Blog/Economics
Hard Landing
QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, I have a question that might interest not just me but also other blog Readers: In your blog Posts you write that you expect that we [...]
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Fear of Inflation & Sterilization
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; you were friends with Milton Friedman. Do you agree with his view that the Great Depression was caused in part by the Fed refusing to [...]
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Debt & the Point of No Return
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; First I want to thank you for coming to Europe this year. It has been some time since your Berlin Conference. My question is simple. How [...]
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Our Flawed Monetary System & Why it is Doomed
QUESTION: You mentioned that Rome had no national debt and no central bank. Exactly how did it function for 1,000 years? JY ANSWER: In addition to not having a [...]
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The Risks of a Cashless Society
QUESTION: Hi Mr Armstrong, Thank you for continuous education. I hope to get your view on cashless societies. There are worries that nations will move to cashless [...]
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Is Perpetual Prosperity a Fictional Dream?
QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong…Thanks for trying to settle our confusion re: Griffin’s “Creature” You make a distinction between Gov’t [...]
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Draghi – The Opportunity & the Nightmare
I cannot stress enough that Mario Draghi has really destroyed the European economy on an unprecedented scale. I know people who worked on trading desks years [...]
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World Trade & the Confusion
QUESTION: Marty, just reported this past week America’s trade deficit hit a record $891 billion while, in the same week, unemployment report fell to 3.8%. [...]
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The Fallacy of MMT
QUESTION: These economists who propose this MMT claim that since the U.S. borrows in its own currency, it can print dollars to cover its obligations, and can’t go [...]
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The Solution
COMMENT: If every 16-year-old school student had to write a thousand-word essay on this presentation the world as we know it would change miraculously [...]
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