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Glossary of Money Terminology

  Aes Rude – Earliest form of Roman money whereby lumps of bronze traded by weight due to its utility value to be used to weapons or tools. Aes Grave – Early Roman bronze coinage that was cast into standardized coins with a recognizable image. Aes Signatum – Broze Ingots with an idealized intended weight […]

7-year-old NYC boy handcuffed & Interrogated for 10 hours over Missing $5

A 7-year-old New York City boy’s family does public against police and the city after saying he was handcuffed and interrogated for 10 hours and falsely accused of stealing $5 from a schoolmate. See: New York Post 

Comment from the Real World

Martin, I laughed when I heard they were going to let the Bush Tax Cuts expire. I SAW the 2% decrease in my pay. I now bring home @$200 less per month than I did in Decembere. So what does that mean to me … 1) I am getting rid of Sirius XM Radio (@$200/yr) […]

Fed – No Surprise – The Next Bubble

If anyone thinks that the Fed does not know in advance what is happening with the numbers, well you must be from another planet. Just hours after the Commerce Department reported that there was the first decline in quarterly GDP in 3-1/2 years, the Federal Reserve announced it was maintaining its policy of near-zero interest […]

Can the World Really Abandon the Dollar As A Reserve Currency?

Can the World Really Abandon the Dollar As A Reserve Currency? By Martin Armstrong Throughout history there has always been a dominant currency. As each empire became the new financial capital of the world, their currency became the most prized and tended to circulate around the globe into even the fringe economies that they may […]

We have another Candidate for a Theme Song

Phil Collins was perhaps 25 years ahead of his time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k

Parking v Investing

There are two distinct trends that we have to divide and conquer to fully understand what we are dealing with (1) Parking capital and (2) Investing Capital The motives behind each are totally different and this goes in part to also the question of the “reserve” status of the dollar. There is the dollar as […]

HELLO STAGFLATION

The U.S. economy shrank from October through December for the first time since the recession ended.We are looking at the net effect of Obama’s Voodo-Economics. Yes, the US economy was hit by the biggest cut in defense spending in 40 years, fewer exports and sluggish growth in company stockpiles. The decline occurred despite faster growth […]

309.6 Year Cycle – It’s About Time

Just to make it absolutely clear, within every wave, like in a bull market, there are always counter trends or corrections. There MUST be two sides in all trends be it bullish or bearish. The overall character of the present wave is a PRIVATE WAVE meaning that in such waves markets advance more rapidly and […]

International Advisory Board

In response to many former clients who have asked to join the International Think Tank operation under construction in Switzerland, we will be establishing an international advisory board for those who would like to contribute their expertise. The key will be to accept no grants so we remain entirely independent and not bought and paid […]