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Monica Crowley: Trump One of Few Leaders Who Can See What World Will Look Decades Down the Road


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LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks from the Oval Office…


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Indians are Feeling the Economy Grow in Real Time


Posted originally on May 8, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

India's Economic Growth Outlook Remains Strong

While much of the Western world is watching living standards decline under inflation, debt, taxation, and economic stagnation, India is moving through a completely different phase of the global cycle. Millions of Indians are experiencing rising opportunity, expanding infrastructure, growing wages, and an emerging middle class in real time as capital increasingly flows toward the country.

India’s economy is growing at roughly 6.5–7% annually, making it the fastest-growing major economy in the world. Reuters recently reported that India’s GDP expanded 7.4% year-over-year in one recent quarter alone, driven heavily by manufacturing and construction growth. The country is expected to become the world’s fourth-largest economy shortly and could surpass Germany and Japan over the next several years.

The most important part is that this growth is increasingly visible at household level rather than existing purely inside stock markets or government statistics. India’s middle class is expanding on a scale few countries in modern history have experienced. Long-term projections estimate the middle class could exceed 500 million people by the end of the decade, while domestic consumption spending could rise from roughly $1.5 trillion to nearly $6 trillion over time.

This is exactly how capital flow cycles work. Money moves toward younger populations, lower costs, rising productivity, and expanding opportunity.

India benefits from several structural advantages simultaneously. The country’s median age remains around 28 years old while Europe, Japan, South Korea, and even China face severe demographic decline and aging populations. India continues producing enormous numbers of engineers, technology workers, and skilled laborers annually while maintaining labor costs far below many industrial competitors.

Global corporations are responding aggressively. Reuters reported today that India’s offshore technology sector alone generated approximately $98.4 billion in revenue during fiscal 2026, nearly reaching targets that were originally projected for 2030. The country now hosts more than 2,100 Global Capability Centres employing roughly 2.36 million people as multinational firms increasingly relocate strategic operations, software development, finance, and research functions into India.

Companies like JPMorgan, Nvidia, FedEx, Eli Lilly, Lufthansa, Apple, Samsung, and countless others are expanding operations because India is increasingly viewed as a long-term strategic manufacturing and technology hub rather than simply a source of cheap labor. Apple alone continues shifting major portions of iPhone production into India as supply chains diversify away from China.

The automobile sector shows the same pattern. Mahindra recently projected SUV sales growth in the mid-to-high teens percentage range as rising incomes and tax cuts continue driving consumer demand. Domestic SUV volumes rose more than 23% year-over-year while the company expanded production capacity aggressively through 2028.

Infrastructure development is transforming daily life as well. India has spent years aggressively expanding highways, airports, rail systems, ports, manufacturing corridors, energy infrastructure, and digital payment systems. In many cities, modernization is visibly occurring in real time around ordinary people. That creates optimism, which becomes economically important itself.

Unlike populations across Britain, Germany, Canada, or Japan who increasingly feel financially trapped, large portions of India’s younger population still believe their future may improve materially over time. That psychological dynamic matters enormously because confidence drives entrepreneurship, family formation, investment, and long-term economic activity.

Inflation also remains far more manageable than much of the West. India’s inflation rate remains around 3.4–4.5%, far below the levels experienced across many Western economies during recent years. While energy prices and Middle East instability still create risks, India avoided much of the self-inflicted energy destruction that devastated European competitiveness.

None of this means India lacks problems. Poverty still exists on massive scale. Wealth inequality remains significant. Housing affordability pressures are beginning to rise in major cities. Reuters recently warned that luxury housing prices may continue to climb 5–7% annually through 2028, while affordability becomes more difficult for portions of the middle class.

The ECM has consistently shown that capital does not disappear during periods of global instability. It relocates. As sovereign debt crises weaken older developed economies, capital increasingly searches for younger growth regions where productivity, demographics, and opportunity still expand simultaneously. India is becoming one of the primary destinations for those global capital flows.

The contrast with much of the developed world is becoming increasingly striking. In Europe, Britain, Canada, and parts of East Asia, younger generations increasingly feel locked out of homeownership, burdened by taxes, debt, inflation, and stagnant living standards. In India, millions are still entering the consumer economy for the first time. Rising incomes are translating directly into vehicle purchases, technology adoption, travel, education spending, business formation, and expanding middle-class consumption.

India is what real economic expansion actually looks like.

Canadians Are Feeling the Economy Collapse in Real-Time


Posted originally on May 8, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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For years, Canadians were told their economy was “strong,” their banking system was “safe,” and their housing market was “resilient.” Now reality is finally colliding with the propaganda as ordinary Canadians increasingly admit they feel trapped financially despite endless government claims that conditions are improving.

The numbers are becoming impossible to ignore. Recent polling shows that 71% of Canadians expect the cost of living to worsen in 2026, while 59% believe the broader economy itself will deteriorate further over the next year. Even more alarming, nearly 87% say they now feel financially trapped because wages are no longer keeping pace with housing costs, taxes, debt burdens, and everyday expenses.

Canada built one of the largest housing bubbles in the developed world during the era of artificially suppressed interest rates. Cheap money flooded into real estate for years while politicians treated rising home prices as proof of prosperity. In reality, housing inflation became a substitute for genuine economic growth. Families increasingly relied on debt and rising property values rather than productivity growth or expanding real wages.

Now the entire structure is under pressure. Mortgage renewals are becoming a major problem because many Canadians who were locked into low-rate loans during the easy-money years now face dramatically higher payments upon renewal. Household debt levels in Canada remain among the highest in the G7 relative to disposable income. At the same time, food costs, insurance premiums, utility bills, fuel expenses, and property taxes continue rising aggressively.

The middle class is being squeezed from every direction simultaneously.

Reuters recently reported that Canada’s weakening housing market is now damaging consumer psychology directly because the so-called “wealth effect” from rising home prices has begun reversing. Canadians who once believed housing appreciation would permanently carry the economy higher are now confronting stagnant property values alongside rising debt costs and deteriorating affordability.

The younger generation faces an even worse situation. Homeownership has become increasingly unattainable across large portions of the country, particularly in Toronto and Vancouver where housing costs detached completely from local incomes years ago. Many younger Canadians now spend extraordinary percentages of their earnings simply on rent while watching taxes and living expenses consume what little disposable income remains.

The political establishment continues insisting immigration-driven population growth will somehow solve Canada’s structural weaknesses, but adding millions of people into an economy already struggling with housing shortages, strained healthcare systems, stagnant productivity growth, and declining affordability only intensifies pressure on infrastructure and living costs further.

Meanwhile, Mark Carney and the Canadian political class are now trying to align Canada more closely with Europe economically and politically just as Europe itself enters a depressionary phase into 2028 according to our ECM models. Europe is drowning in sovereign debt, industrial decline, energy instability, and collapsing middle-class purchasing power. Canada appears determined to follow many of the same policies involving climate regulation, centralized governance, expanding bureaucracy, and rising financial control mechanisms.

The Bank of Canada now faces the same trap confronting central banks globally. If rates remain elevated, households continue cracking under debt burdens and mortgage renewals. If rates fall aggressively, inflation risks accelerating again while the currency weakens further. Years of artificial monetary policy distorted housing values, encouraged leverage, and created an economy overly dependent on debt-fueled consumption.

The result is what Canadians are experiencing now in real-time, declining purchasing power disguised beneath official economic statistics.

The ECM has warned for years that sovereign debt crises eventually migrate down into household psychology. Governments can manipulate numbers temporarily, but they cannot force populations to feel financially secure when living standards continue to deteriorate.

Europe Wants To Ban VPN Privacy


Posted originally on May 8, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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The European Union is now openly discussing restricting VPN access as part of its expanding online age-verification system, which demonstrates precisely where the entire digital agenda has been heading from the beginning. They always introduce these systems under emotionally untouchable justifications such as child safety or combating terrorism, but once the infrastructure is in place, the scope inevitably expands.

According to a new European Parliament briefing, officials are concerned that users are bypassing online age-verification requirements via VPNs, and the report notes a surge in VPN usage in countries implementing stricter digital controls. The proposal being discussed is to potentially restrict VPN access itself to those above a so-called “digital age of majority.” In other words, they are now targeting the very tools people use to protect their privacy online.

For readers who may not use these services personally, a VPN simply encrypts your internet traffic and masks your location, preventing internet providers, corporations, and governments from monitoring everything you do online. Businesses use them constantly, financial institutions rely on them, journalists use them, and ordinary people use them simply to avoid being tracked across the internet.

The problem from the government’s perspective is that VPNs interfere with surveillance. Europe’s Digital Services Act has already pushed platforms toward mandatory age-verification systems that increasingly require identification documents, facial scans, or biometric verification simply to access online content. Once users began using VPNs to avoid those systems, regulators immediately shifted toward framing the VPN itself as the threat. This is how these systems always evolve, because the objective is never merely regulation, it is compliance and visibility.

What they are building is effectively a digital identity system where access to information requires permission. People fail to understand how dangerous this becomes once connected to the broader European agenda involving CBDCs, centralized digital IDs, online speech regulation, and financial monitoring. These are not isolated policies appearing randomly at the same time. They are interconnected components of a single structural transition toward centralized digital control.

First they regulate speech under the justification of misinformation. Then they regulate platforms under the justification of safety. Then they require identity verification under the justification of protecting children. Finally they target anonymity itself by restricting the tools people use to avoid surveillance.

This fits perfectly within the broader cycle unfolding in Europe, where declining economic confidence and political instability lead governments toward greater centralization and control. Historically, governments facing crisis do not voluntarily reduce authority, they expand surveillance, tighten restrictions, and attempt to maintain control over information and capital flows.

Once anonymity disappears online, everything becomes traceable, every search, every communication, every financial transaction, and eventually every movement through the digital economy itself. That is where this leads, regardless of the language used to justify it today.

The public is being told this is about protecting children, but history has demonstrated repeatedly that emergency measures and surveillance systems never remain confined to their original purpose. Once established, they become permanent infrastructure, expanding quietly until the entire framework of society changes around them.

AI Fails at trading?


Posted originally on May 8, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

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QUESTION: Marty, I loved your speech about AI here in Canada and why AI cannot trade. You explained that you created a completely different form of AI and you system has made remarkable call for 40 years that I know of. You also said that they will be doing a Holywood movie on you and your contribution to humanity. You said before that they will allow people to invest in the film to expose cycle to society. I there any update on that front?

JK

ANSWER: These AI systems are good only for research. Trading is like a pocker game. There are elements of human intuition that a LLM is not capable of picking up. Even IBM’s Watson failed. They assumed throwing in every known disease and the computer would figure out how to cure cancer. They sold it for scrap. Socrates is NOT a LLM nor a neural net. I knew that would never work. But I am a trader and a programmer. It takes both skills, not just one.

As far as the Movie, it will be an independent film so the LEFTISTS in Holywood do not screw it up. They are talking with some famous Class A actors. If they believe in the project and the message, then I will agree. At that point, I believe they will set up a vehicle to fund the movie. My goal is that it shows the world that cycles are a lost art that was hidden with the Dark Age and are rising again. I don’t think the cost of production will be that outrageous. The Big Short brought in $133.3 million worldwide against a $28 million cost. So an independent film can be a lucrative venture. It all depends on who you get for a class A actor.

This is something they do, not me. If they get to the point it looks viable, I will let everyone make their decision. I am more intereested in getting cyclical analysis into the mainstream. They Scotty can beam me up – mission accomplished.

Next ECM is July 1/2 not June 1


Posted originally on May 7, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

ECM 935 2024 2028

There was a typo om the ECM Wave Change. The next target is July 1/2 not June 1.

President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Traveling Press During Visit to DC Reflection Pool


Posted originally on CTH on May 7, 2026 | sundance | 

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as it undergoes renovations. President Trump answers questions on Iran, current policy matters, the FBI raid in Virginia, the upcoming trip to China and national issues from this historic location. WATCH:

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After Phone Call with Komisar Von der Leyen, President Trump Delays EU Tariffs Until Independence Day


Posted originally on CTH on May 7, 2026 | sundance |

There is a certain irony in the timing all things considered.  President Trump has given the EU until July 4, 2026, to fulfill the trade agreement previously negotiated (ie. the Turnberry Agreement) or 25% tariffs on EU automobiles will be triggered.

(Via Truth Social) – “I had a great call with The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. We discussed many topics, including that we are completely united that Iran can never have a Nuclear Weapon. We agreed that a regime that kills its own people cannot control a bomb that can kill millions. I’ve been waiting patiently for the EU to fulfill their side of the Historic Trade Deal we agreed in Turnberry, Scotland, the largest Trade Deal, ever! A promise was made that the EU would deliver their side of the Deal and, as per Agreement, cut their Tariffs to ZERO! I agreed to give her until our Country’s 250th Birthday or, unfortunately, their Tariffs would immediately jump to much higher levels. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”  ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer recently spoke directly about what was creating this problem.  His interview and explanation in detail is below (MUST WATCH):