QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, Thank you very much for your blog – I visit daily! Is it possible that both you and the gold bugs are correct? I think your argument with the gold bugs may be a misunderstanding. The problem lies in how you define manipulation. When a large sale occurs in illiquid hours, I […]

The Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) or asset purchase program, has managed to cause the Fed’s balance sheet to explode from under $1 trillion pre-crisis to an all-time high of $3.48 trillion. While this $2.48 trillion increase has sent people ranting about hyperinflation that has been just absurd. They fail to grasp the fact that there has […]

The European Banking Crisis is getting much worse and the whole structure is crumbling to dust. The banks cannot save themselves. The entire crisis is all about the structural design of the Euro, which the politicians will not address. They failed to create a single national debt and in so doing, the banks then used […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong: You frequently discuss how markets cannot be manipulated, has not the Federal Reserve manipulated markets with Zero interest rates. As a follow-up to our exchange regarding valuations. I believe I understand your explanation the markets will increase for capital appreciation, but are you excluding that there could be price increases with extreme […]

QUESTION:  Hi Mr. Armstrong, Deflation has been described as a peacetime phenomenon. You say we are in a period of deflation and yet the world seems to be at anything but peace. If your war model turns up in 2014, do you expect inflation? Thanks MB ANSWER: The traditional concepts of DEFLATION and INFLATION are […]

America’s police are looking more and more like the military, reports the Guardian. There seems to be a continued effort toward preparing for civil unrest rather than reforming the economic system. We have to STOP all borrowing by government and stop competing with the private sector for capital. As government desperately trying to keep interest […]

The crisis we face in Pension is indicative of the entire problem with Socialism – it just does not work. What is unfolding now is quite simple. Pensions present a very tempting source of funds for cash-strapped governments who desperately need to fill in holes in their overall budgets, Governments have borrowed every year with no […]

QUESTION: Some analysts “expect that the u.s. treasury will keep interest rates low for many years. they quote japan`s so-called “lost decade” as a precendant and appear to expect that such artificial supression will in fact work ( obviously against what you consider “market forces”). which poses the question: does japan`s “lost decade” conform to the ECM […]

The U.S. government began to shut down for the first time in 17 years early Today, after a bitterly divided Congress over Obamacare defunding failed to reach any agreement as expected. What must be stated openly is that the “New Deal” of Roosevelt has actually destroyed the very fabric that formed society that nobody wants to […]

I cannot emphasize how serious a situation we are in on two fronts (1) Sovereign Debt Crisis and (2) Pension Crisis. These are really global problems that are going to explode in our faces. In Europe we have the Sovereign Debt Crisis has spilled over into the banking system since banks were required to have […]