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 strength has been maintained by a U.S. military that has enforced the petroleum-based dollar for world trade. This seems to be way off the mark for it is the US […]

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 in 1979. Nevertheless, I am not interested in a name calling exercise and anyone who cannot see the truth deserves the losses they endure. […]

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 plan to launch the Investor service soon. The 10-day trial will begin in December after the Berlin conference in time for the end of the year. Once the trial period is available, […]

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 target in this chess game. It is one reason we selected Berlin for our conference, even compared to London, since we had Panic Cycles in November. Germany has […]

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 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 and was six times greater than the total for 1989. Then by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 […]

Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom, which releases an enormous amount of energy and radiation. This is what is used in nuclear bombs and energy plants. Nature’s fusion, the merging of nuclei, is the opposite process. This is actually the same process taking place within the Sun and stars. The obstacle […]