The Global Market Watch has been posted for the close of January 30th, 2014. Global Market Watch

The anti-government protests in Thailand are against corruption. This is the same trend we are seeing in Ukraine and will erupt in Europe, Japan, and then eventually the USA after 2016. The economy has to turn down before you get protests. The downside of these types of protests is when the police benefit from the […]

The significance of Ukraine is far beyond what the mainstream press has dared to even portray. This is how Empires, Nations, and City States eventually collapse. There have been protesters gone missing. Some have resurfaced only with stories of being tortured. Some politicians have tried to distance themselves from President Viktor Yanukovich realizing this guy […]

The Byzantine government, as all governments, became extremely bureaucratic and corrupt. The culture divided into what we would call a right and left wing system of politics. The roots of this real divide grew out of sports and rival competing teams. These team associations grew and had become a focus for various social and political issues […]

  James Clapper has effectively testified that the entire world is a threat – at least in his mind. “We face an enduring threat to US interests overseas.” said James Clapper, to Congress. He fails to realize that his own actions are also a threat to everything the Constitution was intended to prevent. The damage […]

People do not quite appreciate the real core problem in politics. Listening to the extreme biased political hacks of TV creates the illusion that there are really two parties. The truth is actually so far from that it is hard to grasp the full extent of political crisis that lies ahead. The famous political commentator […]

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. […]