COMMENT #1:  I have been watching Colonel Douglas MacGregor (ret), on alt news sites. He is a former tank commander in the Gulf war and has worked extensively with NATO, before retiring. I love his direct commentary – so in a nutshell he says the following: 1. Ukraine has lost up to 250k troops and […]

ASIA:   The major Asian stock markets had a green day today: NIKKEI 225 increased 428.60 points or 1.56% to 27,927.47 Shanghai increased 17.74 points or 0.54% to 3,328.39 Hang Seng increased 138.08 points or 0.68% to 20,567.54 ASX 200 increased 28.20 points or 0.39% to 7,283.60 Kospi increased 4.22 points or 0.17% to 2,432.07 […]

COMMENT: Marty; A lot of people are concerned that you may just say the hell with it all and move to your island in the Caribbean. A lot of us always stood by you and many more are joining the ranks. There are so many who claim to be brilliant analysts but it is just […]

ASIA:   U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the World Bank, ex-Mastercard Chief Executive Officer Ajay Banga, said he plans to travel to Europe, Asia, Africa and potentially Latin America in coming weeks to hear from donor countries and borrowers on challenges facing the global institution. Biden last week nominated Banga, to head the […]

ASIA:   China is willing to “constructively” participate in solving the debt problems of relevant countries under a multilateral framework, its Premier Li Keqiang said on Wednesday. China, the world’s largest bilateral creditor, has criticized multilateral lenders for not accepting losses, or haircuts, on loans to low-income countries while Beijing is being asked to do […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong I have been reading your blogs for the last couple of years. I’m a simple human, not a scholar but so scared about nuclear war, Is nuclear war 100 percent coming here in the USA? If so any suggestions as to what we can do to survive? where should we go ? […]

ASIA: JPMorgan is proposing a new Asia credit index with slashed China weighting in parallel to its existing $85 billion Asia credit index, amid growing geopolitical tensions and dimming appetite for Chinese property bonds, Reuters reported. For the new index, JPMorgan has suggested the weighting of China be cut to close to 30% compared with […]

Marty: We are so grateful to have you help us navigate the crisis’ – war, sovereign debt and totalitarianism. Crime in Austin has ratcheted up. It brings me much sadness to see the happy hippy town I once knew to be overtaken by crime gangs. The latest is car clubs have been overtaken by gangs […]

The financial markets had become integrated globally prior to World War I. It was the globalization and openness of world financial markets that became the problem and are important to understand for we will face the same problem today. The capital was free to flow from one country to another before World War I.  All […]

From the beginning, the United States provided $5 billion to fund the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. The US-installed interim government launched the civil war against the Donbas on US instructions. Then in 2014, Obama signed a bill authorizing lethal aid to be provided to Kiev. Then in 2015, NATO Commander General Philip Breedlove favors military […]