Monday, September 21, 2015

MARTIN ARMSTRONG'S LATEST BLOG POSTS


Market Talk – September 21st, 2015

Trading Community
In Asia the Hang Seng could not climb out of the red all day and eventually closed down -0.75%. As always, the Shanghai had a volatile session initially opening higher but spent the balance of the day making headway to close at the days highs of 3157 (+1.91%). The Nikkei was closed for Respect for the Aged Day. Nikkei futures however were quoted and initially followed the positive sentiment but that was as good as it got for the early US session! Eventually, after a mid-day wobble in the US and an uncertain European mix stocks did manage to rally in the last few minutes of the US day.
The US Treasury market (especially the Long Bond) lost ground today as various FED Members spoke publicly. Lacker was quoted defending his position; Williams, talked of having patience and did not rule-out 2015 and the non-voter Bullard argued against the FED decision of holding rates unchanged. The long end lost almost 2 full points and at the same time we saw 2/10 steepen by 3bp to +148bp. The 10yr TY/RX spread closed the day +149bp.
The US Dollar Index (DXY) saw one of its strongest days in a while. Closing at 96.04 +1.10%. The Euro was one of the worst performing currencies of the day closing down around 1% just below 1.1200. Most EM currencies continued to drift against the US$ also. The RUB, TRY, BRL and A$ all lost around 0.5%on the day.

2014 Precious Metals Report Update — Now Available

Gold-Report-Sept-2015UPDATE
We are happy to announce that the update to the 2014 Precious Metals report is now available.
As mentioned, this complimentary update is available exclusively to those who have purchased the 2014 Precious Metals report.
If you purchased this report, you should have received an e-mail from us over the weekend containing the update. Unless otherwise noted, this e-mail was delivered to the e-mail address connected with your PayPal account. If you do not see this e-mail in your inbox, please check your spam folder as it may have been misrouted. If you did not receive the e-mail containing the update, please contact us at ClientServices@PrincetonEconomicsIntl.com.
We would like to thank you again for your patience and continued support.
Kind regards,
The Armstrong Team

Believing in Nonsense

Global Warming
QUESTION: How can you refute all the evidence that there is global warming and climate change caused by man?
ANSWER: First, you should not be reading this blog for you obviously believe in government propaganda no matter what the field has put out by the academic community. Global warming is on par with Marxism and thinking that handing all power to government will prevent recessions.
Even in economics, I was told to be a good boy and put out studies with predetermined conclusions. If I complied, I would make millions per year for every bill passed by government requires a bogus economic study. Some academics are independent free thinkers, such as Milton Friedman. Those willing to buck government whom are not on the gravy train of government subsidies are the minority. The same is true with this nonsense that man is entirely behind climate change, as natural cyclical forces, such as the energy output of the sun, are not even considered.
If you accept the idea that global warming/climate change is caused entirely by man, please stop reading this blog, for you will also believe whatever government tells you with their equally bogus economic statistics. You are not going to make it to the other side.
The entire theory of man causing climate change is nonsense as if it were something created since the 1920s with absolutely no study whatsoever on the cyclical nature of the climate pre-1920. These bogus corrupt “scientists” (using the word very loosely since they sell out to the highest bidder) do not demonstrate ANYTHING historically, yet you try to put the burden on me to prove a bogus theory is wrong. You begin with accepting whatever they say is true and then demand I prove a negative is negative. These bought and paid for “scientists” have not provided a documented study for thousands of years and they keep manipulating the data to try to pretend they are right when ALL independent research demonstrates they are dead wrong. The North Pole moves, yet their stations are fixed, and they declare it is getting warmer because the pole moved further away. The North Pole is moving to Russia. There is even evidence that the poles flip on Earth just as they do on the sun. Sun poles flip north to south about every 11 years, but on Earth, the pole flips are measure in hundreds of thousands of years, so we are overdue.
The entire theory of greenhouse gases is based upon an assumption that temperature throughout the troposphere would be constant if not for human activity. If they were financial analysts, they would conclude after a three-year bull market that stocks only go up, or like the gold promoters who claim every rally is real and declines are manipulations for they can see only one side. The corrupt pretend scientists assume that carbon dioxide and methane raise the surface temperature of the planet because they assume that temperature would be the same at all levels in the troposphere if there were no greenhouse gases. Of course, they have no data to prove that such a perfect state of equal temperatures ever existed. They are so off the planet, demonstrating that they completely fail to comprehend how a dynamic system works.
So sorry. The burden is yours, not mine. Show me a study that proves these theories for thousands of years. Then and only then is it even worth discussing.
These people flew a plane over the South Pole and said, “OMG, there is a hole in the ozone so we must have caused it!” They are clueless for saying that there was never a hole before. It is just amazing. They have put forth NOTHING to prove their theory before 1900 and attribute everything to human activity. Sure, we do not want to be in a city where you cannot breathe. London used to be that way in the 1980s, but it has been cleaned up as buses where the main culprit.
Now that cars are more efficient and electric cars are starting to take over, states are looking to switch to taxing people per mile driven because revenue has declined from gasoline. Even government realizes the peak in fossil fuel is past us and contributes to why oil has entered a new phase. All the data from satellites proves that temperatures have been declining for almost the past two decades, but academics get checks from government for studies. The last economist who told a government they were wrong after taking the head job to draft the business plan was Kondratieff. If you do not put out studies that say what government wants to hear, you will not get paid. That is the simple fact, and it is the same in every field.

“The Forecaster” (l’Oracle) made national TV in France and was played when Finance Minister Michel Sapin appeared on air. The host asked Sapin directly about the business cycle. While Sapin claimed nobody can forecast, he then proceeded to forecast that the French economy would boom next year, posting a 1.5% growth rate. Now Moody’s downgraded France for the exact opposite reason Mr. Sapin claimed — weak growth ahead, not strong.
First Japan was downgraded and now France. One by one we are starting to see this Sovereign Debt Crisis unfold in slow motion. Governments have not given up hope of losing power or filling their pockets with other people’s money as they expand the hunt for money to fund themselves. But rising taxation lowers economic growth and even considering the possibility that their management is destroying our culture and civilization is something far from their agenda.
It is our own fault. They have no qualifications whatsoever to lead a country. It is amazing how we expect some qualification in every field BESIDES politics.

No comments: