How to Hedge Real Estate © Martin A. Armstrong Hedging real estate always offers a few new problems. Some will argue that buying gold will provide an adequate medium to hedge against a collapse in real estate. Such suggestions usually tend to draw on 1929 as an example. As usual, suggestions of this sort know a […]

Hedge vs. Spec: Trading Strategies Based on The Reversal System © Martin A. Armstrong One of the purposes of our Technical Trading Seminars over the years has been to illustrate how to develop your own trading techniques using the numbers provided on the daily and weekly reports. The recommendations provided in those reports are not the […]

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederik Engels Translated by Samuel Moore A spectre is haunting Europe- the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies. Where is the party in […]

Thomas Mun 1571-1641 Thomas Mun was an English merchant and writer an economics. Director of the East India Company whose trading activities he defended in his hook A Discourse of Trade from England into the East Indies (1621). In this early explanation of the gains from international trade he company’s export of gold from Britain […]

Nickolai D. Kondratieff (1892 – 1938) Nikolai Dmyitriyevich Kondratieff (1892-1938) was a Russian economist. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Kondratieff was an economics professor who was called upon by the new government to create the first Soviet Five-Year-Plan. Kondratieff was thus given the opportunity to draw the economic plan for Russia he assumed upon a […]

Copyright Martin A. Armstrong, all right reserved March 18th, 2012 Please register for Special Updates ArmstrongEconomics.COM / Princeton Economic Institute Copyright Martin A. Armstrong All Rights Reserved  Disclaimer: Futures, Options, and Currency trading all have large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept […]

Mercantilism (15th-18th center) From the 15th to the 18th century, when the modern nation- state was being born, capitalism not only took on a commercial flavor but also developed in another special direction known as mercantilism. This peculiar form of capitalism attained its highe st level in England. The mercantilist system rested on private property […]

Principles of Economy by Martin A. Armstrong Reluctant Receipiant Throughout the course of man’s history, government has always been in pursuit of not merely power but wealth. Regardless of the form of government, we find that it is often the “reluctant receipiant” of its own consequences. Government has always been the source of major inflation. […]

Colosseum Flavian Amphitheater Officially opened by Emperor Titus 80 AD The Colosseum was the greatest structure erected during the age of the Flavian emperors (69-96 AD) and arguably the finest architectural achievement in the history of the Ro man Empire. The Colosseum was originally called the Fla vian Amphitheater, but it became known as the […]

Goths The GOTHS were a powerful group of Germanic people who played a major role in bringing down the Roman Empire in the West during the 3rd century AD. The Goths came essentially from the most northern edges of the Vistula River system, around the Baltic Sea. The Gothic culture developed as did their population […]