Armstrong Economics offers a unique perspective intended to educate the general public and organizations on the underlying trends within the global economic and political environment. Our mission is to research historical cyclical patterns and market behavior in timing, price, and crisis to better understand and identify potential future trends, using an extensive monetary database and advanced proprietary models.
Martin Armstrong began trading in the mid-1960s. He noticed that it did not matter what the investment was; everything would rally in the heat of a buying panic and then crash in the blink of an eye. His history teacher in high school brought in a black & white movie, The Toast of New York, staring with Edward Arnold and Cary Grant, which portrayed the gold manipulation of Jim Fisk that resulted in the Panic of 1869. This was the Panic when the term “Black Friday” was coined because the mob stormed the banks, dragging the bankers from their offices and hanging them. Gold had reached $162, and since it was $35 under Bretton Woods, he suddenly saw that there were cycles to price movements – not a straight linear projection.
