The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of January 17th, 2014. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-watch/

In Spain, people are just fed up with the collapse in government and this is now spreading to the local city governments that cannot afford the projects they dreamed of. In Burgos, they were intending to close a road and people have lost even a place to park their car. This erupted into riots forcing […]

Someone hurled an explosive device into the crowd of anti-government protesters in Thailand wounding at least 35 people. Governments worldwide are in a serious position where they are refusing to consider the course of their socialistic-Marxism and how this has only increased the cost of government lowering the standard of living.  These protests are turning […]

    QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Won’t the decline in gold prices reduce gold production? Isn’t that what eventually reverses the decline? Thanks FG ANSWER: Actually the answer is NO. What happens is typically production increases. Mines will focus on the highest grades and they will slash their exploration costs. They will also increase hedging. The price […]

Europe and the United States cannot compete for the future because their governments are like black holes sucking in the wealth of their own people and squandering it on unproductive forces. When we look at the former communistic empires of China and Russia, we see countries building from clean slates rather than imploding trying to […]

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 […]