COMMENT:  Mr. Armstrong, I just wanted to say thank you. I’m basically a nobody except to my 5 children and wife (that’s all that matters to me anyway). I have limited market experience. The majority of experience I have is in business systems analysis, so making sense out of the global market was almost undoable […]

The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of January 28th, 2014. Global Market Watch

The central bank of Turkey raised its OVERNIGHT LENDING RATE TO 12.00% – this is up from 7.75%. This is indicative of the other side of the coin with high rates. A central bank can raise rates, as we traditionally see during a boom or in China these days, in hopes of stopping the speculation. Markets and economies […]

The more revelations that come from the NSA demonstrates that what they are doing has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. It turns out that the NSA & British Intelligence are constructing profiles on everyone right down to their sexual orientation. They are tapping into games like Angry Birds that has been a worldwide sensation. […]

The entire issue of raising the minimum wage is so distorted and the press just jumps all over it and plays it like the rich v the poor. Obama will announce that he will sign an executive order increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 for new federal contracts. But what people fail to grasp […]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday. This much is true. Part of the compromise was to appoint a “member” from the opposition as Prime Minister. That is really a powerless position for the real power lies with the  President Viktor Yanukovich. The former boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko and others have shied away from taking the […]

QUESTION: Mr Armstrong; Can you explain why the Chinese share market has declined since 2007 yet China’s economic trade flows are only now starting to decline? This is extremely confusing when the mainstream press has touted China as supporting the world economy. I suspect you are the only one that can answer this question. Thank […]

The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of January 27th, 2014. Global Market Watch

While in the USA and Europe, this idea that banks have to be saved at all expense is quite absurd. Iceland let its banks fail and the collapse ended the process and a rebirth began. The same is true during the Great Depression. The collapse in the US share market was just 34 months and […]

HSBC is denying people the right to withdraw their own money and are demand you prove why you even want it. The arrogance of these people knows no bounds. They are all getting full of themselves when it comes to this nonsense of Money Laundering demanding you have to PROVE it is your money, WHERE […]