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? 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.
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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.
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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!

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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.

Amsterdam’s decision to ban meat advertising should be viewed as part of a much broader trend that has been unfolding for years. Politicians insist this is about climate change. Every new restriction is presented as a noble sacrifice for to save the environment. Yet the target is almost always the same: farmers, ranchers, livestock producers, and regular people who are forced to sacrifice their health and livelihood for the globalist agenda.

The Netherlands has already spent years battling its own farming community through nitrogen regulations, forced buyouts, and restrictions that have pushed many family farms to the brink. Massive farmer protests erupted because people recognized that this was never merely about emissions. Agriculture was being redesigned from the top down. Now the campaign has moved beyond production and into culture itself. If citizens cannot be persuaded to abandon meat voluntarily, then governments will gradually make meat less visible, less available, more expensive, and increasingly stigmatized.

Many people dismissed concerns years ago when international organizations began discussing alternatives to traditional meat consumption. The World Economic Forum published articles exploring insects as a future protein source and repeatedly promoted dietary shifts away from actual meat. The argument was always framed around sustainability, carbon reduction, and environmental goals. They attempted to normalize chewing on bugs as an alternative to a steak. They claim it is our duty as global citizens to sacrifice essential nutrition to save the planet, despite knowing well that these measures would not make a meaningful dent in anything.

A tremendous amount of capital has flowed into synthetic foods, lab-grown proteins, precision fermentation, artificial dairy products, and engineered meat substitutes. Consumers are being told these products represent the future. Agriculture, now termed “traditional agriculture,” faces an ever-growing wall of regulations. The result is a food system that is composed of chemicals, cloned cells, and substances that are simply not safe for human consumption.

Food security has always been a cornerstone of national stability. Nations that lose control over their food production eventually become dependent on distant supply chains and centralized systems. That dependence creates vulnerabilities that cannot be solved by slogans or marketing campaigns. When domestic farmers disappear, replacing them is not as simple as passing another regulation.

The debate over meat is not really about environmental rights. It is about who gets to decide what people can and cannot eat. Consumers are no longer permitted to decide, and are often deceived by labeling and synthetic imitations. Europe is attempting to alter human behavior by banning the promotion of meat, and bit by bit, they will begin to normalize protein alternatives.

Citizens should pay close attention whenever politicians begin treating ordinary food as a social problem that must be managed. Once governments assume the authority to decide which foods deserve promotion and which deserve suppression, there is no obvious limit to where that philosophy ultimately leads. The long-term repercussions of poisoning civilization with synthetic food are unknown. They could theoretically put anything in the food supply to ultimately suppress the people, as a sick population is easier to control. Rest assured, the elites will continue eating real food that will become increasingly scarce in the years to come, especially as sovereign defaults begin one by one.

Governments never abandon an idea once they discover it increases control. They simply wait until the public is distracted and repackage it under a different name. The lockdowns may be over, but the mentality that produced them never disappeared. It merely evolved.

The United Kingdom is now moving toward a digital identity system tied to smartphones through the GOV.UK Wallet and digital credentials. The politicians sell it as convenience. They always do. It is easier. It is faster. It is more secure. Those are the same promises made every time governments seek to consolidate information and authority into a single system. What begins as a voluntary tool gradually becomes expected, then preferred, then required. Before long, participation in normal life depends on compliance.

The concern has never been the technology itself. The danger is the inevitable expansion of purpose. Today, it is proving your age, identity, or right to work. Tomorrow, it becomes the preferred method for accessing benefits, taxes, banking services, healthcare, travel, voting, and countless other activities. Every government insists it will never go too far, yet history repeatedly demonstrates that once infrastructure exists, future politicians inherit powers they never had to build themselves.

Privacy advocates, cybersecurity experts, and civil liberties groups have already warned that digital identity systems will erode privacy and place sensitive information in a centralized database, ripe for the taking. Once your identity, credentials, permissions, and access are concentrated inside a digital ecosystem, the relationship between citizen and state fundamentally changes.

What few people appreciate is how quickly a digital identity can become the master key for everyday life. Once your government-issued digital credentials are stored on your phone, they can be linked to tax records, healthcare access, benefits, banking verification, travel documents, age verification, employment eligibility, and countless other services. Before long, those who refuse to participate find themselves navigating endless hurdles while everyone else is funneled into a single digital ecosystem. Participation becomes unavoidable. Every crisis then becomes an excuse to add another layer of monitoring, another credential, another requirement, until the smartphone evolves into a digital passport for participation in modern society.

We saw governments worldwide prohibit citizens from accessing public spaces during COVID if they refused to be vaccinated. Play by the rules if you want to participate in society. Look what happened in China during COVID as one of countless examples. China sought to prevent bank runs by restricting citizens’ physical access to banks. People were required to scan a pass to enter public transportation systems but were denied entry. If they made it to the bank, they were barred from entering because the code had been switched off.  Over $6 billion (39 billion yuan) was frozen, and thousands of people were unable to access their bank accounts. A few banks in rural Henan reported bank runs, and residents were planning a protest after finding that their funds were frozen. The government successfully controlled human behavior through a digital platform.

Conveniently, the COVID tracing app is required to enter the bank. Users need to scan their QR codes to enter most public places. It has been reported that thousands of COVID-negative individuals had their status changed via the app, restricting their movement and making public places inaccessible. So even those who play by the rules are at risk of losing their place among society, instantly, without warning or reason.

At first, they will claim that participation is optional. Governments claimed that the COVID vaccination was not technically mandatory, but citizens could not freely access society without proof of vaccination. The pattern is the same—you technically do not need to create a digital ID, but basic tasks will become increasingly difficult to the point where you either cave or find energy-intensive workarounds. If this were about convenience, the government would not be considering assigning every newborn a digital ID at birth.

Millions of people living in Thailand understand the power the government holds over them after digital IDs were linked to their ability to bank. The Thai government began freezing tens of thousands of bank accounts per week. Over three million accounts were frozen without notice or proper investigation. Shockwaves of panic spread throughout the nation. Businesses no longer wish to accept credit. Confidence in government and now the banks has been destroyed. This event occurred as a protective measure against money laundering, allegedly, but soon, governments will have the ability to deliberately revoke access to the system.

Freedom is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. It disappears through a thousand small steps, each presented as reasonable, practical, and necessary. Most people will accept digital ID because it appears convenient, but there are the remaining few who continue to trust the government. Once government decides that access to services, travel, employment, banking, or communication should depend on maintaining that digital identity in good standing then we will see a massive uproar. But of course, by then it will be too late, and any disobedience will be noted in your permanent digital file.

Zul Mohammed from Pakistan, running for Mayor of Carrollton, TX says:

“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities”
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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) June 8, 2026

When I first saw the comments attributed to Zul Mohamed, a candidate for mayor in Texas, I had to read them twice. Any politician is free to criticize government policy. That is part of a free society. But when someone seeking public office reportedly declares, “No vet has made any sacrifice,” and goes on to say, “I do not support the US military” and “I do not support the United States,” that crosses into something entirely different. If those statements accurately reflect his views, then voters deserve to know exactly who is asking for their support.

Pakistan-born Mohamed has long-running legal troubles surrounding election fraud allegations and convictions tied to his earlier mayoral campaign. Texas authorities arrested him in 2020 on more than one hundred felony counts connected to a mail-ballot scheme. Prosecutors alleged that ballot applications were forged and directed to a mailbox obtained under a false identity. Years later, he pleaded guilty to numerous felony counts and was sentenced by a jury. Despite that history, his name returned to the ballot once again.

The issue here is larger than one candidate. Confidence in government is collapsing across the Western world because people increasingly feel that public office is attracting individuals who openly disdain the very institutions they seek to control. Citizens can disagree over taxes, foreign policy, immigration, or military intervention. Those debates are healthy. Yet there remains a basic expectation that elected officials should possess at least some degree of respect for the nation they hope to govern.

Veterans do not all share the same political views. Many criticize Washington as fiercely as anyone else. To claim that no veteran has made a sacrifice is an insult to those who returned home wounded, those who spent years separated from their families, and those who never came home at all. Whether one supported a particular war is irrelevant. The personal sacrifices made by service members are undeniable. There could be no United States without our troops.

This is not the first instance of a US politician openly hating the country they claim to represent. The Squad thinks it is progressive to be anti-America. Rashida Tlaib has repeatedly uses rhetoric describing America as an evil empire. Ilhan Omar stated that the United States was being turned into “one of the worst countries” in the world and openly supports her birth nation over America. New York’s Mamdani calls America a colonial imperialist nation and condemns capitalism.

An entire generation of politicians has been educated to view Western civilization as little more than a pile of sins. They can recite every historical failure but rarely acknowledge the freedoms, innovations, and opportunities that attracted millions of immigrants over centuries. It is extremely problematic that people who view the US with disdain are eager to enter politics. Who are they representing if not the American people? Where are their loyalties?

What is alarming is how a growing faction of the far left has stopped talking about fixing America and started talking as if America itself is the problem. They attack the country’s history, its institutions, its traditions, its military, and even the idea of patriotism itself. Every nation has flaws, but a political movement that teaches people to be ashamed of their country instead of fighting to improve it only breeds division and resentment. When politicians spend more time condemning America than defending it, voters have every right to question whose interests they truly represent.

This is a question for voters. If a candidate openly says he does not support the United States and looks down upon its military, then citizens must decide whether that is the type of leadership they want representing their community. Democracy only functions when voters pay attention. The greatest threat to any republic is indifference.

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The May jobs report came in far stronger than expected. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 172,000 while other economists were looking for roughly 80,000 to 85,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained at 4.3%, and March and April payrolls were revised higher by a combined 93,000 jobs. Leisure and hospitality added 70,000 jobs, local government gained 55,000, healthcare added 35,000, and manufacturing managed a small increase as well. On the surface, the numbers look solid and the financial press will immediately rush out stories claiming the economy remains strong.

What they never seem to understand is that employment is always a lagging indicator. Businesses do not fire workers the moment sales soften. They cut expenses elsewhere first, halt new hiring, and delay investment. Only after the downturn becomes undeniable do layoffs begin to accelerate. Looking solely at today’s payroll number and concluding that everything is fine is the same mistake governments and central banks have made repeatedly throughout history.

The more important issue is where these jobs are being created. Once again, government-related employment, healthcare, and hospitality accounted for a large portion of the gains. These are not the sectors that create long-term productivity growth. Financial activities actually lost jobs, and many white-collar industries continue to struggle as corporations adopt AI and reduce administrative staff. We are witnessing a structural shift in the labor market that the headline payroll number completely disguises.

Wages rose only 0.3% for the month and roughly 3.4% year-over-year. With inflation still running above the Federal Reserve’s target and energy prices elevated because of geopolitical tensions, real purchasing power remains under pressure. Workers may technically have jobs, but that does not mean they are getting ahead. This is precisely why consumer confidence has remained weak despite a labor market that appears healthy on paper.

The report also creates a serious problem for the Federal Reserve. For months there has been tremendous political pressure to cut rates. Yet a labor market producing 172,000 jobs per month with unemployment holding at 4.3% does not provide the justification for aggressive easing. In fact, some analysts are now openly discussing the possibility that rates may need to remain elevated longer than expected if inflation continues to move higher.

From a cyclical perspective, this is exactly the type of mixed economic environment we have been warning about. The economy is not collapsing, but neither is it expanding in a healthy and sustainable manner. Government hiring, wartime spending, healthcare expansion, and deficit financing can keep employment numbers elevated far longer than most analysts expect. At the same time, private-sector confidence continues to deteriorate beneath the surface. This divergence is what confuses forecasters because they are looking at individual data points rather than the broader cycle.

As we move deeper into 2026, the Panic Cycle year, volatility is likely to increase across both financial markets and geopolitics. The labor market may appear resilient today, but employment data has a long history of looking strongest immediately before conditions begin to deteriorate. The revisions always come later as the initial number is never accurate. That is why focusing exclusively on a single month’s payroll report is dangerous. The trend in confidence remains far more important than the headline number, and confidence is what ultimately drives capital flows, investment, and economic growth.

One of the most revealing stories coming out of Russia has nothing to do with missiles, tanks, or the battlefield. It concerns workers. Russia is now actively looking to India to help fill an enormous labor shortage that has developed throughout the economy, particularly in construction and infrastructure.

According to Russian officials and major financial institutions, the country faces an immediate labor shortage of at least 2.3 million workers. Construction alone is projected to require nearly 789,000 additional workers by 2030. Other estimates suggest Russia needs roughly 800,000 workers in manufacturing and another 1.5 million workers in construction and services. These are not small numbers. These are the kinds of figures that begin affecting an entire economy.

The number of work permits issued to Indian nationals has exploded. In 2021, before the Ukraine war, roughly 5,000 permits were issued. Last year that figure surged to almost 72,000. Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov went so far as to say that Russia could accept an “unlimited number” of Indian workers. When governments begin using language like that, they are acknowledging a structural problem rather than a temporary one.

Many people still measure the cost of war solely by military expenditures. They look at defense budgets and ammunition production. The larger economic cost is often the workforce itself. Russia entered this conflict already facing demographic challenges. Birth rates had been declining for years. The population was aging. Then hundreds of thousands of military-age men were either mobilized, volunteered for military service, emigrated, or were absorbed into defense industries supporting the war effort. The result is that civilian industries are now competing for workers with the military sector.

What is particularly interesting is that this shortage is not being filled by traditional sources of migrant labor from Central Asia to the extent it once was. The weaker ruble, tighter migration rules, and changing economic conditions have reduced those inflows. Russia is therefore turning increasingly toward India, where a massive pool of labor still exists. The Kremlin and New Delhi have already signed agreements designed to make it easier for Indians to work in Russia.

This development also reveals something broader about the global economy. Labor is becoming a strategic resource. Europe is struggling with demographic decline. Japan faces population contraction. China is confronting the consequences of decades of falling birth rates. Russia’s labor shortage may be receiving attention because of the war, but the underlying demographic trend is appearing throughout much of the industrialized world.

The geopolitical implications should not be ignored. Russia and India continue deepening economic ties through energy, trade, and now labor mobility. While much of the world focuses on sanctions and military developments, entirely new economic relationships are quietly being built beneath the surface. These shifts rarely receive much attention when they begin. Years later, everyone suddenly realizes the global landscape has changed.

We are entering a period where nations face rising debt burdens, labor shortages, aging populations, and increasing geopolitical tensions simultaneously. The war may have accelerated Russia’s labor crisis, but the demographic trend existed long before the first shot was fired. Governments around the world are discovering that printing money is easy. Replacing workers is not.

The shortage of 800,000 construction workers is not merely a Russian story. It is a warning sign of a much larger problem developing throughout the global economy. Capital can move instantly. Labor cannot.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported that 32 Chinese military aircraft, 10 naval vessels, and five additional official Chinese ships were operating around the island. More importantly, 25 of those aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. That median line was once viewed as an unofficial buffer. Today, it is crossed so frequently that Beijing appears determined to normalize military operations in areas that would have been considered highly provocative only a few years ago.

The mistake many analysts continue to make is assuming that China must launch a massive sea invasion for the situation to become dangerous. Modern warfare is changing rapidly. A blockade, economic strangulation, cyberattacks, drone saturation, and missile pressure can accomplish many of the same objectives without immediately triggering a traditional war. Taiwan clearly understands this. The government is now accelerating plans to build an arsenal of more than 1,800 anti-ship missiles by 2029, including American Harpoons and domestically produced Hsiung Feng missiles. Officials openly describe creating a “kill zone” in the Taiwan Strait capable of inflicting severe losses on any attacking force.

What interests me is not the daily military count. It is the timeline. China has increased military pressure around Taiwan for years, yet at the same time we see military planners throughout Asia discussing preparation windows extending into 2028 and 2029. Taiwan’s missile expansion is specifically designed to reach full strength around 2029. Military officials in Europe are discussing vulnerabilities that exist until roughly the same period. We are seeing governments independently focus on the same time horizon. That is difficult to ignore.

The larger issue is confidence. Governments always believe they can manage tensions indefinitely until suddenly they cannot. China is conducting larger exercises. Taiwan is rapidly arming. Japan is expanding defense spending. The Philippines is strengthening military cooperation with the United States. The entire region is preparing for a future that policymakers increasingly believe may be unavoidable.

Our models have been warning that 2026 would be a panic-cycle year marked by rising volatility and escalating geopolitical tensions. The risks continue building into 2027, which remains a major war-risk year. By 2028, recessionary pressures, sovereign debt concerns, and civil unrest begin colliding with these geopolitical tensions. Then we arrive at the major ECM turning point in 2029. Whether Taiwan becomes the spark is impossible to know in advance. What we can observe is that governments, militaries, and markets are all increasingly behaving as if they see a storm forming on the horizon.

Africa may be the world’s test site for vaccinations, but the United States has become the test site for synthetic foods. I mentioned in an earlier article that posts have been circulating online of consumers questioning the food supply. Wild animals won’t eat the stuff, even bugs refuse to touch it. The food rarely molds and the structure itself is often questionable. Nowhere in the developed world are producers permitted to peddle this poison. Before one could at least tell processed garbage from real food, but it all blends in together now. Real produce is becoming a scarcity. Our government does indeed hate us.

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Animals won’t eat fruit and vegetables from big box stores #creatorsearchinsights #tiktok #food #animals #eat

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Rubber fruit ? #fyp #funny #foryou #usa

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AVOID “CELL CULTURED,” “CELL-BASED,” AND “CULTIVATED” MEATS:

? EXTREMELY ALARMING
WAKE UP: Your Supermarket Meat
Might Be LAB-GROWN ?

This video is going
to blow your mind!

They’re sneaking “cell-cultured” or “cultivated” fake meat into packages… grown in bioreactors from animal cells, not farms.

No “lab-grown” label because they… https://t.co/SutGBQU63j pic.twitter.com/RoE6RUGTZa

— Noah B. Price (@TrueOnX) June 3, 2026