only the people living in California, but we all should be concerned about it because of California's heavyweight in food production. But the nation is busy with Trump's sex life. Meanwhile, nations in the eastern part of the world are busy with mat...

We are drawing similarities between the Battle of the Alamo and our upcoming troubles: debt and defending the republic.

We could finally take a break from the banking crisis. In today's episode we are covering the latest from the US and Europe, along with Chinese president's interesting statement: "Changes are coming after 100 years".

“A bull market is like sex, it feels best right before it ends.”  Warren Buffett  After the quarter-point hike from FED this week, it appears that we have come to a crossroad. Are the savers or spenders going to be rewarded?

Turbulence in the banking sector is still dominating the headlines, as well as our episodes. Today we are looking backwards to the latest news around the UBS takeover of troubled Credit Suisse, and also the latest on the First Republic Bank. We are then looking forward to the much-anticipated FED interest rate decision coming out today: continue fighting against inflation or safeguard the financia...

First let's remember the basic bond prices and yields, and then let's look into what's next for banks and what we can do as individuals.

2nd and 3rd biggest bank failures in the US history happening just in 3 days (SVB and Silvergate)... Many questions surrounding this phenomenal series of events answered here: 1) Is it a bailout? 2) Are the depositors of SVB made whole by taxpayers’ money? 3) Is there contagion risk to Asia and Europe? 4) Will this financial instability stop FED from raising interest rates? 5) Is the US Treasury B...

We are discussing the hot news about the bank run of Silicon Valley Bank and also touching upon Silvergate and Credit Suisse. check out our website watch us on YouTube C Thomas Printer Cooperative: A place to make you think, make you remember, and make you smile

Heavy content this week:  China: capital restrictions, and Musk's tweet on Covid origination in Wuhan laboratory Russia: foreign minister Lavrov laughed at the US: selling Taiwan arms worth of $619 million, and one needs to keep an eye on for a potential flooding in California Big theme: an important card Russia and China have: fertilizers  Bonus: Is there a famine right now in North Kor...

We are reviewing the $1.7 trillion US government spending bill which is 4000 pages - designed carefully not to be read- !  It was passed in December 2022. We wanted to make sure you don't quickly forget about it - because it is a gigantic foolish spending with YOUR taxpayer dollars.  $153.8 billion on food stamps $2.2 billion for international food aid $1.92 billion for farm programs ......

One year of Russia-Ukraine War: Who is working for peace and who for propaganda, hotter than forecast PCE, American Car Center ceasing its operations, naval exercises of South Africa and Russia, elections in Nigeria, and euro area inflation down to 8.6% in January from 9.2% in December.  Check out our website Watch us on YouTube

We think that the tensions between the world powers are escalating and that we should be cautious. We remember that the mother nature should not be underestimated and that we need to be prepared. We also give you a feel-good story this week to make you smile in the midst of all the negativity. Because CTPC is where you think, remember, and smile. Check out our website Watch us on YouTube

This week on Looking Backwards Looking Forwards:   1) Landlords in trouble with the empty office spaces: Brookfield DTLA Fund Office Trust, a fund that owns office towers in downtown Los Angeles disclosed that it has defaulted on loans related to a pair of office skyscrapers in downtown LA.  2) Lebanese Protesters Start Fire Outside of the House of the chairman at the Association of...

We continue digging into the material challenges around the so-called green revolution, and saying the unsayable. Watch us on YouTube Visit our website for all our resources

The devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, who actually blew up the Nordstream pipeline, Moldova president resigning, UFOs being shot down in the US and Canada, protests about public healthcare in Spain, steep rent increases in Florida. Let's look backward to be able to look forward.  Watch us on YouTube Visit our website for all our resources

“The amount of copper required between 2022 and 2050 is more than all the copper consumed in the world between 1900 and 2021.” S&P Global “Someone must say the unsayable. None of these men have the guts” Margaret Thatcher This week we are digging into the material challenges around the so-called green revolution, and saying the unsayable.

What does an earthquake in Turkey, an Indian Billionaire, and a Chinese balloon have in common? They are all covered in this week's version of Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards.