U.S. Supreme Court Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, 158 U.S. 601 (1895) Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company (Rehearing) No. 898, 894 Argued May 6, 7, 8, 1895 Decided May 20, 1895 158 U.S. 601 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus […]

U.S. Supreme Court Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) Flint v. Stone Tracy Company Nos. 407, 409-412, 415, 420, 425, 431, 432, 442-443, 446, 456-457 Argued March 17, 18, 1910 Restored to docket for reargument May 31, 1910 Reargued January 17, 18, 19, 1911 Decided March 13, 1911. 220 U.S. 107 APPEAL […]

A report in China Daily said that Shanghai wants to transform itself into a global commodities trading center. Indeed, the Shanghai Futures Exchange has already introduced several new products, including a silver futures contract, and is working on a crude oil futures platform. The paper said the Exchange is about to begin test trading of […]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE   by   JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, C.B. Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge   New York Harcourt, Brace and Howe 1920   PREFACE The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was […]

    The election of 2012 was the nastiest in history. If it was only in the gutter that would have been an improvement. When we see tension like this in politics, it is a warning of what is to come, You may not realize but brawls are fairly common in history on the floor […]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/01/13/26-year-old-internet-folk-hero-commits-suicide-after-years-of-government-harassment/ The turmoil over MIT & The US Government trying to imprison Swartz for 35 years has gone viral on a global scale. MIT has completely disgraced itself as being any sort of a place for higher education that seeks to imprison anyone with whom they disagree and thinks out of the box. MIT’s long […]

On Liberty – By John Stuart Mill. With an Introduction by W. L. Courtney, LL.D. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. London and Felling-on-Tyne New York and Melbourne [Pg v] To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings—the […]

HAMMURABI’S CODE OF LAWS (circa 1780 B.C.) Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among […]

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 […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong all Rights Reserved January 8th, 2013 At our conferences around the world, we have discussed the Cycle of War and how this too has been incredibly accurate demonstrating that what may appear to be random, is really highly ordered chaos. This turns in 2014. To set the record straight, so far there […]