As if we did not see this one coming. Goldman Sachs, the untouchable firm, won dismissal of a suit over $450 million in residential mortgage-backed securities. The New York judge amazingly shifted the entire burden of responsibility in fraud to the buyer. It was not Goldman Sachs’ fault, the judge said that the firms that […]

COMMENT Dear Mr. Armstrong, I wanted to comment on your article, but WordPress will not let me log in, so I thought I’d write an email. I respectfully disagree with your ideas in this article. Come live in Southern California. These people are coming for the free $$$$: Food, housing, SNAP, WIC, etc., etc., etc. […]

COMMENT: Hi Martin; thank you very much for your informative blog, i started reading at the beginning of the year and it’s the only one I make sure never to miss a single post. You are the first person I recall mentioning that $3,000 transactions are being kept an eye on. Here is another strange case. […]

Chancellor George Osborne in Britain said he is going to announce a crack down on banks and traders. The jig is up as they say.turned. These measures are reported to include making the manipulation of the foreign currency markets by banks a criminal offence. In his annual Mansion House speech, Mr Osborne will pledge the extension […]

Judge Rakoff is a lone warrior – perhaps the only man standing in the New York court system. There are other judges who are not entirely corrupt, but fear ruling against government. Judge Rakoff also handled the case of the purported terrorist who confessed according to prosecutors  Mr. Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian graduate student, was […]

A lot of people have written asking my take on the Terrorist Exchange. The first question to ask – are they really terrorists? Assume nothing. The answer is probably no. Why? Obama promised on 60 Minutes to stop the torture and to close Guantanamo Bay. He used that citing Bush during the Presidential Campaign. Why did he […]

QUESTION: Marty; I do find it curious how Barron’s quoted your forecast for new highs in 2011, and you seem to be the only person who was correct, yet they constantly turn to people who have never been right to talk bearishness about the market. You once wrote that the Wall Street Journal refused to […]

What the ECB has done is the first time a central bank has gone NEGATIVE to try to force people to spend. There have been NEGATIVE interest rates in a quasi situation with attempts to support a currency peg. This has been the case in Denmark. We also saw rates collapse in Switzerland when the […]

QUESTION:  Martin, Concerning World Trade Center Building 7 and the missing Trillion dollars, my questions are: 1) Why has the media never discussed this, 2) What happened to the Trillion dollars, 3) Who was the President when the money went missing? Thanks for keeping us informed as to what is really happening around the world. […]

QUESTION: What is ‘modern day’ currency devaluation? I have read your articles about the 1930s devaluation and I also do understand what money is (thanks to your writings). I am not sure what ‘modern day’ currency devaluation is and I was hoping you may write more about this subject. I know there is a lot […]