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Crisis Ahead
The world is in a complete midlife crisis or some may say an end of life crisis. I am overseas as the world is simply going nuts. At times, I feel more like a [...]
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Will Europe See More Deflation, Stagflation, or Inflation?
QUESTION: Dear Martin, am a loyal reader of your blog and many thanks to you for the education. Please, one brief but important question, which keeps me [...]
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Europe Bans Natural Gas in New Homes
COMMENT: Regarding: California Economy Declining Significantly In the Netherlands (Europe) the same. Gas not allowed for new homes. Now new homes are more than [...]
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Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi to Run for EU Seat
Silvio Berlusconi announced his candidacy for European elections in May due to a “sense of responsibility.” Indeed, this may be the best thing that ever [...]
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Is Britain Committing Suicide?
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I thought you would be wrong on the pound. I will yield to your forecasts. I do not know how you do it forecasting so many things around [...]
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Can Governments Actually Enhance Economic Growth?
QUESTION: Regardless of all the hype about the euro, from my perspective, the economic growth was far better before the creation of the euro. It just seems as [...]
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The Pension Crisis Will Break Up the EU
The German public broadcast agency ARD is proposing structural changes. Due to the low-interest rates, the ECB has placed the agency in hard times with its [...]
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The Drive to End Democracy in France
The democratic decision-making process is actually dreaded by many politicians as too much work. The EU structure was clearly established to make sure that those [...]
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Draghi Says Anyone Leaving the EU Must Pay But EU Will Not Refund Surpluses
In the Netherlands, the Forum For Democracy leader Thierry Baudet confronted Mario Draghi of the ECB asking that since he had said anyone leaving must pay the ECB [...]
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The French Elections – What Now?
Macron won about 65% to Le Pen 35%. Even Obama came out in support of Macron which obviously confirms Macron is the supporter of the establishment – not [...]
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