Monetary History of Egypt Ptolemaic Dynasty Ptolemy XIII (51 – 47BC) Brother & Husband of Cleopatra VII Ptolemy XIII was the son of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII succeeding his father in the spring of 51 BC as co-ruler of Egypt by his marriage to his older sister Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BC). The eunuch Pothinus […]

QUESTION: Marty; I attended your WEC in Princeton. It was really amazing. The year before you had pre-conference training session. That might be a good idea to bring back for this year. On another note, Trump seems to be just self-destructing and Cruz has effectively said the Republican Party is over for he will not […]

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 becoming the world’s central bank. Yellen has admitted that everyone is lobbying the Fed to surrender its domestic policy objectives for international ones. This is precisely […]

I have warned that each terrorist group seems to act in their own cyclical manner, and the cycle that evolves is a fingerprint to each group. Now, it turns out that it has been confirmed that all three of the bombers in Brussels had links to the cell in Paris. These attacks are strategic in […]

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 cycle, but one reader sent this note today: Dear Martin, I could have been one of the victims today since I passed the Maalbeek […]

The man who made Wall Street famous was John Gutfreund, which he always pronounced as GOOD-friend, has died at the age of 86 who became known as “King of Wall Street” back in 1985 for building the Investment Bank and bond trading house of Salomon Brothers into the number one underwriter in the world, the […]

Real Estate is in crash mode. London and Hong Kong look the worst after both were off 15%+ in the first month of the turn from September 30, 2015. The Miami market has been flooded with money from South America whereas New York has been the target for Asia and Europe. The U.S. market is […]

Julia Drusilla (September 16th, 16 AD – June 10th, 38 AD) was the second daughter and fifth child to survive infancy of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder. She was therefore the sister of the Emperor Caligula. Drusilla also had two sisters Julia Livilla and the Empress Agrippina the Younger who became the mother of the […]

The notorious Praetorian Prefect Sejanus, Lucius Aelius Sejanus (20 BC – October 18, 31AD), worked his way to be the friend and adviser of the Roman Emperor Tiberius with a design on becoming emperor himself by systematically eliminating all heirs to the throne. Sejanus rose to power as prefect (commander) of the Roman imperial bodyguard […]

COMMENT:  Good morning, Martin. Yesterday I bought an old booklet printed for 10 NoK at the Armed Forces Museum: “Laws, resolutions and prescripts due to circumstances of war”, by the Justice Department, printed in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1917. I thought I there would find the outline of a recipe for what may come here […]