Blog/Armstrong Economics 101

COMPLEXITY = You Cannot Manipulate What You Cannot Forecast
COMMENT: Marty; I do not know how you have accomplished creating your model with such extreme accuracy regarding numbers and time, but I do believe you have proven [...]
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Is There a Frequency to Terrorism?
QUESTION: Martin, so on this thread topic “Are Terrorist Attacks Following the 8.6 Year Frequency?” As they say hindsight is 20/20… and you are [...]
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Are Terrorist Attacks Following the 8.6-Year Frequency?
We have many readers in Brussels who have my sincere sympathy for what is taking place in Europe. I have hesitated to be an alarmist with this aspect of our war [...]
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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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