Blog/Basic Concepts

Why Hypothesis is no longer about Discovery
COMMENT: The old definition of the scientific method was “In a typical application of the scientific method, a researcher develops a hypothesis, tests it [...]
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Fundamentals & Confidence – Which is More Important in Markets?
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, You have said that fundamentals really mean nothing because the market runs on confidence. What about the fundamentals during the 2008 [...]
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We All Act in Our Self-Interest
COMMENT: IS MARTIN ARMSTRONG AND SOCRATES THE MOST HUMANE BEINGS ON THE PLANET? Dear Martin and Socrates, I have been following you two for many years, often with a [...]
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Something is Wrong
QUESTION: At the WEC in Orlando, you said something was wrong. Was the computer picking up this event of a crash being contrived? JF ANSWER: The [...]
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The Fate of Yugoslavia is the Same Fate of the Roman Empire
A lot of emails have come in about the video about the Yugoslavian Civil War video. The core of the video is indeed how civilization collapses. I have stated many [...]
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The Battle in Methodology
COMMENT: Marty; Your report on the cyclical methodology v academic is excellent. You should put that out as a book on Amazon. Your examples of this absurdity are [...]
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Clip from Margaret Thatcher’s 1975 Free Society Speech
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The Rich v Oligarchs
QUESTION: Hello Martin, You have said ‘the rich get richer by investing’; and as well, you’ve said ‘governments are always corrupted’. [...]
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Flight from Public to Private
QUESTION: Hi. Martin. I have read your blog for many years and I’m blown away about how much I have learned Question can you help explain how the European stock [...]
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Stocks Rise with Rising Interest Rates & Fall with Lower Rates
QUESTION: I mentioned that you said the stock market rallies with rising rates and declines with lower rates to an analyst. He said you were wrong and everyone [...]
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