As of May 23rd, 2012, China now has direct access to the U.S. Department of the Treasury to buy U.S. government bonds. China can now bypass Wall Street when buying US government debts, and it is the U.S. Treasury’s first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government according to Treasury’s documents. However, while all the other countries […]

A lot of people are fixed on what is money and presume somehow that a return to precious metals will solve the problem. Precious metals are for personal use. They have never prevented any society from systemic economic collapse. Do not confuse hoarding gold to preserve wealth with a gold standard. We had one with […]

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Copyright Martin Armstrong All Rights Reserved August 4th, 2012 We are on the Verge of a Very Profound Systemic Global Meltdown Why We Need Gold in Times like This I have never been one to yell fire in a crowded movie. But this is getting absolutely ridiculous.  The global economy is in such a tailspin and […]

Writings 2012     The risk of Low Interest Rates (Martin Armstrong October 13th, 2012       Asia – The Coming New Financial Capital of the World       Iran – The Fate of the Middle East       QE3 Confirms the Economic Implosion (Martin Armstrong September 13th, 2012     Debt […]

The 1985 World Economic Conference   We have recovered a set of the 1985 World Economic Conference materials. This was a major institutional event held in Princeton, New Jersey. The materials included all major markets as well as major economic statistics covering North America, South America, Middle East, Asia, and Europe. The importance of these […]

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Why Property Taxes Will Soar, Why the risk of civil unrest is rising exponentially & Why we will see The rise of a third political party Anyone who really thinks we have a government by the people for the people, must be smoking something delusional. We are on the precipice of one of the greatest […]

It is truly amazing to sit back and watch the political pundits blast the Supreme Court and paint the Chief Justice as the new LIBERAL. They really seem to be blind to what is going on behind that curtain. You have to understand the political jockeying in courts. This is why judges are handpicked by […]

Banks have been manipulating markets, interest rates, and governments for a very long time. The present scandal involving manipulating LIBOR interest rates in Europe that began in Britain is surfacing like a soap opera evolving slowly on the political stage of life illustrating the potential to split the financial world in two like no other […]