To federal prosecutors, Aaron Swartz was a criminal they drove to suicide. His death has sent a tidal wave through the online community worldwide. The additional culprit in causing his death is none other than MIT – the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Swartz was an accomplished hacker who was regarded as a digital prodigy and helped develop social-news […]

QUESTION: I am one of your biggest fans and I love your articles and have learnt so much from them. I have been reading your articles on real estate. The peak was 2007 and we have a 26 year decline into 2033. My question is: I live in Australia having moved from New Zealand in […]

The great disconnection between reality and the dream world in which government lives in has made the front page of the Philadelphia  Inquirer for Monday, January 14th, 2013. The greatest problem with real estate is the fact it is grounded and is not movable. You have to be careful about buying real estate where property […]

 European Monetary Union – the fate of Europe © Princeton Economic Institute 1997 [Overview] [Latest News] [Previous Updates] [London Lecture] [Criteria] [Time Table] [Country Analysis] [Maastricht-Treaty] [History] [Currency Forecasts] Welcome to the PEI research site devoted to keeping the financial community up to date on the pending new European Monetary Union and its impact upon the […]

Cyprus is the 5th of 17 Eurozone countries to ask for a bailout. The entire structure of the Eurozone was a disaster. It is common knowledge that the commission attended our London Conference in 1997 and our warnings went unheeded. It was explained that allowing each nation to retain its own debt would NOT create […]

Real Estate is a difficult market to forecast because it is so localized. The primary trend that emerges which we observed through a couple of decades of monitoring on an international scale was essentially the same pattern that takes place with the rise and fall of nations. As I have tried to explain that there […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong all rights reserved January 12th, 2013 A lot of people who insist upon a return to the gold standard hate my guts. Others claim I have betrayed them because I do not support that view. There is a huge difference between theory and reality and indeed Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand applies meaning […]

Well naturally I get critical responses that the way everything has to collapse is only through HYPERINFLATION. I would love to see just one empire that has ever collapsed in such a manner – not Babylon, Athens, Hellenistic Greece, Rome, Venice, Holy Roman Empire or even Britain. I fail to grasp this insistence upon something that historically […]

    Societies are destroyed by EITHER hyperinflation or deflation. It is merely a question of how you get there. Unfortunately, the nonsense about HYPERINFLATION has seriously influenced too many people and that are clueless as to what is really taking place. Beware the Taxman Cometh

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved January 10th, 2013     It is absolutely  IMPERATIVE to understand that what we face is by no means HYPERINFLATION. If you keep thinking that government will somehow just print their way into oblivion, you are going to lose your shirt and pants along with the car and house. I have tried […]