Posted originally on May 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
President Trump’s Executive Order 14218 (February 2025) prohibits undocumented migrants from receiving federal funds. However, individual states are not prohibited from funding migrants, and several blue states are continuing to use state funds for such purposes. There is a grey area here as these states are incentivizing illegal settlement, but at the moment, the law seeks to ensure that only federal funds are not distributed to illegal settlers.
California may be in the midst of an energy and debt crisis, but Governor Gavin Newsom continues to fight Washington on behalf of migrants. California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) provides cash payments to migrants who are ineligible for Social Security. Is this program using federal aid? The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed the past four years of records to determine if migrants resisting in Los Angeles have been receiving cash payments at the expense of our federal budget.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that the subpoena for Los Angeles is merely the beginning of their ongoing search. “The Trump Administration is working together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally.” She continued, “If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over.”
A memo from the White House last month revealed that the American taxpayers have been paying $182 billion annually to cover all expenses for 20 million migrants, based on research from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The study found that the $182 billion included $66.4 billion in federal assistance, with state and local expenses reaching $115.6 billion.
People residing in blue states may not realize that their tax dollars are still being used to support people who illegally entered the nation, cannot apply for work, and are living a taxpayer-subsidized life.
In March 2025, Newsom requested a $3.44 billion loan from the general fund, the maximum loan amount permitted under California law, to pay for social programs. An additional $2.8 billion in state funding has already been committed to cover June costs. He is spending funds faster than they can be collected. Newsom has proposed numerous tax hikes, but they could never amount to his perpetual spending.
Instead of focusing his attention and resources on Americans who have paid into the system their entire lives, Newsom has ulterior motives. He approved of spending $10 billion on health care costs alone for migrants.
Every agency involved in California’s finances has warned Newsom that his spending will destroy the state. Spending over the past five years has skyrocketed by 63% to $200 billion. I reported that the Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) found that California is facing “double-digit operating deficits in the years to come”as a result of reckless government spending.
California’s debt will rise when the federal government removes any funding misdirected toward non-citizens. There is a grey area here where states are openly encouraging illegal settlement through incentives from their taxpaying, legal residents. The Department of Homeland Security may still deport these migrants, but as we have seen in recent weeks, blue states will not relent.
Posted originally on May 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
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The Biden Administration successfully mislead the American people into believing that Bidenomics was a successful endeavor. The administration managed to mislead the people into believing the health of the economy, and president for that matter, were in good condition. New revised data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveals that the private sector contracted significantly under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
The BLS surveys 200,000 out of 600,000 businesses monthly to determine nonfarm payroll estimates. The figure is consistently revised with somewhat minimal deviation from the prediction. Yet, that was not the case under the Biden Administration.
The BLS publishes the Business Employment Dynamics (BED) census as well on a quarterly basis. The sample size is 12 million or 17 times the size of the monthly nonfarm payrolls report. From July 2024 to September 2024, monthly data showed a Q3 increase of 399,000 jobs. The newly revised figure shows that the private sector actually contracted by 1,000 positions. This is more than a mere miscalculation—it is a deliberate LIE intended to mislead the American public ahead of the presidential election.
Now, the BLS also releases a quarterly census report on employment and wages. The BLS determines its annual benchmark by comparing these varying reports and reevaluating its monthly estimates. Every March, the BLS looks at the Current Employment Statistics, or CES, survey, and looks at administrative records of employees covered by Unemployment Insurance (UI). Around 97% of employment falls under the CES scope, and the remaining 3% is analyzed by looking at County Business Patterns or other sources like the Railroad Retirement Board. The March survey determines the “universe” count and adjusts the prior year’s monthly estimates, recalibrating the data to match the universe figure.
The BLS reported that the economy grew by 398,000 positions from March to June of 2024 when looking at their monthly reports. The BED analysis actually shows a DECLINE OF 163,000 private sector positions. They were shoving jobs into the public sector to cover the true figure and mask the fact that the economy was in trouble.
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, was appointed in January 2024 by Joe Biden. There have been numerous scandals under her lead, such as the leak of the April CPI report to private sector economists. The delayed released of the annual nonfarm payroll revision was leaked on social media before the agency’s official publication.
These government reports have long been used as tools of propaganda. They miscalculate everything from payrolls to CPI to mislead the public into believing that their government has a handle on the economy.
Posted originally on May 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
The numbers are in, and the Consumer Price Index fell to 2.3% this April annually, down from March’s 2.4% reading, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. April’s reading is the lowest since February 2021.
Shelter costs drove more than half of all items monthly, increasing by 0.3% on a monthly basis, and 4% annually. The energy index experienced a 0.7% increase from the month prior, slightly offset by a decrease in gas (-0.1% monthly; -11.8% annually), fuel oil (-1.3% monthly; -9.6% annually), and energy commodities (-0.2% monthly; -11.5% annually). Electricity rose 0.8% monthly and is up 3.6% for the year, while piped utility advanced 3.7% and is up an alarming 15.7% annually.
Yes, shelter is included in the CPI, but it’s not real-time, and it’s not accurate. The way they calculate shelter is through something called Owner’s Equivalent Rent. It’s based on what homeowners think they would charge to rent their homes, not what people are actually paying in the real world. They consider the actual purchase of real estate an investment, and therefore, that does not go on the CPI report. actual rents and home prices have surged because of artificially constrained supply, institutional buyers, and rising taxes. So the CPI gives a watered-down version of housing inflation.
Food inflation declined by -0.1% for the month, with a 2.8% yearly increase. The meats, poultry, fish, and eggs index rose 7% over the last 12 months, driven by the 49.3% uptick in eggs. The index for nonalcoholic beverages rose 3.2% over the same period, while the index for other food at home rose 0.7%. The dairy and related products index increased 1.6% annually. The cereals and bakery products index remained stagnant over the past year, while the index for fruits and vegetables fell 0.9% over the same period.
Food and energy are the most volatile and politically sensitive components, so they’ve built the CPI to minimize their impact. They’re not excluded from the calculations but they’re manipulated. The BLS uses a tactic called hedonic adjustments. If the quality of a product improves, say a glass jar instead of plastic, they lower the price in the index, even if it costs more in the store. Then there’s substitution. If steak becomes too expensive, they assume you’ll buy chicken. Then if chicken goes up, maybe pork.
Energy is the same game. Oil prices might spike, but they use seasonal adjustments or shift the weightings so it doesn’t move the index much. If gasoline prices double, they’ll say your “transportation services” only rose 4%. It’s accounting gymnastics. Inflation affects interest rates, cost-of-living adjustments, entitlement payouts, and trust in government. So they cook the numbers.
Could this be the best reading for 2025? Global instability could result in sharp increases in food and energy. The impact of tariffs remains to be seen. The April CPI number is yet another example of how governments manipulate statistics to serve political ends. No one believes that prices are significantly down. Americans are experiencing a downgraded quality of life firsthand. Don’t take the CPI at face value. Look at what people are paying out of pocket — energy, food, shelter, taxes. Taxes are another aspect they conveniently exclude when calculating our cost of living. These are rising far faster than the CPI admits. We are in the middle of a confidence crisis, and instead of telling the truth, they’re pretending everything is fine.
Posted originally on May 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, it is becoming obvious why the government has suppressed you, and others are trying to prevent people from listening to you. What has blown my mind is that you put out the ECM cycle on the Russian Ukraine War, and you had the date of May 15th published since 2022. The negotiations on Ukraine in Istanbul with Russia are scheduled for May 15, the exact day you said this war would have a key turning point, 3 years in advance. I know you have been persecuted for your discovery rather than hailed as the discoverer of a new dimension in global social-political science. We should all be writing to Trump and the Nobel Prize Committee to listen to you. This is more than just about you. We have to wake up as a society before it’s too late.
Nikola Tesla’s last words lamented that he dedicated his life to accomplishment and was persecuted for it. They have done the same to you, and that has offended me deeply.
God bless you. You have been sent to teach society a new way of viewing the world.
Ralph
REPLY: Thank you. This frequency has picked up so many events to the day that it is remarkable. The Economic Confidence Model has worked countless times to the very day. There is certainly order hiding beneath the appearance of chaos. The vast majority will NEVER give me credit for anything during my lifetime. That is just the way it always works.
Yet, what you describe about Tesla’s treatment is on par with humanity. What I have discovered will only become widely accepted after I am gone, not before. They tried to kill me, but I survived. Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17th, 1600) was burned alive for agreeing with Copernicus that the sun was at the center of the solar system, not Earth. It is dangerous to discover something that society does not want to hear. Gallileo was forced to confess and change his theories to avoid being burned alive like Bruno. My discovery in cyclical analysis has threatened the bankers and those who think they can manipulate society. For that reason alone, I have been persecuted and will never be recognized during my lifetime. That is how society works, and it refuses to learn or take just one step forward in knowing how things truly work.
Hypatia was a prominent female figure in philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics in the 4th-century city of Alexandria. She was murdered in the year 415 AD by an angry mob who literally tore her to pieces before killing her. Even German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was also a logician, scientist, mathematician, mechanic, and physicist. He knew about the law, history, foreign affairs, and languages. Leibniz was a brilliant person. Before Newton did, he came up with mathematical analysis, worked on combinatorics and the foundations of mathematical logic, described the binary number system with the numbers 0 and 1 used by computers today, and made many other important discoveries that changed many fields. He was in a fight with Newton and was prejudiced because he was not English.
Leibniz’s last years were tough because George I, King of Great Britain, didn’t like him and thought he was nothing more than a court historian. The famous scientist was harassed and dragged into court dramas. He was also put under house arrest and was constantly being watched by a spy. Because he was out of favor in London, the Royal Society refused to even view it as appropriate to recognize his passing. Even in death, their hatred continued.
Numerous inventors who were ahead of their time have been ignored or even demonized during their lifetime. Their legacies remind us that recognition often hinges on societal context, not just ingenuity.
Throughout history, many inventors made groundbreaking contributions but received little recognition or even contempt during their lifetimes. Here’s a list of another 11 notable figures whose work was rejected until after their deaths:
1. Antonio Meucci (1808–1889)
Invention: Early telephone prototype (“teletrofono”).
Why Unrecognized: Lacked funds to patent his invention, leading Alexander Graham Bell to secure the patent first. Meucci died in poverty, and the U.S. Congress only acknowledged his contribution in 2002.
2. Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)
Invention: Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (basis for Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth).
Why Unrecognized: Known primarily as a Hollywood actress, her patent was classified during WWII and ignored until the 1960s. Recognition came decades later.
3. Charles Babbage (1791–1871)
Invention: Designed the first mechanical computer (Analytical Engine).
Why Unrecognized: His machines were never built in his lifetime due to technical and financial limitations. His ideas were later recognized as foundational to modern computing.
4. Garrett Morgan (1877–1963)
Inventions: Three-position traffic signal, smoke hood (early gas mask).
Why Unrecognized: Faced racial discrimination since he was black, and often hired white actors to demonstrate his inventions to gain acceptance.
5. Johann Philipp Reis (1834–1874)
Invention: Early “telephone” prototype (“Reis Telephone”).
Why Unrecognized: His device was dismissed as a novelty. Bell later patented a more practical version, overshadowing Reis’s work.
Why Unrecognized: His invention sparked worker riots (Luddites), forcing him to flee England. He died in obscurity in France.
7. Granville T. Woods (1856–1910)
Inventions: Railway telegraph, electric roller coaster, and 50+ patents.
Why Unrecognized: He was black, so racism in the U.S. led to his work being overshadowed by contemporaries like Edison, though he sold patents to major companies.
8. Philo Farnsworth (1906–1971)
Invention: Fully electronic television.
Why Unrecognized: RCA (led by David Sarnoff) stole his patents after a legal battle. Farnsworth died embittered, though later acknowledged as TV’s true inventor.
9. Elisha Gray (1835–1901)
Invention: Telephone prototype (filed a patent hours after Bell).
Why Unrecognized: Lost the patent battle to Bell despite evidence of parallel development.
10. Alan Turing (1912–1954)
Invention: Conceptualized modern computing and artificial intelligence.
Why Unrecognized: His WWII codebreaking work was classified, and he was persecuted for his sexuality. Recognition grew posthumously.
11. Gustave Whitehead (1874–1927)
Claim: Allegedly flew a powered aircraft before the Wright Brothers (1901).
Why Unrecognized: Evidence remains disputed, and the Wrights’ 1903 flight is widely credited.
Posted originally on May 13, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
I am back from my trip to Alberta, Canada. They will separate, and currently the polls show 40% want to leave. I also stopped by to visit the facility of SilverGoldBull operation in Calgary. This is me holding a 400-ounce bar of gold – central bank standard. I was very impressed with their operation. I was given a tour of the vaults. I do not get any commission, nor did they pay me to mention them. It was a very impressive operation, plain and simple. Not a one-man band.
We are providing a manual on how to separate and the key issues that must be addressed. Many areas worldwide are seeking independence, and numerous requests have been made to address the economic side of separation. This is not advocating any particular government. This provides a historical review of separations, attempted separations, and revolutions. The shocking thing is that such events are achieved with LESS THAN a 50% majority.
The new head of the DOJ Weaponization Working Group, current USAO Ed Martin, holds a press conference to discuss the transition to his new role as Judge Jeanine Pirro is scheduled to take over as U.S. Attorney for the DC office. WATCH:
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Posted originally on CTH on May 13, 2025 | Sundance
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted today by a grand jury on charges of obstruction and concealing an individual from arrest.
These are the same charges originally outlined in the criminal complaint. (1) obstructing a criminal illegal alien capture; and (2) concealing the illegal alien to avoid apprehension and arrest.
The criminal complaint against Judge Hannah Dugan reveals the judge purposefully demanded the ICE agents and FBI officials go to another part of the building to speak with the chief justice, while she guided the criminal illegal alien through the jury room to an outside exit facilitating his release.
VIA CNN – A Milwaukee County Circuit judge was indicted in federal court Wednesday following accusations that she helped an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents last month.
Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted on charges of obstruction and concealing an individual from arrest, the same charges she was originally arrested and charged with. CNN has reached out to her attorney for comment.
Dugan is accused of helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration officials stationed to arrest him in the hallway outside. (read more)
Following her arrest for assisting a criminal illegal alien attempting to avoid capture, the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Judge Hannah Dugan from all judicial proceedings.
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