Blog/Basic Concepts
Is it Government or Oligarchs?
QUESTION: Martin, I am a capitalist and what we have today is the least efficient form of capitalism. Actually it is quite a destructive and dangerous form of [...]
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Dutch Do Not Tolerate Freedom of Speech
The Dutch are destroying the last vestiges of our liberty under the pretense of protecting it. They are putting a right-wing Dutch politician named Geert Wilders on [...]
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Why Models Fails – Increased Use or Faulty Design?
QUESTION: It seems successful trading/investing/forecasting systems work only when used by a few. When these same systems get adopted by more and more users their [...]
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Computer Demands Humility
Armstrong 1985 with IBM XT COMMENT: Fantastic examples in the final version (free-markets-are-natures-design). You need to keep connecting the dots until the [...]
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The Ides of March – Pi Marked the End of the Roman Republic
COMMENT: Marty, I figured out why you bought the bust of Julius Caesar commissioned by Cleopatra. He was assassinated on the ides of march and that is effectively [...]
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Free Markets are Nature’s Design
Everything is connected in nature including how our economy functions. A reader who grasped my piece on how everything is interconnected in markets sent this in. He [...]
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Feel the Beat & Survive
Markets oscillate back and forth. I understand that to the people just coming to this blog that this may look like the “Matrix” or having to learn a new [...]
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Where Does the Future Lie?
QUESTION: Are you more worried about a 1984 esque future or A Brave New World esque future? ANSWER: Unfortunately, the two go hand in hand. George Orwell simply [...]
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The Interconnected Fractal Nature of Everything Causes Negative People to Lose Everything
QUESTION: Marty, you have said since the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ took out last year’s low and the Dow did not, it does not necessarily imply the Dow must [...]
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Primitive Analysis Hard at Work
The usual domestic analysis has its usual blinders on like a horse pulling a carriage in Central Park. Typically, this analysis blames everything on the Fed [...]
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