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Armstrong Economics 101

Is This a Bubble?

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, My wife and I are trying to buy a second home. We live in Wisconsin and want a place somewhere warm. We are trying to buy in Florida, but...

Seattle Orders $4 per Hour Extra for Essential Workers Causing More Company Closures

The Seatle government has directed that people who are “essential” workers during this pandemic are to be now paid $4 per hour extra for hazard pay....

Raising the Minimum Wage

The Democrats stuffed into the $1.9 trillion stimulus package a hike in the minimum wage from $7.25 for covered nonexempt employees to $15. Many states also have...

The Absence of Randomness

  COMMENT: A follow-up up to your blog post – look at these striking similarities. A coincidence? Probably not, eh? BC REPLY: Yes, excellent find. Once...

Clarifying Wind Turbines

It is possible to include heating elements in wind turbines to prevent freezing. They never took that into consideration in Texas where the wind turbines probably...

Q&A

QUESTION #1`: Marty, At the October 2019 WEC you made some eerily prescient statements about two things, first, if the market were to make a low going into the...

Wind Farms Frozen in Texas & Europe Bezos Should be Better than Gates & Zuckerberg Put Together

  These environmentalists never understand that wind turbines will freeze and solar panels will be buried in snow. They seriously think that somehow renewable...

Our Legal System is Pro-Tyranny

In the Netherlands, a court in The Hague has told the Dutch government that an overnight curfew to reduce the spread of coronavirus should be lifted, ruling that it...

The Strange Events of Chance Behind Economic Revolutions

This is an engraving with a modern watercolor of machines making cotton thread by performing mechanical versions of carding drawing and roving in a mill in...