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INFLATION will begin with Higher Interest Rates

QUESTION: Dear Martin, First of all, thanks for making the sense of the world for all the readers. Without you, as you yourself know well, 99.99% of us are lost !!! When you say- That is when inflation will appear when this become obvious we have a runaway train and central banks can do NOTHING. Are you saying […]

The US Has Previously Done a Debt for Equity Swap

QUESTION: Do you think Congress would accept a debt for equity swap? I am not sure even their chief of staffs would understand this one. HD ANSWER: There is precedent for a debt-equity swap. That is actually the Hamiltonian Model. Alexander Hamilton proposed that the States who funded the Revolution should have their debts consolidated […]

MONTH END Closing Below 10765 in Euro & Market Recap

  We have a DOUBLE Monthly Bearish Reversal coming into play today for the Euro at 107.65. This seems to confirm we will see a drop to par. This is still placing pressure on the dollar and a rising dollar remains the confirmation of a deflationary trend in motion. Europe can lower the Euro, but […]

Can the Fed Just Cancel the Debt?

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, If QE is not inflationary, then why are you proposing debt-for-equity swaps? What’s the point. Why not monetize 100% of all deficits and then simply have the central bank cancel the debt? Also, why don’t you ever entertain the idea of a free banking system? Why does government need to be involved at […]

OTC Derivatives

QUESTION: Hi Martin, Enjoyed the Solutions conference and am looking forward to the October conference.  There was no mention of the over the counter derivatives market.  Would a debt to equity swap trigger the swaps creating a much larger problem then the current outstanding debt?  Didn’t they try doing a voluntary default with Greek debt before […]

Thinking Outside the Box – Yes there is a Whole Lot More Than Meets the Eye

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I just wanted to say your proposal is brilliant. I fear most people will not grasp what you put forth because they are confined in their world of ideas about money having some tangible value and inflation is related to the quantity of money rather than as you say, it is just […]

Markets in Review

The reaction rally in the markets appears to be unfolding on schedule. From the broader perspective, a corrective process in equities will send the residual cash into bonds and this may help create the final bubble top in interest rate markets. This should materialize with a correction in the dollar and that pop in the […]

China kicking Obama’s Ass

Obama will go down as perhaps the worst President at least since 1900 if not ever. He has torn apart the entire fabric of world peace and whoever has made any decisions in global strategy seem to be some sort of Megalomaniac. Russia has developed planes to ensure they can directly bomb the USA and […]

Former IRS Employees Can Still Access Your Personal Tax Info

To all those people who think it’s OK for the government to collect data for they have nothing to hide, well beside the reports that staff at the NSA wrote programs to collect nude photos women may be sending their boyfriends, now it comes out that the security at the IRS is less than a […]

Where to Hide – Public v Private

QUESTION: There’s a point I’ve been trying to understand and every time that I read your writings I’m staying more and more confused: How it will be possible with the deflation that already affects several countries, with the bubble burst the bonds, with the financial economic chaos that will destroy several companies, bankruptcy of business, […]