One of the most shocking things I bumped into in the middle of the night was when I input the data on the energy output of the sun and then correlated that into our data base back to 6000BC. Low and behold, the 300 year cycle matched up with the rise and fall of […]

  We warned that the Dow was not going to blast out to the upside and we saw a sideways to consolidating trend into May. Nothing has really changed and as you can see from our Energy Models, we have indeed been in a declining phase. Technically, the Dow is coming back to key support. […]

The reason we need a computer to monitor the world is a rather stark reality that complexity is astonishing. Yes you can work out a cycle on an individual market. But what happens when that market is impacted by a cycle from an external source? The resulting wave motion becomes complex. The person incapable of […]

QUESTION: Dear Martin, All of the issues you point out…government debt, weather cycles turning down, bank manipulations, loss of individual freedoms, topic avoidance by the Media, hunt for taxes, the dying global economy etc… are absolutely INVISIBLE to the average American. People, in general, have no clue what is going on. With the exception of […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, The insanity continues apace. This is moving towards being beyond belief: http://tinyurl.com/m88osaz Regards, Niall. ps – just bought some tickets for the London showing of ‘The Forecaster’ on March 28th. Looking forward to it very much… REPLY:  As long as you are not a NY Banker, you should like the film. Most […]

QUESTION: You have said that we are in the middle of a shift in the economy similar to the Great Depression where agriculture crashed from 40% to 3% and this time it is government and technology. It seems that your warning of also moving to an electronic currency fits with your new age of skilled […]

Now others say that number is wrong and bitcoin can go to 2,100.000,000,000,000. If that is true, then my first statement is correct. If everyone swapped all money for bitcoins then what is the difference? This is not a question of supply. Money is just a medium of exchange not a sort of constant value and […]

The History of Financial Panics By Martin A. Armstrong Financial Panics have been very interesting for they have been taking place since ancient times. There are two primary types of panics. One that is very short-lived with a typical duration of 2 to 3 years maximum, and the second type which precedes a prolonged economic […]

The arrogance of some who confuse pollution with the power to alter the cycles of the universe is truly beyond description. This video puts it all in perspective how tiny we really are in the scheme of all things. When in Economics we attribute all causes to something within our domestic economy, we are making […]

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, Thank you for all you have done, your blog is amazing.   I have a question (well many but will only ask one).  Will electronic money fully displace all currencies or will we go with a 2 tier system one for domestic and one for international? Thank you very much, rms ANSWER: […]