QUESTION: Mr Armstrong, Thanks for sharing your knowledge of Ancient Coinage. The Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years and is fabled for its immense wealth. Was the Byzantine Empire more successful in its currency management than the Western Roman Empire? JR ANSWER: Actually no. The split between East and West came AFTER […]

QUESTION: I have read the following statement  & wish to corroborate it as fact from you, whom I consider best informed: “ Today the two largest holders of US Treasury debt are not investors or even foreign central banks. The two largest holders are the Federal Reserve and the Social Security Trust Fund. “ Is […]

Here we go with Feinstein wanting to imprison anyone who dares criticizes her NSA. Will this be used as justification to invade Europe now? It would be a major understatement to say that the NSA had a bad week and Feinstein stuck her insane rantings square in the middle of this insane nonsense. First came the […]

QUESTION: Also as you mentioned many times japan being in a 23-26 year Depression is this sequence  also a Bear Market Count ? Your Inside is much appreciated. Don’t worry about the Hate Mails..Been in Retail Finance and experienced the same in the early 80’s. People hated you just to mention Gold was going down. […]

Detroit is an example of the entire financial crisis with regard to the state workers and their pensions. For every person that retires, the state replaces them and this is driving the cost of government up exponentially. Reuters reported that the investment banker dealing with the restructuring experience of the city, told the court “the […]

  A number of people have been inquiring about coins as an investment for parking money. Keep in mind that the best market for coins or stamps tend to be the country of origin. Thus, US coins will bring the highest prices in the USA just as German will bring the best price in Germany. […]

Homeland Security seizes records of Washington Times Investigative Journalist. Freedom of the Press is fading into the sunset. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is preparing now to tear apart the Fourth Amendment entirely. They have formerly given notice that they seized telephone calls without a warrant and are using a terrorist case to win the removal […]

This Week in Money with host Jim Goddard in Canada Interviewing Martin Armstrong in Switzerland http://talkdigitalnetwork.com/2013/10/this-week-in-money-107/

The Washington Post has noted that Obama was opposed to raising the Debt Ceiling back in 2006. Here is his actual speech. March 16, 2006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE S2237-2238: “Mr. OBAMA. Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is […]

The hike in VAT to 19% targeting collectors that will apply to silver coins is a bit convoluted yet, but so far it appears that buyer’s purchasing from German auctions and living in Germany will have to pay that tax. There is a lot of negotiating still going on at moment so we’ll see once […]