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Feb 23 2017

The Woman’s March


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest

Re-Posted Feb 23, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Didn’t Madonna advocate blowing up the White House? You haven’t commented on that.

ANSWER: While Madonna’s speech at the Woman’s March has been touted that she advocated blowing up the White House, that was a bit exaggerated and taken out of context. She said: “Yes I am angry. Yes I am outraged. Yes I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House. But I know this won’t change anything. We cannot fall in despair. As the poet W. H. Auden once wrote on the eve of world war II, we must love one another or die.” Most of the clips stop with White House. That is not really the truth either. This is one reason in a court of law you cannot ever make a joke. Someone asks: “Did you kill your wife?” You jokingly respond: “Oh ya, sure.”  When reduced to a transcript you just confessed.

Scarlett Johansson spoke and defended Planned Parenthood, not for abortion, but for women’s health issues. Yes, the Planned Parenthood rift has created a real firestorm over issues of abortion, targeting minorities for abortion, and selling fetal tissue. However, as always, with government actions, they tend to be all or nothing. Yes, funding abortion involves religious issues that offends some. On the other hand, Planned Parenthood has helped many women not involving abortion. There seems to be corruption in any organization no matter what the subject matter.

The question is can a line be drawn?

Feb 23 2017

Larry Summers – Who Admits He Cannot Forecast – Forecasts Trump


Armstrong Economics Blog/Armstrong Economics 101

Re-Posted Jan 8, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Marty; Did you see Larry Summer’s comments on Trump. Is this guy completely insane? He says Trump is proposing things off the planet. Wasn’t it Summers who came up with the negative interest rates and supported repealing Glass Steagal?

ANSWER: Larry Summers is a classic example of how a PHD means absolutely nothing compared to real life experience. He had the audacity to say, “The vast majority of the companies who have large overseas cash also have substantial amounts of domestic cash.” Obviously, Summers has never advised a real company. If Trump makes it a 10% tax, any company who does not bring their cash home would be a short. EBay had two companies it wanted to buy domestically. It backed out of the deal because it would have to bring in cash from overseas and pay too much tax to make it worthwhile. That’s how much Larry Summers knows about the world.

Summers went further, “The reality is that cash that is brought home will be used to pay dividends, to buy back shares, to engage in mergers and acquisitions, to rearrange the financial chessboard, not to invest in large amounts of new capital. It is a chimera to suppose that there will be large increases in capital investment as a consequence of that repatriation.”

First of all, paying dividends and buying back shares will put money DIRECTLY into the hands of investors who will redistribute the funds. Summers tries to “stimulate” by handing banks billions with no strings attached in hopes that they will lend the money to people who want to borrow. Then he wants to impose negative interest rates to punish people for not spending or investing.

Larry Summers has publicly admitted he is incapable of forecasting the economy, so where does he get off saying this nonsense? Quite frankly, those who are watching their pension funds go bankrupt should sue this guy for his non-conventional idea of negative interest rates to “stimulate” the economy. He gave us the 2007-2009 crisis by repealing Glass-Steagall and supporting the bankers, and he set the pension crisis in motion with negative interest rates. Thank God Hillary lost because this clown would be in charge of screwing up the economy even more.

Feb 23 2017

Do the Democrats Hold an Anti-Religion Position?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest

Re-Posted Jan 8, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

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The Podesta emails revealed a real anti-Catholic and anti-Evangelic religious position in the Democratic Party. For the party that was founded by the slave owner Andrew Jackson, one must really wonder what lies at the core of their true position.

cromwell-oliverReligion is becoming a major focus of how the Democrats have alienated both the Catholics and Evangelical Christianity movements. One must wonder how religion is playing out moving forward. That was a critical issue in the English Civil War led by Oliver Cromwell. What is interesting is that after they beheaded the king, the coinage of England adopted the portrait of Cromwell as if he were the new king.

History seems to be repeating. Will the USA also separate along religious lines as well?

Feb 22 2017

The Billionaire-Owned, Corporate Media is as Worthless as Ever 


The Free Press is no longer free it has been bought and paid for by those with money and agendas — and there employees do as they are told!

Feb 22 2017

The President Needs to Purge And Start Fresh: “White House Staff Has Been Infiltrated and Infested”


Trump does need to purge the swamp and quickly to many leaks.

Feb 22 2017

What Trump Should Do to Oust McCain 


I agree that McCain needs to be taken down — maybe his sealed military records should be unsealed.

Feb 22 2017

Have You Noticed Media Pushing a National Narrative of Anti-Semitism Today? – Here’s Why…


Many people are noticing a rather familiar, albeit oddly timed, leftist “anti-Semitism” narrative being pushed into the media broadcasts over the past 36 hours.   Yes, it seems to have …

Source: Have You Noticed Media Pushing a National Narrative of Anti-Semitism Today? – Here’s Why…

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Feb 22 2017

Advocating the overthrow of Government is a Crime


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest

Re-Posted Feb 22, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

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The comedian Sarah Silverman, who spoke at the DNC National Convention for Hillary, tweeted that her 10 million followers should “wake up & join the resistance” to President Donald Trump. She said: “Once the military is w/us fascists get overthrown. Mad king & his handlers go bye bye.”  Silverman should be criminally indicted for that. Of course she will not be. The hate speech against Trump is astounding. Yet they protest saying that Trump is the one with hate speech. What is amazing is the public outcry for the overthrow of the government which is in fact a crime. If I suggest such a thing on this blog they would be storming in the windows. There is clearly a get out of jail free card protecting much of this dissent.

18 U.S. Code § 2385 – Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Feb 22 2017

Norway Insane Property Boom or Capital Flight from Eurozone?


Armstrong Economics Blog/European Union

Re-Posted Feb 22, 2017 by Martin Armstrong

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QUESTION: Hello Martin, I was wondering if you could write a piece on the Norwegian real estate market? The market has gone complete mad the last couple of years with salaries declining, and housing prices booming. Over 40% of Oslo is now owned by people not leaving there. A lot of apartments are empty because people don’t care to rent them out, it is just for speculation. Will this continue or will the Sovereign debt crises drag the market down with it? Love your blog, and hope you can spare some time for little Norway!

HG

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ANSWER: Actually, I will be speaking there in Norway in a few weeks. Most of this “speculation” is really parking money. They are not trying to actually make a profit, which is why they are not renting these properties out. This is about parking money outside of the Eurozone. This has been a bet against Brussels and the collapse of the Euro. When we look at the share market, we see an outside reversal to the upside in 2016 as our model warmed with a Panic Cycle. This too is money trying to get off the grid.

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The is a picture of the Krone expressed in US dollars since 1927. Here also, the dollar is positioned to rally against the Krone and we should see a new high above that of 1985, but at the very least a rally to retest that level for the third time.

Norway-Krone-Y -Euro- 2-20-2017

In the case against the Euro, the Yearly Bullish Reversal stood at 87125 and we closed 2016 at 86450 after reaching intraday for the year 89940. To have exceeded the Yearly Bullish for the Euro intraday yet failed to close above it warns that the rally in the Euro against the Krone is most likely coming to an end.

Feb 21 2017

KOMMONSENTSJANE – More ‘Drain the Swamp’ of the State Department — Fellowship of the Minds


We really do need that swamp drained.

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One of Donald John Trump’s campaign promises was “Drain the Swamp”. The State Department is notorious for being a bastion of liberal bureaucrats even in Republican administrations. It is also a corrupt bureaucracy. Recall that in the 3+ y

ears (2009-2013) when Hillary Clinton headed the department as U.S. Secretary of State, she used the State […]

via More ‘Drain the Swamp’ of the State Department — Fellowship of the Minds

The State Department during Hillary’s time was nothing but a rogue group and this is where all of the problems happened. The government departments and the government itself is too big and they each must be down-sized.  This is just the beginning.

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