It’s a shame that some people are just so desperate that gold has to go to $60,000 an oz but nothing else will change so one ounce will buy 2 Chevys. In 1980 gold touched $875 and the Dow was 1,000. Under this logic, that means gold should be $12,250 right now and since it […]

The crisis we really face is the civil unrest that will erupt when society discovers that the Emperor has no clothes. When people have been promised the moon and believed it, no amount of economic logic will turn their heads to reason. Southern Europe is bubbling with problems. This is a battle between the bond […]

HOW DO Empires Die? by Martin Armstrong I began writing what I thought would be a report. Toward the final chapters in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, he wrote about Public Debt asking why anyone considered it to be quality since all governments defaulted on their debts and never paid them off. I assumed the […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved June 14th, 2012  The Emperor Has No Clothes: Why the Fed Has No Power   One of the most common questions I receive is about the Fed Policy to buy Treasuries and is this not inflationary? This is a complex topic. Most of what is floating around on the […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved June 5th, 2012 The Truth About Gold & Why You Should Buy It Some people only ever say BUY gold and God help you if you say SELL! Even the pro-Gold radio shows will bar you if you do not agree with them. Guess Mainstream applies to them in […]

Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved May 16th, 2012 Manipulating the World Economy Or Just Understanding How It Really Functions? Some people will never admit a mistake. No matter what I say, they just will not believe me. I have received emails from some nasty gold fanatics saying the government is right for whenever I […]

TACITUS THE HISTORIES TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY W. HAMILTON FYFE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II Main index   Volume I OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1912 2HENRY FROWDE PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE VOLUME II Summary of Chief Events Book III Antonius’ Advance Dissension in […]

TACITUS THE HISTORIES TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY W. HAMILTON FYFE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I Main index   Volume II OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1912 2HENRY FROWDE PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE 3TO D. H. F. ‘The cause of undertaking a work of this kind was […]

THE GERMANY AND THE AGRICOLA OF TACITUS. THE OXFORD TRANSLATION REVISED, WITH NOTES. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD BROOKS, JR. INTRODUCTION. Very little is known concerning the life of Tacitus, the historian, except that which he tells us in his own writings and those incidents which are related of him by his contemporary, Pliny. His […]

THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, OUT OF THE FIRST SIX ANNALS OF TACITUS; WITH HIS ACCOUNT OF GERMANY, AND LIFE OF AGRICOLA TRANSLATED BY THOMAS GORDON, AND EDITED BY ARTHUR GALTON.   “Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui Promis et celas, aliusque et idem Nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma Visere maius.” CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE ANNALS, BOOK I […]