Selecting World Leaders: Intelligence No Longer a Prerequisite w/ Martin Armstrong

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We probably have the worst crop of world leaders in my entire life that I’ve ever seen. You mean around the world? Yeah, around the world. It’s just, it’s. There isn’t one of them that I would even want to sit down and have a drink with. Actually. They’re. But are they put there on purpose? Is that the point? They’re put there on purpose for this point in time, so they can. Sure. But I, I would, I wouldn’t write that conspiracy theory off. Are you struggling with bloating, fatigue, skin issues, weight gain? Well, everybody’s struggling from weight gain, but rashes and just generally feel like crap.

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I asked him, would you be willing to advise Trump and the administration if they asked you to? And he would be and he would give them a different perspective or at least give Trump a different perspective, not tell him what he wants to hear and perhaps maybe it would give him a different insight onto what’s happening because he has the data worldwide, data on what’s going on with the economy globally. And even if he doesn’t listen to him, Getting access to that data and understanding what’s going on worldwide I think would be invaluable to President Trump.

So it would be, I would advise to just talk to him. I think he’d do that. He wouldn’t charge, he would just do that. He doesn’t want to work for governments, but he would do that. And I think getting to that data would be critical. That being said, I think there’s a lot of valuable information here for everyday people just to understand how you know where things are going, especially if you are into finance and helping to figure out what your company is going to do or what you need to do to protect your wealth. I always say you want to go towards assets that will withstand any kind of turbulence, and that is gold and silver and actually diversify even into real estate and other things that as things go up and down over time, those assets hold their value and you, they’re not going to bottom out.

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Go to sarah westall.com Miles Franklin fill out that form. You can get their private price list, which is not public, or you can be helped on recovering funds from a scam that you might have gotten yourself involved with with an IRA. Okay, do that. Sarah westall.com milesfranklin okay, let’s get into this really good discussion that I have with Martin Armstrong. Hi Martin. Welcome back to the program. Well, thank you for inviting me. It’s always a pleasure to have you. Your insight is invaluable. You are one of the few that really looks at the economic data across the world and what that means to, in, in a tangible, data, scientific way based on how, how the money is moving.

What’s going to happen, what are you seeing in the Ukraine area? I know you just wrote an article about Ukraine and how it’s, it’s more dangerous than people realize. Yeah. You know, I’m not one of these guys that just hates Trump or supports. I just got to call the shots as, as they are, whatever the data says, Right? Yeah. Look, I mean, I was at dinner with Trump back in March of 2020 when he was president the first time, and he didn’t press me then. He said he wanted to pull the troops out of Afghanistan, but was the reason.

He said he was tired of writing letters to their parents to say, your son died for God in country. And he actually said, what are we doing there? What difference are we going to make? They’ve been fighting over borders for a thousand years. So I knew he was really against war. So I was warned about maybe a week in advance that he might be doing 180, you know, backward flip on this whole Ukrainian stuff. Why? Honestly, I think it’s, it’s maybe twofold. I think he may think that doing this, he’s going to really put the pressure on, on Putin to fold.

Like in tariffs, I’m Gonna put a 200 tariff and expect you, you know, some negotiation or something. And it doesn’t work. Right. They just shift away from the United States, build better agreements with China and elsewhere. Yeah. What he’s done here with Ukraine and Putin, I think, I think he’s wrong and he’s taking advice from these neocons that actually, I believe tried to kill him. Look, you know, even assuming, let’s say, Putin folds, oh, my God, I was wrong. What do you think would happen in Russia when Khrushchev had to back down from the Cuban missile crisis? There was a coup, he was overthrown, and Brezhnev came in.

You know, what if Trump had to back down and say, oh, gee, I’m sorry, do you think he would be even acceptable to his magnet group? I mean, these things, when you’re messing with the reputation, so to speak, of a head of state, you’re stepping into really a quagmire here. And Putin is probably the smartest guy at the table. I have the declassified documents from the Clinton administration. Even Clinton said when he met him, he says, this guy’s really smart, he is highly responsible. And what I mean by that is he doesn’t act emotionally. And this is why Zelinsky’s tried to kill him, because they’ve done everything to try and get him to attack anything in NATO.

Oh, if you give them long range missiles, that’s it. They do. He doesn’t do anything. They invade, curse. He doesn’t do anything because he knows where this leads. They’re trying to bait him to attack a NATO country or NATO territory. So that NATO will be forced to start World War iii. You can Google it. It’s, it’s called Rally around the Flag. If you want your, your people to sign up for war, you have to pretend you were attacked. That’s what false flags are all about. Even FDR, he could not get us into World War II until he got Japan to attack Pearl Harbor.

He froze all their assets, cut off their energy, threatened to put an embargo against them. And I even have on my side, I mean it was, the attack of Pearl Harbors was leaked. I had the front page of the Honolulu Tribune said we’re going to be attacked this weekend. They knew it. They had posters made. Did you know, I met somebody who had posters made that knew of the. Okay, but anyways, keep going. Yeah, I mean he pulled the aircraft carriers out, you know, and then pretended he didn’t know. There was a big Senate investigation on this afterwards because it was such a conspiracy.

And it came out that we had even broken the Japanese code. So they said we broke the Japanese code. You mean. Oh, you mean we, we intercepted their communication. So we knew what they were saying. So the committee was a Senate investigation and they concluded. Well, we’re not entirely sure FDR knew personally, you know. Of course not. They’re not going to say, you know, it’s just the way it is. It’s the same thing with 9 11. They said, well some agencies had the information but they didn’t share it. It’s always the same, you know, it’s always, you can, then you can pin it on incompetence and stuff and just kind of the bureaucracy and it’s just, we’re just a mess.

Look, they knew about 9 11. I mean they’re not going to stop it because once you get that it got them a tremendous amount of power. They were able to start the whole world on terrorism stuff. We had to take our shoes off to get it onto an airplane. You couldn’t wire out more than $3,000 all because of 9 11. The Patriot act went forward. Yeah, it’s still there. Yeah, it’s still there. It’s not going to go away. And so this is what you, you get. I mean it’s a standard routine. And look, with Ukraine, I mean I put on our site, I have a video which they ended up taking off of YouTube of John McCain standing there in Maidan telling them basically to overthrow their government.

This is about you and nobody else. This is about peace. Right? Okay. They overthrew the government. Where’s the peace 1.8 million Ukrainians are now dead. 10 million have fled the country. Yeah, yeah. It’s always yes. So you, you wrote an article recently talking about how the acts of Zelensky, you know, they. They spin him as if this is a democratic region, you know, some kind of free press, or the way he behaves is a dictator thug. And talk about what he did to his opposition leader. And some of your thoughts on whether he is even a legitimate president? Well, I mean, we had employees in Kiev and in Donetsk, so have, you know, boots on the ground, as they say.

Most believe that his election was all rigged anyhow and that he really didn’t win. But, you know, that’s debatable. One person say yes, the other person will say no, but he immediately went after any political opponent. Just like Brazil is going after Bolsonaro, charging with treason, whatever, throwing in prison. I mean, this is what he did with the two of them. Even the EU came out and said, it doesn’t look good. You should release this one guy from prison. I mean, the IMF has said, you know, that the, you know, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world.

You know, I was asked if I would advise the Ukrainian government years ago, and I said, you know, they offered to pay me. Well, we can pay you in an offshore accounts, you know, I said, no, thanks, you know, not interested. I never had a government offer to pay me money underneath the table, ever. Owning Ukraine, it’s. Look, Ukraine is that whole Balkans area. People are ethnically divided. This is what. When Czechoslovakia broke up, it’s Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine broke up. I mean, Yugoslavia broke up. You got Serbia, Croatia, Armenia, and they hate each other. This whole region had been conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

So you have Islam, you have Eastern Orthodox Christianity, plus you have Western. And they all hate each other. I mean, Zelinsky going after the. The people in the Donbas. He’s outlawed their language, can’t speak Russian, outlaw the religion. No. Christmas will now be December 25th. Not Orthodox in January. I mean, you don’t do this to people. You know, can you imagine if. If Canada said, we’re going to outlaw French? I think they’re going to have a revolution. You know, we couldn’t say, okay, fine, we’re going to outlaw Spanish. You can’t speak Spanish in the United States.

Well, in this period of time. And they could have done that probably like 30, 40 years ago, but if you try to do that now, it would have been, yeah, it’d be terrible. That whole region in Russia, the scholarly debates, who’s really Russian. That’s right. Stalin was from Georgia. You know, Khrushchev basically drew the borders. He was, you know, grew up there at, you know, on the, the border with Ukraine. His successor, Brezhnev was born in the Donbass. You know, so, well, the Ukrainians, so they, they feel like they’re more part of Russia. But now the Zelinsky, what did he do to the opposition leader? I mean, they’re throwing him in prison.

They’re doing all the, they’re trumping up. They’re doing that to leaders all around the world right now, aren’t they? I mean, everybody’s doing it now. They tried that with Trump. Then you saw, you know, they’re doing it in Brazil against Bolsonaro, in France against Marine Le Pen. Romania is now doing it. Pakistan has done it through the former president in prison. This is becoming a systemic problem. They’re using law and I would suggest read John Stuart Mills from 1859. He wrote a book called On Liberty. And in there he talks about how corrupt the legal system was even then.

And he said, we have yet to free ourselves from the stain of legal persecution. It’s. This is it. It’s just come back full blown and they’re using the law to persecute people. Yep. Yeah, it is being, it’s, oh, he’s a criminal, so don’t listen to him or something. Yeah, this is the nonsense that goes on and it’s just so corrupt. I mean, it’s really disgusting. I mean, my father was a lawyer. I grew up believing in the United States and the rule of law. And I don’t believe in any of it anymore. It’s, you got to see who’s the judge, who appointed him, what’s going on, who’s paying him on the side.

I mean, it’s just ridiculous anymore. Well, how much do you think the United States legal system is a bribery scheme compared to other countries? I know other countries like Ukraine probably is just all briberies. And there are some countries that are completely, you know, no faith in the justice system at all. But how far has the United States fallen? How much are our judges just bribed and, you know, controlled? I would say certainly the two worst cities are New York and Washington. The lawyers, I mean, you can look it up. U. S versus Zicatello. The judges up there in New York change the transcripts.

They actually change what you say in court. All right? And I asked lawyers, how do they get away with it? Well, you know, the judges, you know, they passed their own rule. If the judge thinks it’s irrelevant. He can change it. Isn’t that interesting? They can do whatever. I know up to the Court of Appeals. It’s called US vs Zicatello. Z I C H E E T T O the court of appeals admitted that judges are committing a felony. If you or I changed a court document, we go to prison for 20 years. Judges do it all the time.

And the Second Circuit actually had the audacity to say, we’re not sure we have the power to tell the judges to obey the law. Well, but see, what happens then is that people no longer want to spend the money to go to court and justice just doesn’t. There is no justice anymore because you don’t. It’s like, why bother going to court? I’m going to lose anyways. It doesn’t matter how well my case is. It doesn’t matter that they stole from me or did whatever. I’m going to lose anyway. So why spend the money? And now we have no justice system.

Look, there’s. I asked one lawyer, I said, how come no bank in New York has ever been charged? His answer? You don’t shit where you eat. That’s incredible. I know that when I had a case in 2008 when I was suing this bank and whatever all the fraudulent stuff going on in Minnesota, from Minnesota, not a single bank was charged, found guilty of fraud in the entire decade before I went to court with them. Not one. This is the way it goes. I mean, you know, I mean, Goldman Sachs is charged with fraud in Asia over the, you know, Malaysian manipulations and stuff.

Never. I mean, George Sarves I think was charged in, in, in France. You know, it’s not going to happen. What keeps them from not committing fraud if they’re never found guilty when they do? Right. They know that they can do whatever they want and they’re not going to be prosecuted. And everybody knows it. And if they are prosecuted, they win. Right. I mean, they just, it’s just. This is what, you know, they all have ganged up and tried to manipulate markets like Long Term Capital Management, whatever. All right here. That’s a hedge fund. The Fed had to step in and bail out a hedge fund because if it went down, the banks went.

So it’s protecting the banks by doing that AIG with the whole mortgage back. It’s an insurance company. That’s not part of the F. You know, the Fed, they bail them out. Why? Because if we don’t do that goal when Sachs goes down. Look, you had. Personally, I, I believe it was a conspiracy. You. Goldman puts in, they put in, you know, Hank Paulson. So he’s here in the treasury, magically bails out. You’re talking about they bail out aig, they bail out Long Term Capital Management. But they let two banks go down. You know why? Because there were only five investment banks in New York.

And the two they let go, oh, they were competitors of Goldman, the ones you’re actually supposed to bail out. You don’t. And then you bail out a hedge fund and insurance company because that would affect Goldman. Is that incredible? It shows who’s in power now. Who was the, the powers behind Goldman at that point. It’s an. Just an entity that to be part of is like glorified or whatever. I don’t know. It’s. It’s not one individual. It’s just a systemic system. This is it. And you take an oath and not to swear, you know, not to testify against them or whatever.

Goldman’s very. I can tell you, you had five bro, which was a big. They own, you know, part of Engelhard big metals operation. They made a, a ton of money out of the 1980 gold rally. They then bought Solomon Brothers. And being a trader, not an academic. So I had my, you know, I was there in the ring. And what they did was they would always manipulate the commodity markets continually. So they took how they do that to Wall street when they bought Salman Brothers. And what happens? They get caught manipulating U.S. government, Treasury auctions. All of a sudden, Warren Buffett steps up.

Now Salomon Brothers was the biggest bond dealer in New York. And salman, you know, so Buffett stands up. I’ll take the chairmanship. Don’t shut it down. All right? So they let it survive. He takes his chairmanship supposedly to clean it up. Gets involved in two big silver manipulations. Look, once the Salomon Brothers event took place, I believe what you can look at in the behavior of Goldman after that, they realized that they have to control government, otherwise they could come in and shut them down like they were going to do to Solomon, because they manipulated the auctions.

So all of a sudden you see all these former heads of Goldman Sachs taking jobs, Secretary of Treasury, that, you know, all this stuff. It was a reverse takeover of government. You had Reuben in there. And what did they do? They reversed, you know, they repealed the Glass Eagle, which allowed banks to get back into trading and everything else. Former head of Goldman Sachs and you know, being involved in Washington, I can tell you what something. People have no idea to take that position. You can’t have a, any conflict of interest. So you get to sell your stock in Goldman, maybe $500 million worth or whatever, tax free because you must take the, the job.

So you have to divest everything else. So it wouldn’t be fair if you paid taxes on it because we want you to take this job. So it’s a boon. You want to take, let. You want to get these jobs so you can get the tax. You may just make 200 million or 100 million overnight. Go in there for, for a couple years. Oh, I have a headache, you know, sorry. You know, I mean, just look at the, at the list and you’ll see. This is why the banks control government. Every look at what goes on. I mean, they get caught with, with they made a billion dollars on a trade.

Oh, SEC goes in, they don’t shut them down. Oh, we gave them a fine. 200 million. Yeah, that’s their cut. That’s it. Okay, we made it. Here’s your point. That’s how you have to look at it. Because they have an 800 million dollar profit. The government’s cut is 200 million. Yeah. Yes. This is what goes on. SEC, CFT. They’ve never, ever, ever done anything to any of the banks. All they do is, oh, we find them, they pay 200 million and sure cut, that’s it. Well, isn’t, are people starting to see through this now though? I mean, we’re seeing, especially in other countries, this country, we’re really having some more of a social fight going on.

I think a lot of it is distraction, but other countries are starting around the world. You’re seeing people go to the streets and you’re like Nepal and the Philippines and I think Australia, was it Australia. There’s, I mean, massive numbers of people in the streets and people in the United States have no idea that this is going on worldwide. Here, domestically, they, they use the press to divide the people. And as long as the people are divided left versus right and all this, then you don’t look at the government and look when, when Biden put the sanctions on Russia and gasoline prices went up, what did he say? Oh, it’s Putin’s inflation.

You know, you always have to blame somebody else. You never accept, blame yourself. I’ve been dealing with governments for 50 years around the world and lost any faith in humanity or whatever. But I’ve learned if, for example, if I said, okay, fine, I’m going to run for Congress, vote for me because I saved your job, you’re going to look at me and say, well, how do I know? I would have lost it. It’s better you lose your job. Then I say, vote for me. I’ll get the guy that did it. This is government. They will never act to prevent something.

All right? I became famous with the 87 crash. Why? So I got called in in 85. That was. They were. That was the creation of the G5, which is now G. G20. All right? And saying we’re going to lower the value of the dollar by 40% to help trade, to, you know, reduce our trade deficit. And they’re idiots. They don’t, you know, I’m a trader, not a theoretical academic nonsense. And I said, look, you do that, you’re going to cause a crash within a couple years. And they said, well, why? Because you sold a third of the national debt to Japan and now you’re saying you’re going to lower its value by 40%.

They’re going to sell. They don’t understand anything outside of dollars. So the 87 crash comes. @ first, the Presidential Commission called me. They want me to come in. I said, not interested. Sorry. It’s a dog and pony show. So they start calling my friends to lobby me to go in. I got a call from Jack Schwager. He says, marty, if you don’t do this, they’re going to come take our computers. Because they were calling, oh, it’s computer trading. So I said, all right, all right. So I went in and you can look at the end of the Brady Commission report.

The best I got was at the end, they didn’t blame computers. They were first going to say it was called computer trading, you know, and our computers and, and that nonsense. So at the end of the report, I finally got them to look at it. It was a currency crisis issue. At the bottom of the report it says, we think foreign exchange had something to do with it. But, you know, they would never blame the government, you know. And so that was basically it. You know, I said, look, you know, look at the capital flows. Japan dumped everything because they’re going to lose 40%, you know.

Oh, okay. I mean, these people shouldn’t even be in charge of government. I mean, it’s. So is it better right now? Is it. Is it better right now with the. With them knowing that the global financial system is. Is fragile, resetting, whatever. Do we have better people in there now or is it the same crap? No, I think it’s. It’s. They. They’re in. We probably have the worst crop of world leaders in my entire life that I’ve ever seen. You mean around the world? Yeah, around the world. It’s just, it’s. There isn’t one of them that I would even want to sit down and have a drink with actually there.

But are they put there on purpose? Is that the point? They’re put there on purpose for this point in time, so they can. Sure. But I, I would, I wouldn’t write that conspiracy theory off. It might be another one that comes true. Oh, it seems to be just so coincidental. You have a bunch of complete idiots, McCrone Stammer. I mean, stupid, stupid. It’s, there’s nobody there with any intelligence. Look, back in, in the 80s and 90s, I would meet with heads of state. I’ve been good friends of Margaret Thatcher. She even spoke at one of our conferences and stuff.

You could have an intelligent conversation with his estate. I don’t know any of them out there that I could say that would be true today. That’s a sad statement. It is. Something seriously changed, I’m not sure, but from, I think what happened, because I was part of the vetting process, they would send me in to supposedly explain how the world economy worked to people who wanted to run for president, but it was really a vetting process. I get back, do you think he’s smart enough to handle it? That’s the way it was up until 1999. Then I was asked, okay, fine, we want you to go down and meet Bush Jr.

I said, yeah, okay, fine. And they said, no, this one’s different. I said, what’s different? He said, no, he’s really stupid. And they use that word. Wow. And I said, what? I said, why would you make somebody stupid president? And that’s when I saw it. They said, he’s got the name, we can win. They don’t care. They picked the Cabinet, not Bush. They stick Dick Cheney in there. He was the real president. I was offered chief economic advisor. I said, no, thanks. I said, I own my own company. I’m not like Goldman. And ever since then, that’s the way it’s been.

Obama, not the brightest bulb in the, in the box. When Trump got there, they were really upset. The first time they told him, oh, we, you know, we have to put a good cabin in there to make sure because you’re not a politician and we have to give confidence to the world economy. This is what he was told. Even General Flynn, you can look at his documentary, he says, when Trump first got there, he was naive. That’s why this time when he won, he picked his Cabinet before He even got to Washington. That was a shot across the bow at the deep state.

You’re not going to do this again. Because the first time they stuffed a Dick Cheney, Bolton, every one of them was stabbing him in the back, you know. You know, Dick Cheney just, you know, endorsed Camilla. I know. Isn’t that incredible? Wasn’t that incredible? That was the final confirmation that she was just a diving head on, like on the back of a car, you know, that just bobbles around as the cars hitting the bumps. She’ll do anything that they, you know, that’s what Biden was. That’s what they want. Once the deep state, and by that I mean by the bureaucracy, once they got that taste of power with, with Bush Jr.

They don’t want to give it back. They don’t want a president, any party. They don’t want a president who is actually going to think he’s the president and be able to do things. So how dangerous is that? What kind of. What, what, what does that mean? It means that, you know, this is how governments eventually fall. Yes. They become for themselves. They think they are the power. You can read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, which sparked the American Revolution in the very beginning. He says exactly that. He said, you know, sovereigns think that, you know, the government thinks that they are the sovereign, not the people, that they are the government.

We’re just the slaves. That’s right. And this is. They get built up in their ego and they just, they don’t care about what we think about. I mean, are we, they, they tell us we live in a democracy, which we do not. Are we ever asked any important decision? Shall we go to war in Vietnam? No. Should we go to war with Russia? No, we’re not asked any of those. They don’t even give the impression that they care if people die. They’re not even trying. Yeah, they made that crystal clear during COVID that they don’t care if you die.

In fact, we’d rather have you die. You’re out of our way. That’s the message they sent. Whether they believe it or not, that’s the message they sent. Look, I mean, they, you know, if you die and they don’t have to pay out Social Security, there’s more money in their pocket. That’s the way they look at this. You know, it. It’s never about the people. In the 90s, I was asked to revise, to do a plan to revise Social Security. I did. Okay, fine. I presented it. Couldn’t get a Democrat to support it. Why? Because I said they wanted to turn it into a sovereign wealth fund like a lot of countries have.

I said, okay, fine. This is how we do it. People put in their track records, reallocate money out for them to manage according to their track record. Okay? Democrats said they wouldn’t vote for it. I said, what’s the problem? We want to change those fund managers if we get in. I said, I don’t care if the guy voted for anything or if he never voted or who he voted for. That’s not on the questionnaire. It’s the track record that’s not on the questionnaire. Exactly. And it’s like, what do I get out of it? You know? That’s why I became very pessimistic about government.

It’s like, I. Look, I tried my best. I thought I would, you know, when I was young and naive, I thought, okay, you know, I’m given certain talents. I’ll try and help the country. You can’t. It’s just a bunch of bullshit. It’s a bunch of bullshit. But that’s why the young people actually can make a difference in the US Who’ve been around for a while end up not because we say that we come to that conclusion. It’s hopeless. They go in thinking they can make a big difference, and sometimes they actually make change. The only thing I am optimistic about is that maybe with a generational shift, we can finally get rid of the neocons, perhaps.

Oh, that would be so good for the world, wouldn’t it? I mean, I know Bill Crystal even spoke at one of our conferences. I mean, I grew up in the Philadelphia area. Most people have no idea. Netanyahu went to school there. He hung out with the Crystals. Bill’s father, Irving, taught there at Penn State. He was the one who started the whole neocon movement. So I know these people intimately. All right? I argued with Bill Kristol back in the 90s, and he had said, oh, we remove Saddam Hussein, Assad out of Syria and Gaddafi will bring peace to the Middle East.

I said, you’re out of your mind. Have you ever been there? It’s tribal. It’s not. They don’t see themselves as Syrians or Iraqis. It’s Sunni versus Shiite versus Kurds. They don’t care about the borders. We drew the damn borders. He’s the one that even wrote the book to go in. The only thing that’ll clear up peace is more communication, more interaction. Martin Luther King’s thing where you all have to work together and new generations where they start being forced to do that, that does change and great peace. But I gotta ask you, the neocons love the money they make when wars are waged.

What can they redirect their energy to and. And efforts to. So they can make money and not do it for war, but do it for the benefit of people. I mean, that’s what we’re looking at. That may be the military, you know, industrial complex that they make money from. That these neocons that I know, they don’t do it for the money. What do they do? It’s a hatred. I think they spent their whole life hating communists, McCarthyism and all that stuff, right? And communism fell, all right? All by itself. My conclusion is they’re just pissed off that they didn’t get to shoot anybody.

Well, what is. Okay, so then why do they. What’s with the Middle East? They hate. They hate anything that’s not them. Or what is it? Are you having joint problems or you’re feeling stiff, your knee hurts when you walk? They have found that curcumin has been really good for dealing with inflammation and joint issues. The problem is it doesn’t absorb very well. But recently a pain specialist, Dr. Josh Levitt, figured out a new compound, BCM95 Curcumin, that actually absorbs 200 times better than regular curcumin. And that’s important because when we can get it to absorb, we can really reduce that inflammation and the issues that you’re having in the joints.

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And he had even said, you know, since when does the military not defend the country but is aggressive to overthrow other governments? You know, they think, all right, a lot of those states used to be satellites or appendages to the Soviet Union. So it doesn’t matter. The Soviet Union fell. They still see that. And that’s why they wanted to go into Iraq. He, you know, he, General Clark even said, he asked them, he was told they were going into Iraq and he said, oh, so you, you, you know, found out that Saddam Hussein was behind 9 11.

They said, no, we’re just going in. Okay, so do they have a deep fear that if the Soviet, Russia or the communists get power that they will lose their power? Is that what it is? Yeah, this, it’s, it’s a football game to them. It’s, look, you, you can look at even Vietnam. You have Robert McNamara before he died. That’s on YouTube, I think, trying to clear his conscience. He took us into Vietnam. 58, 000Americans died. How many millions of other people? And he actually says, and you can watch it. He says, we were wrong. We thought Russia was involved.

It was just a civil war. We’re going into Afghanistan, I mean, Iraq, all these things. It was always about Russia. We’re in Ukraine about Russia. They started this whole civil war in Ukraine. We, like I said, I’ve got McCain, you know, his videos that I have them, I put them on my site. He’s there. Overthrow your government. This is all about you. It’s about peace, you know, and then you have Victoria Newland, you know, her phone call got, you know, leaked, you know, fd the EU worst and she stuck in an interim government. They picked the government and then they instructed the interim government to attack the Donbas.

We started the civil war, all right, Knowing it was to, to basically get Putin to come in to try to defend the Russians. Well, there’s a meme that’s out there about her that says, watch out for this woman. If she comes to your country, a civil war is going to start. Yeah, I mean this is, look, you look at most of the, the news, it’s always anti Russia. Oh, Putin’s a week it’s going to go. And I’m afraid that, you know, Trump’s even listening to some of this. Well, but Trump, let’s talk about that though, because Trump is saying that you can get some of your territory back.

He’s flipping on a lot of these things. Oh yeah, because he’s listening to this propaganda from the neocons. But how dangerous is that? Look at the source. It’s the Institute for the Study of War. Who is that? Pick up the rug and look. That’s Victoria Newland’s sister in law. Yeah, so, okay, it’s, they’re always connected this way. So is Trump being fooled again or is he, is he playing, you know, everyone talks about 5D chess, which I, you know, you kind of. It gets almost stupid. But you know, in politics you do have to play some games.

How much is he playing games and how much is he just being fooled? Like I said, I think he may think he’s negotiating by putting the stakes up so high because he told Zelensky. I mean, you’re talking about 180 degree turn. Ukraine has lost 1.8 million people. My sources are right, from Ukraine. This is not Russian propaganda. All right? Over 10 million have fled the country. 8 million to. To the EU and the rest of them off to Russia. We had two employees, one in Donetsk and one in Kiev. They’re both now in Berlin. So many people have fled.

All right, and so to say that Russia is a paper tiger, really? Yeah. No. And, oh, you can take back all your land, but also read what he says and take more. Invade Russia is what he’s saying. So if I’m going to take what he just said at face value, he is advocating World War III and the invasion of Russia. That is true, because he says you can take more. So taking more is invading Russia. Exactly. Do you think he means that or is he a tactic for some other purpose? I know you don’t know necessarily, but I don’t know.

I would say it’s a negotiation that he thinks he’s doing. He can’t be that stupid. No, what those words mean is World War iii. And is this really what you want to do? I mean, I can’t say who, but I did speak to somebody in Congress who’s very close to him. I thought they would think I was maybe a conspiracy theorist. I said, listen, we got to get the hell out of NATO asap. They’re going to do a false flag to try and drag us in. And the response? I mean, I say what I believe, that’s it.

I don’t really give a. You know, the response was, we know. You’re right. Wow. And this was just recently. Yeah, that was the Polish thing. The Polish thing was a false flag. And all of a sudden, oh, we were all in invaded with. With drones. And, and look, I spoke to a few. A couple other countries have said nothing. Flew from Russia over Poland. And what did they immediately say? Oh, okay, fine. Maybe we should do a no fly zone over Ukraine. Really? So Zelensky is allowed to use long range missiles to attack Moscow, but Moscow can’t fire back.

This is what you’re saying, you know, you realize that that’s World War iii. Look, they want war and I, I’ve told this to Washington, I know they are mowing it around. I think they. They know I’m not a artist. They’re broke when they’re creating the euro. They came to me. So I sat down right from the very beginning in 98, and I told them, you know, we have to consolidate all the debts, take all the debts from all the states, make a federal debt. And that’s what, you know, basically Hamilton, you know, did. And then you’ll be able to compete with the dollar.

And Herbert Kohl, who was the Chancellor of Germany, knew before he died, he said if he allowed the German people to vote so much for democracy, he would have lost seven to three. So he took Germany into the euro. People were not allowed to vote. Well, they’re not around to vote for anything that the EU does. No, they didn’t even. We’re the slaves. That’s it. They don’t listen to us for anything. I mean, they don’t even pretend. With the eu, it’s a. No. It’s incredible. It was structured to deliberately prevent democracy. You look at Ursula, head of the eu.

Look on Wikipedia. Has she ever stood for an election for anything? Never. She has never been elected. Who? They’re always appointed. But. But who. Who. Who appoints the head? The heads of the eu. Point her. The people in the back room who make the laws. All appointed. Nobody stands for election. Nobody. All right. I can’t believe that people are even remotely okay with this. This is what our computer forecast. That. That the EU is going to collapse because of this. Why? Yeah, you know, democracy, the right to vote is the alternative to force. If you cannot vote these people out, what do you.

What else is there? That’s right. That anytime you have no option. It’s kind of like our justice system being so broken. Anytime you have no option, the only option you have left is force. Right. I mean, look, I’ve spoken about our justice system in Congress. I said, if you want to really reform it, call me as a witness. I’ll be glad to be there. I never get a phone call. But until. Yeah, but until they do, we’re only the only resort. I’m not advocating violence, but our own. They’re doing that by forcing people to just check out of the system or do.

Yeah. Eventually it bursts. And you’re starting to see this with the eu because now you just had France and Britain, their finance ministers hinted they may need an IMF bailout. Now, why Europe is. Is. They need war with Russia as a divergent. They gotta, you know, divert people’s attention from Their own problems. This is the death now of Russia, of the eu. France gets in trouble. Okay, what are the traders going to do? Immediately going to look at all the banks because the banks, their reserves are not a federal debt. They all have a, you know, a cornucopia of debts of all these, all member states, to be fair, we got to be equitable, you know.

So then they’re going to look at who has the most French and they’re going to short that bank. Same way where they were looking at the mortgage backed securities and, and Deutsche bank because of, you know, their loan portfolio and derivatives. They will hunt out any. They’re going to look through it. Oh, this bank’s got the most. They’re the ones going to be in trouble. And they were short that. So you end up with a contagion. And I suggest reading Herbert Hoover’s memoirs, 1931, when all of Europe defaulted, that’s what he explained. He said capital acted like a loose cannon on the deck of a tent of a ship in the middle of a tempest.

It was shooting off in every which direction so fast we couldn’t form a committee quick enough to figure out where it was going next. That’s a contagion. That’s what created the Great Depression. And he describes it very well. All right, for not being a traitor, but are you seeing that same phenomenon? Is that what you’re seeing right now happening? Yeah, this is the biggest problem we have is Europe because the structure is unsound. And once that happens, look, a government collapses, not by the empirical level of debt. We can have a quadrillion level of debt. Doesn’t matter as long as somebody’s in line to buy the next tranche.

All right, when they’re, when the line stops and nobody’s there to buy the new debt, that’s when you can’t pay off the old. And the whole thing comes like crashing down. That’s the fact that the UK and France have even hinted they may need an IMF bailout is showing that they’re having trouble with selling debt. And these idiots who they cannot chew gum, walk and run a country at the same time. You’re threatening constantly war with Russia. And here you want to buy some bonds. You had Ursula come up and say that because they can’t sell, she’s actually proposed.

You can Google this, you know, to confiscate people’s private assets and set unused assets because you’re not really investing them. So we could take that cash to fund the war unused, because they view that Any asset that’s sitting there that’s not reinvested is unused. Oh, my gosh. Look, that’s. That’s really what created the German hyperinflation. Most of the, you know, people have misrepresented what happened. They say, oh, because they printed money. No, sorry. The printing came as a result of. Not. It was, you know, you know, it’s the chicken or the egg story. Yeah. In December 22nd, they could not make the reparation payments, so they confiscated 10% of people’s bank accounts and they issued bonds.

You can buy them on the. On ebay. All right, once they did that, let’s say they just took 10 out of your checking account. Are you going to leave it there? He suddenly moved it. People began moving their money out of the country. Well, let me ask you. There was a bank in, I think it was South Carolina. I don’t know. In this. In the East Coast. I think it was South Carolina that went. And I covered it. I just can’t remember the bank. It was only like an 8,9 million dollar bank or $9 million worth of losses.

But what they did is they gave them a haircut and they only got like half of their money back. It was the first mail in that they did in our country. Was that just a test case to see what would happen? What was the deal with that? Okay. You know what I’m talking about? Yes. We in Washington, they call fly. Fly a balloon and see if it floats people. And just to see what they would do. Pretty much that’s it. It’s in. In Germany, the people began to move their money out of the country, put it in any other currency but Germany.

That’s why when Hitler came to power in 1933, he passed a law that it was illegal for German to have an account outside the country. He was trying to bring the money back. Switzerland, because he did that in 1934, passes a law that creates the numbered secret account. Oh, okay. And that’s what started that. I guess understanding that’s what started the whole thing. Yes. All because they couldn’t make the payment. So they took 10% of everybody’s account. Okay. But then they also now have offshore accounts. So now what started all this massive offshoring? Because Switzerland isn’t the only place anymore.

It’s almost the offshore. Switzerland’s dead. It’s the offshore accounts that are really doing this now. Yeah. And the whole removing people from Swift actually began with Christine Lagarde when she was the head of the imf. She was threatening all the offshore accounts. You’re going to give up everybody that has an account there. Otherwise we’re going to remove you from the SWIFT system and you won’t be able to get any money. She even threatened that again that they had a report who. If somebody donated a million dollars to the church, well, was that taxed? Where did it come from? So is this helping the bricks and cryptos and everything else just supercharged? I mean, are they realizing their own.

That’s what crazy created the BRICs. Once you put those sanctions on Russia and you removed them from Swift, it was a red flag to the rest of the world. You either do what we say or we’ll do this to you. And Blinken, who was a neocon, actually had the audacity to threaten China. You help Russia and we’ll remove you from the system. Do you understand the world economy and how this functions? They don’t. All they care about is I gotta win. And they, it’s, they’re very myopic. That’s why they used to send me in to explain how everything’s connected.

It’s so dangerous, it’s so dangerous for them not to understand. And now I do think that with the global reset we have some players that are just manipulating everything at a high level. But it’s. They. Are the people with bricks smarter than they are? No, I mean brics left largely to create their alternative system to SWIFT so they can’t be locked out. What I can tell you is that China has looked at the U. S Economic model and the Europe, Europe is still using the mercantile ideals from the 18th century. So for example, Germany is 25 of the EU.

It’s the richest country, but Google it. Germans, the average German has less of a net worth in the Italian. Why? Because they’re so afraid of attack of inflation that they keep their taxes very high, regulations on everything. I mean, look, we have advised governments and corporations around the world for decades. I got called in to one German company. I was in London. They said, we’re going to have a board meeting here tomorrow. We need you here right away. I said, what’s up? You’ll find out when you get there. All right, I fly over, go to this board meeting.

They appoint our company the advisor to their pension fund and then everybody’s resigning. I said, what the hell’s going on here? This is the Harry Carey meeting or something. This is socialism and it’s at its best. They had asked, they wanted to lay off, I think was up to 20% of their workforce. So they have to ask permission from the government to do so. Government came back, okay, fine. And then at the last minute the government says, oh, it’s not fair that you pick who to is going to lose their job. You have to make a, a blanket offer to everybody to voluntarily give up your job.

That’s fair. What happens? All the people who knew they could get a job right across the street took the hundred thousand and left. Yeah, the good ones. Exactly. And yeah, they are basically resigning. And they said, I can’t have my name associated with this company because it’s going to go bankrupt and then I’ll never get a job. Oh, that’s even worse. I was at a meeting talking with an imf. I said, you know, this is the way the economy works. And what they said, we know that’s what happened to a company for the same reason in Greece.

So, you know, it’s just human nature is human nature. If I know I can get a job across the street, you want to give me 100 grand to go? Take it, I’ll take it. You know, that’s right, that’s right. If I can’t get a job anywhere, then all right, maybe I’ll stay. So in closing, what would you say is the. Where do you see the money flowing right now that’s creating your biggest concern? Just a short break from the program to share with you an amazing peptide to help you lose weight. It’s stronger than Ozempic. And why, why? It’s because it not only reduces your appetite, but it also burns fat.

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But what they will do is then they will cancel the currency. Is that their way to keep the money in the country? Is that what they’re trying to do? Then you go to a cbdc. They’re probably going to even, most likely even outlaw bitcoin and stuff because they’re not going to win any competition. This is about capital controls. What’s going to happen to the cryptocurrencies when they outlaw all that? Well, they’ll still survive outside Europe, but you’re going to look it. Will it decrease the value of the cryptos or do you think it won’t? Probably bitcoin.

It’s not really an investment. It’s a money laundering instrument where it got all its, you know, its volume from initially. The Chinese figured it out. I could buy bitcoin here and sell it in America. I got my money out of the country. And then even the Central bank of China when it figured out that it was being, you know, it was a money laundering instrument, they called them all in. I know Canadians use it to get the money out of Canada. Europeans are doing it. You buy bitcoin where you’re at and you sell it, you know, on the other side.

It didn’t go through a central bank. It’s a great money laundering instrument. That’s what bitcoin’s really being used for. It’s not this, you know, safe harbor or whatever. Like, come on, everything goes up and down. Nothing, nothing is a, is a, you know, a store of wealth. Do you, you know, just look at whatever the stock market goes up, it goes down. All right, what’s the store of wealth? Dollar goes up, goes down. Bitcoin goes up, down. There is no such thing. Well, the closest thing that you can get to a store of wealth is Something that maintains its value over a longer period of time.

Right. So, yeah, it’s, you know, gold, real estate, things of this nature. When you end up with a. Like Germany, when you ended up with the hyperinflation, the currency collapses, and then you start a new currency. All right? The rights mark in 1925 is backed by real estate, not gold. Survive the stock market. People have asked me, and if you look at the big companies that are on the stock market, their stocks tank, but they still, over time, recovered. And as long as the company. Yes. Yeah. They still have tangible assets. Yeah. I kind of got blamed for the whole takeover boom back in the 80s, because simply when you looked at it, I, you know, have the charts on my site.

I used to go around, say, stock market’s gonna go up, and. And, you know, the Dow was like a thousand at the time. I said, it’s going to go up to at least 6,000. It sounded crazy. I said, but look, looking at the Dow and the charts are on my site in terms of book value, it reached the historic low in 1977. And what was the takeover boom about? The movie Wall Street. They didn’t, you know, didn’t quite get it right. But. And so I advise most of the takeover guys why. Because basically, you could buy a company, all right, pay the full value of the stock, sell its assets and triple your money.

Was it overpriced? That was the takeover boom. That’s really what it was about. Because the stocks were so undervalued. The. The price in comparison to the assets it held. That’s. And that’s why. That’s why they were doing it, because they could. They can parcel off the company and triple their. That’s exactly. They were incented to take over these companies, decimate them because they can make so much more money selling them. That’s sad, actually. Oh, you know what? You know, most of it was assets of real estate, things of this nature. I mean. I mean, that’s how I got to meet Margaret Thatcher, because we had to do this.

Companies would come to me, I’d look at their portfolio, say, okay, fine, multinationals. So you got too much assets in this country. You got to get rid of some of these. We need assets more in this other country to balance things out on a foreign exchange basis. And I happen to have known Margaret Thatcher’s personal advisors or Alan Walters, and she had heard this rumor. There’s this guy putting companies in Britain. I was putting all the. Anybody needed skilled labor, I was putting them in Britain. And he said, yeah, that’s Marty. And she says it’s true.

You know this guy? Yeah, I got, I want to meet him. So I met her and she was very smart, one of the smartest heads of state. I, you know, she asked me why and I said, look, if I put them in Germany, pay the person the same wage, all right, it cost me 40% more because of all the socialistic red tape in Germany compared to Britain. She didn’t know that. I said, so I put all the car manufacturers and Britain, you’ve got the skilled labor. That’s what I need. The airlines, I was putting those in Ireland.

So I was reshaping, you know, based upon currency and regulations. We had lawyers in every, you know, every continent. They were advising us to, okay, what’s the new tax laws going to be in this way or that way? We put people in Montenegro and, you know, Macedonia. I got 25 year guarantees that they wouldn’t raise taxes. Some companies wanted that. This is what moves capital. You know, Trump doesn’t understand a lot. Why did America lose manufacturer? All the car industries started Detroit. Detroit kept raising taxes. This is great. We’re going to make a shitload of money.

They all left. Detroit defaulted in 1937. All right, for Toyota. Probably shouldn’t have said that, but they asked me to go look at a US Plant because the US Plant had a higher productivity than in Japan. So I went. All these people thought that they didn’t know why I was there. They thought maybe I was, you know, ahead. You know, a guy’s going to start chopping heads or something that all the papers laid out. I said, I want to go down to the floor and then look at me. What? I said, I want to go down to the floor.

I don’t want to look at all your papers. All right? And then they got upset because I started talking to the workers. I was there. One guy pulls the cord and stops the assembly line as I went over to talk to him. And they’re like freaking out. Oh, my God. He’s talking to one of them, what’s going on? And I asked him, why’d you do it? He says, that doors off a little bit. Look, I saw. So I ended up telling Japan, I said, look, you got to be a wordsmith sometime. I said, you did a brilliant job.

You converted the American worker into a very productive person. Great. That was brilliant. You got to do it that way. What he told me. And a number of them gathered around me. I asked him why you would never work. None of them wanted to work. In a union anymore. I said, why? He says, because all they do is get wages. They don’t do anything, and we got to keep putting in all this money and then tell us to strike. He said, here it’s the power. Being part of a union, you have the power to strike and bring down a company.

Here the Japanese had this little cord. He still has the power to shut the thing, but for a positive reason rather than negative. And all of them said they would never, ever go back to a union again. So it. It’s human nature. I love that story. Feel that they are doing that story. If we could just grasp some of that, how much better would things be of what people need? They need to feel like they’re actually contributing to something positive. That’s just the basic thing. They want to feel like their life matters. Our problem is that you have people in the bureaucracy that they see this as their meal ticket.

And change. You want me to change? You’re threatening my salary, my pension. This that like US Aid or. This is the problem with NATO. NATO was created when. Against the communists in the Warsaw Pact. When that fell. Why do we need NATO? So they keep saying, oh, Putin wants to invade. Really? They use the same scenario as if he’s Khrushchev. They can’t get out of their mindset. Yes, because if I saw the internal memos, they were concerned that all the money was going to climate change. How do. And they said, how do we remain relevant to keep their salaries and pensions? All right, so.

But see, that’s my point. But that’s my point. That gets to my earlier question. Where. How do we keep them rele. Work them? I don’t want to have a bloated bureaucracy, but if we could get people shifted into other meaningful work, then we might not have as much. I mean, that’s always the case. Right? Get people shifted and to build elsewhere so that we don’t have this entrenched BS always going on. Yeah, it’s. Look, I encountered that and trying to deal with Washington myself. You know, I had written a letter to Reagan. I said, this is not.

This is crazy. You know, you’ll never be called again because you went out of committee. I said, fine, I don’t give a shit. Goodbye. But everybody then knew that. So then because of that, then they have to get me in for 87. That’s awesome. So would you advise Trump or his team if they ask you? I would. We sit down. Okay. My concern is that he is surrounded by neocons, etc. And people have Vested interests. But my understanding is that Trump. I would sit down, but I doubt that he would call me. My understanding is that Trump’s willing to listen to people who will tell him what he.

They’re not going to just tell him what he wants to hear. He’s willing to listen to other opinions and other things to get a better picture of what’s going on. That’s my understanding. But he’s being, he’s being hidden. Like, they’re not allowing those voices to, to even get to him. This is the deep state when a congressman leaves. The people there basically just go to the next one coming in. All right, you can write a letter to your congressman. Good luck. If it ever gets to him. It’s not going to get to him unless, first of all, you got to pass all the gatekeepers.

And it’s gotten much, much worse. I mean, in the 90s, if I wrote a letter to the Secretary of Treasury, like I did the, you know, to Reuben, I immediately get a response. You don’t get that anymore. It’s like, oh, no, we don’t. Do you really want to show them this? You know, it. It’s so interesting. They work in a bubble now, though, and that’s a very dangerous thing. And it is. It’s. Yeah, they need 97. Reuben was out saying the same thing that started in 87. Oh, lower the value of the dollar to help trade.

I wrote him a letter. I said, look, I’m the one that was called in on this. You really do this, you’re going to cause a crash again. I got a letter back. Oh, okay, fine. What happened? Within three months, you had the 1997 Asian currency crisis crisis, all currency crisis. You know, then I got called in by China. You know, it’s. I’ve at least had a front row seat to all this stuff. That is incredible. Right. You at least get to say that your life was interesting, Right? Yeah. And I have a feeling it’s going to stay interesting for the next 10 years.

It. It has definitely been interesting, for sure. It gets frustrating from the standpoint that I get called into. It’s almost the same stupid mistake over and over again. Yeah. You know, it’s like, okay, you know, lowering the value of the dollar to help trade lowers the value of everything else in your country. Do you understand that? Well, okay, so if other countries want your advice or other big corporations, they can go to armstrongeconomics.com. how do they reach you? How do they reach your team? And they can send an email in there. My team or not the deep state.

They know what you know. You’ll give people a different perspective. You’ll give people an informed, data driven perspective on what’s going on in global economics. We’re all in the same boat. It’s as JFK say when they criticize him about trying to create a relationship with Russia. He says we all still breathe the same air, which is true, and we all bleed red. And everybody will act out of their own self interest and everybody will think in terms of their own currency. So if you go to Greece and they quote a price, you’re going to convert it in your head to dollars to see if it’s fair or not.

The currency is your mental yardstick. We don’t really look at it that much. That’s like the metrics coming here. Yeah, he’s gonna, you’re gonna give him price and dollars and he’s gonna convert it to Euros. That’s how we judge value. So the money is more than just the paper currency. It’s a yardstick of value and that’s how we judge everything. And everybody will act at their own self interest. It’s pretty simple once you get narrow it down to that. Well, thank you so much. I’m going to have you on on a regular basis if you don’t mind, because your people really get a lot out of these conversations.

So I appreciate it so much. Martin, thank you for joining us. Well, thank you. You asked intelligent questions, so doing something right, I guess.
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