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Month: June 2019

Forced Loans People Ignore Until it’s TOO LATE

QUESTION: With the private vs public debt and interest rate discussion, nobody is mentioning things like government legislation to forcing people to buy government...

Will Basel-III Changing Gold’s Status as a Reserve Asset for Banks Change the Future?

  The Bank of International Settlements under Basel-III changed the status of gold as a reserve asset effectively on April 1, 2019. Gold used to be viewed by...

PRIVATE BLOG – Italy’s Mini-BOT A Parallel Currency to the Euro 

PRIVATE BLOG – Italy’s Mini-BOT A Parallel Currency to the Euro  Private blog posts are exclusively available to Socrates subscribers. To sign-up for...

Market Talk – June 13, 2019

ASIA / AUSTRALIA: A Pilipino ship was sunk in the South Chinese Sea. The Philippines sent a formal diplomatic protest to Beijing on Thursday condemning the actions...

Interest Rate & Currency Pegs

QUESTION: Martin, I went over three blogs this morning (both public and private); they are The FED Between a Rock & a Hard Place, Manipulating interest rates...

Public v Private Interest Rates & Sovereign Debt Crisis

QUESTION: Dear Martin I have a question for the blog. There has been forecasts for a sovereign debt crisis but recently you have discussed how various governments...

PRIVATE BLOG – Gold & the Summer Rally 

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The Fed is Between a Rock & a Hard Place

QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, Not sure if I am understanding it correctly. Is the FED currently between a rock and a hard place? The FED is not able to cut rates...

Greenland Glacier is Growing, Not Melting

Greenland glacier reverses stunned scientists, according to the Weather Channel. This is illustrating that everything is subject to a cycle. Many argue it is only...

Market Talk – June 12, 2019

ASIA / AUSTRALIA: News emanating out of China states big tech firms are planning to move production out of China. This comes around after Huawei just failed to...