The Roman god Janus is who January is named after. He is pictured with one face looking backwards and the other forward in time. He was the tradition of New Years Eve looking at the past and being optimistic of the new year to come. In that sense, he was all about cycles and […]

COMMENT: Trading: I cannot do stock trading on the exchange as I will always loose.Trading is a zero sum business if you include seller, buyer and bank/broker fees.I believe that the winner on trading are the banks and the brokers. I believe that “Naked” trading and speculation by the big banks has ruined the free market and […]

The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of December 30th, 2013. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/market-watch/

COMMENT: Marty; I just had to write to let you know how much you do mean to a lot of people given the stubborn goldbugs who do hate your guts it seems. I bought the stocks in 2011 with the turn in your model. I sold gold in 2011 and all my gold stocks at […]

Ptolemy I Soter I (367– c. 283 BC) was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great, who became ruler of Egypt (323–283 BC) and founder of both the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Ptolemaic Dynasty. He insisted upon accepting the Egyptian title of pharaoh. To keep with Egyptian and Macedonian culture, Ptolemy took great pains in […]

Monetary History of Egypt Ptolemaic Dynasty Ptolemy II Philadelphus In about 285 BC, Ptolemy I Soter took as his co-ruler one of his sons by Berenice, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who became the sole ruler of Egypt upon his father’s death in about 282 BC. Ptolemy II was not born in Egypt. His father had him […]

  Greek Pharaohs of Egypt Ptolemy I Soter (305–285 BC) Abdicated in 285 BC; died in 283 BC Berenice I  (Wife of Ptolemy I)( ?-285 BC) Ptolemy II Philadelphos (288–246 BC) Arsinoe I (Wife of Ptolemy II)(284/281-c. 274 BC) Arsinoe II (Wife of Ptolemy II)(277-270 BC) Ptolemy III Euergetes (246–222 BC) Berenice II (Wife of […]

The analysis is now turning excessively bearish in the metals. They still have to press lower and as one reader commented “puke their guts” ok. Only then will see a reversal of fortune. It is just not time for the metals. They had their run, now they must regroup and get ready for the next […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I have read much of the hateful vindictive slander that has been hurled at you by the gold community. It is really shocking how much some of these people hate you. The whole thing about Kristy was disturbing. I met people at your conference who sent her money claiming she needed it […]

The NSA has now been further exposed by a German Der Spiegel Magazine putting forth that they intercept computers and have hacked everything imaginable. I have come out and warned about Windows 8 and took deliberate moves to remove it from all our computers. Any new computer we buy is stripped clean. When you create […]