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 […]

QUESTION: Does Europe have the same cultural differences that the United States has between regions? ANSWER: Absolutely. This is part of the problem that we face for as the economy gets worse, those cultural differences will be the source of political unrest and fragmentation. If you look at the nations of the former Soviet Union, […]

The Euro officially began trading January 1st, 1999. That was an eventful year for its also marked the low in Gold. Now at the pre-Christmas Euro summit, the mood was rather grim and even Merkel is wondering if the Euro will survive. The Euro should seriously crack 17.2 years from its birth and that would […]

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QUESTION:  Buenos días Señor Armstrong, Gracias por la información del Blog, y la visión de la economía. Mi pregunta como ciudadano de un país europeo, España, como se publico en distintos medios europeos el proyecto que tiene el FMI de robar de los depósitos en bancos a todos los ciudadanos de los países con problemas […]

Nothing has changed with the Euro v the dollar. We are waiting for the turn in 2014 and that remains in place. In order to set the stage for the worst of the worst, we need to move to extremes in both directions. Economically, Europe is a disaster. You typically have the currency rise in […]