Commodities Depend on the Currency
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you said the decline in commodity prices will not reduce production but can actually accelerate output. How can this be? It does not make sense. ANSWER: Your perspective is too...
View ArticleEuro Rally
QUESTION: Marty, I believe you said if the Euro closes below 10365 for the year then everything would fall apart. If it closed above 105, then the decline can be more prolonged. What is the bullish...
View ArticleGold & Dow Inflation Adjusted
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you have said that gold adjusted for inflation has not exceeded the 1980 high. Have we exceeded the 1929 high in the stock market? Just curious KW Dow Jones Industrial in LOG...
View ArticleMy Cyclical Approach
QUESTION: Marty, I just watched ‘The Forecaster’ on demand, I just wanted to say it was an exceptional movie. I really enjoyed seeing your story played out, and following your journey to the discovery...
View ArticleSubjective Analysis
QUESTION: Marty, it has become obvious that the analysts who try to attack you personally are the very people who hurt so many for they forecast only on opinion. They are often wrong and never see the...
View ArticleEconomists Do Not Try to Forecast the Business Cycle
QUESTION: Marty, it was fantastic to meet you in Berlin and the conference really opened my eyes. Can’t wait for the sneak preview of the Trader level in Socrates. The Investor level is amazing...
View ArticleGold Into the Abyss?
QUESTION: Marty, thank you for the conference. I have made more than 10 times the seat price just on your top couple of trades. I see the world differently now for the first time. My question is on...
View ArticleCommodity-Based Countries to Liquidate Wealth Funds & Gold
QUESTION: Marty, at the Berlin cocktail party you said we may yet see gold sales from oil producing countries if oil breaks your yearly number of $35 for year end and gold closes below 1044 or so I...
View ArticleRomanian Private Debt Crisis Erupting
COMMENT: Dear Mr. Armstrong, Dear Mr. Armstrong, What you wrote concerning the possible repeated start of the banks collapse from Austria, once again, is right. The biggest lenders in Romania are some...
View ArticleTIME & Forecasting — Has it Really Changed?
QUESTION: Hi Martin, I have been a follower of your blog since The Forcaster was broadcasted on national tv in Sweden. My question is about periodtime, or frequency of the business cycle and the other...
View ArticleSummers & Why Economics Refuses to Forecast
QUESTION: Marty, Regarding the brief clip of Larry Summer’s opining on why economic declines are hard to predict, I was struck by the 2nd part of his explanation, which seemed to me to indicate that...
View ArticleHealth Care Reaching its 51.6 Year Peak in 2017
COMMENT: You have discussed the growing threat of antibiotic resistance several times. Sadly, I must confess, I am, in part, responsible for this trend. I am a practicing physician. Last year, I had a...
View ArticleDisease Is Cyclical — They Want to Claim It Is Global Warming to Raise Your...
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, it appears that even dengue fever comes and goes according to your 51.6 year frequency. Does this 8.6 year cycle appear just in everything around us? ANSWER: It certainly...
View ArticleWhy is a Strong Dollar Bearish for the U.S. Economy Long-Term?
QUESTION: Martin, I’m curious to your comment “The greatest danger to America will be a strong dollar”. Why is that? I’m trying to take a global view of this statement but I can’t wrap my head...
View ArticleStocks vs. Economic Growth – What Relationship?
QUESTION: Did you contradict yourself when you said a higher dollar will weaken US economy? Then you said interest rates will make stocks rise? ANSWER: No. What you have to grasp here is that the stock...
View ArticleStock Market vs. Currency Inflation
QUESTION: Hello Marty Great conference! If the EM Debt implodes wouldnt the stock markets of those counties rise?? If the stocks from the EM markets did rise would they rise faster than the decline in...
View ArticleThe Insanity of the Housing Market
QUESTION: Marty, What is the answer to affordable home ownership? Here in Australia the tax incentive called negative gearing introduced during Paul Keating’s reign – to make rents cheaper has not...
View ArticleThe Numbers are the Numbers
QUESTION: Dear Marty, You have put your numbers out there for all to see for year end. Can they manipulate the closing due to thin markets, then reverse them to try and make you look bad? Thank you....
View ArticleFundamentalists & their Formulas
QUESTION: Marty, I believe that the traditional way of looking at even value no longer applies. Take the claimed doctrine in finance named the dividend discount model. They assume that the price of a...
View ArticleStar Trek & Its Contribution to Everything
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I’m just curious. Will you go see the new Star Wars? Your technology with Socrates does seem light years ahead of everything. I love Socrates. It is truly amazing. DK ANSWER:...
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