QUESTION: Hi Martin Given the cycle work that you do, it appears that Gold had a 12 year Bull Market Cycle from 1968 to 1980 followed by a 19 year (one metonic cycle) bear market, followed by a 12 year Bull Market from 1999 to 2011. Does that mean we have entered another 19 year Bear […]

  Part of the real financial crisis from the central bank perspective is that they have been trapped by the excessively low-interest rates that in reality has disarmed them from even trying to steer the economy. The bid on long-term rates has been strong over the last decade thanks to retirement plans. People have been […]

QUESTION:  Martin, In your June 23rd post, you stated: “The [June] bounce is really seasonal, yet it is being explained as everything but.” What Does this mean? There is a season to gold? ANSWER: Yes. May/June often produces the low in gold. That is what we were saying a June low with a bounce. The […]

QUESTION: Marty; Your model correctly forecast the birth of the Arab Spring in 2010 that was 31.4 years from the Shiite Revolution in Iran back in 1979. You also said that the subsequent 8.6 to 13 years would bring rising civil unrest that would emerge into civil war when the War Cycle turned up in […]

The greatest problem we have is misinformation. People simply do not comprehend why and how the economic policies of the post-war era are imploding. This whole agenda of socialism has sold a Utopian idea that the State is there for the people yet it is run by lawyers following their own self-interest. The pensions created […]

You can rent mansions in France now really cheap for anyone who had money seems to have left the country. The Labour Party in Britain is proposing a 2% property tax. There is no property tax in Britain or France. This is already starting to slow the trend in property prices in London itself and […]

The target for the June low seems to have been correct and this week was a Panic Cycle target. We saw the gold closing above 1295 and the first weekly closing above 1307, but the key resistance remains a weekly closing above 1355. The bounce is really seasonal, yet it is being explained as everything […]

Snowden releases more info showing that communications over the entire globe are being swept up. This is not about terrorism; this is an effort to hunt money on a massive scale to sustain the current forms of government. They are gathering absolutely everything and what they fail to understand, is this type of restraint impedes […]

COMMENT:  Hello Mr Armstrong, just want to share with you an interview today with Mr Draghi in the Dutch newspaper ‘De Telegraaf’ (June 21st 2014). I had google translated the text but made some modifications here and there. Hope you can still understand it. Draghi wants more power to Brussels, that’s quite clear from the […]

While there has been a lot written about the NSA grabbing phone calls and even Snowden warning that phone calls are the most insecure form of communication, this move to share info among government to hunt capital for taxes has been expanded to telephone services. You can now ONLY buy a telephone with a credit […]