Dancing with the 800 Pound Gorilla The strangest part of my own case was the fact that anyone who has ever attempted to go after Goldman Sachs & crew of Investment Bankers, has strangely encountered the heavy hand of government that is used to protect them resulting in the New Your Investment Bankers being called […]

It is starting to become critical regarding what bank to trust. The Bank War of Andrew Jackson just may be reemerging at last with the target being this time the “club” led by the New York Investment Bankers. The dangerous bankers in NYC and elsewhere are those who are proprietary traders. The NY Investments Bankers […]

QUESTION: No one ever talks about the depression from 1920-1921, but as I recall in researching it the government and the Fed never intervened and just let things play out.    In the end this depression hurt for awhile, but was over very quickly and from that point on we had the roaring 20’s. You […]

COMMENT:  Hello Martin This will be interesting - stock market UP / economy Down / bonds down / real estate Up / dollar Up Up / taxes Up / gold Down / civil unrest Up / weather cycle - unstable Wow only a computer could generate this outcome... ANSWER: Absolutely. The most interesting aspect of […]

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, In a recent post you write, “HYPERINFLATION takes place not because of any threshold in the quantity of money that has been crossed. It is a matter of confidence.”  Is there any historical precedence for a people losing confidence in a currency, where it is being restricted, i.e., not printed in […]

QUESTION:  “If you were appointed to be the next FED Chairman (after Bernanke), what would you do to solve today’s problem?” M.J. ANSWER: SCREAM! Look for the longest rope, tie it around my neck and jump. The Fed is really powerless despite popular belief. The whole problem breaks down into two parts: 1) We have […]

The problem both analysts and government have is they view the world only through the same looking glass relating everything to the domestic economy in dollars alone. But investors buy and sell internationally according to their own base currency – the one profits are measured and in which they are taxed. You can’t tell the […]

The number one story has been that the Fed is printing money, it will be worthless, and you have to buy gold. Sorry – way too simplistic. This has been said by the vast MAJORITY becoming one of the most common pieces of investment advice of recent years – just buy gold. The Goldbugs have […]

QUESTION: The economist Robert Wiedemer, author of the New York Times best-selling book Aftershock, has forecasted that unemployment will rise to 50%, the stock market will crash by 90%, and the annual inflation will hit 100% starting in 2013. What is your view on this scenario? ANSWER: Gibberish. Pure insanity. This is the same thing as […]