In the Netherlands, they are making bankers swear an oath to God that they will do everything honorable to uphold the confidence in the financial system. I suppose there will be an awful lot of bankers going to prison in the Netherlands after 2015.75. They would have been better off passing a law that they […]

The Cycle of War is turning up in 2014 and this cycle is already having a profound impact both internationally as well as internally around the globe. This cycle has been extremely accurate and has been established using a database that has indexed the war cycle distinguishing domestic conflicts (revolutions) from international war. This index […]

People do not quite appreciate the real core problem in politics. Listening to the extreme biased political hacks of TV creates the illusion that there are really two parties. The truth is actually so far from that it is hard to grasp the full extent of political crisis that lies ahead. The famous political commentator […]

The dollar haters remain fixated on supply is supposed to determine value with a very myopic view that never considers DEMAND. They simply cannot understand why the dollar has not collapsed and in turn cling to some wild all-powerful conspiracy behind the strength of the dollar. I have stated countless times, the money center banks […]

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Thank you so much for what you do. My son actually introduced you to me. He works in New York at a major bank and says everyone reads you because you actually have experience. He said there is talk about electronic money, but was not entirely sure why the banks are behind […]

Attorney General Eric Holder claims no bank is too big to indict citing the fines he got from J.P. Morgan, reported by Reuters. But those are fines, not a criminal indictment of the bank that has shut such institutions down. When they actually go after Goldman Sachs then we can perhaps believe him. They are […]

  QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; One of the criticisms of you is that you support the idea of a central bank. Your view that Andrew Jackson destroyed the central bank and caused a depression and sovereign debt defaults appears to be a different view than what is talked about in the gold community. Could you explain your […]

The Financial Crisis of 1971 was the culmination of a series of events that began during the early 1960s. Politicians set the gold ratio to the dollar at $35 an ounce that was decided in 1934 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, politicians have a vest self-interest in always pretending they do a good job. Unfortunately, […]

During the early years of Washington’s Administration, Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, strive diligently to establish a sound system of banking in an effort to stabilize the currency of the nation. However, due to failure of Continental Currency and the lack of immediate convertibility into the proposed federal US dollar, speculation and volatility plagued […]

The Panic of 1907 came after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which actually exposed the entire problem of regional internal capital flows within the United States caused by the business cycle and the great variety of localized economies. While the traditional accounts of the Financial Panic focus on as crisis that took place over a three-week period starting […]