COMMENT: Marty, I simply needed to write. Whereas everyone seems to be blaming Trump and tariffs for the inventory market crash, not solely did Socrates forecast that months prematurely, however I commerce copper professionally, as you understand. What you’ve gotten created needs to be acknowledged as the reply society has been trying to find over the millennium. It projected a January low, a two-month response, and a Panic for April 2025 with a Directional Change. I used to be at your WEC in Orlando and Rome when Nigel Farage stated you had been the choice to Davos. What you’ve gotten found goes past any Nobel Prize. Socrates has exceeded all expectations.
No person comes near your forecasting potential. I can’t watch for Marcus’ movie. It was nice that you simply introduced him on stage so we may see a face behind the Forecaster.
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REPLY: Thanks. What I found was that we’re all certainly linked globally. As I stated, over time, many individuals have come to encourage me, from John Exter and Milton Friedman to Margaret Thatcher. I consider that the world could be a greater place if we simply listened for as soon as. Maggie understood cycles. She acknowledged at our WEC maybe authorities ought to look to cycle to function.
As we head into an financial decline worldwide, bottoming in 2028, Copper costs have declined as a result of a mix of things influencing provide and demand dynamics. There was Decreased Demand from Key Economies, particularly China, a significant client of copper (utilized in building, infrastructure, and manufacturing), as it’s experiencing its personal financial deceleration, resulting in decrease copper demand. World recessions in industrial exercise (e.g., in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic) began the melancholy in demand.
Overproduction has additionally been a problem as enlargement of mining operations or new mines coming on-line (e.g., in Chile, Peru, or the Democratic Republic of Congo) have led to oversupply, outpacing demand. Then there are Excessive Stock Ranges as we’ve seen an elevated stockpile in exchanges just like the LME and Shanghai Futures Change, signalling extra provide, pressuring costs downward.
Then there was additionally the stronger greenback. As copper is priced in {dollars}, a stronger greenback makes it costlier for international patrons, decreasing demand and decreasing costs. This additionally encourages and will increase international manufacturing for the foreign money bonus. There was a gradual shift to options (e.g., aluminum in electrical wiring) or adopting extra environment friendly applied sciences/recycling, decreasing copper demand to some extent.
Tariffs and commerce limitations (e.g., U.S.-China commerce tensions) have additionally disrupted provide chains and dampened demand. Stricter insurance policies, supposed to boost manufacturing prices, may additionally incentivize options and have not directly affected demand.
In abstract, copper’s decline sometimes displays the interaction between macroeconomic developments, supply-chain changes, foreign money actions, and investor conduct. Particular triggers differ by timeframe however usually hinge on China’s financial well being and international industrial demand.
I attempt to present the world there’s something right here. There’s a hidden order throughout the look of chaos. When you see the sample and the order, you possibly can by no means see the chaos once more. It’s extra vital than the subsequent commerce. There’s a technique to this, and the way we must always have a look at society as a substitute of attempting to control it. Sure, the array on Copper was excellent. I’m glad it helped your organization and glad you now see the order throughout the chaos.
That is the array from our previous website again in 1999; I took it from the Wayback Machine. The pc had projected a Panic Cycle in 2008, just about 10 years prematurely. We are able to comply with Marx and Keynes and assume that the federal government has the supreme energy to control society and create fixed wars and devastation, like this silly local weather change nonsense. No person needs to grasp how the universe features, which leads humanity down this path of steady disasters.
Even Paul Volcker inspired me and agreed there was a enterprise cycle of about 8 years. I can scream from the rooftops, however they won’t pay attention. As they are saying, you’ll by no means be acknowledged throughout your lifetime as a result of you’ll all the time be a risk to the established order. I feel that wisestale might be true.
