QUESTION: Martin, I just read an interesting article by Stephen Hawking extrapolating on both the benefits and dangers of AI. He specifically referenced the dangers by saying “One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on […]

QUESTION: Hi Marty I was at the trading class in PA though you did an excellent job I have worked on Wall Street for about 25 years sales and trading on equities desk at Lehman, First Boston I have learned more reading your work and attending your conferences than anything over those 25 years So […]

With the banking crisis looming in Europe, the IMF behind the drive to seize wealth on a global scale, big money of individuals continues to try to get “off the grid” as they say. Real Estate over $10 million is still booming as reported by AP. We have real estate also mapped into the database […]

  QUESTION: Can a computer be better than human analysis? ANSWER: Yes. Why? Because NOBODY can be 100% all the time and NOBODY can purge all bias or presumption. It is a hard thing to do. People have come to our conferences NOT to hear my personal opinion, but to hear what the computer has concluded. […]

No matter what country we look at be it Russia, Cuba, China, or North Korean, there is a formidable difference between the PEOPLE and the GOVERNMENT – for there is a distinction and by no means are they one and the same. It is not the Russian people suppressing Ukraine – this is all driven […]

QUESTION: Hi Marty, You truly are the gadfly that Plato described of Socrates who kept pestering Greek government till they executed him but who Socrates commented that you are only killing the government and society more than you are killing me!  You talk of the collapse of the American empire sometime in 2032 analogous to […]

QUESTION: Hello Martin, Would you ever consider open-sourcing your source code? R ANSWER: I am a firm believer in open source in areas of research. But in this case, what I have gone through for this code is off the charts. Governments see it as a potential for a weapon of mass destruction. When the model was […]

Political wisdom over the centuries was purchased with the blood and bitter experience of generations upon generations. The rule of law use to be prior to the Middle Ages, that disputes of any kind were always private. The story of king Solomon presiding over the theft of a child is illustrative of the issue. There […]

QUESTION: How does your model predict even civil unrest like this? It is honestly quite intriguing. ANSWER: True. I have come to understand that fundamental events like this are NEVER the cause of a trend, but the response to a trend. In other words, it is the economic factors that causes the change in social […]

President Obama has been the most aggressive in going after “leaks” that reveal how government lies to the people on one subject or another. His efforts to protect the government are disgraceful and if government was honest, well there wouldn’t be leaks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story_1.html https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-13889-obama-administration-has-aggressively-prosecuted-leaks-and-whistleblowers-who-are-they But the real issue that is a disgrace has been the […]