QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Your proposition that the quantity of money theory is dead seems to be a true earth shattering perspective. It certainly disproves the Austrian School and the events post 2008 support your statement. The European Central Bank is supposed to traditionally pursue the goal of monetary stability. The Germans have followed the Austrian […]
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation for what you are doing. I have learned far more about economics reading your blog than I did earning a degree in the field. Will you ever consider teaching a course by internet? ANSWER: Perhaps. I have been asked to teach at several universities, […]
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The London Sunday Times business section headline demonstrates what is really facing us and governments implode. Public sector pensions liability surged 30% in a single year due to low bond yields. It is not possible for the UK to fund £1.8 trillion. The first course of action will be, as always, raise taxes. That is […]
QUESTION: Are you saying there is no direct correlation between CO2 and a rise in temperature? ANSWER: Correct. We have data going back 800,000 years that was gathered from drilling core samples from deep underneath the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Detailed information on air temperature and CO2 levels disproves that a rise in […]
The German election was on par with the global trend that is rising up against the establishment as we have known it. Angela Merkel has been accused of weakening her respective coalition partner. The election result of the Bundestag election shows that not only the SPD has to worry about losing ground, but the Union […]
QUESTION: Dear Martin Armstrong About The post, “Is There a Way Out of This Financial Mess? “ In the second last paragraph you write, “Taxes have risen as deficits expand because government thinks inflation is the danger.” Link: Shouldn’t that be Deflation? Thank you for doing what you do. U ANSWER: No. I agree […]
QUESTION: Marty, I have followed your Global Market Watch and it is really amazing. I noticed on IPE gas it came up and warned it was about to breakout to the upside. You said this is purely a pattern recognition system. Are there patterns that precede events and this is what your model is picking […]
QUESTION: Hi Martin, I was wondering why a cold period would result in a commodity rise? Thank you in advance for your time. MG ANSWER: When the climate turns cold, that is when food shortages takes place. When the climate turns warm, that is when economic activity starts and empires expand. The cold period we […]
We need to open the door to the future but that is only possible by understanding the past. Paul Volcker back in 1979 in his Rediscovery of the Business Cycle said: “Not much more than a decade ago, in what now seems a more innocent age, the ‘New Economics’ had become orthodoxy. Its basic tenet, repeated […]
