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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.
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.

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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.

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QUESTION: You haven’t commented on Hillary’s hatred of white Christian men.

Jeb

REPLY: There really is nothing to say. She hates men because she resents being a woman. She is the poster child of the ’60s Women’s Liberation Movement, which shifted from advocating for equality to outright hatred. My ex-wife was one of them. We broke up, and I kept the kids. My daughter was just 6 months old at the time. The upside was that I could build a company undistracted. That is also probably why I am not married today. Even the girls in the company voted for Trump in 2016, which surprised me. When I asked why? They said Hillary was a female Nazi who wanted to draft them. The younger generation of women did not follow Hillary’s path – thank God. Otherwise, the birthrate would have collapsed much more.

Of course, it was socialism that altered the marriage landscape. The Great Depression contributed to a decline in the husband–wife age gap. During the Great Depression, the economic uncertainty pushed both men and women to postpone marriage. That is also what causes recessions. The uncertainty of the future causes people to save rather than spend. That is why the ECB went negative on interest rates in 2014, and why QE failed. They finally raised rates in 2022 (Europe’s Lost Decade). However, after the Great Depression, with Socialism and the post-1937 economic recovery, there was a cultural shift that led to younger marriages overall and a smaller age difference.

In Colonial America, men (often 25–35) married women 16–22. Men waited until they had established farms or trades. Women were expected to marry young. In Victorian England, wealthy widowers frequently remarried younger women, producing age gaps of 20–30 years. It was socialism that upset everything. Men no longer had to prove they could support a family. Under socialism, there was always welfare.

Even the practice of the dowry came to an end. The dowry was usually cash, land, livestock, jewelry, or household goods given by the bride’s family. It often substituted for inheritance—since sons inherited the family land, daughters received their share as a dowry. When John Wayles died in 1773, he left his daughter Martha (Thomas Jefferson’s wife) 135 slaves, along with other property. When Martha married Jefferson, these slaves became part of Jefferson’s household under Virginia law at the time, effectively transferring their control to him.

The Women’s Lib movement of the ’60s was much more hostile than anything ever since. Hillary is just filled with hatred of men, I believe, because she resents not being a man. I believe she was always anti-Christian because of this contest in her mind with men.

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Not all Americans are NEOCONS looking for World War III like Lindsey Olin Graham. I believe Trump is being played by the NEOCONS, and advocating that NATO can shoot down Russian planes if they even venture into their airspace is an act of war. Some of the NEOCONS, such as John Bolton, never served, yet have no problem sending others to die in combat. Lindsey has served in the military, though he has not fought in combat or been in an active war zone.  He was in the United States Air Force (active duty from 1982–1988).

Anna Paulina Luna was in the military from 2009 to 2014. I can say she is anti-war, and she does have a fire in her belly. It is Congress that must issue a declaration of war. Roosevelt had to impose sanctions on Japan, freezing all their assets in the USA, then threatening to put an embargo on it to prevent Japan from buying energy from anyone else. That was what led to Pearl Harbor. Once they attacked, then Roosevelt finally got his declaration of war from Congress.

Luna is at least on our side. I give her credit for opening a dialogue with Russia. Putin is doing everything he can to avoid World War III. My concern is that the media in Europe and in the USA are bought and paid for by the NEOCONS and the Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhow warned us about, which will always promote war, for that is how they make their billions with the blood of others.

When Kruschev backed down from the 1962 Missile Crisis, the dignity of Russia was called into question. There was a coup and Kruschev was ousted.

Russia was invited to join NATO. Because the hardliners feared he might do that and surrender Russia to its postwar enemy, NATO, they staged another coup and overthrew Gobabchev. That is when Yeltsin stood on the tank and told the military not to follow their orders and not to shoot their fellow Russians.

Trump and NATO are playing a perilous game of chicken. Trying to force Putin into this corner to show your balls are bigger than his runs the risk of yet a third coup, and this time they will get more than they bargained for. With longer-range missiles, Ukraine can destroy all the military targets inside Russia to reduce it to ashes, which is the real goal of this Ukraine War. My sources have been obvious. NOBODY EVER EXPECTED Ukraine even to survive. The only objective was to use Ukraine to weaken Russia so that NATO could walk in unopposed.

Any news article that starts out saying “When Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it set off the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II,” is propaganda put out by NATO, NEOCONS, and the war mongers. If anyone cared about the Ukrainian people, they would have honored the Minsk Agreement.  The powers behind the curtain want war with Russia, and they intend to get it.

QUESTION: How can you say that Bitcoin is not a store of wealth? Nobody agrees with you.

DF

ANSWER: Bitcoin is no more a store of wealth than copper or anything else. I have said from the outset that it is a trading vehicle. It will rise and fall like everything else. A store of wealth is one where, if you put $1,000 into it, you can get $1,000 back. Everything rises and falls with the value of your house, as well as salaries and wages.

All the hype that Bitcoin is the saviour of the world, will replace the dollar, and circumvent central banks, was all great sales propaganda. The government in criminal cases has confiscated crypto accounts. The U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the District of Columbia relating to over $225.3 million in cryptocurrency tied to fraud schemes and money laundering. There was over $2.8 million in crypto + other assets seized from a wallet in connection with ransomware operations (Zepplin ransomware) by the DOJ. There are cases and a growing legal practice around cryptocurrency accounts being seized, or at least compelled to be disclosed, in divorce proceedings. It’s complex, but courts are increasingly treating crypto like other financial assets when dividing property. Here’s a breakdown of how this works, the challenges, and what seizure/turnover looks like in practice.

Under U.S. law, if you carry more than $10,000 in “currency or other monetary instruments” into or out of the country, you must report it to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP). The relevant form is the FinCEN Form 105 (Currency and Monetary Instruments Report). “Monetary instruments” are defined broadly to include items such as paper money, coins, traveler’s checks, bearer instruments, etc. Granted, U.S. law does not clearly define cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, etc.) as “currency or monetary instruments” in the same way. Some commentators argue that the $10,000 border‐reporting rule does not currently cover crypto because of this definitional ambiguity. However, U.S. regulators have proposed including crypto in border declarations, but as of now, no final rule has been enacted.

I had flown to Bermuda to buy some ancient coins in an auction. I paid by check, threw them in my briefcase, and you had to go through customs there in Bermuda. The agent opened my briefcase and saw the purchases I had made that had the prices on them, and said I didn’t declare them so that he could confiscate them. I argued that they were not listed in the guidelines, and under his definition, my clothes could be confiscated as well. He backed off, but every time for the next 30 years, when I returned to the United States, they looked at the screen, and the smile and friendly demeanor vanished. Then came the words, “Let me see the briefcase.”

You can argue that Bitcoin is not in the code for now. But if the agent wants to make a name for themselves, they will confiscate your account. You’ll go to court to argue for its return, and if you get an honest federal judge (good luck on that), maybe you’ll win.

The European Union has been working on regulatory frameworks (for example, via the Travel Rule / Transfer of Funds Regulation (TFR)) that would require crypto‐asset service providers (CASPs) to share originator & beneficiary information when crypto is transferred across borders. But these rules apply to regulated crypto service providers, not necessarily individuals crossing a border carrying crypto in wallets. The requirement is more about the transmission of assets via institutions.

However, as on MONDAY, travelers in and out of the EU must disclose all their accounts. I would bet that they will include crypto. I have been warning that as Europe moves closer to war with Russia (they assume Trump will be forced to defend the EU at American expense as always), they are pushing for iron-clad capital controls.  They are going for the cancellation of all physical cash, will then convert all accounts to their digital CBDC, and you will NOT be allowed to take money out of the EU. What starts this will is step one.

Bitcoin is no more a store of value than anything else because everything rises and falls.

Yet, promoting that propaganda has ensured it moves into a world where it,

too, becomes an asset subject to reporting and confiscation.

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COMMENT: Marty, I hope your family enjoyed the painting I had made of you to thank you when I sold my business in California. Your long-term advice has guided my life since the days when you were regularly on the Buz Schwartz show in California. Your advice that 1999 would be the low in gold was excellent. I bought $1 million of gold at $275 back then, when they were illegally keeping you in contempt to silence you for the bankers after the Russian collapse. Buz was supporting on the air. It was obviously a lie to claim the bank had no idea where $1 billion was, when that kind of money can only be wired. That $1 million I invested on your advice is now $12 million. I bought going into the Benchmarks. You said gold would decline for 19 years, then rise to $5,000 by 2032. That was why you retired from the gold business back then. The NY boys wanted to silence you because you always told the truth. As Barclay said in the Forecaster Movie, Goldman Sachs admitted they thought they could crush you, but you usually won.

I am so happy that they are making films about your life. It has been an honor to have known you. You have done more to try to help society and have suffered the arrows for doing so.

If they make this film about you vs the deep state, it will be like The Big Short that exposed the corruption between the banks and credit agencies. I will be glad to invest in that venture. The world needs to wake up.

JK

REPLY: Thank you. I knew about selling your company, and I thank you for the painting. I did not realize you also bought the gold near the low in 1999. My mother always told me there was a time and a place for everything. I never forgot that. I heard it all the time. I remember Buz. He was truly a great guy. He instantly saw through the government’s BS and how it was all about protecting the banks. If it wasn’t for the Japanese press coming to interview me, and I told them the bank stole the money, and if they did not come and sue the bank, they would never see a dime because the prosecutors were protecting the bank. The NY banks want people to buy at the high and sell at the low so they can make their pound of flesh.

That right comes from the Sixth Amendment, which states:

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial…”

When they were taking my lawyers away, the judge illegally closed the courtroom. The Associated Press was in the room and then told to get out. She went right up to the bench and said, “You cannot throw us out.” He ordered the Marshall to escort her out. She then wrote in a “closed” court, which violates the Constitution. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals did nothing. The Constitution means absolutely NOTHING in New York City, and it is far too dangerous to even have an account there.

If it were not for the support of my clients following my direction to sue the bank, they would have kept the money, probably handed some of it out to the Deep State, which might have taken place anyway because I had a $400 million profit due to the currency swing, where the dollar nearly doubled and they still handed that to the bank. They gave my notes to the bank to redeem because if the receiver did that, there was a $400 million profit they did not want to show. They even stole the pension funds of the employees, so much for the honesty of the DOJ in New York City. Then they put a gag order on me to prevent me from helping my own clients against the bank. It was even suggested that if they went to court, I could not testify for them.

Like a hostage held by terrorists, they do the same. You are handed a script that you must read. You are not allowed to speak in your own words. This is American justice in NYC. What a joke. There is absolutely nothing worth saving about the legal system in NYC – NOTHING!!!!!

The STATS for the SDNY show the tyranny.

Over 97–98% of defendants in federal cases plead guilty (primarily through plea bargains). You are threatened with double the time if you go to trial, or they threaten your family. They froze my mother’s account, even her social security funds, so she could not even get her medicine. They backed off only when my lawyers threatened to hold a press conference that they were deliberately trying to kill my mother to get me to plead.

Of the small fraction (about 2%) who go to trial, roughly 80–90% are convicted.

That produces an overall conviction rate around 99% once you include both guilty pleas and trial convictions.

No prosecutor will EVER admit a mistake. They fear they will never get a job if they have failures on their record. NEVER allow your child or grandchild EVER to marry a prosecutor. When the rule of law collapses, the country is not far behind. I have to warn client NEVER have any account in NYC for if you have to go to court against a bank – YOU LOSE 99% of the time!

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Renowned forecaster Martin Armstrong joins Dennis Tubbergen to discuss his groundbreaking computer model that tracks global capital flows and has accurately predicted major economic events for decades. Armstrong explains why capital is fleeing Europe and heading to the United States, the real reasons behind BRICS development (hint: it’s not about gold backing), and why talk of “de-dollarization” misses the mark. He reveals how geopolitical tensions are driving market movements, why European debt poses systemic risks to the banking system, and the surprising connection between stablecoins and Civil War-era war bonds. Armstrong also shares his unique perspective on why the U.S. dollar remains the world’s reserve currency and what makes it fundamentally different from other nations’ currencies. A must-listen for anyone seeking to understand where global capital is heading and what it means for markets, currencies, and the escalating geopolitical landscape.