Election day: Brazil . October 25. Flavio Bolsonaro ( left ) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro holds a slight lead in polls with 50.9% of the vote.   It was Flavio's father who was jailed for an attempted coup to hold onto power. Lula represents the left-wing camp, while Bolsonaro the right. The history is too much to totally comprehend, because Jair Bolsonaro (father of Flavio) gained nationwide recognition during the 2016 impeachment proceedings against Lula's protegee, then-President Dilma Rousseff.  Bolsonaro went on to win the 2118 election while Lula was serving a prison sentence on corruption charges.  But Lula's conviction was overturned, and he made this comeback.  In the meantime, Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court over a 2022 election conspiracy case.  Following all this? Flavio is a toned-down version of his father Jair. Who should you root for? Well, Donald Trump shares a close personal alliance with Jair Bolsonaro. T...

Nothing much happening about wars in Iran and Ukraine, but as messy as the world economy might be, the U.S. stock markets are continuing to BREAK ALL-TIME RECORDS .  To the right, Peter Tuchman, the Einstein of Wall Street. The S&P 500 added 0.6% to close at 7819, hitting an intraday high of 7844.  This was its 28th record close just in 2026. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.45% to a record 27,600, with an intraday high of 27,723.  NVIDIA went up to a new high, opening at $242/share, and ended at $239.24, just below its all-time high. NVIDIA was only 185.54/share a year ago. Ten years ago?  $1.78/share. If you bought $1000 worth of NVIDIA stock at the 1999 IPO, this would  be worth $6,369,667 today!!! The Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 0.5% to 51,527.  The all-time closing high on 5August2026 is 54,340, after rising to an intraday high of 54,744. The USA is exactly four weeks away from 3November2026, the day of the mid-term elections. Can President Do...