All posts in " Understanding Cycles "

The Rally Beyond 2015 in the Dow Has Proven We are in a Cycle Inversion

March 20, 2019

QUESTION: There are many people who are now saying we are headed into a recession. Your model shows we are coming to the end. Yet you have been the only analyst who has been correct. There are bankers warning the stock market will collapse by 50% because it always goes down in a recession. I […]

When is Forecasting Not Forecasting?

March 14, 2019

QUESTION: There are a number of people who claim to have called the 2008 crash. What I find absent is that there is no one who brags on calling the rallies and crashes as you have and I have witnessed from going to your WECs since 1985. I still remember you in 1985 standing up […]

Fashions Turning to Civil Unrest for Inspiration

February 28, 2019

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I am in the fashion industry and it becomes painfully obvious that there are cycles in fashion. You have mentioned before the economic correlations of the rise and fall of women’s skirts and how men’s ties widen and then narrow. What do you make of this year’s fashions that seem to be […]

Warren Buffett Loses Billions

February 27, 2019

QUESTION: It is no secret that you went head to head against Warren Buffett in his silver manipulation. He is having a very bad year with his buy and hold value strategy. It looks like without making billions on the side manipulation of commodities, he is no better a fund manager than anyone else. Care to […]

Internal Migration – The Cycle or City States

January 28, 2019

  There is an interesting book entitled The Chinese Exodus. This work explores the sociological and theological discussion going on concerning China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978. While the book documents the social and political processes impacting the experiences of internal migrants from the countryside to the city within China, the attempt […]

Margaret Thatcher on the True Duty of Government

January 24, 2019

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Thatcher-on-Taxes-Duty-of-Government.mp4   I have been asked many times why I was friends with Margaret Thatcher. I’ve also been asked if I have known any other politicians since who I was proud to call a friend. This video explains a lot as to why we were friends. We shared a view that really no longer exists […]

Gann – Astrology – Reality

January 23, 2019

QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, Do you have any thoughts on Gann and his methods?   It seems his astrological approach provides an interesting insights into cycles as well and was curious on your thoughts about his approach Thanks BB   ANSWER: None of the models I have created are based upon any astrological approach or movement of the […]

Panic Cycles v Waterfall Events

January 21, 2019

COMMENT: Hi There, I suggest you do an article on the terminology you use.For example I noted that on your commentary on centamin Egypt you use the term waterfall pattern. You also you use the term panic cycle.An article on these words and their meaning would be helpful. Thanks S REPLY: We do have terminology is […]

The Mystery of Pi

January 21, 2019

QUESTION: Hi Mr. Armstrong, I just encountered this video.: Can you explain why Pi is showing up there? Thanks and kind regards, M       ANSWER: No. I have come to believe that Pi is strangely the key to all knowledge upon which the entire universe was constructed. The sun’s light takes about 8.6 minutes to reach […]

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