Martin Armstrong
Martin Arthur Armstrong is current chairman and founder of Armstrong Economics. He is best known for his economic predictions based on the Economic Confidence Model, which he developed.
January 20th, 2025 | Listening to Fools
Armstrong Economics - COMMENT: I had assumed you were just a Trump supporter. It has been emphasized that I was wrong and that you are in the middle of forecasting the events economically. I was told you recently said that Trump could go down as Herbert Hoover and that he cannot prevent the recession from occurring. Would […]
January 19th, 2025 | Why Macron Wants to Create World War III – For a Dictatorships
Armstrong Economics - A reader from France elaborated on the real motives behind Macron’s wanting to send troops into Ukraine, knowing this would start World War III. He looks at this from a personal power perspective, like any dictator fearing a loss of power. The reader wrote: “To follow up on the Post “Macron Considers Sending Troops to […]
January 18th, 2025 | The DEEP STATE – Exposed
January 17th, 2025 | Roosevelt Also Confiscated Silver in 1933
Armstrong Economics - QUESTION: I made a bet that a friend was wrong that Roosevelt also confiscated silver. I never heard of that, only gold. He said I should write to you and you will decide who wins. Thanks FD ANSWER: Sorry, you lose. He must have been at one of my conferences when we discussed that […]
January 16th, 2025 | Volcanic Activity on the Rise
Armstrong Economics - QUESTION: You have opened my eyes to the fact that volcanoes. I believe your computer was forecasting a rise in volcanic activity starting in 2025. Do you have any data that can suggest the risk from the supervolcano at Yellowstone? Pat ANSWER: The Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming is one of Earth’s most potent volcanic […]
January 15th, 2025 | Destroying the World Economy ASAP
Armstrong Economics - The two positions in life that require ZERO experience are (1) politician and (2) becoming a parent. We often hear blaming foreign buyers in real estate for the rise in prices. I listened to that in Miami, with all the foreigners buying condos, but I also heard in Florida how all these people from New […]
January 14th, 2025 | Dems Profiting on California Tragedy
Armstrong Economics - Politicians never shy away from using a tragedy for personal gain. Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Elizabeth Warren have been caught stealing donations intended for California wildfire victims and funneling them back into their Democrat Super PACs. Newsom created a website to combat “misinformation,” another term for controlling the narrative, called CaliforniaFireFacts.com that redirects […]
January 13th, 2025 | The TRUTH Behind the TikTok Ban – Censorship
Armstrong Economics - The TikTok ban is a complete disregard for the rights and freedoms of the American people. The ban is NOT about national security, but rather, the final attempt to prevent the people from connecting on an uncensored platform without backdoor government censorship. The law in question goes beyond TikTok as the government will only permit social platforms […]
January 12th, 2025 | China – Deflation into 2026 & Beyond
Armstrong Economics - QUESTION: Thank you so much for your world forecasts. It is very helpful to be able to read you here in China. You said that deflation is in motion into 2028. People are cutting back on spending and your model has been correct here in China. Could you provide a quick overview for 2025? […]
January 11th, 2025 | CBDC: The End of Money (Movie)
Armstrong Economics - Click the following link to watch the film “CBDC: The End of Money” Central Bank Digital Currencies are being pushed worldwide by the Bank of International Settlements and governments. Are we witnessing the natural evolution of money into a fully digital form or a pervasive system of social control masquerading as money? This […]
January 9th, 2025 | Legacy Media Suddenly Outraged Over Biden’s Mental Health
Armstrong Economics - There is suddenly an outpouring of anger from the legacy media aimed at the Democrats who hid Biden’s mental health decline. Every channel now discusses what those with eyes, ears, and, most importantly, INDEPENDENT thoughts already knew. The same journalists who spent the past eight years demonizing Donald Trump are now outraged at their […]
January 8th, 2025 | Zuckerberg to End Company Fact-Checking Censorship
Armstrong Economics - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is swiftly reversing course before Donald Trump takes office. Zuckerberg openly used Meta, formerly Facebook, as a propaganda tool to influence US elections, promote the COVID agenda, and deplatform anyone speaking out against the establishment. Zuckerberg began to change his tune over the summer when his company was investigated by […]
January 7th, 2025 | MKUltra Documents Declassified
Armstrong Economics - Psychological warfare is far more powerful than bullets. The government has been studying methods of brainwashing for decades. Perhaps the most infamous studies fall under the MKUltra program that the CIA conducted from 1953 to 1964 on unsuspecting victims who did not know they were participating in a brutal study. The MKUltra experiments have been […]
January 6th, 2025 | Biden Bans Oil Drilling Before Exiting Office
Armstrong Economics - President Joe Biden has invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prevent Donald Trump from permitting new oil and natural gas leases. Offshore drilling in federal waters along the East and West coasts of the US, eastern Gulf of Mexico, and portions of the northern Bering Sea in Alaska are now forbidden. Biden boasted […]
January 5th, 2025 | The Stale US Real Estate Market
Armstrong Economics - Home sales in the US rose to a four-year high after rising 12.1% YoY, according to a new Redfin report. As I stated, we are entered a buyer’s market in May of 2024 in line with the ECM. Gone are the days of bidding wars and skipped inspections. Home inventory has picked up significantly […]
January 4th, 2025 | Mexico 2025
Armstrong Economics - QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I want to thank you for your work. It is refreshing to read a non-biased analysis of our country. I do not say this to flatter you. I am honestly appreciative of your work and independence in the age where everything is fake news here, too, in Mexico. The peso has weakened […]
January 3rd, 2025 | US Credit Card Defaults Reach 14-Year High
Armstrong Economics - Credit card defaults in the US skyrocketed by 50% in the past year. Credit card defaults reached $46 billion in the first nine months of 2024, a level not seen since 2010. The cost of living has simply surpassed manageable levels for the majority of households. Americans are feeling the impact of inflation and compounding […]
January 2nd, 2025 | Retail Closures in US Hit Pandemic Levels
Armstrong Economics - Over 6,481 retailers have closed their doors since the beginning of the new year, according to data from Coresight Research in November, but that figure is expected to reach 7,327, marking a 57.8% increase in closures since 2023. During the pandemic, closures exceeded openings by 180 stores in 2020, with the gap widening in 2021 […]
January 2nd, 2025 | Blinken Interfering Romanian Elections
Armstrong Economics - The American NEOCONS are interfering in elections, as always. Blinken ran off to Romania like Biden in Ukraine in July 2014, all to overturn the election in Romania, where the people voted against the war, and Blinken insisted Russia hacked the election. This guy will not be satisfied until he drenches Europe in the […]
December 31st, 2024 | NATO & Invoking Article 5
Armstrong Economics - COMMENT: Martin, I must admit, I have never read NATO article 5 until this morning while reading your post from yesterday. Looking at the actual wording, it seems to me that the whole article revolves around one little word, namely “it”. In this case, it refers to each NATO member nation in the case […]
December 30th, 2024 | The Second US State to Tax Fossil Fuel Companies
Armstrong Economics - New York state has enacted a bill to extort fossil fuel companies in the name of climate change. Governor Kathy Hochul believes the bill will generate $75 billion in funds for the state over the next 25 years, which she claims will be used to fight climate change. Why would any energy company want to operate out […]
December 29th, 2024 | Gold Clause & CBDC
Armstrong Economics - QUESTION: Regarding CBDC, will they convert all the savings/cash in your bank account, will they convert everything in your brokerage accounts (all stocks etc.) will they go after gold and silver you have in storage (Brinks, for example)? KS ANSWER: Everything will be converted to the new CBDC. The money in your bank account is already just […]
December 28th, 2024 | Canada Moving for a NO CONFIDENCE Vote to Throw Out Trudeau
Armstrong Economics - The C$ is poised to finally elect a Yearly Sell Signal (Bearish Reversal) warning that Canada may not bottom out until 2026. Even if Trudeau is removed from office, will that prevent the Decline & Fall of Canada into 2026? We will deal with these questions and more in our annual report on Canada for […]
December 27th, 2024 | Why & When NATO Treaty Should be Terminated to Prevent WWIII
Armstrong Economics - The heart of the North Atlantic Treaty is Article 5, which contains two major problems. Yes, Article 5 proclaims that an attack on any member of the Alliance will be considered an attack on all. To justify a full NATO response, it is imperative that any member of NATO create some sort of event […]
December 25th, 2024 | When the US Government Defaulted on its Bonds
Armstrong Economics - The first three Liberty bonds and the Victory Loan, sold to fund World War I, were indeed retired during the 1920s. However, because the terms of the bonds included a Ponzi Scheme that allowed the bondholder to swap them for the newer bonds, with superior terms, most of the debt from the first, second, […]