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Finland Referendum Forces Debate on Euro Exit

Even traditional economists are now waking up to the downside of the euro. The euro was supposed to promote European harmony by eliminating costly currency...

Grabbing Money for the Next Trade

COMMENT: Marty, it is becoming really disgusting. Either they are slandering you for saying commodities were going down as if you were the anti-Christ, or they just...

Is Europe Slipping into Diversions?

A bomb scare in Hannover canceled a game between Netherlands & Germany. Merkel was supposed to be there. We may see Europe slip into a paranoid state of...

London Property Crashes – Off 11.5% in One Month

It appears the London Property Market bubble has peaked with the Osbourne changes in taxation and the Economic Confidence Model. Already, just since the turn on...

Bankers to be Criminally Charged

Wait long enough, and the coin always flips to the other side. The rumors circulating is that the NY Federal Prosecutors are at last looking to file criminal...

What Is the Strength of the Dollar? Its People, Military, or Commodities?

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, so many of these goldbugs really hate the dollar and they argue that since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, the dollar’s...

Goldbugs

I greatly appreciate all the news clippings quoting goldbugs and how they have been wrong from the 1970s. I was unaware how one of the famous ones sold out at $265...

Socrates for WEC Attendees

Those who attended the World Economic Conferences in Princeton and Berlin will receive 10-day advance access to Socrates for the professional Trading level. We...

Carving Up the Middle East

QUESTION: Why did ISIS target France rather than Germany? Someone said it was France who created Syria. Is that really true? ANSWER: Germany is not actually a...

Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014

Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually. In...