The fourth quarter real estate in Singapore turned down showing that the whole Emerging Markets did tend to peak out with the ECM last August. This has led to a flight of investors from the once-booming emerging markets sector that is similar to the shift in what we began to see in 1994 that manifested […]

The plight of education is really becoming a total disaster. Historically, one learned the basics in school. However, the trade was acquired not by degree but by apprenticeship. It is indeed rare to find someone doing what they have a degree in these days outside of law and medicine. The great majority of CFO I […]

  We are working this weekend to get new features up for the sites. We are setting up the payment systems and automatic downloads for purchases, the layered Global Market Watch and we will be soon providing an Asset Allocation Service for Individuals. The Institutional Services monitor every stock, futures market, currency, everywhere within the […]

An interesting study comparison of the education background of heads of state around the globe reveals our problem. Most of the educated people in government in the USA seem to be lawyers. In Europe, they tend to be not idealists. China has leaders schooled in economics and business. Very curious comparison.

The Financial Crisis of 1971 was the culmination of a series of events that began during the early 1960s. Politicians set the gold ratio to the dollar at $35 an ounce that was decided in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, politicians have a vest self-interest in always pretending they do a good job. Unfortunately, […]

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 […]

Literally tens of thousands of people have come to protest in Hong Kong against China’s attempt to control the outcome of a planned direct election for the city’s leader in 2017.The protesters are demanding free elections and democracy. This is again showing the rising tide with the turn of the model in 2014. There seems […]

We are facing 2014 perhaps with blinders on as a society. Western investors have largely ignored the trend in Europe, Japan, and China and are more likely than not going to be dramatically surprised. In Chine, the high in the Shanghai market remains 2007 and new lows are still possible going into 2014. The cash […]

QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, What are the risks on cash savings under the mattress and the relation from the land serial codes on Euro notes and confiscations?.. Country codes on the first series of banknotes The central bank that commissioned the printing of a banknote (but not necessarily the country of printing) is indicated by […]

COMMENT: Marty; I just had to write to let you know how much you do mean to a lot of people given the stubborn goldbugs who do hate your guts it seems. I bought the stocks in 2011 with the turn in your model. I sold gold in 2011 and all my gold stocks at […]