The Rising Cycle of Conflict and War

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Top left: Martin Weiss and Mike Larson. Top right: Tony Sagami. Bottom: Sean Brodrick, Larry Edelson.

The events we predicted — and prayed would never happen — have arrived.

Washington is an armed camp, a fortress with more American troops at the ready than currently deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria combined.

The U.S. economy is still in intensive care — 140,000 jobs lost in December, capping a year with the worst job losses since 1939.

Domestic political warfare is arguably the worst since the Civil War. I need not give you the gory details. You can see it for yourself.

And throughout the turmoil, the Fed is printing money at the fastest pace in American history.

But we are not surprised.

In early 2015, Larry Edelson, our senior analyst and dear friend, predicted “a rising cycle of war.”

He warned we’d see the most intense domestic conflict in 100 years. He said it would burst onto the scene in 2020. And it has.

If Larry were alive today, he’d be intensely saddened that he was so right.

In late 2017, Sean Brodrick, his successor at Weiss Ratings, updated the prediction.

Six months after Larry died, Sean reaffirmed 2020 as the year of ultimate “convergence” — when the most powerful economic cycles of history would converge in one place and time. And they have.

He listed the powerful demographic, geopolitical and technological megatrends that would dominate ... and they have.

Juan Villaverde, master builder of our cycles models, predicts those same cycles with mathematical precision. He says that, in the next phase, the most evident change will be the mainstreaming of Modern Monetary Theory, which will not only transform money, but also the government’s abuse of money.

Unanimously, the story that our experts tell for 2021 and beyond is not pretty.

So, I asked them …

Who Is to Blame?

Who or what is responsible for this turmoil?

Their answer:

It’s the same cycles of history that made it possible for us to predict this day — the same cycles that govern the ebb and flow of wealth and power.

No, they insist, the cycles don’t preordain our destiny.

Nor do they preclude our individual freedom of choice.

But they are certainly bigger than any one leader, any single political party, or even the largest mass movements.

They are the natural cycles of markets, politics, conflict and conflict resolution. If anything or anyone is to blame for the bad things that happen, it is the cycles. If anyone or anything deserves credit for the good things that may ensue, it is the cycles.

The cycles create the economic conditions — and the popular demand — for particular kinds of leaders. It is only then that the individual leaders arise from the fray to meet that demand.

For the most part, the cycles create the leaders; the leaders do not create the cycles. They merely add the color, some of the substance and sometimes, momentum.

Mike Larson, editor of our flagship newsletter, Safe Money Report, agrees.

But he points to one single institution that has done the most to feed the cycle of boom and bust, and to exacerbate the cycle of division and conflict.

It’s …

The Federal Reserve!

It was the Federal Reserve that was largely responsible for creating the excesses of the dot-com boom of late 1990s, culminating in the great Tech Wreck, which inaugurated the third millennium.

It was the Federal Reserve that pumped up the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s, setting the stage for the great housing bust and debt crisis that followed.

It was the Federal Reserve that burned the books of sound monetary policy in 2008 and, in a matter of months, printed more money than in all the years since it was founded in 1913.

And now, again, it’s the Federal Reserve that has doubled down with many times more money printing in an even shorter period of time.

In my five decades at the helm of this company, I’ve never seen anything like this before.

I presume you could say something similar.

You can see the conflict and turmoil and volatility for yourself — all over the Internet … in the mainstream media … in the streets … in your account statements.

You can see for yourself how most of America is terribly divided and how most of the economy is terribly shaken.

But behind the headlines, beneath all the noise of fierce political battles and volatility in the financial markets, there’s also a silent tragedy.

It’s a tragedy quietly unfolding for millions of people who are planning for retirement or already retired.

For years, these proud, hardworking folks have been doing what they thought was the right thing.

If you’re among them, you worked hard.

You saved money.

You stashed some of it in your 401(k) month after month.

And also month after month, you poured a not-so-small fortune into that hidden account that you’ve been paying into since your very first job.

The account which Uncle Sam holds in custody for you.

It’s called Medicare and Social Security.

Trouble is, in these trying times, that is not enough to give you the financial security you need.

It’s not enough to do all the things you’d like to do for yourself, for your children, or for your grandchildren.

No matter what your needs or goals may be, unless you want to take crazy risks, your money simply does not give you anything even close to a decent yield.

That’s why I have asked our entire team to create new, innovative ways to help you build your wealth and your income.

Read their issues religiously. Pay close attention to their financial prescriptions. And I feel you will surely benefit.

Good luck and God bless!

Martin

About the Weiss Ratings Founder

Dr. Weiss is the founder of Weiss Ratings, the nation’s leading provider of 100% independent grades on stocks, mutual funds and financial institutions, as well as the world’s only ratings agency that grades cryptocurrencies. He founded his company in 1971, and thanks largely to his strict independence, has established a 50-year record of accuracy. Forbes called him “Mr. Independence.” The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that his insurance company ratings outperformed those of A.M. Best, S&P and Moody’s by at least three to one. And The Wall Street Journal reported that investors using the Weiss stock ratings could have made more money than those following the grades issued by Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Standard & Poor’s and every other firm reviewed.

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