QUESTION: You mention the following comment recently. ”I am very concerned about are precious metals even going to be viable. Will this confiscation of wealth turn to those assets as well?”  Could you expand on this please. ANSWER: This is merely my personal observation. India has virtually stopped the buying of gold there driving it underground. Many are […]

Of course as always after weeks of political brinkmanship over a possible US debt default, the deal was reached after House Republicans dropped efforts to use the legislation to force changes in Obamacare. President Obama quickly signed the spending measure. After 16 days off, the White House budget office told hundreds of thousands of federal workers to […]

Britain is privatizing the Royal Mail because the internet has reduced the use of mail for letters. The workers are striking as always trying to freeze the economy in one place. Packages are still required, but things are changing drastically. The bulk of mail these days in the USA is junk mail. The Post Office […]

Edward Snowden has more secrets to share, his father says after landing in New York following his week-long Russia visit with his son. Snowden is a true champion of liberty and human rights. The very fact that the US government seeks to imprison him and torture him for life demonstrates how twisted the government has […]

QUESTION: Martin, Luckily I was turned onto you by — ——— (who has been wrong, wrong, wrong…) while you were incarcerated.  I thank god — for turning me onto you, as it is your reports and insight that have not only saved me – but made me a small fortune.  I traded physical gold/silver for […]

“Come, Watson, come!” Sherlock Holmes cried. “The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!” There has been some who are upset at IBM’s Watson who they have been educating regarding medicine. Artificial Intelligence is the way of the future for as individuals we learn personally, yet are incapable of preserving and passing […]

Submitted by Glen Downs, from Capitol Hill The Real Anatomy of an Implosion   Today’s “National Journal Daily” – a publication by and for Washington, DC insiders – features an article entitled “Anatomy of an Implosion – How the House GOP’s fiscal plan fell apart”.  In it they give their analysis of the House Republican […]

QUESTION: Hello Mr. Armstrong, Thank you very much for your blog – I visit daily! Is it possible that both you and the gold bugs are correct? I think your argument with the gold bugs may be a misunderstanding. The problem lies in how you define manipulation. When a large sale occurs in illiquid hours, I […]

Why people refuse to listen is simply amazing. The hate mail stating that gold is being manipulated implying it would be rising in a bull market is just absurd. There can be NO MANIPULATION that reverses a trend no matter what the market is. If there were enough buyers of gold or whatever, nobody can […]

The Fed’s quantitative easing (QE) or asset purchase program, has managed to cause the Fed’s balance sheet to explode from under $1 trillion pre-crisis to an all-time high of $3.48 trillion. While this $2.48 trillion increase has sent people ranting about hyperinflation that has been just absurd. They fail to grasp the fact that there has […]