QUESTION: Also as you mentioned many times japan being in a 23-26 year Depression is this sequence  also a Bear Market Count ? Your Inside is much appreciated. Don’t worry about the Hate Mails..Been in Retail Finance and experienced the same in the early 80’s. People hated you just to mention Gold was going down. […]

  A number of people have been inquiring about coins as an investment for parking money. Keep in mind that the best market for coins or stamps tend to be the country of origin. Thus, US coins will bring the highest prices in the USA just as German will bring the best price in Germany. […]

The hike in VAT to 19% targeting collectors that will apply to silver coins is a bit convoluted yet, but so far it appears that buyer’s purchasing from German auctions and living in Germany will have to pay that tax. There is a lot of negotiating still going on at moment so we’ll see once […]

Israel Raising Taxes also to insane levels. The entire Western Society has gone off the reservation following Marx down the path of doom.

COMMENT: Hello Martin I was talking to one of my friends and I was complaining about the “Me” generation.  They pointed out that people in the USA usually have one issue that they care about.  They are dubbed the “Single issue voter” You are so right – here in Austin real estate is going up […]

QUESTION: Martin, I enjoy reading your blog and thank you for sharing all your knowledge. I have a simple question. For someone who is not a trader, who has a net worth of $5m+, no debt and plenty of long-term income from oil royalties, does it not make sense to hold 10-15% of my liquid net worth […]

QUESTION: Martin, you said in a recent blog: “Gold peaked with the low in the ECM in 2011 and it should rise after 2016 into 2020. This is a matter of the overall business cycle.” Have you now changed your major low in gold forecast from the original before or in Jan 2014 to now in […]

QUESTION:  Martin, Thank you for clearing up all this gold propaganda about backwardation and comex workings that I keep hearing.  I do have one question that some gold bugs keep bringing up. I hear them talk about the DJIA to Gold ratio and how the ratio will go back towards 1 when the gold market […]

QUESTION: First, thank you for your insights on the economy and investing.  Your track record is amazing and I’ve come to rely on your views as an accurate lens of perspective towards our current and upcoming troubles. I have a basic question about the upcoming hyperinflation… If we experience a bout of hyperinflation similar to […]

QUESTION: Martin, why do you often talk out of both sides of your mouth about Gold?  You might say Gold can go to $12,000 per ounce, but it is headed to $600 first. Isn’t gold in permanent backwardation?  I believe the previous record for Gold backwardation was 3 days near major lows, but aren’t we […]