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 3,063,928 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 (September 1, 2026) I traveled for six weeks in the Philippines (Cebu, Bohol, Panglao, Manila and Makati), Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan and in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and made a number of observations. China is a fully developed country and its massive southeast megalopolis including Hong Kong, Macao and Zhuhai are every much as affluent as North America and Europe. While in Macao I saw one (1) person who could be classified as “homeless.” Most people work at average jobs to make…