The unemployment in Germany is rising hitting 12%. This in indicating what we have been warning about – European economic growth will turn negative in 2013. Germany turning down marks the confirmation we have been warning that deflation is the major risk not inflation, which is reflected in gold prices. This has impacted the Swiss […]

QUESTION:  Hi Martin, Thanks for all of your reports, they are very informative. I am an institutional portfolio manager here in Canada. I know you mentioned that the gold correction will go on until all the Bulls have thrown in the towel. I have never been a gold bug. I am only employed to make […]

QUESTION: They keep saying the same thing that gold has just got to go up. The Goldbugs will not quote you anymore and will not acknowledge you were right. The mainstream press ignores you because they are pro-government and banks doing the same thing as the Goldbugs. It is incredible that they accuse you of […]

QUESTION: Why do banks seem to always fail? ANSWER: The business model is inherently flawed. They borrow short-term on demand and lend long-term. They take your demand deposits in your checking account and lend for mortgages out 30 years or speculate with your money like M.F. Global who Obama protected proving my point – Democrats […]

  Orrin Hatch Author of Biometric Exit System for All Americans GOP Senator Orrin Hatch introduced an amendment to the immigration bill that is the start of the American Iron Curtain requiring a mandatory biometric exit system at airports with the highest volume of international air travel, that even Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) wanted to do […]

QUESTION: No one ever talks about the depression from 1920-1921, but as I recall in researching it the government and the Fed never intervened and just let things play out.    In the end this depression hurt for awhile, but was over very quickly and from that point on we had the roaring 20’s. You […]

The spin that gold is money and fiat does far more damage than you may suspect. The only way to get gold really through the 1980, which is $2300 adjusted for inflation, requires the majority to get behind it. The majority look at the facts. Gold declined for 19 years and it was still “fiat”. […]

COMMENT:  Hello Martin This will be interesting - stock market UP / economy Down / bonds down / real estate Up / dollar Up Up / taxes Up / gold Down / civil unrest Up / weather cycle - unstable Wow only a computer could generate this outcome... ANSWER: Absolutely. The most interesting aspect of […]

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, In a recent post you write, “HYPERINFLATION takes place not because of any threshold in the quantity of money that has been crossed. It is a matter of confidence.”  Is there any historical precedence for a people losing confidence in a currency, where it is being restricted, i.e., not printed in […]