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Armstrong Economics 101

Do Sanctions Ever Work?

QUESTION: Hello, with all the talk of sanctions in the news against North Korea and Iran, have sanctions against a country ever worked? Aren’t they a pretext that...

The Real Wealth of a Nation

QUESTION: Dear Martin, Whereas for years you have put in a solid 5,000 year data for arguing for no individual taxes yet in countries around the Middle East there...

The Shift from Public to Private Assets in Europe

QUESTION: Marty, at the Rome WEC you put up that chart that showed historically private sector yields have gone below public. That really demonstrated your point on...

Rethinking Economics

The BBC wrote a piece on the failure of economics. “Many non-economists will say that the economists must have been stupid not to realise what was wrong with...

Idaho Repeals Its Entire Regulatory Code

Believe it or not, sometimes there is a glimmer of hope. The glimmer came in Idaho and stunned governments around the world. Idaho’s state legislature just...

Game of Thrones Ends with a Water Bottle

Game of Thrones came to an end with an underwhelming finale that left many disappointed after 8 years. Yet, the disappointed fans seem to look for things to...

Trading Against the Reversals

COMMENT: So guess what. I’ve always played the gaps when one elects and it’s a decent size and it lines up with the arrays and technicals I’ll get...

Decline in Craftsmanship Between the 1st and 3rd Centuries

COMMENT: I took the tour of the Vatican museum and the sculpture collection is unsurpassed. It was great that a pope told the people to bring statues to the Vatican...

Capital Controls v Protectionism

QUESTION: Marty; You mentioned at the cocktail party in Rome, which was spectacular BTW, that your concern would be capital controls emerging when the euro starts...

Socialism has Robbed the Economic Future of Millennials

Socialism has robbed the economic future of millennials. All of the programs have been based upon a Ponzi scheme from Social Security to Obamacare. The entire...