COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; I want to thank you for you have been correct on every market demonstrating that everything is explicitly connected. What you have taught me is more than just trading a single market to make money. You have taught me how to see the world and connect the dots. I can see the light. You cannot be correct on gold, S&P to one point, the Euro, Dax, Trump, Brexit and China, without creating such a tool to monitor everything.

Of course, I met someone who is obviously incapable of understanding markets at all. He said you are not a forecaster because you say on the one hand the market can go up and it will tell us, but on the other hand it can go down and it will tell us. When I said you just have to look at the Reversals and your long-term timing has been impeccable and it does not change every week. He has no idea about markets and expects someone to say just buy or sell with no interest in learning about anything. I tried to explain to him but it goes in one ear and out the other. Yes he was a goldbug and when I said what about 1362, he acted like you never said that. I see what you mean that the majority of people are followers incapable to learning anything. We need such fools to trade against. I get that now. Don’t bother trying to convince them. Just trade against them like the bankers do.

I understand why they went after you and even why they tried to say you manipulate the world economy when the bankers lost. I found it interesting how that guy in the move checked you out and Goldman Sachs said they thought they could take you out trading against you but you usually won. Nobody has been able to accomplish what you have. The fact the press does not utter a single word about your accomplishment only further shows how deeply corrupt the entire system has become. One would think the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal would be touting your accomplishments to say may be there is a better way. They do not because they are part of the problem to maintain society in check for government.

Please keep up the good fight. You truly have made a light go off.

I do not know how to say thank you enough.

SD

REPLY: It is very good to hear from so many people who are starting to look at the world in a connected manner. I have been behind the curtain for more than 30 years advising multinationals and governments from Europe to Asia. No one has had more of a front row seat than me on a global level. This has revealed to me that we are all connected and it is indeed Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand that guides everything. True, the press do not want to interview me because if the Invisible Hand works, then how can we manipulate the world? It’s all on autopilot guided by the divine grand design of everything. How would government function if politicians could not promise the impossible and people remain ignorant of that fact? The press cannot report our forecasts. They simply cannot do so without confronting the hand that feeds them.

We stand at the threshold of a new dawn. I took that picture of the sunrise over Central Park in New York. It reminds me how insignificantly we are to even think we can alter the grand design of how everything works from the economy to the climate.

COMMENT: The 91 year old woman who had her $12,000 deposit declined in Kristanstad, Sweden, and the money confiscated by the State is a sad tale. Perhaps you might want to identify Kristanstad, as a town in Sweden, for those of us who do not readily identify Kristanstad, a town of 35,000 souls with Sweden.

BTW I love your blog.

REPLY: Sorry – my bad as they say. This is Sweden. The notes were the old obsolete notes that she had saved over the years. If she could not prove she saved these notes, the government refuses to accept them. Just more confiscation because ALL governments now PRESUME we are all guilty and it is our BURDEN to prove we are innocent. This is the peak in socialism. It has nothing to do with helping people, it is all about helping government.

The “obsolete” is not the issue. Even obsolete notes are redeemable. This is standard in Europe. One pound notes in Britain from 1970 have been cancelled. Only the US does not cancel old currency. They are still redeemable. Even Australia redeems old cancelled banknotes. The Swedish Riksbank states on their site:

The Riksbank redeems all Swedish banknotes that are invalid, as long as there is no suspicion that they may be linked to a crime, for instance a cash-in-transit robbery.

The year 2017 will bring us a step closer to eliminating physical money through governments assault on the underground economy. I previously reported that Europe had moved forward to make payments electronically on an instant basis. The same system is being turned on next year in Australia. The entire reason the Founding Fathers of the United States prohibited direct taxation was to protect our liberty. Today, governments need to know absolutely everything, and once they eliminate physical cash they will have the their dream — the quest for the secret of the philosopher’s stone. They naturally take no responsibility and instead successfully shift the blame for their mismanagement to the rich. They claim they would have no problem if everyone paid every penny on taxes. Of course, it does not matter how much tax they collect — it will never be enough.

Eliminating physical money will lead, they believe, to the philosopher’s stone. By changing the banking system to instantaneous transfer, they can eliminate physical money and track everything we do all the time. There will be the surrender of all liberty and the termination of our civil liberties. This is how empires collapse.