Blog/America’s Economic History
Statues & Rewriting History & Ignorance
I find that the tearing down of statues has gone way too far. Tearing down Columbus because he discovered America, and that harmed the indigenous people, is [...]
Read More
Millennials Collect Sneakers not Gold?
QUESTION: Gold & the younger generation Regarding the article ‘Gold & the Future ‘ ‘…Will they then look to gold and history? ‘ I think the [...]
Read More
Quebec Issued the First Paper Money in the New World
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, a goldbug told me you were wrong that paper currency did not begin with the Civil War. I told him you have written plenty of times about [...]
Read More
Happy 4th of July – Which was Supposed to be July 2nd
There are only a handful of people throughout history who I admire and wish I could have shaken their hand. Thomas Jefferson was one of them. The Fourth of July is [...]
Read More
Did Life Insurance Companies Survive the Great Depression?
QUESTION: Did insurance companies just declare bankruptcy during the 1930s to escape liabilities? PD ANSWER: Personally, I have NEVER had an insurance policy that [...]
Read More
Are Bonds Preferable to Stocks in a Crisis?
QUESTION: There are a few people coming out claiming the stock market will crash so buy bonds even though you will lose money. How can people keep calling for a [...]
Read More
Trump & China Trade Deal – Cyclically On Target? When Mexican Coins Traded at a Premium to America’s
QUESTION: Marty; Are there any cycles dealing with the trade dispute with China that are relevant? OP ANSWER: Actually, yes. The United States created a two-tier [...]
Read More
Why Has the USA been “Pinnacle of Global Success”
To the shock of everyone in politics and economics who can’t get enough socialism and want to bash that the disparity of income is so evil, these Marxists are [...]
Read More
Marriage on the Decline but So is Divorce?
The big hoopla is that the divorce rate has declined among Millennials. University of Maryland professor Philip Cohen found that from 2008 to 2016, the U.S. divorce [...]
Read More
