The Commerce Departed originally put out 0.1% but it was revised to -1%. The economic growth has been marginal for the last year because we are seeing (1) rising taxes, and (2) rising unemployment from public sector. There has been no real expansion of the economy thanks also to FACTA that has had the […]

A number of questions have come in about the precious metals and real estate along side the stock market. Precious metals have their place. As long as you trade them and not turn them into some conspiracy, they are a tradable market and you can buy or sell. It is just when people preach nonsense […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, As I continue to read your blog, I have to wonder if America will survive the coming hardships.  America is split about 50-50 politically with no real possibility of reconciliation.  Victory for one side or the other (left or right) is the only real “solution”. Given this perspective is it possible America will […]

QUESTION: Marty, I want to thank you for saving me from the nonsense of the goldbugs. They go on and on about one-world governments and manipulations and that is their excuse for being wrong. They cannot understand even what is a reserve currency or that it is merely the economic language as you say. They are […]

Windows 8.1 is allowing remote access into your computer. Honestly, those who need that can buy software for that function. This is like Obamacare where everyone needs maternity leave with no consideration of age. Remember – what opening you create for remote access others will hack. I just reset my password for EBay. Never shopped […]

QUESTION: Hi Martin, Ok I get the point.  Massive deflation is what awaits us.  But how do you reconcile massive deflation with rises in assets prices?  Shouldn’t it be a decline as people hoard wealth and velocity declines even further? tb ANSWER: It is the same as in hyperinflation. If the currency collapses in confidence, people […]

I received my letter today notifying me that Horizon Blue Cross of New Jersey is cancelling my healthcare as of September for it does not comply with Obamacare. I suppose I do not have maternity leave. Not sure if I am supposed to run out to the local bar and announce hurry-up the first to […]

COMMENT: Dear Martin, First of all I must tell you, I look through your website several times a day as your learnings are unmatched. I wished we were both 20 and I could learn my entire life, with you, from you 🙂 Reference your article on India, it is tied down by language. ..it is […]

QUESTION: Dear Martin,        I have been truly puzzled to start with and now getting fascinated by your blog and discovery of ECM as I have started understanding this order to the seemingly randomness present in Nature.        May God bestow upon you great health with which you can enlighten the entire […]

The European Banking Crisis is beyond description. A leak has come out that the Commission will simply seize money from all the banks on a flat rate basis benefiting the banks that have lost money from trading at the expense of the small savings banks. Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942) is Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance. He […]