REQUEST: Hello Martin! I am still in awe and benefiting from the great insights from the Sovereign Debt Seminar in Philly last year. I am an economist and once taught economic history and had I the benefit of your seminar I would have done a much better job!!! Appropos of your blog today, I think that […]

QUESTION: Hi Mr.  Armstrong, You have been saying that we must crash and burn before anything will change for the better long term, because never before in history has a corrupt government willingly given up its power. I wonder though, never before in history, at least to my knowledge (which is very limited compared to your […]

QUESTION:  Martin, One of my friends who reads you said reading your stuff is like getting a graduate level course in political economics.  You’ve said that various colleges have asked that you teach.  You should suggest to them that they simply require their students to read your on line postings. I am curious as to […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; For those of us who have attended your conferences over the years when I read the Japan Times, I had to really laugh. You have been saying that we cannot compare GDP among nations because they all have different formulas. The UK has formally announced it will now include prostitutes and the […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You state that we are headed more toward a totalitarian state rather than fascist or communist state. I assume you are suggesting the NSA has gone so far they have lost the cooperation they once had as CISCO sent a letter to Obama and Microsoft is losing ground outside the USA because […]

  Discussion About the Unfunded Liabilities

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I do not quite understand negative interest rates. Can you explain what these people are doing now? Thanks GS ANSWER: Very simple. You can lend me money. I then return only 98% and the 2% is what you pay for the privilege to lend me money. Makes sense from their point of […]

We are seeing the most dangerous trend ever. There is an agenda behind the curtain and that is to sustain government at all costs and that includes everything you own. I have warned that either government will move toward a totalitarian state or to real democracy – real Athens style without the career politicians. The […]

Paul Volcker spoke at the annual meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee in Washington on May 21st, 2014 (yes once a committee is forms it lives forever). His remarks offer a guide that behind the curtain there are some who see the problems we face in the monetary system, albeit not yet that from a […]

Scientists from CERN and MIT create encrypted email. Only concern – US involvement. One phone call to MIT and will it still be safe?