QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, Thank you for taking the time to address the questions that I and many others who follow your work have asked. In your most recent answer to a readers question, you state, “Therefore, it was the complete lack of CONFIDENCE in the government that (1) caused the hoarding, and…..”  From what I have read […]

NSA is collecting ALL phone calls from Verizon under court order. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/06/nsa-collecting-phone-records-for-millions-verizon-customers-report-says/ These people are just out of control. They are collecting everything possible. Why do they have to know everything about everyone? Are they the ultimate Paranoid Nut Jobs who can’t sleep at night worrying someone may say something on a phone they do […]

Unemployment among the youth in the USA has hit 16.2%, more than double the April national rate of 7.5% for adults over 35. We are in the last throes of the dying idea of Socialism and this is never more illustrated than by the age divide when it comes to employment. Young kids in the USA […]

Even the IMF has now revised its forecast for German economic growth down sharply. We have been warning that 2013 Europe will turn NEGATIVE on the GDP growth as a whole. The IMF now sees major risks that the German economy is not recovering and that Germany should abandon austerity. http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2013/06/04/iwf-fordert-von-deutschland-aufgabe-des-sparkurses/ Meanwhile, now the UN […]

Greece was directed by the EU troika to reduced 4,000 civil servants by the end of 2012, but only reduced the workforce by 99. By the end of 2013 they were supposed to reduce another 15,000. We are looking a significant civil unrest and perhaps a revolution that results in just a default. That would […]

  Alan Simpson, Wyoming Republican Senator who became co-chair of President Obama’s deficit commission, called senior citizens the “Greediest Generation” as he compared Social Security to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. This career politician’s comments illustrates the entire problem why we do not have a democracy. These people rig the game to get elected, […]

The key problem on a global scale has been the sheer arrogance of government in the Western so called “democratic” regions. People are starting to wake up and realize that we do not live in a democracy but republics and we remain without a voice. Once these people take power, they stop all consultation with […]

One of the craziest conspiracy theories around is that the FED was specifically created to fund WWI and all subsequent wars. Then it is claimed that FED is owned by 100 families whose agenda is deliberately creating a New World Order. This idea that you can have some New World Order with everyone on the same page is just […]

In the normal world of capital flows, bonds decline when stocks rise. The talking heads that claim lower interest rates are bullish for stocks once again try to reduce everything to a single cause and effect that applies to a single frame in a long movie. Here we can see that bonds declined when stocks […]

To try to explain the markets and how there can be a rising stock market with rising bonds, analysts characterize this weird trend as a US monetary experiment of the past four years, which has been caused by the Fed’s endless monetary injections (and pent up inflation expectations) while the bond rally has been due […]