Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
COMMENT: Marty, I just had to comment that anyone who does not interview you is either part of the Deep State, or they listen to the Deep State. You have more experience than the rest of the crowd combined; you have been persecuted for knowing too much. It was great to put Marcus on the stage at the WEC and let him explain how they tried to prevent people from meeting with you or interviewing you when you were being silenced. Oliver Brown in the Forecaster said the FBI was at his door trying to discourage him from being in Marcus’ movie. It was interesting to hear how the New Yorker Magazine had to threaten Washington, asking why they could not interview you when they could get an interview with even terrorists.
Anyone who refuses to interview you is part of the same agenda as the Deep State. Plain and simple. I will no longer listen to any program that does not interview you. They are indistinguishable from mainstream media. That’s why they are making movies about you, nobody else.
Jed
I have written to _______ and ________ and never got a reply. They are not to be trusted in my book.
REPLY: I cannot disagree. I know a few people who interviewed me and then got calls not to have me on again. They have joined mainstream media while pretending to report the truth. There is no difference between Europe and the suppression of free speech, and how they are handling the press here in the USA. They do it covertly here in the States. The government makes phone calls, and they do as they are asked. We saw that in COVID. Let me explain something, since this will be in the new version of the Forecaster. During the 2007-2010 Great Recession, I communicated with the House Financial Services Committee and others. I am really the only one with the same level of experience as the top bankers, but I’m on the other side of the fence.
I believe I was thrown in the hole to cut off my communications at the request of the bankers applying pressure to the DOJ. I was writing from the hole thanks to some guards who were sneaking them out. When you are in the hole, they cut off all phone privileges. Mail is censored in and out. Most of the guards were pissed off at what they were doing to me. The reason Oliver Brown wanted to be in the movie was that when the first 18-month contempt sentence was up, they refused to release me and told him I was probably innocent and they were just trying to break me.
Then a letter from Congress was sent to the prison asking to investigate who threw me in the hole and why. I was suddenly taken out, and everyone threw the warden under the bus. The extent to which they have tried to silence me is unprecedented. It has led to even more institutions coming out and saying that now they know I am not part of the NY Crowd, so that they can trust me.
The real question that bothered me was how they knew Marcus Vetter would film Oliver Brown that day? They must have been illegally tapping Marcus’ phone calls for the FBI to show up the day before to intimidate him. You can’t make up this stuff. They have gone to extreme lengths to prevent people from listening to anything I have to say. Period! Welcome to free speech in America.
Anyone with 10% of brain function still working can just read my plea, which was written by the government that I had to read. It said I failed to tell my clients that the bank stole the money for its own benefit, not mine.
I was not allowed to speak in my own words. Like any hostage, I had to read a script written by the government, which is unconstitutional, but they do not give a shit in NYC. I went to my lawyer on Friday, August 27th, 1999, and he sent a letter demanding the return of the money on Monday. They claimed I should have told my clients over the weekend, who were all major public companies.
This is the Department of Justice. Charles Dickens wrote in Bleak House about how corrupt the justice system was, and that was in England in the mid-19th century. Nothing has changed.
I received no restitution, there were no defaults on my part, and my clients supported me. I instructed them to sue the bank, and they did. The government was pissed off that I was helping my clients since the bank stole $1 billion after losing billions in the Russia collapse. That meant the bank would have to return the money instead of pretending I had it stashed somewhere, even though it is impossible to get $1 billion out of a bank, and nobody knows where it went since that can only be done by wire.
Let me know if any lawyer has succeeded in suing Wikipedia, which the government controls. The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is now warning the public not to trust the website he helped to create. “You can trust it to give an establishment view,” Sanger admitted, explaining that the website’s original design has been destroyed.
The government put a gag order on me to stop me from helping my clients against the bank – HSBC.
So I am the piece of shit – and the bankers walk on water in NYC.
Never has any banker been sent to prison for their schemes. NEVER!
Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas believes that the federal government should provide each child $1,000 at birth to be invested in the stock market. “Every child in America will have private investment accounts that will compound over their lives, enhancing the prosperity and economic participation of the vast majority of Americans,” Cruz said. Around 3.6 million children were born in the US last year, meaning that the federal government would need to set aside $3.6 billion a year to fund this program.
Cruz’s program would permit family and friends to add $5,000 annually to these private investment accounts, with the hope that the compounding interest will give these kids a head start in life. “What I’m interested in is giving these kids the ability to climb the economic ladder much, much faster to accumulate wealth,” Cruz told CNBC. “I think there’s a real power to making them investors and stakeholders in the economy.”
This is not a completely new concept. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey proposed providing newborns with funds for investing that would be worth up to $2,000, but rather than investing in the private sector, they would hold treasuries or “baby bonds.” Hillary Clinton also proposed a “baby bond” worth up to $5,000 during her first presidential campaign, costing the public $18 billion annually.
Future generations pay for social programs and the surmounting national debt. Cruz, Clinton, and Booker fail to realize that these programs require funding which comes from these future taxpayers. In a December 2024 interview, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated, “We’re borrowing from future generations. And every generation really should pay for the things that it needs.” Massive spending packages are detrimental in the long run and cause more harm than good.
There’s a strong chance that many parents would simply pocket the funds or not know how to properly invest it in the market. Around 62% of Americans currently hold equities, but the majority own through retirement accounts. Only 21% of American families directly own stocks. The public education system should begin teaching future generations about investment and personal finance, as one in four Americans are financially illiterate.
Suppose lawmakers actually want to improve the lives of future generations. In that case, they need to stop adopting policies that saddle the American public with debt that they then forcibly collect through increased taxation.
Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Nordic nations have been leading the cashless society revolution. Masked as a manner of efficiency, digital transactions are not demanded by governments globally as they seek to rake in all money off the grid for taxation purposes.
Sweden is nearly a cashless society, with less than 2% of transactions occurring in physical currency as of 2020. Some estimates believe cash transactions have risen to 10% as of 2025, but it is becoming less commonplace. Swish transfer, launched in 2012, is a mobile payment system that enables users to transfer money in real-time. Accounts are linked to bank accounts, and transactions are authorized by Mobile BankID. As of February 2025, Swish had over 9 million users with 8.9 million private accounts and 318,000 business accounts. Only 10.5 million people currently live in Sweden.
The governor of Risbank declared in 2017 that “half of Swedish traders believe they will stop accepting cash by 2025” and Swish would be used for “Transaction that used to be mostly cash based.” In 2010, around 40% of transactions occurred in cash compared to 2-10% today.
Norway is also close to becoming cashless. Similar to Swish, Norway uses a program called Vipps that is owned by DNB Bank. Around 90% of Norwegian bank customers are using this program. Vipps began accepting crypto last year as well.
The National Bank of Denmark reported that cash was used in only 11% of transactions in 2024. Finland has seen a drastic drop in cash transactions, accounting for under 20% of payments.
Customers across Nordic nations report having a high level of trust in their banking institutions and government. Polls and reports vary, but the aforementioned nations typically have a higher level of confidence in their national government compared to other OECD nations. The 2024 OECD poll found 48% of Norwegians had high or moderately high trust in their national government, exceeding the OECD average of 39%. Yet, that figure has declined 16% since 2021. Around 77% of Finns reported having a high level of trust in their government, and 43% of Swedes felt similarly.
Using a credit card or mobile pay option has become the new normal everywhere. Cash transactions are becoming increasingly rare. Cash is still legal tender, and governments have not banished physical currencies—yet. It will be easier for governments to mandate CBDC as the majority of citizens have already gone digital.
Posted originally on CTH on May 18, 2025 | Sundance
Nicușor Dan was the pro-EU, pro-war and pro-NATO Romanian presidential candidate supported by Brussels.
When Nicușor Dan came in second place in the first round of elections, CTH noted he was very likely to succeed because the stakes are just too high for the European Union. The largest NATO military base in Europe is being built in Romania.
There was simply no way the collective assembly of the Intelligence Community, the military industrial complex, the pro-Ukraine elements, the anti-Russia NATO/EU alliance were going to allow defeat. As expected, Dan won.
BUCHAREST — Romania elected a centrist president in a major surprise after an intense campaign in which voters looked likely to propel another hard-right populist to lead a large European country.
Despite coming a distant second in the first round two weeks ago, the moderate mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, won by a decisive 8-point majority over his radical rival, George Simion, who conceded defeat early Monday after initially declaring himself the winner.
With 99.8 percent of polling stations counted by 1:50 a.m. local time Monday, Dan had won 53.8 percent to 46.2 percent for Simion. Turnout was 65 percent, the highest since 1996.(more)
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