The European banking crisis is brewing. Last month alone, the Bank of Italy poured €3.6 billion euros into Banca Marche, Banca Etruria (PEL.MI), CariChieti, and CariFeto to prevent their collapse. The money was funded by financing from healthy banks. This is precisely how the banking crisis began in Austria back in 1931. They took a […]

Jean Silvio Gesell (1862-1930) was a merchant and a theorist of the finance in Argentina and Germany. He was born in Sankt Vith, which was at that time Germany (today Belgium). His mother was Catholic and his father Protestant. His father was the tax collector of the German Empire when he grew up. Silvio Gesell […]

Thousands of refugees disappeared in East Germany without a trace after the initial reception. This merely highlights the security risks for Europe as a whole. The politicians just do not get it. The situation cannot be properly managed. The idea behind this move by Merkel has been to expand the population to sustain the tax levels […]

Denmark has been fighting against the EU trend of accepting unlimited amounts of refugees. This has been rising for behind the curtain there is now evidence emerging that ISIS has the ability to counterfeit Syrian passports. Denmark took an advertisement out in Lebanese newspapers to warn that those who are even thinking about seeking asylum in Europe […]

QUESTION: Hi Martin, I have been a follower of your blog since The Forcaster was broadcasted on national tv in Sweden. My question is about periodtime, or frequency of the business cycle and the other cycles. As society today seems to move much faster than a hundred years ago one would guess that the business cycle […]

COMMENT:  MA,  OH things are bad out West.. the commodity downturn – oil and gas, basic metals – Iron ore Copper etc…and the housing market is the worst there OF all the Australian states :arrears and non performing past 90days is around 4% on owner occupied residential …El’nineo has screwed the current (and looking like […]

The Democrats are just as dirty as the Republicans. Both parties try their utmost to defeat democratic processes at every stage of the game. Sanders has been cut off from accessing the Democrat’s voter database. Hillary is claiming that her proprietary data was hacked by Sanders. She would NEVER admit that her own private server […]

COMMENT: Dear Mr. Armstrong, Dear Mr. Armstrong, What you wrote concerning the possible repeated start of the banks collapse from Austria, once again, is right. The biggest lenders in Romania are some Austrian banks, among some Greek ones which are already in a coma. A new law has been passed and violent attack started from […]

QUESTION: Marty, at the Berlin cocktail party you said we may yet see gold sales from oil producing countries if oil breaks your yearly number of $35 for year end and gold closes below 1044 or so I think. You said gold could then reach that $——- level you mentioned in the conference. It looks […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, at the conference you said the US share market would continue to move sideways and there will be no breakout to the upside until 2016. After Fridays action I assume this is still on target. Where is support this time? Curious ANSWER: The key support lies down at 16887. We need a weekly closing […]