All posts in " Basic Concepts "

Value Investing – Good or Bad?

February 29, 2016

QUESTION: Do you think value investing is viable in today’s chaotic markets? Much appreciated KB ANSWER: No. Value investing has been a recipe for wild swings. If you do not have the stomach for long-term then it is not something to get involved in. It should also be noted that it resulted in bankruptcy pre-World […]

American Pie – Bye Bye miss American Pie – End of the World?

February 27, 2016

Perhaps one of the most enigmatic songs ever written was “American Pie” by Don McLean. For decades this song was debated as to what it meant. Most assumed it had to do with the collapse of society. That seemed to be the general consensus. After all, its famous lyrics seemed to imply the end of the […]

GDP Declines When Govt. Grows — This is Basic Common Sense

February 27, 2016

A reader has contributed these charts that demonstrate why the socialist agenda is destroying the world. As the reader points out: “It seems that the optimal govt spending (share) is max 35% (US, AUS), and not >50% like in Europe. Lower govt expenditure has doubled GDP at least in the recent history.” The socialists refuse to […]

Social Inequality – Who Actually Creates It?

February 22, 2016

QUESTION: Dear Martin Armstrong, I appreciate very much your economic analysis and read your blog nearly daily although I disagree with some of your political statements. In your last blog about Schengen you mention that “Everything is connected and nothing takes place in some isolated vacuum”.  Obvious. According to me, and many others re-known economists […]

South Carolina: Apple & Donald Trump

February 21, 2016

  Trump took South Carolina with less than 40%. Bush just has the wrong name and should give up. The real reasons to worry are Cruz and Rubio, as both would differ little from electing Hillary. Nothing would pass their desks on taxes that they would not sign next year. So we are in a […]

Classic Thinking vs. Reality

February 21, 2016

QUESTION: Hi Martin ! In a globalized interconnected world where we see stock markets falling 30% and more from their recent high entering bear market territory how can it be that the S&P 500 is losing ground far less? Especially considering key economic data like the ISM that reveals a rather negative view on the U.S […]

Renaissance Man – What Is It Really?

February 15, 2016

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I read a Wall Street Journal article on you from 1999. They called you a Renaissance Man. You are certainly so diverse and a strong person to endure what you have but still you do not wallow in self pity. What is your secret? Respectfully; BT Ida Armstrong ANSWER: My mother raised me to […]

The Market in Perspective

February 14, 2016

Last week we had a Panic Cycle in Gold and a Directional Change. Both performed on target.  As we have stated previously, the Directional Change can be by itself a very fascinating tool. The Directional Change can at times be the beginning of a breakout to a new trading level (major thrust) in one directions […]

No Need to Live in Fear – It’s the Ying and Yang of Civilization

February 14, 2016

QUESTION: Martin. …Thank you for getting back to me. I have one quick question though. What does it mean when you say “It is in the staging period”? Thank you for your insights. I don’t want to live in fear, but don’t know what to do. ANSWER: There is no need to live in fear. If […]

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