A group of hedge funds, who hold a large proportion of Puerto Rico’s debt, are now demanding for Puerto Rico’s government to fire teachers, collect more taxes, and reform labor laws, as the U.S. territory contemplates default. This is the battle between bondholders vs. the people, and it is not going to end nicely. While […]

Socrates will provide three primary levels of service: Investor, Trader, and Institutional. The distinguishing factors are designed based upon needs. We will have the overall outlook and trend for the Investor; the Trader will have access to timing and price target objectives as well. At the Institutional level, we will provide portfolio construction, asset allocation, and two […]

Gold elected a Monthly Bearish Reversal today at 1155. We have some support down at the 1042 level for now. Technical support for August lies at the 1029 level. We will be issuing the update on gold for those who purchased last year’s report by the end of the month to cover the downside. This […]

The C$ fell sharply against the U.S. dollar, confirming our computer forecast for a rising dollar and completing the trend to initiate a deflationary cycle in the U.S. post-2015.75. Basis the cash, the U.S. dollar closed ABOVE the 1008 high, showing that we are moving beyond the crisis level felt during the 2007–2009 panic. The […]

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, Humans often decide based on faith rather than thought if they have to choose one. Your ECM cycle is amazing, because it visualizes the change in confidence which influences so many decisions in the world! Is it possible to reach human minds trough logic at all? How can we communicate important […]

As we approach the month-end closing for July 2015, we have a minor monthly bearish reversal at 1155 followed by the key reversal at 1084. The Bullish stands at 1287, so without a closing above that level, nothing has changed. Crude oil had a monthly bearish reversal at 5650 and 4667. We fell intraday to 4668, […]

Sometimes it really does not matter what the underlying truth might be – markets move based upon anticipation and typically reverse with the news. The Fed is looking more and more like it will begin to raise interest rates for it can see that the pension funds are in trouble. They need higher rates to […]

To make a market peak in a phase transition, the 99% must be bullish. Likewise, to create the low, the 99% have to be bearish. This is simply the way markets function. Now we begin to see the bearishness rise in the precious metals because quite frankly, the gold promoters put out such total bullshit […]

QUESTION: Hi Martin, I like that you are very open minded when in comes to future tech which will change the world and dogmas (like electric cars and gas becoming obsolete etc.). One of these things is also electronic money which will make physical money obsolete as well. I am just curios why you put […]

Greenspan wrote rudimentary programs on a punch a card. This form of programming predates computers. This recording medium allowed one to code the notes to a song on a cylinder, and music would play as the cylinder revolved. This was the forerunner to punch cards used in early computers to input data and run a […]