It should be noted that Martin Armstrong says core economies such as the USA do not produce hyper-inflation when they collapse because everything falls apart before that can happen in his view. After Ancient Rome collapsed their currency still bought 1/50th what it had before compared to a German hyper-inflation that sees thousands of percent rises in prices. There is a contradiction in his pi model I have noticed, the 51.6 year private wave cycle we are in ends in 2032 but the larger 309.6 year cycle which he thinks is correlated to a 300 year solar cycle and seems to also be correlated to the rise and fall of civilizations is currently in a public wave. So one is in a private but the bigger one is in a public, both end in 2032. Larger wave overpower smaller waves, so that would imply the 51.6 public wave which should be coming will have an inversion as the government collapses at the end of the 309.6 'republican' wave. Here is a link to an excellent interview - The U.S. Monetary System and Descent into Fascism - An Interview with Dr. Edwin Vieira. http://www.silver-prices.net/the-us-monetary-system-and-descent-into-fascism-an-interview-with-dr-edwin-vieira/ "Debt required to finance the government at this point – I think it is now running around 46%. Victor Sperandeo has done some work on hyperinflations and found that apparently once that number gets over around 40-41%, that’s the end. According to his work, in every big example of hyperinflation since the French Revolution, that number is apparently the tipping point on the rollercoaster. You’ve gone over the top, and now gravity takes over and down you go to the bottom. They can’t stop the thing. So we’re now at 46%, at least it was on the 12th of May, 46%, and it doesn’t seem to me there’s any will or intelligence in Congress to correct this, and it’s not going to be the Federal Reserve that corrects this, it’s going to have to be done legislatively." Dr. Vieira says that if the American States do not gain back control of the financial system and armed forces from Washington in the next 18 Months (from mid 2011), then the USA is headed towards fascism, a police state with the founding father's framework destroyed. ____________________ In a 1999 article Martin Armstrong essentially predicted the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center when he wrote that based on his long cycle work (224 yrs) the USA would be attacked in either September or October 2001 and that this would then be followed by a retaliatory war (which happened in 2003 when President George Bush attacked Iraq, even if it was not where the 9/11 'terrorists' came from). Interesting how the cycle determined behavior of individuals who carried out the attack (some say the attack was an inside job, for example there was explosive residues on some debris, there is one video showing a jet of material coming from the WTC just before the Airplane hit and why was the 3rd undamaged tower deliberately demolished using explosives?) Whether the crime was done by insiders or outsiders to the USA, from a cyclical perspective it appears the perpetrators were fated to do it. An end of Empire phenomena.