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Market Talk – October 20, 2022

ASIA:   Australia and Singapore agreed on Tuesday on a “green economy” deal to boost cooperation on climate investment, financing and technology. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told a news conference in Canberra that the agreement would start with initiatives such as developing a list of environmental goods and services that could be given […]

Market Talk – October 14, 2022

ASIA:   China’s securities regulator said on Friday it plans to revise rules to make it easier for listed companies to buy back shares in a bid to bolster corporate value and protect investor interest. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) published the draft rules as China’s benchmark CSI300 Index has lost more than 20% […]

The Bank of Canada Should Admit QE FAILED

In 2020, Pierre Poilievre, chief Conservative spokesman on finance issues, said Canada’s central bank “should not be an ATM for Trudeau’s insatiable spending appetites.” Conservatives cooperated with the Liberals when it came to COVID-19 emergency spending. Everyone was in on that power grab. Now the nation is in worse shape, further in debt, and inflation […]

Market Talk – October 6, 2022

ASIA: Growth in India’s services industry eased to a six-month low in September, led by a cooling in demand amid high inflation, a private survey showed. The S&P Global India services Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 54.3 in September from August’s 57.2, lower than the Reuters poll expectation of 57.0. However, the September reading stayed […]

Central Bank QE

  QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Nobody knows history better than you. Will QE continue if we end up in war? It seems there would be no choice. Thank you for your very enlightening blog. PG ANSWER: Yes. The Fed was “directed” by the White House to carry out QE during World War II. They were to […]

Welcome to the New Age of Volatility

The world is entering a crisis in confidence. First we had the COVID manufactured crisis, that spawned the Energy Crisis, and now we are entering the Currency Crisis phase. As I have said, we have the worst possible of incompetent world leaders I have ever witnesses in my life. With all the talking heads on […]

Market Talk – September 28, 2022

ASIA: Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said authorities stood ready to respond to speculative currency moves, a fresh warning that comes days after Tokyo intervened in the foreign exchange market to stem yen falls for the first time in more than two decades. Suzuki also told a news conference on Monday the government and the […]

Interview: Banking Crisis Will Start in Europe

Watch the video above to see my most recent interview with Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog. Commentary from Greg Hunter: Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says nothing is going to get better by the end of 2022, and he is still forecasting “chaos” coming in 2023. Armstrong says the plunge in the […]

The British Pound & the FX Crisis

COMMENT #1: Well done on the GBP PP COMMENT #2: Marty; Nobody agreed with you. Socrates is amazing! HJ COMMENT #3: You can buy your place back in Cornwall Gardens. Fantastic call! PK COMMENT #4: Nobody has ever beat you yet on currency forecasting. Thank you, my dollar account has paid off all my debt. […]

Market Talk – September 23, 2022

ASIA: The Reserve Bank of India is set to raise interest rates again next week with a slim majority of economists in a Reuters poll expecting a half-point hike and some others expecting a smaller 35 basis point rise. The RBI has lagged many of its global peers, despite inflation sticking above the top end […]