All posts in " Basic Concepts "

Trade Negotiations

June 17, 2019

QUESTION: Mr Armstrong In your opinion of Trump’s trade war policy, you disagree with him because it makes China look weak. What is your solution when the real problem is China stealing intellectual property and they have been called out on it. A person or party always looks weak when they get caught doing something […]

ETF v Mutual Fund

May 9, 2019

QUESTION: Are ETFs really better than a mutual fund for tax purposes? HS ANSWER: The primary difference between mutual funds and ETFs (exchange-traded funds) is that while an open-end mutual fund is priced once based upon the market closing, ETFs as well as a closed-end mutual funds trade all day. This actually goes back to […]

Funds Management & Trading – Behind the Curtain

February 26, 2019

QUESTION: Hello I read all your blogs and prescribe to your market reports. I will now attend my first event in Rome. For me it all makes sense. My questions is, which you must have gotten before, why don’t you offer a fund that is based on Socrates, so that we all your followers could invest […]

To Live a Creative Life We Cannot Fear Being Wrong

October 4, 2018

QUESTION: Why do academics refuse to revise history when they are clearly wrong? This seems to be the same issue with their research on Global Warming. YK ANSWER: They seem to dig their heels in and just refuse to admit they are ever wrong. They did that with Homer claiming it was a book written […]

Understanding Share Prices will Rise When a Currency Falls

September 11, 2018

QUESTION: Hi Marty, The Venezuela vertical market chart you showed in your 9/7 post is quite interesting. To see historic examples is one thing, to see it happen in real-time, quite another. The question I have is this – How can one profit from such a move if the local currency is simultaneously plunging? Venezuela […]

Iran and & Turkey Ripe for Revolution?

August 12, 2018

A Revolution is brewing not just in Turkey, but also in Iran. More than 100,000 people have taken to the streets chanting death to the dictator. The currency has simply collapsed as it moves into hyperinflation. Once again, as we see this take place, CONFIDENCE in the government is collapsing. This is the key to […]

What to Advise Your Children to Do in Seeking a Degree

July 15, 2018

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You said that over 60% of graduates cannot find a job in what they have a degree. Is there any recommendation you would care to make on how to advise one’s children on what subject to pursue a degree? Thank you DF ANSWER: Engineering and Programming. I have NEVER met a CFO yet […]

The Path of Order Rather than Chaos Leads to Understanding

June 11, 2018

COMMENT:  If gravity is the most powerful force in the universe than the logic would collapse ECM to and that is not how reality is as you have discovered in the ECM. Gravity / Government / the weakest force in the universe, Gravity is opposite Electromagnetic Majority people are opposite government the more powerful Majority […]

How Linear Thinking that has blinded most People

May 20, 2018

COMMENT: I think I now see the light. It has been my linear thinking that has blinded me. Gold rallied and failed as was the case with the euro, British pound and so on. Putting them all together is why who said that the euro would rally because they all were indicating a pause in the […]

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