COMMENT:  Hi Marty, I quite enjoy your writing.  My understanding regarding the panic of ’07 is that it was at least partly the result of earthquake and San Francisco fire of 1906. Really looking forward to your book(s), especially the rewrite of “Greatest Bull market” as I believe you will be pointing out the sorry […]

The end of socialism is not going to be pretty. Politicians have screwed the youth with student loan debt that they made non-dischargable to help the bankers, followed by lowered interest rates to “stimulate” the economy, which has only lowered their own cost of funding. The youth are burdened with huge debts paying 7% on […]

  The amount of propaganda against the Federal Reserve is incredible. What we must keep in mind is that its original design, which lasted for about one year, was brilliant. The classic banking model, borrowing from depositors on a demand basis and lending long-term making a profit on the spread in interest rates, such as […]

The first book of Aristotle my father handed me was the Categories. I then proceeded down the list.

QUESTION: Hello Martin- Great work and I wish you the best. One question regarding your recent email alerts from your blog in regards to the “money out of thin air” discussion that was/is going on. What is your opinion on how G. Edward Griffen’s book, “The Creature From Jekyll Island”, relates to the discussion on […]

Greece’s debt is now cut to CCC in preparation for an eventual default. Brussels just cannot think out of the box. There will be no solution until the thinking paradigm is changed. I previously wrote: With the economy turning down, the pain threshold will rise. The lack of liquidity will be a huge problem if […]

COMMENT: Hello Martin, The volume and content of the work you are putting out is both phenomenal and sincerely appreciated. In relation to your recent topics on education and learning, Dorothy Sayers wrote an interesting article in 1947 about the “Lost Tools of Learning” http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html where she referenced Aristotles Trivium, Quadrivium based work that has […]

QUESTION: Good morning Marty,   Will you be in Belfast this Sunday?    Thanks,   T ANSWER: No, sorry. My schedule has been so busy that I was unable to make it to the debut of the film in Ireland or London. I would have loved to have been there since I lived in London for […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I can talk till I’m blue in the face and it just does not matter! I say to people they are going to ban cash because of taxes and cash is not traceable, try as I might 1 out of 50 people see it. What a shame. I agree when you say […]

COMMENT  Hi Martin, In response to your blog post, “How to Think May Be the Key to Everything” I thought you might like this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to […]