The Panic of 1893 was quite different from the US panics that had preceded. To a large extent, the Panic of 1893 came on the heels of American speculation in overseas investment which had kept up with the trend toward “global diversification” and opportunity much like that of the 1990s. The Panic of 1893 was […]

The Silver Democrats came to label this financial crisis the Crime of 1873. Of course, they understood nothing with respect to the global economy and merely assumed that the could do as they desired domestically without any regard to international trends of implications. Up until the year 1873, all the dollars in the world were […]

  Year-End 2013 Number   The Year 2013 has been a great year for equities and a rough year for commodities. Gold has put in its worst performance since 1981 while the Nikkei has put in its best performance since 1972. As we look ahead, 2014 will begin the rise in Civil Unrest that will […]

A number of questions have come in regarding the FEMA camps and is the collapse in gold and silver part of some orchestrated economic collapse that is being planned by the bankers of Wall Street with the oversight of the White House and the full knowledge of the Justice Department. I am certainly not a […]

  Baltimore on July 20th, 1877 1783 – Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, June 20, Anti-government protest by soldiers of the Continental Army against the Congress of the Confederation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1786 – Shays’ Rebellion, August 29, 1786 – February 3, 1787, Western Massachusetts 1788 – Doctors Mob Riot, New York City, New York 18th century […]

QUESTION: Does your volatility wave based on units of 6 also apply to the Cycle of War since your 8.6 year wave builds in intensity into 6 waves of 51.6 years? Thank you for all you provide. You do open minds. HC ANSWER: Absolutely. In fact, this is why I am concerned with this particular […]

COMMENT: Your story (of the little girl) tears at my heart.  However, it is one thing to feel sorry for her, but another to do something to actually help her. A few years ago, we adopted three little girls who were born to drug addict parents.  I wonder how difficult it would be to start […]

QUESTION: Martin, I have enough years in to retire from the state of Florida. Obviously, large cities can be bankrupt (Detroit, Chicago may be next). Florida’s pension plan is about 85% funded and in the top 10 states that have well funded pension plans. Do you think it is possible for an entire state to […]

On Wednesday there was once again a sharp price fall in gold causing gold trading  to stop for 20 seconds. Naturally people are calling this manipulation. But is that really the issue? Is it simply the fact that trading stops because of the lack of liquidity. Who is behind the manipulation is of course not […]

COMMENT: Dear Martin Armstrong, Being a fund manager and with several bigger and commercial clients a commodity hedger, I truly admire your work. Not only that, our research, even by other methodology foremost pattern recognition and cross pattern recognition and liquidity flow detection – comes to very similar results as your calls, but we do […]