QUESTION: Hi Martin, It cannot be said enough: thank you for everything that you do. While I would love the opportunity to sit down with you as I have a million questions concerning your excellent posts of today, let me focus in on The Coming Central Bank Crisis. As the Fed begins to unwind its […]
Asian markets performed on the back of a strong US session which in turn was helped by the oil price rally. Having heard that Russia and Saudi had planned production cuts that could run into Q1 2018 we saw renewed confidence as investors moved away from the USD and into Euro, GBP and JPY. The […]
Members of President Trump’s administration denied details of a Monday Washington Post report that during a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, Trump shared confidential information pertaining to an Islamic State (ISIS) threat. The Washington Post wrote: “President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and […]
People talk about the changing environment. In the financial world around us, things are also changing dramatically. What use to be is no more. There are no real ticker-tape parades any more and future pits are closing opting for online trading. What is changing and why can we not see it? The internet has changed the […]
Macron’s funding reveals that elite Socialists were really behind him changing the label to sell a centrist agenda, but in reality, to maintain their agenda. Macron was able to raise funds from French abroad with the promises of change, and this targeted particularly the French who fled Hollande living in London and New York. He did a […]
COMMENT: Hi Martin Message from the UK. My brother went into town, and he put a cigarette out on the pavement. Because he took 2 steps away from it before picking it up, he was told, “l believe it was your intention to walk away instead of putting it in the bin” Of which his […]
It was only Japan that halted the chances of a positive clean sweep in Asia today for core markets, after the Nikkei closed -0.07%. The index, however, did manage to recover from opening losses after it feared markets may suffer following the weekends global cyber-attack and the additional missile test. A similar picture was seen […]
I have warned that whenever a government creates a solution to any crisis, that solution becomes the next crisis. This is what I have called the Paradox of Solution.The unfolding of the exit of the central banks from the Quantitative Easing monetary policy will become a much more serious threat to the financial markets than […]
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I have been on Socrates for about one year now on what you now call your standard edition. I have to say, you have done an amazing job of programming. To have a computer simply provide a comment that is short and to the point that you can look at the whole […]
QUESTION: Martin; it seems the Emerging Markets are back in favor just as interest rates are on the rise and their dollar borrowings have exploded. Is this the final bubble that is unfolding? When the WSJ writes about a trend it is usually the end. They are noting that significant flows of funds are now […]
