Blog/Armstrong Economics 101

Markets in Review for the Close of Q1 2016
When you have a consistent system that is running on absolutely everything around the world, you can simply look at it dispassionately and judge everything by the [...]
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Is Obedience to Authority the Explanation?
QUESTION: Marty, your point is well taken that we instinctively seek a guru be it in forecasting or politics. We have to understand we are doing that in order to [...]
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Fed Admits it is the World’s Central Bank – not just the USA Central Bank
Janet Yellen signaled that the Fed is grappling with the problem I have been warning about: the dollar has become the de facto currency and the Fed is indeed [...]
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Phase Transitions in Nature – An Exploding Star
Be it nature or politics, everything dies in a Phase Transition. The fall of communism in 1989 was abrupt and swept from China to Russia within a matter of months. [...]
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Guaranteed Basic Income
Richard Nixon unsuccessfully tried to pass a version of Milton Friedman’s plan. Nixon’s Democratic opponent in the 1972 presidential election, George [...]
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Sometimes the Impossible Becomes Possible
Some people can face adversity but others want to hide and pretend nothing is happening. What might seem impossible with respect to political reform to save our [...]
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Depression vs. “Helicopter Money”
QUESTION: You wrote the Socrates site on 3/23/2016: “Once the “confidence” in government cracks for the BULK OF THE SILENT MAJORITY who do not [...]
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Have Governments Always Spent More Than Tax Revenues?
It might surprise many, nonetheless, governments have routinely spent more than they take in from taxes. In ancient times, governments simply minted more [...]
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Forecasting That You Can Do As Well
QUESTION: Marty, in the new Gold report on page 34 you state that the $1309 is the yearly number but you said “Therefore, we have two Weekly Bullish Reversals [...]
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