Financial and Economic Updates by Marc Nonnenkamp
The most recent monthly update is on top, followed by archives going back to the first monthly update in December of 2011. Please join 2,859,214 visitors from 196 countries (speaking 154 languages) including 50 US States and visit our new website at www.financialecononomicupdate.com. All-time visits to our financial and socio-economic blog since 2011 have come from the People's Republic of China (54%), the USA (23%), Singapore (16%), Japan (1%), Germany (1%), the Philippines (1%), India (1%) and 189 other countries and territories combined (3%). Financial, Economic and Social Mood Update (August 2, 2026) The demographic situation in the world today with respect to race is not unlike that in southern Africa when it moved from white minority rule to majority rule based upon one person, one vote (universal suffrage). The Republic of South Africa was about 29.02 percent white / Caucasian / Indo-European from 1797 until the census of 1897 and in the 2022 census this was down to 7.3 percent of the population – the figure for 2026 is likely closer to 6.3 percent…