WSJ: Why the Strength of the Dollar Matters So Much for Stock Investors

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

As U.S. companies earn more from overseas, the greenback’s performance has an outsize impact on quarterly results—and often the stock market’s direction. Read more here.

Marcin Bond, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CC: 2024's Biggest Risks to Us: The U.S. Election and the Ukraine-Russia War

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Photo Courtesy of Robin Horsfall

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Former paratrooper and SAS soldier Robin Horsfall makes his debut on Constable Confidential. Among other gallantry, he was one of the team that rescued hostages from the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.

For the last two years, Horsfall has chronicled the Russia-Ukraine war and recently published a book on the conflict titled "Slava Ukraine Who Dares Shares."

In this show, he puts forward the case that the Western powers must continue to support Ukraine and ensure that Russia doesn't win. Failure to do so would likely be awful. We also discuss the risks of one particular candidate winning the U.S. presidency later this year. Plus, he names some favorite authors and proffers advice for aspiring writers.

Contact Horsfall via https://robinhorsfall.co.uk.

Signed Horsfall books available via www.robinhorsfall.com

Unsigned Slava Ukraine, Who Dares Shares available from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Picture credit: Horsfall

Photo description: Robin Horsfall

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#REDSEA: Oil prices much unmoved by Houthi attacks. @RealConstable John Batchelor @Forbes

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) launches a strike against three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen’s Red Sea coast circa October 2016 

Official U.S. Navy Page from United States of America U.S. Navy photo/U.S. Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 

CC: Is Scotland on an Economic Train Ride to Socialism?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Alan Quinn, a long-standing Glasgow-based entrepreneur, weighs in on Scotland's ruling Scottish National Party and the economic policies they are pursuing. Specifically, he targets the lack of private sector experience by leading SNP figures and the idiocy of rent control, plus much more.

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Photo credit: Gus Pasquarella, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo description: photo taken during the initial explosion of the Hindenburg

Forbes.com: More Signs Of A U.S. Economic Slow Down In 2024

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Despite some horrendously wrong predictions, there hasn’t been a recession since the COVID-19 pandemic. But the last few weeks show that things have been changing for the worse.

It’s something investors should consider carefully because certain assets do better in a recession than others, history shows. Read more here.

Frederick John Skill The Illustrated London News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Distress in Coventry, 

Distribution of Soup for Distressed Weavers in the Kitchen of St Mary's Hall circa 1862

Forbes.com: Iran’s Economic War On The West

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Iran’s threat to close the Mediterranean Sea to commercial shipping is a declaration of economic war on the west. It’s something that investors should take seriously as much of the world’s trade relies on shipping routes through that water. Read more here.

Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A British Centurion tank of the 6th Royal Tank Regiment disembarks from the tank landing ship HMS Puncher (L3036) at Port Said. In the background can be seen the De Lesseps statue which stood at the entrance to the Suez Canal.

CC: Flash Back: Constable and Batchelor Play Scrooge and Marley

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Here's a flashback to 2008, in which John Batchelor and I play Scrooge and Marley to tell the story of mega-conman Bernie Madoff who was charged with fraud in 2008 after running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Photo credit: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo description: From a 1900 illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 

with a drawing of Scrooge by Frederick Simpson Coburn

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