It’s All in the Database – Are We doomed?

It’s All in the Database – Are We doomed?
Posted on August 30, 2015 by Martin Armstrong

 
QUESTION: Dear Martin.
Although I am not that knowledgeable in Economics, I have been following your blog for some time now. I am intrigued by the patterns Socrates unearthed regarding human behavior. I can appreciate a good puzzle. We keep repeating  everything  we do, but it grows more devastating as our technical  knowledge improves, or so it seems.  Does Socrates think the human race is doomed  to be a  failed species in the end because of this?  Or would he not even consider this? (I am thinking Darwin)  It does not look too good.
Appreciative,
L.

ANSWER: I have been fortunate insofar as I did not inherit money, I inherited a talent for trading, logic, and reason intermixed with curiosity and imagination. The key to creating such a computer system was data. Literally, I put together perhaps the most comprehensive collection of the monetary instruments of every society on a global scale to map out the trends. You will find much of the monetary history of the world on this site for reference. You will also find the history of interest rates, not to mention financial panics, along side the history of economic theory. We have included nature, storms, earthquakes, climate changes (cyclical), and the rise and fall of populations as well as war.

Bringing together so much data that cost far more than most of the NY bank’s research budgets combined for decades, has enabled us to see that we do reach periods of tremendous concentration of trends – the rogue wave that appears out of nowhere in economics just as in the oceans of the world. They are caused by the synchronization of many trends suddenly coming together producing a giant wave that conforms to what people call Murphy’s Law – whatever can go wrong, goes wrong all at once.
This is what we face about once every 300 years. Society can make it to the next step in our evolution if we at least understand what we are dealing with. Government is collapsing and it historically always becomes the worst evil for we are all economic slaves. We are owned by the state. If you do not pay your taxes, they imprison you. You have cash, they seize it. They will fight fiercely to retain that power. That is what they want – everything. This is exactly like Stalin – paranoid. They live in fear of revolution and are preparing for the worst. If we prevail, we can graduate to the next step in social evolution.Yet so many people keep trying to drag us down condemning us to relive the past unable to see the future.
By no means are we doomed. Yet this is a real struggle.

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