QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, Since watching ‘The Forecaster’ I read your blog daily: thank you for all you have done to make sense out of the current phase of the economic cycle we are in.  Some call it the fourth turning or winter and it helps to see the bigger picture. About the loans: how […]

  The latest studies show that Obamacare is sucking up 10% of people’s income. This is just not sustainable long-term and may not even be sustainable past 2017.

The seriousness that is emerging in the hedge fund community is their tendency to become VULTURE FUNDS who look to lend money to sovereigns at excessively high rates of return that become no different than the carpetbaggers who sought to exploit the South following the Civil War. As an investor, you should stay away from hedge funds who think they […]

A reader-submitted picture taken outside a Catholic church in France on Christmas day. Comment: Hi Mr Armstrong, A single picture, taken during Christmas Mass, in rural France. Police forces have been ordered to protect Catholics attending the office. The comments are : “Never thought we would end up this way”. Government wants to show it […]

For the last several year, the youth in Corsica have been clashing with police in a separatist protest. This is the youth uprising — the lost generation that socialism has turned into economic slaves. Some 500 young people responded to the call for independence from France. This is a rapidly building movement, especially since the War Cycle […]

Perhaps we should bring back the baby cage of 1922 that was invented to provide children living in high-rise apartments with fresh air. This time, we should install them in Washington for our pretend “representatives” who always vote against our interests in favor of their own political career ambitions.

QUESTION: Marty, you know which bank I am at. You also know the Fed has been going around warning banks that their models are wrong and they will not see a flight to quality being the 30 year bonds. Yet Yellen seems to also say she does not believe in inevitable cycles. They are saying […]

Clark Moffatt went to law school to persue his dream job as a lawyer working in the American criminal justice system (like we really need more prosecutors). Nearly a decade after graduating with his sheep’s skin, Moffatt has yet to land a job in the profession of his dreams. His student debt stands at more than $230,000 […]

Gold for year-end has a number of 1044.50 if we close BELOW this next Wednesday on December 31. If we close ABOVE this number, it will not provide a buy signal nor will it avoid a sell signal. The only sell signal is way down at $680. A close beneath 1044.50 will suggest short-term immediate weakness, whereas […]

This is a very interesting TEDx presentation on the massive effort to make you think a particular way, which is all crafted from behind the curtain. Anything that has any possible political connection on Wikipedia is simply not trustworthy.