Skip to content

US Vows No Default over Debt Ceiling Debate

  QUESTION: Marty, will there by a spike high in US sovereign debt or just a low in rates overall? It also is starting to appear your influence is everywhere. Now a lot of people are clearly referring to this as a debt bubble. The media does not quote you, but it looks like a […]

China Copies NSA but by Legislation

China will most likely pass a very far-reaching counter-terrorism act which adopts by legislation everything the NSA has been doing illegally behind the scenes and Congress along with Obama have endorsed. China will require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security “backdoors” just as the NSA has done secretly. China is effectively […]

What Happens if the FED Does not Raise Rates?

QUESTION:  Dear Martin, If the Fed KNOWS that raising rates will cause a problem (to say the least) for 1) Bond Market 2) rates on reserves 3) Debt interest 4) sluggish US economy with numbers turning down now then why should they raise rates just because capital flows are coming here and pushing up stocks? Why […]

N. Korean Diplomat Caught Smuggling $1.7 Mil in Gold

  A North Korean diplomat was just caught by customs officers in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle almost 60 pounds of gold into the country worth $1.7 million.  He claimed Diplomatic Immunity, but they still confiscated the gold. This is illustrating the entire problem we have today in modern times trying to transport gold as […]

Sorry Donations Not Accepted – Just Spread the Word

COMMENT: Hello Sir, ive been following you for years and though i struggle to understand how to read /interpret your data ive still managed to trade your pointers and make some money when i can understand it. for all youve done and continue to do im certain many of us are grateful more than we can […]

Why Japan is Not Greece or EU For that Matter

QUESTION: Hello Martin There are a few writers who speculate the the yen will be the first currency to fall (because Japan has been tied into QE and flat interest rates for decades already, and their manufacturing is suffering).  How do you think the currency situation will play out for Japan?   thank you   best […]

Understanding the Double Reversals

  The DOUBLE WEEKLY BEARISH REVERSALS we had at 286.10 on the S&P 500 futures back then were generated from the same HIGH. This is different from two separate events generating the same number. This we do not call a DOUBLE Reversal, just a very important Reversal. To generate the same number twice from the […]

Capital Flow & Domestic v International Perspectives

QUESTION: Hi Martin, I listened to the interview you did with Financial Sense and you said something that struck me as odd. I think you said that the devaluation and failure of the Euro will drive capital to the US. Fair enough, sounds right to me. I think you then said that the Fed’s response would […]

Symmetry Ukraine and Vladimir regarding Russia

We are reminded from a Russian reader regarding symmetry that the founder of Russia was Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – 15 July 1015) and hence today we have Vladimir Putin. The symmetry is even a bit deeper than just that the first names match. Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus’ […]

Bonifatius Comes Africae (422-431AD)

Bonifatius. Comes Africae, AD 422-431. Æ (11mm, 1.06 g, 3h). Carthage mint. Struck AD 423-425. DOMINIS [NOS…], pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Cross within wreath. Cf. RIC X 3810, 3814, and 3817 (obv. legend). Fine, brown surfaces. The reading of the obverse legend does not appear to match any of the expected types within […]