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Eike Batista’s OGX Files Bankruptcy – End of a Commodity Boom?

The famous Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista’s flagship company has filed for bankruptcy protection. Batista’s oil and gas explorer OGX applied bankruptcy protection (“judicial recovery” in Brazil) after debt restructuring talks collapsed. The debt is about $3.6 billion in bonds out of a total $5.1 billion distressed debts at the company. This marks the end of Commodity boom. […]

One-Issue Generation – The View From Texas

COMMENT: Hello Martin I was talking to one of my friends and I was complaining about the “Me” generation.  They pointed out that people in the USA usually have one issue that they care about.  They are dubbed the “Single issue voter” You are so right – here in Austin real estate is going up […]

Donating to Promoters & Bankers – The Wall Street Charity

QUESTION: Martin, you said in a recent blog: “Gold peaked with the low in the ECM in 2011 and it should rise after 2016 into 2020. This is a matter of the overall business cycle.” Have you now changed your major low in gold forecast from the original before or in Jan 2014 to now in […]

Hyperinflation Question

QUESTION: First, thank you for your insights on the economy and investing.  Your track record is amazing and I’ve come to rely on your views as an accurate lens of perspective towards our current and upcoming troubles. I have a basic question about the upcoming hyperinflation… If we experience a bout of hyperinflation similar to […]

Saudis-Syria & Reserve Status of the Dollar

QUESTION: Your insight into the Saudi’s supplying the chemical weapons and arms to the Syrian Rebels long before anyone even had a hint of that was astonishing. I recently met someone in London who worked at your City Office. He said even Margaret Thatcher would ask you what was really going on in Russia. He […]

The Solution

QUESTION: Dear Mr.Armstong Reflecting on your thought written “Solutions” is the QE process partially accomplishing the thought of eliminating Public Debt and just print money for Government services. Federal debt of $17 trillion, of which $11 trillion is held by foreign nations. The remaining $6 trillion can be eliminated with QEs. If there is incentive […]

European Banking Crisis – Seizing 10% of Everyone’s Accounts – Hello Cyprus

The European Banking Crisis is getting much worse and the whole structure is crumbling to dust. The banks cannot save themselves. The entire crisis is all about the structural design of the Euro, which the politicians will not address. They failed to create a single national debt and in so doing, the banks then used […]

Capitulation by the Gold Bulls?

QUESTION: Why is it that the gold press now refuse to ever interview you? It really seems to show that what they say is totally untrustworthy when they refuse to interview anyone who disagrees with them. You are the only analyst who said gold would drop to $1,000 when it was at least $1,800. They […]

US Debt Default & China – A Matter of Sovereignty

The Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has sent a clear message to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday. Li told him that for “China the issue of the American debt ceiling [is of] great attention”. His statements were published on the government website. These remarks, as short as they are, demonstrate that the financial […]