QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; It is becoming very obvious who China is listening to. You said China should bypass the NY banks and go directly to the Treasury. They did. They used QE to shorten their US debt holdings. They did. Now on Friday they have relaxed the one-child rule as you said they had to […]

QUESTION: “Remember the 309 Year Cycle in Russia is due 2020. Still must have the Report on it somewhere.Maybe time to Digg it up. Was a good call way back in the Gorbachev Times… you called for a reaction not a major change in Russia because of this cycle. With the Russian Programmers you have, […]

QUESTION: Martin I  find it interesting how the ECM shows The DOW at three green largely pressing higher for daily. Weekly and monthly BUT the SP is turning red in daily and monthly Please Explain how the DOW can continue to press much higher as the SP Declines Regards, JCL ANSWER:  The answer is the market […]

QUESTION: How is deflation even possible when the Fed could simply throw money from helicopters or create it from thin air with computers? ANSWER: Everyone watches only the Fed. That is just a tiny part of the economy. The Fed has done QE1-3 – there is no inflation. The economy is larger than the Fed. But […]

Politicians are preparing for the worse everywhere you look. We forget so quickly that the American Revolution slogan was what – No Taxation Without Representation. Germany will not allow democratic referendums precisely the same move of King George III that set off the American Revolution, Homeland Security bought 2715 tanks for domestic use and enough […]

QUESTION: Marty, If this discussion is happening in Newport Beach, CA, one of the richest cities in the US, how can any US city survive the pension crisis? ANSWER: Nobody can. This system of unfunded pensions just assuming they will always be able to just raise taxes is collapsing. The morons didn’t do the math. If […]

QUESTION: In your writings you seem to be both against QE and against Austerity. What then is the third way? How do we get out of this high debt, high deficit, low growth cycle without using either of these methods or a collapse and reboot? On a side note I was curious if you were […]

China has vowed to push toward free markets and to allow them to take a more dominant role in developing the economy – its reform for 2020. When I was invited by the Central Bank of China back in 1997 and was given a tour of a major facility where they were monitoring everything that […]