Small business is far too often the victim of nasty state tax collectors who seem to live to destroy jobs and businesses so they climb the ladder to get gold stars. New York State attacked the Melleadys who opened a Philly Pretzel franchise. The state tax collectors are free to interpret the laws any way they […]

    A closing today below 14806 in the Dow Jones Industrials will warn that we should see lower lows in September. The important support lies at 14450. A closing beneath this level will warn of a more dramatic decline of a serious nature. In Gold, we need a closing above 1425 to signal a […]

Obama is not finding it as easy to start a war as Dick Cheney via his patsy George Bush, Jr. Three letters were delivered from Congress to Obama. They informed him that he should not go to war with Syria before Congress returns. Obama tried to skirt that issue of not consulting Congress by just […]

QUESTION: I have been following your articles but I am confused by your latest few articles. Previously you were mentioning that there will be a flight to quality as US has the largest debt market in the world. You also mentioned that this flight of quality will worsen the debt crisis in US into 2015.75. However, […]

QUESTION: Dear Martin, Thanks for the education, I read every article you post. As a European ex-pat long based in S.E. Asia, I agree that Switzerland is probably one of the safest places to store wealth. However recently, the Swiss enacted a Bail-in law, whats more my 200+ yr old Swiss bank plans to change its […]

COMMENT: “You go on and on, in article after article, saying money is not tangible and never has been.  Then, you say in some kind of Mad Max world, gold will be worthless — Rice/food will be money! Rice is not tangible????? Your ideas may be good, but your explanations are convoluted, contradictory and often incoherent. JC” […]

Moodys has implied that they may downgrade the big banks stocks including Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. The reason for this is what I have been reporting that the Fed has informed the bankers they will not be bailing them out for proprietary trading. In addition, the bank spread between what they have been paying […]

Gold has rallied up to almost the 1399 level. We do have closing resistance at 1397.90 today and today would appear to be a high if it closes back below 1388.50. The key resistance is still at the 1421-1424 level and support lies at 1372.10 right now. A weekly closing back below 1336 will signal […]

QUESTION: You compare gold and the Dow in 1980 and today. Are you saying stocks are better or are you referring to the difference in timing? ANSWER: There are cyclical periods for each and every aspect of investment. I talk about the gold promoters because they mislead people and tell them only gold will survive. […]

QUESTION: Why do you still advise the billionaires? ANSWER: There is good and bad in every group. I seriously doubt that the NY Investment Bankers will sign up for anything under their name at least. The NY crowd has preyed upon pension funds and governments to say the least. They created the mortgage back scandal, […]