The Future The Good and the Bad | Armstrong Economics

COMMENT: Good morning Mr. Armstrong, Thank you for your service to Mankind! I look forward to seeing you and Vicky again in Orlando. I was reading your Blog on stem cells and felt compelled to send you the attached. … One other item of note; one of my other clients had their boat seized in the Bahamas by Bahamian customs for failure to have a cruising permit. The family was told there is a $10,000 fine to release it. The boat was dry docked in the Bahamas for the last 2 years after their parents passed. I had no luck calling the Bahamian customs so I called the US Embassy who is also having difficulty having their calls returned. Now that you are in Florida, be careful if you go to the Bahamas. Best, J REPLY: Yes, I am familiar with the advances in this area. They are quite remarkable. And you are correct. The Bahamas is not the only place hunting money. This is all part of the collapse of socialism. This insane process of borrowing with no intention of paying off the debt is starting to explode. A simple 1% increase in interest rates will send budgets soaring. We have reached the point of no return in the Sovereign Debt Crisis. We will be looking at Asia and how it will deal with this same debt crisis at the Singapore WEC in June. Most people have no idea that the China debt is 250% of GDP compared to the USA at 103%. All this focus on the collapse of the dollar has led to so many taking their eye off the real time-bomb ticking away. It is laughable how so many pretend analysts never bother to really do the research. They are clueless as to how the world monetary system would even collapse. All they do is constantly talk about the Fed, US national debt, and the dollar as they remain oblivious to anything taking place around the world. With respect to medicine, we are on the verge of some very important advances. So that’s the good news.
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The Failure of Human Judgment | Armstrong Economics

QUESTION: You have said it is a waste of time to try to persuade a government to act in advance of a crisis. Nobody seems to even come close to you with experience and contacts. Still, do you think it is possible to ever change that reality? PL ANSWER: Sadly no. The only possible way to change it would be to eliminate career politicians and people would serve one term as originally intended. People make a judgment in the own self-interest. Then you have the problem of human judgment. The majority is always wrong in markets as I have stated many times. But that decision-making process is wrong in so many other fields that also require a judgment. The author of Harry Potter, JK Rowling, told her readers on Twitter that she received “loads” of rejections before she finally got published. She said she was rejected 11 times before someone took a chance on her. This is the fate of human judgment in so many fields far too often because people also judge others by themselves. Some women were angry that I dared to say that not all prostitutes were forced. They judge others by themselves. There are people who have always slept around and others who value celibacy. We are all not the same. Likewise, Goldbugs cannot accept that gold is not money because that is their view and the rest of the world is wrong. When you judge others by yourself, you will never arrive at an objective decision. This is why the majority will ALWAYS be wrong in just about anything that requires human judgment. So eleven publishers rejected Harry Potter. What does that say about human judgment?
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Is DOJ Obstructing Congress in the Trump Surveillance Case? | Trending

Did Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) really have to threaten to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt and to start impeachment proceedings? Apparently so. Nunes chairs the House Intelligence Committee. For almost eight months, Wray and Rosenstein stalled…
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