The Guardian has reported that the NSA has been collecting 200 million text messages per day. This is not about terrorism – it is about the obsession to know when (1) people will rise up in the USA and begin protesting, which appears to be 2017, and (2) taxes looking for spare change everywhere. They […]

  In Spain, protests are turning into street battles between the people and police. In Madrid, violence erupted on Thursday in an all out street battle between protesters and police. The new laws against protesting only aggravate the situation yet thousands have been thrown in jails. The Cycle of War is alive and well and the […]

Sometimes you just have to be smacked in the face three times before you recognize when is happening. There is a rising tide that DEFLATION is starting to be seen as the real threat facing the world economy emerging out of Europe. I cannot stress enough that Europe is disintegrating before our eyes. Between Hollande […]

Indeed, World War I does not erupt solely by the assassination of the Archduke of Austria. Resentment builds and you have to look for the subtle signs. In the case of World War I, it really began with old resentment dealing with the Christian;Muslim confrontation with the old Ottoman Empire. Even that goes back to […]

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee hearing on the Ukrainian question admired the bravery of Ukrainian protesters and in response today Ukraine announced a new law making all protests illegal. They said that nobody can even purchase a Sim card for a telephone without producing a passport. The government will now decide if one can even have any Internet access […]

Trading has been perhaps the worst in 2013 because of this constant domestic myopic perspective. Making the transition to comprehending the intricate movements of the global economy and its inter-connectivity is honestly like making the transition from believing the world is flat to a sphere. You just cannot rig the entire world economy. You have to […]

This Special Trading Seminar is geared to enable you to Survive Your Own Trading Decisions and this is not merely a marketing phrase to sell a seminar. This is not a day trading seminar. This is about really how to trade, understand the global economy, and how to see the world so you can invest […]

The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of January 15th, 2014. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-watch/

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