^---  Yes, please keep all of this friendly.  Much more constructive.  Negative people can ruin experiences for others who may have good insight, but are not interested in getting into stupid internet flaming wars.

I started this thread years ago when Shelby/Anonymint brought up Armstrong.  Armstrong wrote an impressive series of historical/finance papers while in prison many of which I read before coming to bitcointalk.  Once he was out, I was hoping that his blog would provide useful material for those of us who would read it and think about it.

I was NOT interested in digging deep into Socrates and his other thinking, especially "reversals".  Too murky for me to understand.

Unfortunately I had not seen any useful actionable financial advice from his public blog, however interesting many of his articles have been, and hence have lost interest.  Please note that I do not have any access to his private materials, declining to subscribe to them in part because of comments I occasionally read here that they are not particularly useful...

I am astonished (in a happy way) that this thread has gone on so long.  If anything, Armstrong has provided material that we can get in very few other places, which is worth something.  How much is that material worth?  Beats me.  That's why I started this thread, to explore what he says and predicts (also to keep from clogging other threads way back when, another reason why I started this one).

Shine on, guys!  Keep it friendly!

Do let me know if he ever becomes transparently bullish on gold and/or Bitcoin.  Maybe I'll then take the other side of the trade!   Bwa ha?

     


(Edited because, you know, because...)