Sep 9 2025

Hollywood & Gold

Posted originally on Sep 9, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, I just had to write to say thank you. Gold is going up with stocks, despite everyone else being indoctrinated with ineffective theories. They keep saying the same stupid shit and pay no attention to the fact that they have continually been wrong. These people are psychopaths and have cost people a fortune and ruined marriages, as I saw with a friend. The stock market and gold have risen with the highest interest rates, the dollar, and it all depends on what you call the outside wildcard. Anyone who doesn’t invite you to these interviews isn’t worth my time. They cannot be trusted in my book.

This is why they make movies about you and no other analyst. Can people invest in the Hollywood movie being made about you? I know people invest in film. If this is about your career and promoting cycles, I think everyone should be chipping in. The world needs to be exposed to your work. You are the only one who makes common sense economically, and you know geopolitics like the back of your hand. They are running out of ideas for films. Their endless Superman movies clearly evidence that. Will there be such an offering to invest in your film?

ANSWER: I am not sure if there will be any offerings to invest in the Hollywood version. I do not get involved in fundraising. I am supposed to have the script in a couple of weeks. The head of the studio is coming to visit in a few weeks. I know they are very serious about this, and they see it as an opportunity to showcase cyclical analysis to the world, which is why I agreed to participate. A top writer is now doing the final polish, from what I have been told.

They wanted something like The Big Short. I was told that the film brought in approximately $133.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $28 million. Obviously, this is why people invest in producing films.

I am not sure who will be playing me in the movie. I believe they then pitch it to A-class actors, so the whole cost thing, I am sure, depends on who they get. I do believe they have most of the funding in place. These people are big producers, not first-timers. When I learn more, I will let everyone know. I am uncertain whether there will be any opportunities for investors. I am not familiar with that market.

I will do an update on the markets on the Private Blog this week.

Sep 7 2025

Daily Telegraph says of Keir Starmer’s shock reshuffle: “he wakes up to the threat posed by Reform”

Posted originally on Rumble on By Bannon’s War Room on: September, 6, 2025

Aug 28 2025

GLASTRIS: Most Rankings Reward Harvard, Yale, And The Wealthy Few. But When You Measure What Matters: Upward Mobility, Real Research, And Active Citizenship, The Winners Are State Schools

Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: August 27, 2025

Aug 27 2025

CPT Maureen Bannon Remembers The 13 Fallen Soldiers On The 4th Anniversary Of The Abbey Gate Bombing

Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: August 26, 2025

Aug 27 2025

Faddis: If You Think You’re Gonna Keep Your Eye On 600k Students And Have Any Clue What They’re Stealing, You’re Lost

Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: August 26, 2025

Aug 26 2025

German Chancellor Merz Says Entitlement Programs No Longer Sustainable

Posted originally on CTH on August 25, 2025 | Sundance

CTH noted several months ago, end the Marshall Plan for Europe and things will change quickly.

Germany is in a tight economic place as a result of: (1) former leftist Chancellor Olaf Scholz alignment with climate change policy, radically changing the German energy base and driving up costs; (2) the financial support for Ukraine; (3) the financial burden of mass African/ME migration, and (4) the new Trump-era EU tariffs that effectively end the Marshall Plan.

Put all four elements together and the German economic contraction is only forecast to worsen. This is the reality that current German Chanceller Fredrich Merz is facing. Thus, as a non-pretending former businessman, Merz recently told his party and the German electorate that current financial conditions no longer support the expansive entitlement state.

Pensions, benefits and even healthcare are potentially going to be impacted. Germans are not happy.

GERMANY – The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn).

In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”

Once the export champion of Europe, Germany’s economy has slowed dramatically since 2017, with GDP growing by only 1.6 per cent since then versus 9.5 per cent for the rest of the eurozone.

Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2 per cent last year following a 0.3 per cent dip in 2023 – the first time since the early 2000s the economy has retreated two years in a row.

Industrial production fell under the Left-leaning “traffic light” coalition of Olaf Scholz and continues to slide under the new government, with GDP declining by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2025.

Meanwhile, spending on social welfare has exploded, and is set to increase further this year as Germany’s population ages and unemployment rises. Although the majority of benefit recipients are German, large numbers are non-German citizens.

[…] Germany has in place a so-called “debt brake”, which limits how much the government can borrow to fund its spending plans.

Mr Merz’s views on the welfare state are likely to provoke discontent among his Social Democratic Party (SDP) coalition partners, whom he relies on for a thin majority in the Bundestag.

[…] Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader and vice-chancellor, hit back at Mr Merz’s announcement with calls for increased taxation on top earners. He called for a summit focused on helping industry leaders respond or adapt to US tariffs and said “no option is off the table” when it comes to plugging the 30-billion-euro gap in Germany’s budget. (more)

A note of caution. Historically speaking, when the German economy gets bad enough, Europe ends up in a war.