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Taxes the Lynch-Pin of Civilization

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong: I find it disheartening the more I try to advance my family to build a better future for them, the more I realize that the harder I work we...

Schäuble Warns of Coming Economic Crisis

In his farewell interview for the Financial Times, Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble warned of a new global financial crisis predicated upon the...

The Epidemic of Fake Analysis

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I want to thank you for your work on Europe. We hear nothing from European analysts but up-up-and away and it makes one wonder if that is...

The Theory of Non-Linear Intervention

  Economics is well known for rather unrealistic theories based upon fundamentally unsound principles, such as the assumption that all things remain equal....

Is There a Way Out of This Financial Mess?

We need to open the door to the future but that is only possible by understanding the past. Paul Volcker back in 1979 in his Rediscovery of the Business...

Louvre Accord v Plaza Accord

QUESTION: I notice you often cite the *Plaza Accord* when on the topic of central bank currency manipulation. That accord was signed in 1985 with an aim to devalue...

Can Our Model Forecast Private Companies & Industries?

  QUESTION: Hello. I am a business consultant working for a global consulting company and have a client that is in the transportation sector that would benefit...

The 5 Factors Behind Capital Flows

QUESTION: Hi Martin, Well from myself and your family we thank you for sticking with us in this time as you have mentioned you could be doing other thing for...

Price Gouging in Emergencies

There are a lot of people claiming that price gouging should be criminal. What they fail to take into consideration is that price gouging is the only way to really...

Why Governments Expand the Gap Between Rich and Poor

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You said at your Frankfurt the ECB policy of negative interest rates is actually creating a wider gap between the poor and the rich. Could...