Monthly Archives: March 2020

Mar 2 2020

China’s Silent Takeover While America’s Elite Slept


Former Brigadier General Robert Spalding full interview with Patrick Bet-David. Read Stealth War https://amzn.to/34ypyuo China’s Silent Takeover While Americas Elite Slept. Share your thoughts with Patrick Bet-David by texting 310.340.1132 or send a tweet to https://www.twitter.com/patrickbetdavid About Robert Spalding: Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding III assumed the duties of Special Assistant to the U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff in February 2018. Subscribe to Valuetainment for all new updates http://bit.ly/2aPEwD4 To reach the Valuetainment team you can email: info@valuetainment.com

 

Mar 2 2020

Gordon Chang: Coronavirus in China, Its Economic Impact & Chinese Influence Operations


We just concluded the live stream of this episode earlier today, at 2pm on Feb. 19. Here is the full episode.*** What does the coronavirus outbreak reveal about the priorities of the Chinese communist regime? How are US companies in China being impacted? And how does all this intersect with the Chinese regime’s extensive influence operations in the US? This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek. In this episode, we’ll sit down with political commentator and China analyst Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China.

 

Mar 2 2020

Internet – Doorway to Cyber Warfare


Armstrong Economics Blog/Technology

Re-Posted Mar 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The new world of cyber warfare is upon us. Today, enemies send out malware through the Internet. They send instructions to external computers, often in email attachments. This is their way to steal passwords, email correspondence and documents, mostly unnoticed; this is how they gain access to the computers of generals and ministers to record conversations; this is how hackers manipulate elections or paralyze government authorities and power stations. These are attacks meant to damage what keeps countries together at their very core: their economy, their internal security, everyday life.

This conflict has intensified steadily over the last decade. Today, it looks as though it might be steering towards escalation. Espionage, sabotage, destabilization are all happening every day. The question is what comes next. How long will it take until someone reprogrammes drones or sabotages a nuclear program?

The future we face has changed. My mother used to tell me, everything in moderation. The internet has expanded the global economy beyond all proportions. We have clients in more than 150 countries out of 195 and attendees to our World Economic Conferences have reached 137 countries among those joining – the largest private events in the forecasting area.

The dark side of the internet is the mere fact that it has opened the doorway to a new type of warfare. Where do we go from here? As we cascade into 2032, the future certainly becomes exposed to an endless array of interesting twists. Like the classic line from the Wizzard of Oz, “Dorothy, you not in Kansas anymore!”

Mar 2 2020

A Bear Market is Not Likely in the Most Hated Bull Market in History?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Armstrong in the Media

Re-Posted Mar 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Well here we go again. These people who claim to be experts are warning that it is the fallout from the global coronavirus outbreak that has caused the crash and one says this could be “worse than the financial crisis” of 2008. Another claims to have forecast the 2008 Financial Crisis is now saying the idea of a major global recession “doesn’t sound too farfetched.” These people who always claim the market will crash then claim to have forecast the crash but only one out of 50 such forecasts are ever correct. They then also market themselves to please buy their newsletter because they were right.

The German top newspaper, Die Welt, commented on the stock market decline mentioning our perspective correctly February 28, 2020:

The crucial question for investors is now whether the stock market is drifting into a bear market, whether it is losing 20 percent or more, or whether there is a quick and strong recovery. Martin Armstrong currently believes a bear market is unlikely: “The rally that started in 2009 was the most hated rally in stock market history,” says the capital market expert from independent research firm Armstrong Economics.
Yes, I have forecast all the great crashes. That was actually the easy part. The difference in such forecasts sometimes go over everyone’s head. The 1987 Crash I forecast even that the market would fall basis the S&P500 futures from 286 to 181 in two days. True, that impressed even me. But the fact that the crash came on October 19th, 1987 which was the very day of the Economic Confidence Model confirmed what all my other models were screaming – we would make new highs by the peak of the ECM in December 1989. Both the NewYorker and even Bloomberg News had to admit that we correctly forecast the 1987 Crash.
That forecast may have impressed me, but what impressed the entire world was not forecasting the crash, but that the market would then make NEW HIGHS by 1989. Then what impressed our clients even more, was the fact that the December 1989 high not merely forecast that Japanese Bubble top, but that market would NOT make new real value highs, which was SUBSTANTIALLY a different forecast from the 1987 Crash.
As far as the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis, Barron’s commented on my forecast that the market would move back into a long-term bull market. They reported that ONLYbecause they thought it was nuts. Not a single US major financial newspaper would ever report this forecast, because they too filter the news. Overseas press will report, but not the American press. They prefer to put forth the fake forecasts for they are giving them the news they want to print.
So to all the people who ask why the press will never report our forecasts, all I can say is that it would upset the apple-cart. They are only selling media. They need people willing to talk all the time so they are usually the people who do not really have a serious business and are in constant search for new clients.
Categories: Armstrong in the Media
Mar 2 2020

World Share Markets & the Mother of All Financial Crises


Armstrong Economics Blog/Stock Indicies

Re-Posted Mar 2, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Marty,
Socrates has really been off the charts. I moved 401k and Roth money to cash in mid January and can not thank you enough!
In a private blog post in October, you showed the quarterly S&P with a possible high in Q1, and decline thereafter. Is it now possible that, given the directional changes this coming week, and in March, that the share markets could rise from here into 2021? That would also fit the quarterly array as well I believe. There are no other monthly directional changes after March on the array, and I think if this virus is overblown I don’t see how we go lower for a year from here unless this is truly end of days stuff. Can you ‘forecast’ 😉 what comes next?
Once again, thank you for your advice!
RK

ANSWER: I want to thank all the emails coming in with thanks for calling this correction, correctly. I am writing now the report on all the world share markets to provide the outlook into 2021. We are staring in the face the Mother of All Financial Crises and you always need the move in the opposite direction before pulling off what is the true direction of the markets.

What I hope to do is to prove to the world that this is not some random walk nor is the economy and markets play-things for economists and politicians. This is our future people are toying with. The negative interest rates have destroyed the central banks and nobody seems to have even figured that one out yet.

This is not some experiment to to allow people to try theories that are unsound. It is not just finances and money that is on the table of life. Everything flows from this right down to revolutions and war. As I have said, Marx’s theory to create Utopia, the cornerstone of socialism today, has been responsible for over 200 million deaths and counting.

While if I fail to wake up one morning, I would be relieved that I do not have to watch what these fools do and how history repeats without society ever learning a single damn thing. But I too have a family, an I fear for their future. I get to depart before so I have hope I can escape this madness. I would like to leave behind something to give them hope. Just maybe one day society will wake up and see the light at the end of the tunnel and understand that we have become addicted to repeating history and war.

When will we ever learn that we are all connected? Perhaps that is what the coronavirus will teach everyone how the global economy is interdependent

Mar 2 2020

Will There be Coordinated Central Bank Action This Week?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Interest Rates

Re-Posted Mar 1, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The Coronavirus has been exploited by the press to unbelievable levels. Even hop on a domestic flight in the USA and the majority of people are wearing masks. Fed is being pressured to do a coordinated rate cut this week. We should see rate cuts in China and Hong Kong where the economy has been complete decimated. Our target weeks for action by central banks will be this coming week of March 2nd and March 23rd. Based on information and belief, the press has been told to knock this off. They are creating a global panic without justification just as they created the Spanish American War.

Categories: Interest Rates
Mar 2 2020

Can Trump do what Bloomberg Did & Extend it for three Terms?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 1, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Mr Armstrong,
I am not familiar with the us constitution. For many, trump has been an is the guiding light out of the monumental corruption which is destroying America.
Is there any precedent that a President could be voted to serve a third term without allowing the obvious corruption used by future Presidents?
Regards
RW
Uk

ANSWER: No. The Constitution was amended to put in a term limit on the President because of Franklin D. Roosevelt. That same two-term limit was adopted for New York and that is what Bloomberg had overruled so he could continue like Putin.

To Amend the federal Constitution is a process where each state has to ratify. That was the 22nd Amendment . Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947 but it took until February 27, 1951 to be ratified by the states.

Americans are so divided they cannot understand that the view of Trump externally is positive. I have been in Asia and they hate CNN. They say it should be banned for it makes America look very bad.

 

Mar 2 2020

Sunday Talks: HHS Secretary Azar -vs- Chris Wallace….


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 1, 2020 by 

The media is initiating panic about the Coronavirus in 2020 the same way the media attempted to manufacture panic about an upcoming U.S. recession in 2019.

Everything about Coronavirus is hyped with purpose. The CDC official who lit the fuse to create the panic was Dr. Nancy Messonnier who read a script handed to her by resistance operatives inside government.  Dr. Messonnier is Rod Rosenstein’s sister.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appears on Fox News to discuss Coronavirus (COVID-19) while a gleeful Chris Wallace excitedly questions Azar about “millions of people hoarding food”, and  how the virus will eliminate all life on planet Earth by Tuesday.

Mar 2 2020

Politics & the Great Awakening


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Mar 1, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Marty; I understand you do not support either side in politics, but what happens if the Democrats split?

KW

ANSWER: The Republicans were opposed to Trump when he was elected. You had people like John McCain who refused to even allow him to speak at his funeral. Once upon a time, the Republicans and Democrats worked together after elections. Today, the hatred in politics is really beyond all belief.

Trump simply represented a threat to their very existence. But Trump wrongly listened to the Washington elite and brought in people who were the very problem like Bolton. Trump was naive from the standpoint that he was not one of the oligarchs who funded government to further his business. That was the bankers, press, and military establishment. All three have been his enemies ever since. They are the primary donors who have filled their troughs regularly. Trump was just a lowly real estate guy that really did not have direct influence in that field – it was mostly state and local.

The split in the Democrats is indicative of the philosophy shift. They have pandered to the socialist agenda assuming these people are stupid and would never hold them to the promises they have made. This is coming back to haunt them as Bernie leads the pack.

Yes, Biden won South Carolina. But he has all the charisma of watching grass grow. The Democrats have spent $1 billion for the primaries which the press loves, but Bloomberg is $500 million of that. Hillary tried to buy the White House, and Bloomberg will fail. He is probably the most dangerous person ever to run for President in either party.

The Democrats will split over this philosophy for you have the core of the Party will rig the game against Bernie. Do we see the rise in violence against the corruption of the Democratic Party or against Trump? It is true that the there is an element of the Democrats who have been brainwashed to hate Trump and I really do not see what he has done which has been such a threat. Bloomberg suspended the Constitution with his stop-and-frisk that any rational period should have known was illegal. Then Bloomberg outlawed 2 liter bottles of soda, and removed term limits because he refused to leave office. The decisions behind all three of these moves gives me serious pause about this guy. Neither Trump nor anyone else in either party has acted so arbitrarily.

The breakup of the Democrats is not something that becomes a win simply for Republicans. We are looking at a clash of philosophies and if Bernie does not win the nomination, this may be more of the spark to violence than the hatred against Trump.

I have said many times, my concern is what comes AFTER Trump. I do not see someone stepping up from the private sector with sound mind. Bloomberg is a demagogue who is highly dangerous. I think the split of the Democrats will cause an unstable political base that will also infect the Republicans.

The older generation is losing its grip. The Clintons will be gone for 2024. The entire playing field will start to change. From there into 2032 we should witness the disintegration of government for all the socialistic programs will become unsustainable. What happens then when the people who counted on those promises realize it is all a lie? Will this be the political Great Awakening

Mar 2 2020

In Memoriam of Andrew Breitbart …


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on March 1, 2020 by 

Eight years ago today we lost Andrew Breitbart.  Three weeks before his death he delivered a message that still resonates today.