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Armstrong Economics 101

Americans Are Borrowing to Survive

Americans are increasingly financing the basic necessities of life because their paychecks are no longer stretching far enough. Buy-now-pay-later financing has...

Eurozone vs Banking Crisis

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you have publicly warned the EU about this looming debt crisis. You have explained it as a trader on numerous podcasts. I find it...

2032 Can’t Come Fast Enough

  QUESTION: You are right about the government, no matter what they call themselves. Macron’s address blamed Trump for fuel prices and said he had no...

Wholesale Inflation is a Problem

The latest inflation figures should put an end to the ridiculous claims that inflation has been defeated. The Producer Price Index surged 1.3% in September alone,...

The 1999 WEC Warning of 2000 Bubble

  QUESTION: Marty, I know you warned about a bubble in 2000, and I think you were talking about capital inflows from China and Europe because of the coming...

COMMENTS FROM READERS & US Separation

  JEB: “I don’t know of any other president in my lifetime that had so much momentum behind them that they could’ve really made serious change. But I...

Inflation Is Rising on Top of Inflation

The September Consumer Price Index has come in at 3.7%, up from 3.4% in August, with prices rising another 0.6% in a single month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Americans Are Spending More Because Everything Costs More

Economists keep pointing to consumer spending as proof that the American economy remains strong. Americans spent 0.9% more in August, and naturally this is being...

The Road to 2028

As I have noted before, the Roman historian Sallust concluded that the decline of the Roman Republic truly began once Rome had eliminated its external...

AI the Real Danger?

A lot of emails have come in about the AI will destroy humanity. The difference between Socrates and Neural Nets is that Socrates has only a economic related...