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Greece – The Canary In The Coal Mine

The ultimate price of Marxism is striking its deep blow into the very heart of Western Society. We are about to learn the VERY same lesson that both Russia and China had to learn. You cannot control society through its economy by dictating prosperity. President Karolos Papoulias of Greece has come out and made a very […]

Virginia Investigates Gold Backed Currency Alternative to the Dollar

1780 Virginia Paper Currency Virginia Investigates Gold Backed Currency – Alternative to the Dollar There is a whirlwind surrounding the whole issue of gold back currency that has so many people confused and running around wasting a lot of time. To set the record straight, we had a gold standard under Bretton Woods set up […]

Kansas, Nebraska and Louisiana Eliminating Income Tax

Republican governors of Kansas, Nebraska and Louisiana are pushing to eliminate personal and corporate income taxes. While the Marxists/Socialist like Paul Krugman of the New York Times calls this “reverse Robin Hoodism”, the Founding Fathers were much more understanding when they prohibited direct taxation. An income tax requires one to surrender their privacy. Government needs […]

Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, 158 U.S. 601 (1895)

U.S. Supreme Court Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, 158 U.S. 601 (1895) Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company (Rehearing) No. 898, 894 Argued May 6, 7, 8, 1895 Decided May 20, 1895 158 U.S. 601 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus […]

Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911)

U.S. Supreme Court Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) Flint v. Stone Tracy Company Nos. 407, 409-412, 415, 420, 425, 431, 432, 442-443, 446, 456-457 Argued March 17, 18, 1910 Restored to docket for reargument May 31, 1910 Reargued January 17, 18, 19, 1911 Decided March 13, 1911. 220 U.S. 107 APPEAL […]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE   by   JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge   New York Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920   PREFACE The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was […]

Hyperinflation v Inflation

Well naturally I get critical responses that the way everything has to collapse is only through HYPERINFLATION. I would love to see just one empire that has ever collapsed in such a manner – not Babylon, Athens, Hellenistic Greece, Rome, Venice, Holy Roman Empire or even Britain. I fail to grasp this insistence upon something that historically […]

Beware The Taxman Cometh

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved January 10th, 2013     It is absolutely  IMPERATIVE to understand that what we face is by no means HYPERINFLATION. If you keep thinking that government will somehow just print their way into oblivion, you are going to lose your shirt and pants along with the car and house. I have tried […]

Fate of Europe 2013

Copyright Martin Armstrong all rights reserved January 7th, 2013  The European Central Bank is taking a deep breath as its President Mario Draghi now turns his attention to desperately trying to nurse the Eurozone back to some stable economic health. The crisis management measures of the last three years have subsided for now as the […]

2013 – The Roller-Coaster Ride of Your Life

Copyright Martin Armstrong January 6th, 2013 all rights reserved Already there are early signs of division within the Republican Party over how to approach the upcoming debate concerning raising the federal debt ceiling. These Republicans are out of their mind and this may be the start of the collapse of their Party and the place […]