A number of emails have been asking about JFK’s Executive Order 11110 and somehow he was assassinated for removing the authority of the Federal Reserve to issue money and transfer that to the Treasury. Oh Boy! This really tops the list. While JFK was probably eliminated for not wanting to go to war in Vietnam […]

NBC has published a reasonable interview with Edward Snowden. It is worth the time to watch. It provides a glimpse into what he is about and explains the data mining that people have no idea the revelations that can emerge. The degree of complexity in modeling even things like the cycles of war can be […]

The Facing Arethusa Tetradram of Syracuse that sold for 440,000 CHF back in 1999 and was estimated at 1 million CHF, sold for 2.3 million. Given oil was $10 back then, the advance in antiquities has been over 500% still well behind US coins. We are still in the phase of capital trying to get off […]

QUESTION: Why don’t you suggest silver coins as barter ? Thanks! ANSWER: I do. A few questions have come in about the “spreads” for collector coins. To make this point clear, stay away from collector coins for bullion. The common day $20 gold pieces are all you want – no MS65 nonsense. Just standard circulated $20 […]

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 […]

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