QUESTION: Did New York follow the 224 year cycle peaking as the financial capital of the world?   First Bank of the United States – Third Street, Philadelphia ANSWER: No. The first financial capital of the USA was Philadelphia, which is where both banking and the first stock exchange began. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is the […]

New York and the corruption of the courts and government that has made the bankers the new “Untouchables” has taken its toll. The actual financial capital is London despite the fact that the British economy is still headed lower. The hedge funds are buying up  Mayfair in London. There is a Global Financial Centres Index where […]

QUESTION: My daughter in school discussed your case as a denial of due process of law. Your case is really famous in legal circles. ANSWER:  I get that many times. Even my cousin’s son in South Carolina experienced the same thing. When he told the teacher I was his cousin, she couldn’t believe it. To […]

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The Department of Homeland Security released a report to gauge the number of asylum seekers who entered the US in 2023. On the low side, the department believes 945,370 people from throughout the world managed to infiltrate America in a one-year period, breaking past all previous records. “Affirmative asylum case filings with USCIS nearly doubled […]

California Governor Gavin Newsom is intent on allowing migrants to vote. Newsom has signed legislation that completely prohibits local governments in California from requesting to see voter ID. Unfortunately, California is one of 14 states that will allow absolutely anyone to for the next President of the United States. None of the G7 nations permit […]

QUESTION: Do you ever endorse politicians? It would be nice to see if someone gains your respect since you are pretty hard-nosed when it comes to our representatives. WB ANSWER: That is not an easy question. As I have said many times, I can run for Congress and say whatever you want to hear to […]

We tend to think of war as a national army against a national army. But wars have changed dramatically since Iraq. Mercenaries are more powerful than most realize, which is a grave oversight. Those who assume they are cheap imitations of national armed forces do not have a clue about what is taking place. For-profit […]

The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, wrote that global warming would damage a tenth of the world’s residential property by value. They reported that this includes “many houses that are nowhere near the coast. From tornadoes battering Midwestern American suburbs to tennis-ball-size hailstones smashing the roofs of Italian villas, the severe weather brought about by […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you know law like no other analyst. My air conditioner bit the dust, and it was a 14-seer 2-ton split heat pump. The repair company told me that I had to put in a whole new system because Biden changed the specs, and you now must have a 14.5-seer, so everything has […]