Democratic Senator leader Harry Reid told the press that “Republicans obsessed with defunding health care reform are pushing us closer and closer to a government shutdown that would tank the economy.” A shutdown will not “tank” the economy. Nevertheless, politicians worldwide are ignorant that they are the major threat to the world economy. This socialistic agenda […]

Some readers have asked questions in regard to the popular conspiracy stuff about various notorious groups and why I disagree with such CONSPIRACY theories. My point is this. IF THEY WERE truly in control, they would NEVER have cared about me. When there is a crisis, I am the one that gets called in. WHY? […]

Merkel’s victory was really a signal that the Euro Crisis will not be over and that if anything the current direction of Europe will merely pick up speed downhill. The positive thing for the euro is that perhaps we can now go into hyper-drive to get this Sovereign Debt Crisis in the open. The likelihood of […]

COMMENT: Hello Mr. Armstrong, I’m a mechanical engineer and Trader by profession who grew up in Germany. About three years ago I stumbled across your story and since then I read every article from your website. Thank you very much for your continuous work to open the eyes of people! As I grow older (40 now) […]

QUESTION: Hi Martin You have indicated  a subscription based service coming soon. Any ideas of the charges ? ANSWER: Our staff from around the world are all in Switzerland. We are working hard to get the systems up. Under Swiss law, no names may be stored on any computer system outside of Switzerland. So the systems […]

There remains a huge battle going on inside the Republican Party. The House Republicans are struggling between the Boehner camp that asks “why can’t we just all get along – its business as usual – can’t you get it”. Boehner threw off anyone who supported Ron Paul from any financial committee. He could care less […]

Gold has got a lot of people all excited. Any up tick and they pronounce here we go as always ignoring everything else in the world. The Daily Bullish were initially elected from the June 28th low up to 135000. But the next area of Daily Bullish Reversals stands at 144450, 146150, and 147750. We […]

QUESTION: From reading your blog, my understanding of your view is that all relationships are in flux with respect to markets and market drivers, except for confidence.  For example, the stock/bond relationship can change over time, so stocks do not ultimately go up or down based on what bonds do but based on where confidence […]

COMMENT: Hi Mr. Armstrong, I enjoy reading your blog everyday, and thank you for your thoughts and for sharing your expertise.  This article which just appeared on cbc.ca’s website is about how public pensions need to be reformed within the province of Alberta Canada, and how the union is against this.  Please refer to the […]

QUESTION:  Dear Mr. Armstrong- You seem to hint that Bernanke didn’t want rates to go up especially when there is a ceiling impasse. Yet, he talked about taper/untaper and torchured the market for 3 months to prepare investors for a smooth QE-reduction. Most investors I know were expecting a small taper that could have still been interpreted as […]