Armstong Economics Blog/Climate
Re-Posted Oct 20, 2019 by Martin Armstrong
We All Act in Our Self-Interest
Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts
RePosted Aug 24, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: IS MARTIN ARMSTRONG AND SOCRATES THE MOST HUMANE BEINGS ON THE PLANET?
Dear Martin and Socrates,
I have been following you two for many years, often with a byrds eye view. What happens here on earth is in conformity with never failing cosmic laws. Things MUST happen even if we don’t like it. Dark,evil times must come wherefrom good prosperous times can emerge and thus push evolution forward – only to be followed by darker times and then even better and more prosperous times than before that, and so it goes on and on in never ending, never failing cycles. Understanding this can make us live WITH inescapable, inevitable changes we must face, not AGAINST them.
Socrates is telling us what has happened and he tells us what will happen so we can act accordingly, even giving precise dates. Never a harsh word, never favoring anyone, never keeping secrets to himself he just informs us. He’s there for everybody: traders, dealers, bankers, real estaters, climatists, farmers, governments, ordinary folks for whatever reason.
He is a guiding beacon. His motives are only for the best of mankind. He speaks nothing but the truth. This is very thoughtful and kind. Isn’t this the most humane one can do?
Of course Socrates is nothing without his maker. What has been said above is about Martin Armstrong. He is the beacon. He is the one who is thoughtful and kind. He must care immensly for next door neighbor and humankind. (Isn’t this the greatest of all commands?)
A very humane human indeed!
Thank you, guys!
TA
REPLY: Thank you very much for your comment. Keep in mind that we all act out of our own self-interest. We are all in this together. Many people see this as evil. But by acting in our own self-interest, we make the entire system work.
The famous speech that “Greed is Good” delivered by Michael Douglas in “Wall Street” has a lot of truth to it, for it is not just greed with respect to money. Greed to make money is also the mother of all invention. Communism failed because it removed all creation from the individual and centralized that in government, which is removed from the people. Watch the movie “Mr. Jones.” Stalin’s communism failed. They went from a productive society to collapse. To hide that truth, he stole the food from Ukraine and killed more than 7 million people. Stalin’s self-interest was to cover-up the failure of Communism. Countless people died to pretend communism worked.
My personal self-interest is the desire to live in peace and to have a nice future for my family. What I do, I am compelled to do. It is not for money, or I would be selling advertising on the sites or go back to funds management. I have been fortunate enough not to need the money, and that has given me the freedom to explore what I envisioned. This is what governments cannot do despite believing they are all-powerful. They cannot use imagination to create something new since they have no actual mind.
Consequently, we are always confronted by the left, which insists upon controlling everything. In the process, they destroy the best of humanity — our imagination and creativity. They pursue unrealistic goals that always denigrate human individuality. This is why I do not see how a one-world government is even feasible because no matter what body of people you bring together, there is always a division who sees the glass half-full or half-empty. This is what drives the left mad. They demand conformity.
What motivates me, I would say, boils down to two aspects. First, my desire for freedom and to be left alone. Second, I have witnessed the markets do not move on actual fundamental news as much as they move on perception and anticipation. It was the lack of news that led to the 1987 Crash when nobody could understand what was happening and wild rumors emerged that Europe was invaded by Russia to rumors that the president was shot with a bullet dipped in poison. It was simply capital flows, and people feared the dollar would fall another 40%.
I have always been interested in Artificial Intelligence and have witnessed countless times how governments make decisions without researching if those actions have been successful in the past. I wanted to create Socrates to offer us guidance that was totally unbiased and would provide a road map for the future. Perhaps if we listened to such a system, we would not be creating madness and chaos, which will only lead to the inevitable crash. We cannot alter the cycles, but I believe we can help smooth out the extreme moves and seek a new age of better management for all. This is in my self-interest, for my family and their future, long after I am gone.
Thousands Protest Lock downs in Ireland
Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest
Re-Posted Aug 23, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Hi Marty,
I hope you’re keeping well? Just to let you know that was a major demonstration in Dublin against the COVID hoax yesterday with the numbers attending being under-reported by the mainstream media. All this while days before, a group of politicians, including the Irish EU Commissioner Phil Hogan, broke every COVID rule in the book attending their own golf event. ‘COVID rules for thee but not for me’. Yes, you really can’t make this shit up in little ole Ireland.
Please continue spreading the good word!
Regards,
E
REPLY: There will be more mass protests in Canada and Europe next weekend. This entire object of lockdowns and masks is to prevent a revolution because these people are intent upon destroying the economy and reconstructing it GREEN. I have also been told that indeed my warning that the LEFT will never tolerate dissent, is so on point it is beyond belief.
A RELIABLE source explained they need to remove Trump because he is against this climate change and the forced collapse of the economy to recreate it GREEN and he is against any war. Some of these people are totally insane. They realize destroying the economy of the West and rebuilding it GREEN will not work unless they subjugate both China and Russia. They argue that war is necessary to achieve their goal. They are completely insane! So they kill several hundred million or a billion. That too will save the planet by reducing the population and Mr. Gates will be happy then.
I wish Star Trek were real. I would say: “Scotty! Beam me up! Now!”
‘Ba-Ba-Back off, Joe!’
Joe Biden’s First Mandate—Masking All Americans:
Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—August 21, 2020

Message to a stuttering Joe Biden from roughly 50 percent of the masked masses: ‘Wa-Wa-Wa We ca-ca-can st-stutter wa-wa-when it sue-sue-suits us t-t-too: largely because anyone can invoke past stuttering as a means to get pity—but mostly because we refuse to let you mask us.’
‘Ba-Ba-Back off, Joe!
All of those who masochistically abused themselves by watching the wrap-up of the Democrat Convention last night now know that Biden had a teen who stutters praise him for going from the league of the school boy stutterer all the way to the Democrat’s nominee for president.
What else will devious Joe pull out of his dirty bag of tricks before this election campaign comes to an end?
But Uncle Joe wasn’t stuttering when he vowed to put all Americans under a face mask; an idea that came from a guy who could not look Americans in the eye for the past 47 years.
“We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask,” he said.
Biden had the audacious temerity to link wearing a mask to being patriotic.
It’s not patriotic to want to turn America into a complete Socialist state, and it’s downright bully-like to mandate that everybody must wear a face mask—even though one’s real motivation behind mandated face mask wearing is an election campaign subliminal reminder that folks who go out to the polls to vote without a mask run the risk of catching Covid-19—which is ALL President’s Trump’s fault!
What else will devious Joe pull out of his dirty bag of tricks before this election campaign comes to an end?
Democrat melodrama aside, Biden’s problem is not the stutter but the waffle—waffling of the kind where he only last week called for mask-wearing while Americans are “outside” before coming up with his one-size-fits-all, full-time mandatory masks.
“Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide,” he said.(Breitbart, Aug. 20, 2020)
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum,” Biden said.
“He did not specify any age group that may be exempt.
“Every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing,” he continued, claiming that such a policy would save 40,000 lives.
“Biden said such a rule has nothing to do with rights “but your responsibility as an American.”
if Joe Biden can mask all Americans even BEFORE being voted in as president—what does he plan for them AFTER?
Democrats like Joe regard only “peaceful” protests and millionaire sports stars taking a knee as “patriotic”—even though the protests they call patriotic include looting, rioting and the cause of painful physical harm, and the taking a knee sports stars have all but bankrupted the game of football.
“For those who have been under a rock lately, the Take a Knee movement began when Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem at a 2016 49ers football game. His reasons were clear to anyone who asked: (ScarryMommy, Sept. 25, 2017)
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said, via NFL.com. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
“In summary, this football player used his constitutionally protected right to protest police brutality and the inequity of justice affecting the Black community. This was intended to start conversations, and it did.
“On and off during the 2016 season, players joined Kaepernick in protest, and the media foamed at the mouth because, obviously, there is nothing quite as controversial as successful Black men peacefully demanding social justice.
“A year later, Kaepernick was released from his team.
Meanwhile, surely some folk must be wondering if Joe Biden can mask all Americans even BEFORE being voted in as president—what does he plan for them AFTER?
Today’s Rioters are the Evil Spawn of the Rioters from the 1960’s
The Typical American city in the Summer of 2020, WHY?
Starting in the mid 60’s and running though most of the 70’s a large contingent of the babies born between 1944 and 1964 known as the “me generation” or the “boomer generation” started to rebel against the existing political system and society in general. The trigger for the rebellion was the Vietnam war and the draft of young men to be sent to war. However, it quickly spread to encompass many other issues like race, gender and sexuality, leading to the culture wars in the 80’s. It was a very turbulent time as society was totally changed by the boomers. If you care to read about it I recommend the book The Fourth Turning An American Prophecy by Strauss and Howe. The amassing thing about this book is that they predicted what we are going though right now back in 1997.
Back then 1970’s
That was the background that we grew up in and most of us turned out just fine; however there was another group of mostly rich kids that turned out to be very bad. Their parents were the first of the Progressives who believed in the principles of Marxism; not so much in the open as the cloaked themselves in terms like socialism. and social justice and well today we have BLM and Antifa to name just a few, which are direct extensions of the movements in the late 60’s and early 70’s. To many today, who were not alive back then, they wonder where these movements came from.
Today 2020
The answer is found in their writing and more specifically in a book/pamphlet they published on May 9, 1974. The authors are: Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers (Strong Connection to Obama), Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. These were hard core Communist radicals following the teaching of Saul D. Alinsky in his Book Rules for Radicals in which he taught how to make social change meaning a way to get to Marxism. This group and others goal was to fundamentally change America into a Communist country. If you read that book you will have no doubt about their wanting a Marxism system in the Unite Sates.
The book they published in 1974 will give them today what they desired when they first published Prairie Fire, The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Americanism. Rather than write about it here just download it and read it yourself. The copy I have is a copy of the pages in that book and so some of the quality is poor but it is readable. In private they discussed the cost to make the change they wanted and it was that 25% of the US population would need to die. Before you dismiss that remember that both the Russian and Chinese conversion to Marxism cost each of those countries a much high percentage of their population. Click on the words Prairie Fire blow and you can download a copy.
PrairieFire-reprint
The link below, to a short U Tube video, was recorded in 1969 five years before Prairie Fire and describes much of what will be published five years later.
The movement today is a combination of Marxism and Environmentalism and Globalism and is a very dangerous combination, the code words for it are The Great Rest also known as the New Future and a New Green Deal. There are other posts on my blog that explain what this is.
A Plea from Australia For Help
Armstrong Economivs Blog/Australia & Oceania
Re-Posted Aug 17, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Hi Marty,
Was hoping you could put this on your blog in case there are any lawyers in your readership. Surely we are being denied the right to allow our immune system to deal with this naturally.
I live in the very next state to Victoria Australia and I am increasingly becoming fearful our state government is going to follow suit.
What really pisses me off is that people like my own father accept the bullshit they are being told and want the police to act the way they do. So it is not just the police and the government, but all those sheep who give these authorities the motivation to do it. I can assure you that my father and those like him would have been cheering the police officer on, not the woman who was not wearing the mask. My father even told my daughter (when she asked him how he was through messenger) that he was ok but very angry at the people not obeying the law. In other words, here is my father talking to my daughter long distance and his whole focus is on this f%^&*ing virus and his disdain towards others who don’t fear this disease as he does. People like my father do not read or listen to anyone else (like me or you) who speaks opposite to their own fears and beliefs. So waking up the people is pointless and will never happen.
So to my question. I believe I am being denied the right to get this disease naturally and to allow my body to naturally deal with it. My health is being compromised because I am being denied the right to build my own immune system naturally. By denying me the right to naturally get this disease, I am putting my own ability to work and provide for my family at risk. Surely there must be some legal precedent that says that no one can prevent me from contracting a disease naturally.
Obviously there is an agenda here, but surely the people out there with common sense (and legal ability to see this through) can force the government to simply tell those that fear this disease to stay at home, in other words, aim their lockdowns at those who fear the disease and let the rest of us go out and work and produce.
D
REPLY: This really makes no sense why politicians are becoming so evil. You would think that they made a mistake because of Neil Ferguson’s bogus mode and they would quickly reverse course. The whole thing was we needed lockdowns to preserve bed space in hospitals. But that never became a problem. So you would think that any honest politicians would back off. Instead, they are turning the screws even harder which makes no sense unless they are now deliberately trying to destroy the economy for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
Are Gates & Soros All-Powerful?
Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption
Re-Posted Aug 17, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Since Soros Gates and their friends are so powerful and since they control a lot of things, do you think they could manipulate the world stock markets too?
MG
London Financial Times – June 27, 1998
ANSWER: No. Keep in mind that Socrates has been forecasting the trend without knowing who are the players. They have simply appeared on schedule, but they have not reversed the course of the trend which was in motion. I have explained the main times that Socrates has been able to forecast wars are the collapse of governments. It does not use fundamental analysis. It simply tracks the capital flows. It picks up that people start to move their money if they obviously anticipate starting a war.
This has been the very same outcome. I have direct information that some players began to sell all government bonds and shares at the peak just before the virus was the major issue. They knew what was coming for their orchestrated this event. They apparently used our Economic Confidence Model turning point of January 18, 2020, for their timing. They were able to at best increase the magnitude of the decline, but they did not “manipulate” in the sense of taking a bull market and transforming it into a cycle inversion bear market. At the WEC in Orlando in 2019, we laid out that there would be a crash in January and that it should have been at least 20%. That was done much before any word of a virus.
Everything they have done is in accordance with Socrates’ forecast as we head into 2032. They will fail to create this new green world order. However, they have turned politics into a toxic arena from which they are dividing nations and even families. So they are not all-powerful. They will lose this battle.
Today’s Rioters are the Evil Spawn of the Rioters from the 1960’s
The Typical American city in the Summer of 2020, WHY?
Starting in the mid 60’s and running though most of the 70’s a large contingent of the babies born between 1944 and 1964 known as the “me generation” or the “boomer generation” started to rebel against the existing political system and society in general. The trigger for the rebellion was the Vietnam war and the draft of young men to be sent to war. However, it quickly spread to encompass many other issues like race, gender and sexuality, leading to the culture wars in the 80’s. It was a very turbulent time as society was totally changed by the boomers. If you care to read about it I recommend the book The Fourth Turning An American Prophecy by Strauss and Howe. The amassing thing about this book is that they predicted what we are going though right now back in 1997.
Back then 1970’s
That was the background that we grew up in and most of us turned out just fine; however there was another groups of mostly rich kids that turned out to be very bad. Their parents were the first of the Progressives who believed in the principles of Marxism; not so much in the open as the cloaked themselves in terms like socialism. and social justice and well today we have BLM and Antifa to name just a few, which are direct extensions of the movements in the late 60’s and early 70’s. To many today, who were not alive back then, they wonder where these movements came from.
Today 2020
The answer is found in their writing and more specifically in a book/pamphlet they published on May 9, 1974. The authors are: Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn. These were hard core radicals following the teaching of Saul D. Alinsky in his Book Rules for Radicals in which he taught how to make social change meaning a way to get to Marxism. This group and others goal was to fundamentally change America into a Communist country. If you read that book you will have no doubt about their wanting a Marxism system in the Unite Sates.
The book they published in 1974 will give them today what they desired when they first published Prairie Fire, The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Americanism. Rather than write about it here just download it and read it yourself. The copy I have is a copy of the pages in that book and so some of the quality is poor but it is readable. In private they discussed the cost to make the change they wanted and it was that 25% of the US population would need to die. Before you dismiss that remember that both the Russian and Chinese conversion to Marxism cost each of those countries a much high percentage of their population.
PrairieFire-reprint
The movement today is a combination of Marxism and Environmentalism and is a very dangerous combination, the code words for it are The Great Rest also known as the New Future and a New Green Deal. There are other posts on my blog that explain what this is.
Markets, the Future & This Craziness
Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics
Re-Re-Posted Aug 14, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
It is impossible to forecast the markets without this political war that is taking place and the organized Great Reset. People have asked what about the extreme Republicans? It is very hard to find the middle ground any more. Both parties have their middle and those in the Democrats I speak too are equally concerned about the extreme left which has taken control. I have explained that this appears to be the last stand for the extreme old-guard in the Democrats. Their proposals of bailing out all state government pensions and to impose a tax on every transaction in the markets aside from income taxes will certainly undermine the economy long-term.
The extreme left in the Democrats only brings out the extreme right in the Republicans. We have also had enough of this 99% conviction rate and judges who always rule in favor of the government. We are simply without representation in the middle ground. The future will be so determined by events in the 2020 election. But regardless of who wins, the financial capital of the world will be moving anyhow by 2032.
This appears to be a question of global confidence which will turn on the election. But there are rising protests and the middle ground Democrats are becoming very disturbed by these tactics that seek to punish the people in hopes of overthrowing Trump. But the damage to the global economy will only start to surface after the election only because the life-preserver in many regions cannot be maintained forever and people who have lost their jobs will be out on the street. Only then will we see the true extent of this mess.
Bill Gates is the man that what wants to be the ruler of the world and here we always thought it was George Soros that was pulling the strings.
Bill Gates has a Plan to be the worlds first absolute Ruler
Sometime around the turn of the century Bill Gates got involved with Al Gore and the Climate Change movement. Gates took this very seriously and decided to try and stop the destruction of the planet; not realizing that it wasn’t a real threat. The Reason I can say that is I have been studying the problem for well over 20 years now and although the climate does change, it always has so there is nothing new here. The problem is that some of the changes that are in the range of a few degrees up or down are related to decade long movements driven primarily by the 11 year solar cycle. If the reader is interested in that subject check out my monthly climate update posted here in MY Climate research.
Gates lacking a college education doesn’t have the proper background in economics, math, statistics, physics and Climate so he was unduly influenced by others that had a different agenda. The group I am referring to is those that have embraced a version of Marxism that has morphed into a version of Marxism where the leaders of the government are the very educated ones in society. Those are the ones that have graduated from the best schools like Harvard, MIT Sanford, Yale, etc. etc. Read the book Technology Rising written by Patrick M. Wood for all the details. These are the “Best and the Brightest” and they want to change the system of government in the United States so that they can save us from ourselves. After all they are our “betters!”
This group of Technologists was infiltrated by the Progressives (just another name for a Marxist) in the country in the early 90’s after the collapse of the old U.S.S.R. and then they got into the Green movement. This collision comprised of the Technologists, the Environmentalists, and the Marxists is now the group that is orchestrating what is going on in the country today i.e. demonstrations, mob violence, looting, arson and mayhem. The bottom line is that the following groups and organizations are all in bed together and they are being controlled by Bill Gates!
The Program that are now Implementing is called “The Great Reset!” But before we can have the “Reset” we have to tear Down the entire existing system. The Following list are those that are doing this insane program.
The Democrat party
The Green movement
The Major news organizations
The Open Boarders movement
The Social Justice Movement
The Bill and Missal Gates Foundation
The Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM)
The Anti Fascist Movement (ANTIFA)
In 20010 Bill Gates did a TED presentation that started the ball rolling. Here are a couple of samples.
Roger More is the Credible counter to the insane Bill Gates! Here is his best Counter to the criminal Gates, “Roger More we need more carbon not less.”
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