John Boehner, Mr. Ultimate Establishment Republican, is desperately trying to secure the passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for Obama, which would give him fast-track authority to secure congressional approval of at least three secretive trade deals without the public having a right to know what the hell is going on. Why is Boehner so willing […]

The National U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) monthly temperature updates have been discontinued. The official CONUS temperature record is now based upon nClimDiv. USHCN data for January 1895 to August 2014 will remain available for historical comparison. However, one must wonder if the data, which was demonstrating a cooling period rather than global warming, was […]

Greece and its creditors stuck to their positions on Monday after the collapse of talks aimed at preventing a default and possible euro exit, while Germany’s EU commissioner said it was time to prepare for a “state of emergency”. Our models have long favored a Greek Exit (Grexit). We suspect that there will be the […]

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Today was a very busy day for most assets classes. First there was news over weekend that S&P may look unkindly on the UK over Brexit issue (cable was weaker than euro but is recovering towards the end of the day). Greece, never out of the news, despite weekends, has been on your screens all […]

QUESTION:  Hello Martin, I enjoy reading your articles on historical events.  It is a refreshing change from mainstream media’s spin. It will be 800 years on the 15th June since the signing of the Magna Carta here in the UK.  I would be very interested on your views of this document and what value its […]

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I too have spent my entire life in Physics. You must get this Geometry of Time finished. I concur what you have done is solved the Rubik’s Cube of the Universe. This is incredibly important for the real world as a whole and how everything functions. Truly amazing. WK   REPLY: OK. It […]

Kevin Barrett of Bailey Glasser LLP, a lawyer who argued to jail real estate developer Tim Blixseth in federal bankruptcy court, is now asking to extend the April civil contempt order against Blixseth to include his wife, son, and various corporate entities. He argues that those parties received money from the sale of a Mexico resort, according to Barrett, […]

In the latest scandal where five major banks agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice for manipulating the foreign exchange rates of the U.S. dollar and euro, only the corporations were changed ­– not the bankers – be they traders or executives. The banks were Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, […]

Parallel pro-government employees and right-wing demonstrations have been in protest all week in Ecuador. Large numbers President Rafael Correa supporters, who were generally government employees, gathered on Shyris Avenue to confront their rivals whose money they want to steal. Both sides remained largely peaceful for now, as extra police were drafted in to avoid the […]