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Market Talk — January 18, 2016

The opening in Asia was the main discussion point for most dealers today. Oil hitting its lowest price ($27.65) since 2003, the Nikkei trading down 2% in the first...

Germany Wants to Impose EU-Wide Tax to Pay for Refugees

German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has called for a new EU-wide tax on petrol to pay for the refugee crisis that Germany has created. This is a EU-WIDE...

Why The Theory of Money Does Not Work

QUESTION:  We see that the United States can borrow all it needs at minimal cost and we also see that we’re getting a big boost from falling energy/commodity...

Leverage vs. The Black Hole in Economics

QUESTION: Dear Marty, Please correct and expand my understanding of a Sovereign Debt Crisis as it pertains to leveraged accounts.  If global economies are...

Goldman Sachs Fined $5 Billion but is Still Above the Law

Goldman Sachs is finally paying a price (money) for the role it played in the 2007 mortgage scandal, but of course, nobody is going to jail, which proves that...

Constitutional Judge Warns Merkel is Violating the Constitution

German Federal Constitutional Judge, Udo di Fabio, says the German federal government is constitutionally obligated to take control of border security when European...

Can Mathematicians Forecast Markets?

QUESTION: Greetings Mr Armstrong and thank you for your excellent blog! I have recently started reading Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Misbehaviour of Markets in...

Let The Bail-Ins Begin

Portugal is starting to bail-in banks. The fascinating aspect that nobody seems to see is that this is a total failure of socialism. The U.S. Federal Reserve was...

Market Talk – January 15th, 2016

We did NOT elect  the Weekly Bearish today in the Dow Jones Industrial Japan tried to hold overnight gains but by the time the rest of the Asian markets opened it...

Socrates Extended Preview for Attendees

We added some additional modifications to the Trader preview site that will go up this weekend. As mentioned, the Trader preview is a special promotion for 2015...