Well, a couple now faces 15 years in prison for having sex on the beach in Florida, which was romantic in “The Thorn Birds” and is the name of a popular drink. You just cannot imagine the penalties they inflict on people for claimed violations. And society should pay for such imprisonments? There is just no rational legislation […]

The Australian government is extremely left wing, even among the Conservatives. Nevertheless, the Australian budget for 2015 has been leaking out little by little and the reaction to taxing savings was not well received publicly or behind the curtain. This time the Australian banks rose up and warned they would lose all standing in world commerce. The proposal to […]

James Gordon Brown is a British politician who was the Prime Minister from June 2007 to May 2010 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Gordon has floated the Marxist Balloon for all we hear about now is eliminating physical money. Those who have ever worked in government NEVER see themselves as the problem – it […]

All over the place they are touting that the stock market will crash and burn. Indeed, when you say there is a coming crash, everyone immediately assumes that means the stock market. It appears that the bulk of those who claim to be analysts are all proclaiming the coming stock market crash. This is typical […]

Typical. The European press is claiming that the euro decline is over, and a Greece default will not harm Europe. This seems to be the standard propaganda from government that comes out with every serious change in trend, be it Japan in 1990, to the U.S. in the 1929 Bubble where it also immediately pronounced […]

The amount of cash rushing around on the short-end is stunning. Yields are collapsing into negative territory, and this is the same flight to quality we began to see at the peak of the crisis back in 2009. The big money is selling the 10-year or greater paper and everyone is rushing into the short-term. […]

The IRS is seizing accounts of small business operations under the crime called “Structuring”. This is where you deposit less than $10,000 two or more times to try to avoid the bank reporting the cash deposits. Lyndon McLellan made two deposits amounting to $11,400 within a 24-hour period. The IRS seized his entire account of $107,702.66, assuming his […]

Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry’s new bill set to pass this week will change how the Pentagon buys weapons, the very people who sell the arms to the government got to write the bill in favor. Thornberry has altered the acquisition system weakening the power of the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester, an independent watchdog […]

Toronto police identified a body found in the water as that of missing Morgan Stanley sales trader Murray Abbott. This is by no means the only trader suddenly found dead. There is a dark sinister force behind the curtain and far too many people are turning up dead. The volume and liquidity collapse is underway […]

QUESTION: Martin, I am a believer in your work and the effect of time and cycles complicit in everything. My question to you relates to Socrates. If everyone followed the calls made by Socrates, wouldn’t this result in crowded trades and thus exacerbate volatility? Appreciate all of your work, IGP ANSWER: We have just recently exceeded […]