Human nature tends to create followers as a whole because of confidence. Financial Panics unfold because the whole is in a state of panic. This is why paper-shorts are so essential to stabilizing the markets. When everyone is in a state of panic, only a mad man would buy. The short player is critical for […]

Subprime consumer borrowing — encompassing auto loans, credit card loans and personal loans — climbed to $189 billion in the first 11 months last year, the highest total since 2007, according to a study compiled for The Wall Street Journal by Equifax. This is precisely what I mean about living with the cycle. People will spend […]

The Austrian ECB member Ewald Nowotny warns to kick Russia out of the international payment system. SWIFT is a neutral service and not a political instrument. Great Britain and the United States have called this step several times in the past. The people in the USA and Britain who even suggest this are trying to create a […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to guard against possible uprisings.He said extremism will be used as a geopolitical means to destabilize States.Putin fears without express that foreign intelligence agencies could use the critical economic situation of the Russian people to overthrow the government. Our Cycle of War will be updated for the Solution Conference. Civil […]

  WICKR is a messaging app that was designed to defeat the NSA. It is using encryption for text messages, photos and videos to be sent anonymously internationally. The app allows messages to self-destruct within a time set by the sender, and strips messages of all metadata, leaving no traceable evidence. Messages are deleted from Wickr’s […]

Hi Mr. Armstrong. My name is Azar and I much appreciate your insight on your blogs especially for the concept of combining history with the cyclical nature of phenomenon. … We have recently coincidentally revived a song made a video that captures the cyclical nature of empires along with the arrogance that they take on, […]

QUESTION: Do you believe the Federal Reserve, or any such system as it, is the cause for such extreme boom bust cycles or are those cycles inevitable even if the Fed did not exist?,  or perhaps if it did not exist the amplitude of the swings would at least be lessened Do you agree the […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong you make very good arguments about markets not being manipulated for long vs the trend, yet then you post that Goldman jailed you and had their programmer jailed so they could manipulate markets. I am sure you will ignore this email, but can you clarify what you mean? ANSWER: The Goldman accusation against […]

The month of March has changed the lives of three very different people, who in their own way have decided to fight with the System (“Goldman Sachs – FRS”). 1. Sergey Aleynikov, a former employee of Goldman Sachs, the developer of the trading platform, has received 8 years in prison for the transmission codes of […]

  Foreign Exchange has been a critical component that those in government fail to comprehend. What has taken place in Europe is reflected in the total incompetence of those in government to grasp the nature of the world economy in which we live. They have never understood what the floating exchange rate system altered and […]