We have a major reform coming for the Pension field besides Obama trying to divert that money for infrastructure expenditure. The GASB Statement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions, was issued in June, 2012 and is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014. This statement is an amendment to GASB Statement […]

QUESTION: Dear Marty, I’ve attended several of your conferences, and thank you very much for all you do. You’ve said that the next decline is going to be far worse than the last one.  Intensity and volatility is building.  By that statement, do you mean both the US economy and the US stock markets may […]

QUESTION: Marty, you said that this cycle is the first time that the civil unrest and the international war cycle converge since the 1700s. You mean that it is a 300 year cycle of just that or is this when they align? Thanks NK ANSWER: This is an alignment, not a 300 year cycle. If […]

This is going to be very interesting. The money in the “City” (London) is on a “NO” Vote. But people often play what the WANT to Happen – not the actual trend. So the wild card will be the youth. Looking just at that group, there may be a surge in the YES vote at […]

  One family I personally know the youth is voting Yes, the Father and Grandfather are voting YES and the Mother is quiet and they suspect she will vote NO, but she won’t say.

No word yet. Probably the NOs will have it. The wild card is the youth. The voting age was lowered in Scotland to 16. Therein is the wildcard. The “NOs” they are calling the silent traitors who think the Scottish are incapable of standing up alone. They are quiet – not vocal – but may […]

The Scottish vote will be very important from the perspective that this will shake up the entire concept behind Brussels if they vote YES. Throughout Europe, the same civil unrest is rising as discontent every where.. Even if the vote is “NO” and the people accept that they are incapable of self-rule as second-rate citizens, […]

QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, I just read your 1997 Edinburgh transcript which you posted. It sounds like you could have written it today, which brings me to my question. It seems that we have drifted through the last 17 years dealing with the same corrupt systems and find ourselves in the same position, so why do […]

Municipal governments are going broke everywhere. This entire structure of government would never have been designed even by a moron. In Germany. a survey of 300 municipalities shows that 74% are planning to raise taxes. Now 27% plan to increase their cemetery fees, 25% want to demand more money for attending daycare or day schools. […]

  A client sent in a transcript of our April 29, 1997 presentation there in Edinburgh. This is interesting for it is discussing the formation of the Euro that was going on. It was at our London 1997 World Economic Conference that the European Commission attended.