Putin’s swift annexation of Crimea has been extremely popular in Russia and is akin to restoring the national pride within Russia as was the case of Ronald Reagan following the heals of Jimmy Carter and the whole Iran Hostage debacle. Putin has lost Ukraine for now, but the economic conditions within the EU and the […]

The seating for 300 at the Cycles of War Conference sold out and additional hundreds viewed it around the world live. The video streaming appears to work well – it was our first attempt at a worldwide broadcast. The feed seems to work for people in China, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, India, and the Middle […]

There is a serious issue at the core of the USA-Russian renewed Cold War. Both sides fail to understand how and why the Cold War ended. This is a profound problem that impacts both Russian and Western attitudes risking war in the future. This very common assumption that the West somehow succeeded in causing the collapse […]

Gold rallied and provided a minor weekly buy signal but has formidable resistance at the 1425 level while the gold promoters tout inflation, the Fed, war, and more hyperinflation. Their counterpart is of course CNBC in the stock market who will claim there really was no sell off only a buying opportunity as Bloomberg TV […]

We have been investigating the Russian capital flows in more detail. We see two trends emerging that is reflecting the war tensions. Foreign capital that invested in Russia is pouring out, but at the same time, the Russian Oligarchs are pulling back money in western banks. They do not yet seem to be investing in […]

While many have been writing about the DEEP STATE as an unholy alliance between government and the corporate world, the deeper problem is the FOURTH BRANCH (the real shadow government) that shares nothing with the corporations and Snowden’s documents show they operate behind the scenes and do not even inform the elected politicians they also do […]

This is why we cannot have lawyers who have avoided working for a real living in government. They see only the government’s side and do not comprehend what they have done to the American economy or the image. I saw a local computer store where they service people and companies who had a sign out […]

Another NY Trader jumps to his death in front of a train. The rash of suicides in the financial industry remain the buz of finance. Some say its the markets. Others say Bitcoin losses. Then others say the downturn in banks. It is probably all of the above and what I can say, unfortunately, it […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I am impressed with your models and the cycle of war. What has truly astonished many of your readers in Eastern Europe is how you focused on Ukraine and said this is the flash point before anything happened and then you said wait until after the Olympics and then Russia will invade. […]

About 1500 BC nomadic tribes appeared on the territory of Ukraine. One of them was the Cimmerians (9th-8th–century BC), which are mentioned in written sources. Scythians, Iranian-speaking people from Central Asia, in the 7th century BC pushed the Cimmerians from the Ukrainian steppes. Around the same period, the Greeks began to establish the first colonies […]