Many European shares have been the best performers in 2013 and the general optimism in Europe for 2014 is far more bullish than in the USA. Even Reuters’ poll of more than 350 strategists, analysts and fund managers, shows the expectations are for more gains. Indeed, looking at the Frankfurt DAX, its gains in 2014 […]

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Yes the French elites are using the IMF to urge the confiscation of everyone’s accounts URGENTLY. The French have a long history of confiscating assets. This is a political belief in France that has been ingrained there for centuries. Napoleon actually imprisoned the Pope and confiscated the Papal States and took Venice. I do not […]

Official and security departments throughout Europe are now worried about a rising tide in Europe of Civil Unrest. In Spain, anyone who demonstrates spontaneously in the Spanish Parliament, have to pay a fine of €600,000 euros and thus no free speech. The Spanish are increasing penalties for protesting and threatening anyone who dares to film […]

  The IMF proposal to just take 10% of all European deposits would certainly not take place before the EU elections on May 25th. We do show higher volatility and a crazy period in 2014 in the September/October period. That will be the beginning of the crisis period that will not end until about 2020. […]

QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, What are the risks on cash savings under the mattress and the relation from the land serial codes on Euro notes and confiscations?.. Country codes on the first series of banknotes The central bank that commissioned the printing of a banknote (but not necessarily the country of printing) is indicated by […]

QUESTION: Martin, I read with alarm the blog post this morning about the coming 10% tax to be imposed on European accounts.  I’m an American with an IRA managed by a SEC regulated private Swiss Banking firm with my funds in an Austrian branch of a Swiss Bank.  I report the account on my tax returns every […]

QUESTION: Hello, One question: will a European’s money and shares held in Switzerland be safe from the IMF European bank bailout proposal? Thanks KR ANSWER: Switzerland has two risks. First, it has the biggest stockpile of euros of any central bank because it was trying to hold down the franc. It stands to lose big […]

The big money has been buying Art, Real Estate, and ancient coins that are an international market. If you cannot get stock that is liquid, you need other “movable” assets be it coins or diamonds. Real Estate is not really movable. Fine Art has jumped more than 25% on the top end. Even retail sales […]

QUESTION: Hi Martin, Happy New Year 2014. Please keep up the fantastic work you are doing for all of us! It is a blessing that there are people like you, when in Europe we are cursed with hopeless politicians as Hollande and a Marxist IMF boss. One question, you wrote the following in one of […]