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 […]

Defining the Business Cycle By Martin Armstrong There are those that adamantly deny the existence of a Business Cycle for one simple reason; if a regular Business Cycle exists, then man and his government, driven by special interests, are incapable of manipulating its outcome. The entire foundation of Marxism was the recognition of the Business […]

QUESTION:  “If you were appointed to be the next FED Chairman (after Bernanke), what would you do to solve today’s problem?” M.J. ANSWER: SCREAM! Look for the longest rope, tie it around my neck and jump. The Fed is really powerless despite popular belief. The whole problem breaks down into two parts: 1) We have […]

We will be publishing the International Capital Flow Analysis – the Dawn of the Global Economy that will deal with every panic from 1720 forward and dive deeply into the global economy during the 20th century through the formation of the Federal Reserve, Confiscation of Gold, Hyperinflation in Germany and Eastern Europe, the rise of […]

The problem both analysts and government have is they view the world only through the same looking glass relating everything to the domestic economy in dollars alone. But investors buy and sell internationally according to their own base currency – the one profits are measured and in which they are taxed. You can’t tell the […]

The talk of the town is President Barack Obama appears to have fired Ben Bernanke in a PBS interview broadcast on Monday. Obama told Charlie Rose that the Fed chairman has “already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to,” and exactly what he is up to now is interesting. Perhaps he […]

http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/04/release-offshore-records-draws-worldwide-response These Journalists are basically communists. Their view of “integrity” that everyone should pay their taxes rather than looking at the corruption in government that is causing widespread rise in taxes that is fueling the economic decline and rising unemployment is just astonishing. Britain is now moving to shut down all offshore tax havens. In […]