Blog/Economics
Until We Understand the Real Wealth of a Nation Progress Cannot be Achieved When We Try to Eliminate the Business Cycle
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Do you have any comment on the latest excuse for the decline in gold is because Trump is forcing it down so he can buy it up and move to [...]
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Divorce & Collapse of Socialism
COMMENT: Your article about the IRS invalidating your passport is correct….and more. I was working contract for our US DOS as an advisor a few years back in [...]
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Interesting Way to Increase Sales During the Great Depression
How bad did it get in some segments of the population during the Great Depression? Actually, during the Great Depression, women began reusing the fabric from flour [...]
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Doom & Gloom v Optimism – Is there a Middle Ground?
COMMENT: Dear Mr. Armstrong, The weather, politics, and life in general is getting a little more skewed month by month on the planet—and like everyone else in [...]
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Did the Swiss Reject the Same Idea Behind Cryptocurrency?
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; As you know, we rejected the proposal to eliminate banks from creating money by lending or the Sovereign Money Initiative. What you [...]
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Were the Crusades just for Plunder & Money?
QUESTION: Were the Crusades inspired by economics? You mentioned how Venice looted Constantinople. Thank you for making history interesting KR ANSWER: To [...]
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The Origin of Contagions lies in the Common Reserve Currency
The question of money supply and inflation has been erroneously set in stone philosophically predominantly by the debasement of Spain and Britain during the period [...]
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The Future of the Democrats – A New Age of Socialism to Exploit Everyone Else?
QUESTION: It seems that the Democratic Party is turning really socialist. The DNC Chair Tom Perez said the Socialist Ocasio-Cortez is the “future of our [...]
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Switzerland Rejects “Real Money” Proposal to Eliminate Banks from Creating Electronic Money by Lending
In Switzerland, we get to see how people who are really clueless about how the economy works still manage to get outrageous referendums on the ballot. A radical [...]
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Do We Really Borrow From Only Ourselves? Does the Debt/GDP Ratio Means Anything?
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, the famous economist Paul Krugman says that debt is ok when we owe it to ourselves. He calls it “deficit scolding” as he wrote [...]
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