Join Us at the 2023 World Economic Conference in Orlando, Florida!

? Dates: November 17, 18, and 19 ? Location: Orlando, Florida, USA (or tune in from home with our virtual ticket options)

Are you ready to unlock the future of economics and finance? Prepare for an unforgettable World Economic Conference experience in sunny Orlando, Florida! This premier event is your gateway to insights, networking, and valuable resources that will supercharge your understanding of the global economy.

?️ What’s Included for In-Person Attendees:

1. Event Admission: Enjoy reserved seating assigned based on the order of ticket sales, ensuring you have a prime view of every presentation.
2. Presentation Slides: Gain access to the presentation slides from all speakers, allowing you to delve deeper into the topics discussed.
3. Video Recording: Can’t make it to a session? No worries! You’ll receive access to video recordings of all conference presentations, so you can catch up at your convenience.
4. WEC Event App: Connect with the conference on a whole new level. Access presentation slides, bonus reports, recordings, and more via the official WEC Event App.
5. Bonus Conference Materials: Get a package of bonus conference-related materials, including exclusive bonus reports and videos (as provided by Martin Armstrong).
6. Morning Information Sessions: Don’t miss out on important morning information sessions, screened on-site in the meeting room on Saturday and Sunday.
7. Networking Opportunities: Exclusive access to the Event App Networking Feature allows you to connect with fellow attendees, both in-person and virtual, fostering valuable professional relationships.
8. Culinary Delights: Savor delicious breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday, prepared to keep you energized throughout the day.
9. Cocktail Reception: Kick off the conference in style at our Friday evening cocktail reception. Meet and mingle with fellow attendees while enjoying refreshing drinks.
10. Swag Bag: As a token of our appreciation, each in-person attendee will receive a swag bag filled with goodies, including an Armstrong Economics notebook, pen, and an event collector’s mug!

Unable to travel? We also have two different ticket options for those wishing to attend virtually! 

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a global gathering of economic and financial minds. Secure your spot at the World Economic Conference in Orlando, Florida, and gain the knowledge, connections, and resources you need to thrive in the world of finance and economics.

Space is limited, so act now and reserve your seat! Visit our Events page to register and join us in sunny Orlando this November.

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The second edition of “The Plot to Seize Russia – The Untold History” is now available for purchase in paperback and hardcover on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The ebook will be available shortly.

Book description:

“Take care of Russia,” Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia.

So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig the Russian election of 2000. These never-before-seen documents confirm numerous attempts to implement pro-Western policies using the Russian oligarchy headed by Boris Berezovsky.

On the other side were the communists who desired a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. As one of the largest international hedge fund managers, author Martin Armstrong found himself in the middle of perhaps the greatest espionage, or attempt at a regime change for Russia, in modern history.

The Plot to Seize Russia pulls back the curtain to expose the most extraordinary attempt to seize power in modern history, but with the pen rather than armies. These declassified documents reveal a plot that has altered our thinking about the relations between the United States and Russia. The thirst for power comes seething through every line of these papers that alter our perception of reality, change the course of history, and now threaten us with World War III.

The Federal Reserve was divided this December; hawkish members of the FOMC were outnumbered, and the central bank approved its third consecutive cut of 2025. “We’re in the high end of the range of neutral,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added. “It″s so happened that we’ve cut three times. We have we haven’t made any decision about January, but as I said, we think we’re well positioned to wait and see how the economy performs.”

“The discussions we have are as good as any we’ve had in my 14 years at the Fed, very thoughtful, respectful, and you just have people who have strong views, and we come together and we reach a place where we can make a decision,” Powell said.

The ultimate 9-3 vote has brought the overnight rate down to 3.5%-3.75%. Governor Stephen Miran, appointed by Trump, naturally requested a steeper 0.5% reduction. Presidents Jeffrey Schmid of Kansas City and Austan Goolsbee of Chicago were the only members in favor of holding. Miran voted to hold rates during the past three FOMC meetings, but his time at the central bank comes to an end in January. Schmid voted “no” for the second consecutive time.

Of the 19 participants, four issued “soft dissents” expressing disagreement with the decision. Only 12 members have the right to vote on the final outcome. Remember that the president appoints the Board of Governors with Senate approval. Donald Trump sees rates through the eyes of a borrower and mistakenly believes bringing rates down to 0 would lead to business expansion and lower inflation. Trump now has the ability to replace members with candidates who support his dovish stance.

Inflation is driven by fiscal policy, not monetary policy. Congress can run deficits until the sun burns out, and the Fed has no authority to stop them. You can raise or lower interest rates all you want, for it will not change the fact that government spending has blown past anything sustainable. When you borrow without end, servicing that debt becomes a greater share of national income, and that is where the real inflationary pressure comes from. It has nothing to do with whether a handful of hawks around a conference table want 25 bps more. Once FDR hijacked the system and consolidated power in Washington, the Fed became an accessory to fiscal irresponsibility.

The system broke when the government swapped corporate paper for sovereign debt. Once the Fed became the buyer of last resort for federal spending, inflation became a political problem and not a monetary one.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) put forth the Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act (H.R. 7484) to call for transparency from elected US officials carrying dual nationality. His plan would have required members of Congress to disclose their status to an ethics committee, which would review their case within 90 days of taking office. H.R. 2356 (Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act) was introduced by Rep. Massie in March 2025, which called for similar transparency goals. Both bills have stalled, but the recent Minnesota scandal has brought the topic to light once again.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna reiterated the importance of only permitting Americans to establish American laws. While dual citizens may be American, their loyalties are split. There is a reason that the President of the United States must be a natural-born citizen to prevent foreign interests from taking over American politics and, therefore, American law.

Historically, when a political system begins to lose the confidence of the people, it turns inward. People start asking who is loyal and who is not. The debate over dual citizenship in Congress has now reached the point where lawmakers are questioning who their peers are actually representing. The increased number of migrants has caused voters to elect officials based on their homeland ties (i.e., Ilhan Omar) who do not put the United States first. The mere fact that this has become controversial shows how far we’ve drifted from the fundamental principles that once defined a functioning nation-state.

When Rome collapsed, it was in no small part because senators pursued the interests of foreign powers, often above Rome itself. If someone does not trust their sole fate to the nation they serve and keep a second passport in their back pocket as an escape route then they are not putting their full loyalty into the USA.

Dual citizenship is not a crime, but it is incompatible with holding federal office. Congress is now populated by individuals tied legally, financially, and politically to foreign nations. As we have seen in recent years in places like the UK, people with alliances to foreign nations often aim to change legislation to fit the ideals of their homeland. Their loyalty is shared if not split and they cannot “pledge allegiance to the flag.”

Governments never suspend economic data because things are going well. When a government stops publishing the very numbers it insists are the foundation of policy—GDP, CPI, PPI, employment—you are looking at the final stage of the collapse in confidence. The US government would be eager to publish this data despite the shutdown if the figures were optimistic.

GDP, inflation, PPI, and the jobs report are the four pillars the government uses to claim the economy is “strong” or “transitory.” Rest assured, those at the top will have access to the data. The absence of data in the public sphere tells you more than the data themselves ever could.

Governments will become more authoritarian, more secretive, and more desperate as this wave continues. Once confidence breaks, they will do anything to prevent the population from realizing the depth of the crisis they themselves created. They manipulate statistics when times are tough; they suspend them when manipulation is no longer enough.

This aligns perfectly with the Economic Confidence Model as we move toward 2026—the political panic cycle. Governments cannot maintain the illusion of competence when capital flows shift against them. By refusing to publish these numbers, they are admitting, indirectly, that the economic deterioration is accelerating faster than they can spin. They fear the headlines, the market reaction, and above all, the realization by the public that the emperor has no clothes.

Germany granted itself legal permission to use AI technology to aggressively monitor the entire population in real-time. The Berlin House of Representatives passed amendments to the General Security and Public Order Act (ASOG) that grants government access to citizens’ personal data by any means necessary, including forcibly entering their private homes.

Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) declared the new laws necessary to fight terrorism in the digital age. German investigators may now legally hack IT systems, but if remote access is unavailable, authorities may “secretly enter and search premises” a suspect’s personal residence to confiscate their digital devices. The government does not need to notify citizens that they are under investigation before entering their homes without warning.

Germany will equip public spaces with advanced surveillance technology. The cell tower query will be expanded to enable the government to access data from all private mobile phones. Network operators must be able to tell the government the movement and location of all citizens. License plate scanners will be installed throughout the nation, and that data will be sent to a centralized database.

Deutschland has finally achieved official “1984” status—the nation is implementing unmanned drones to monitor the population.

All personal data may be used for “training and testing of artificial intelligence systems.” Authorities have free rein to steal data from publicly accessible websites to collect biometric comparisons of faces and voices. The government will implement automated facial recognition software that enables it to identify citizens immediately. The database will tie into the nationwide surveillance platform.

You are being watched. Civil liberties do not exist. Freedom is merely an illusion; your likeness—face, voice, movement, finances, family–exists in an ever-expanding government database that may be used however the government sees fit.

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you tend to be humble about your influence. You may not be able to answer or prefer not to answer this question, but it is rumored that you had more impact on the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting than you let on. From the Russian side, it is believed that Mikhail Gorbachev was aware of your work and attempted in the 1980s to break the cyclical pattern of Soviet economic stagnation and political repression through reforms (Perestroika and Glasnost). He faced fierce opposition from the hardline Communist Party, who were invested in maintaining power. This led to a coup attempt against him in 1991, which ultimately resulted in the collapse of the USSR.

You have confirmed that you were the Western Financier that the Communists accused of influencing Galina Starovoitova, who was assassinated on November 20, 1998. Your book, The Plot to Seize Russia, demonstrates that you have had firsthand experience with Russia’s turmoil for decades. Are you willing to answer the question that, since Mikhail Gorbachev was trying to reverse the cycle of oppression in Russia, is it true that he was also at least influenced by your forecast that Communism would collapse starting in 1989.95?

You apparently wrote how the Communists were after Gorbachev in 1991:

“In Australia, an ex-KGB agent lived quietly in Queensland. He went to school with Mr. Gorbachev and perhaps had some dirt or insight into his past that might prove to be politically useful at home. He was abducted and drugged – placed in a box and shipped off into the outback under the disguise of a mining expedition. The US CIA was tipped off as to this plot and worked with Australian security forces. An old-fashioned shoot-out took place on an old abandoned World War II air st rip. The abductors were killed and the ex-KGB agent recovered. Two similar incidents have taken place in other parts of the world. Clearly, someone in Russia is trying their best to gain control of Gorbachev. Based upon the resignation speech of Mr. Shevardnadze, we can safely assume it is the military.

The food shortages in Russia have been planned. They should not be taking place to this extent given the record crops of last year. Reliable sources tell us that food has been left to rot outside Moscow. The hard-liners may be out of the lime-light but they are still in control at the local levels throughout Russia. There is indeed a sinister force rising behind the scenes and it is stemming from the KGB and the military.“

Would you at least confirm that you did write this?

Uri

ANSWER: Yes that was an intelligence report I wrote back then. OK, only since Mikhail Gorbachev is now dead, I suppose I can confirm. I was asked questions on Gorbachev’s behalf when I was in London. He understood cycles perhaps instinctively like Thatcher. Yes, the Communists accused me of being behind Galina Starovoitova, who was a prominent democratic reformer, and Gorbachev shared ideological alignment. Yes, Galina Starovoitova certainly knew Mikhail Gorbachev. They were prominent political figures in the same transformative era of Soviet and Russian history. Their relationship was primarily one of political allies and fellow reformers. Both were key figures in the democratic and reform movements during the perestroika and glasnost period.

Starovoitova was a democratic deputy in the Congress of People’s Deputies and a fierce advocate for human rights and national self-determination. Gorbachev, as the last General Secretary of the Communist Party, initiated the reforms that made her political activity possible. They moved in the same high political circles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Starovoitova was a close advisor to Boris Yeltsin on nationalities issues, which placed her at the center of the political struggles between Gorbachev’s Union government and Yeltsin’s Russian republic—struggles that ultimately led to the USSR’s dissolution.

Initially, they were aligned in the push to democratize the Soviet system. However, Starovoitova’s politics were more radically democratic and anti-communist from the outset. She was part of the “democratic opposition” that pushed for faster and more fundamental change than Gorbachev was often willing to pursue. Her allegiance shifted decisively to Yeltsin in the power struggle of 1991. Still, there was a record of professional respect. Gorbachev later publicly condemned Starovoitova’s 1998 assassination, calling it a “terrible crime” and praising her as a “consistent supporter of democratic reforms.”

That said, when Galina was assassinated, the Communists put out the story that she was a puppet of a Western Financier, who was alleged to be me. I believe it was Putin who investigated her assassination. The connection between us was that her son worked in our London Office. Galina had checked me out with Margret Thatcher since her son wanted to work in our office. Maggie approved. Galina and Mikhail were well-acquainted political contemporaries and were well aware of our forecasts. Starovoitova was part of the wave of democratic forces that Gorbachev’s policies unleashed.

What I can say is that Gorbachev, like Margret Thatcher, was interested in cycles. While not a theorist himself, Gorbachev was very interested in cycles and he understood that it was time. He attempted in the 1980s to break the cyclical pattern of Soviet economic stagnation and political repression (“The Period of Stagnation”) through reforms (Perestroika and Glasnost).

The Pi target of May 26th, 2023 was indeed a critical turning point. The events of that month, especially the Wagner-defense ministry rift, directly set the stage for the dramatic armed rebellion by the Wagner Group in June 2023. Several European countries, including Germany, Sweden, and Finland, expelled Russian diplomats also in May 2023 severing diplomatic communication and ensuring the outcome would be war that is projected between 2026 and 2030. They along with Kallas, Lindsey Graham in drag, continue to hate all the Russian people because of the oppression of Stalin despite the fact that Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin stood up against the hardline Communists. Putin even criticized Lenin saying he was just a communist – not a statesmen.

The Neocons deliberately ignore that Putin was particularly critical of Lenin and said he was not a statesman but just a Bolshevik in 2016. He said that Lenin created “a time bomb under our state.” He also denounced Stalin for massive purges that killed millions but noted his role in defeating the Nazis in WW II. Putin also blasted the Bolsheviks for making Russia lose World War I in their quest for power, making Russia suffer defeat by Germany and cede large chunks of territory just months before it lost World War I. “We lost to the losing party, a unique case in history,” Putin said.

Putin criticized the Communist ideology, noting that while promises of a fair and just society in the Communist ideology “resembled the Bible quite a lot,” the reality was different. “Our country didn’t look like the City of the Sun,” envisaged by socialist utopians, he said. Regarding Lenin’s tomb, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Nikolai Bukharin famously opposed the idea of Lenin’s embalming, while his late wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, wrote for the Pravda newspaper in the year of his death: “Do not build for him monuments, castles in his name, (hold) opulent receptions in his memories etc. To all of this he assigned such little significance in life and it saddened him so.”

The Russian people were the VICTIM of Stalin – not this co-conspirator. They were his target of the Great Purge. He had Kondratieff executed for daring to say that communism would not escape the fate of cycles.

I believe that Gorbachev did in fact understand cycles and it was time for the collapse of the USSR. Kondratieff was officially rehabilitated by the Soviet Union in 1987, during the era of glasnost, as his trial was recognized as unjust. Gorbachev was in office March 11th, 1985 – August 24th, 1991.Based on my contacts, I believe he understood that the USSR was in fact coming to an end and he did his best to manage that transition. Keep in mind that Stalin has Kondratieff executed because he suggested that capitalism was not in a permanent death spiral but was instead cyclical. It would have downturns, but it would also naturally recover and enter new periods of growth. This undermined the core Soviet justification for its own existence—that it was the inevitable successor to a dying capitalist system.

It was Gorbachev who lowered the USSR flag and raised the Russian flag over the Kremlin. The Communists staged a coup in 1991 fearing that he would accept joining NATO and I believe they may have understood that he saw the cyclical future of the USSR. That brought Yeltsin to power. To what extent one can attribute my influence on Gorbachev is debatable. Yes I had contact with Gorbachev regarding cycles. All I can confirm is that he understood cycles I believe instinctively like Thatcher, and that cyclically, it was just time. It was also Gorbachev who acknowledge the tragedy of Kondratieff formally. I was invited to a ceremony in Moscow for Kondratieff, but I could not make it at the time. I sent a representative in my place.

It is our  Neocon who refuse to understand cycles and that Gorbachev terminated the USSR and Communism he saw the cycles turning. The Neocons refuse to accept that Russia is no longer trying to spread communism to the world as Khrushchev said – We will bury you. They refuse to let their hatred go. It is the Neocons who hate the Russian people for even if Putin stepped down, they would never change their view of Russia all because of Stalin. Yet they do not hate the German people because of Hitler. Interesting paradox.

 

IT’S TIME TO EXIT NATO – NOW!!!!

There is no official public declaration by European Union (or its member states collectively) that commits to such a move. They are discussing this now behind closed doors. Trump needs to consider IMMEDIATELY entering an Executive Order that all EU member state debts MUST be liquidated INSTANTLY!!!!! Any hedge fund that holds EU sovereign debt should be subject to sanctions forthwith. Trump should issue an Executive Order barring any US investment in Ukraine whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!With the EU seeking to fund war, they will  need to sell debt.

The EU and Ukraine are considering to threaten the United States that if Trump strikes a deal with Putin, they will dump $2.34 trillion in US debt in an effort to create an economic war with the United States to crash the bond market. NO American investment bank should now be allowed to sell ANY Sovereign Debt of any EU Member State. The US should EXIT NATO ASAP!!!!!

If the EU tries to pull this off, Trump MUST cut off all intelligence and money to Ukraine and the EU. Neither wants peace. Let them seal their own fate which will be their destruction. The EU will not survive beyond 2030. It is time for the EU member states to separate from this insanity or watch their youth be sent off to the slaughter. For what? Ukraine?

Any Investment Bank or Hedge Fund supporting the EU or Ukraine can be sanctioned under these conditions and criminally charged as trading with the enemy! We had a Double Directional Change here in December 2025. Beware, the EU is absolutely desperate. They are going to use the Russian assets of which up to 80% is private Russian citizens – not state assets. We must ask, how many EU leaders also have their hand in the free money pouring into Ukraine with no accountability.