QUESTION: Hello Martin We now have the dilemma of what is real value and what is currency depreciation/appreciation. Take the real estate market in Toronto. The market has been going up every year since 1995. I know because my home has gone up every year except that blip in 2008. Now my question to you is what is […]

To those asking questions regarding our services, we hope to have the first access up by the end of the month. Others who have asked will the little guy be allowed to participate in the IPO? We will most likely have a pre-IPO for clients before it goes to the public. We are more interested […]

  Silver has been rising in Russia only as a hedge against the government.

QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, Thanks for continuing your daily blogs. One by one the light goes on for your readers. Your currency illusion blog today really hit home when I compare a similar situation in my own case. In 1999 I bought a ski chalet in Canada for $X US dollars when the Canadian dollar was […]

QUESTION:   Hi Martin All the goldbugs are out screaming the low is in ad gold is rising. Why is it rising with all the deflation? Should we be double checking something here? thanks M ANSWER: When they scream and there remains dead-silence, it is not finished until the fat-lady sings, as they say about operas. […]

COMMENT: Hi and thanks: I’ve been following you since before Rikers. I had doubts as to whether you would make it or not. Tough and determined obviously.   Before I had ever heard of you I realized there were massive flows of capital through-out the world but limited in knowledge and information access I had […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I suppose I am a goldbug. I believe gold will be the answer and disagree with you advising people to be cautious about buying gold bullion. Gold has historically carried the day. I believe gold bullion is the way to the future. Why do you not see that reality? ANSWER: Perhaps you […]

QUESTION:  I want to share a true story with you. My father as a young boy in Greece saw what gold did for his family. My grandfather in Greece in the late 30’s and 40’s saw the rapid devaluation happening to the drachma. English sovereigns were plentiful there at the time as a sort of duo […]

QUESTION: okay Martin, So assuming Capitalism (property rights) and (direct) Democracy is the Promised Land, how the Hell do we get there? How do we break the Oligarchy? Cheers, em ANSWER: No matter what system we do create, it will be gamed eventually. If you look at Athens, pay attention closely to its history. Despite […]

  The typical sales job of the gold promoters has spend so much energy in selling gold as a hedge against inflation and thus gold will rise with the fall of the dollar, that they have so distorted the role of gold that they are driving potential investors away who look upon the gold crowd […]