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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.

Vietnam is undergoing one of the fastest economic transformations in the world right now, and unlike much of the West, ordinary people can actually feel the improvement in daily life. Wages are rising, factories are expanding, infrastructure is being built at enormous speed, and millions of Vietnamese citizens are moving into the middle class for the first time.

The country’s economy recently grew roughly 7.1%, placing Vietnam among the fastest-growing economies globally. Exports surged beyond $405 billion while foreign investment commitments climbed above $38 billion as multinational corporations continued relocating production into the country. Entire industrial corridors are expanding as manufacturers shift operations out of China and deeper into Southeast Asia. This is not growth driven purely by financial speculation or government stimulus. Vietnam is benefiting from a real industrial expansion cycle.

Samsung alone has invested more than $22 billion into Vietnam and now manufactures a massive share of its global smartphone production there. Apple suppliers continue moving assembly and component production into Vietnamese facilities while companies tied to electronics, apparel, semiconductors, and logistics rapidly expand operations. Industrial parks throughout northern Vietnam have become magnets for foreign capital because corporations increasingly want alternatives to concentrating manufacturing entirely inside China.

That shift is changing daily life for ordinary workers. Factory wages have more than doubled over the past decade while poverty rates collapsed from roughly 70% in the early 1990s to below 5% today. Retail sales continue growing strongly as rising incomes translate into greater consumer spending on transportation, education, technology, travel, restaurants, and housing.

The key difference between Vietnam and many Western economies is CONFIDENCE. In much of Europe, Canada, and Britain, younger generations increasingly feel financially trapped. Housing costs exploded, taxes rose, inflation damaged purchasing power, and debt burdens became overwhelming. In Vietnam, many younger workers still believe their lives will materially improve over time because for millions of families, conditions actually are improving year after year.

Urban expansion throughout Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and surrounding industrial regions is visible everywhere. New highways, ports, airports, rail projects, apartment towers, logistics hubs, and technology centers continue reshaping the country at remarkable speed. Vietnam has aggressively positioned itself as one of the primary beneficiaries of global supply chain fragmentation.

The country also benefits from demographics at a time when many developed economies face aging population crises. Vietnam’s median age remains around 33 years old compared to roughly 49 in Japan and more than 45 across much of Europe. That younger workforce provides long-term labor capacity while maintaining relatively competitive wage structures for global manufacturers.

Inflation has also remained far more manageable than in many Western nations. While food and energy costs still create pressure periodically, Vietnam avoided the type of energy self-destruction policies that severely damaged industrial competitiveness across Europe. The government largely prioritized manufacturing expansion and export growth rather than aggressive deindustrialization.

Tourism is booming as well. International visitor arrivals recently exceeded 17 million while domestic travel spending surged alongside rising household incomes. Banking penetration, digital payments, automobile ownership, and middle-class consumption continue expanding rapidly as economic development spreads further beyond the largest cities.

None of this means Vietnam is without risks. Rapid urban growth is creating affordability pressures in some regions while export dependence leaves the economy vulnerable to global slowdowns. Wealth inequality is beginning to widen between urban industrial zones and rural areas. But the overall direction of the country remains clearly upward rather than defensive.

The world economy is fragmenting into regions experiencing very different realities. Much of the developed world is dealing with debt saturation, aging populations, declining middle classes, and stagnant growth. Vietnam is still moving through a stage where industrialization, capital inflows, and rising productivity are lifting large portions of the population simultaneously. That is why global capital continues pouring into the country.

Germany was once considered the industrial engine of Europe. Today, ordinary Germans are increasingly feeling their economic model breaking down in real time as living costs rise, industry weakens, and confidence in the future deteriorates rapidly. The political establishment still talks about “green transitions” and economic resilience, but households across Germany are experiencing something entirely different underneath the surface.

Recent polling from INSA found that nearly 70% of Germans believe the country is heading in the wrong economic direction, while consumer confidence remains near recessionary territory despite years of government stimulus and intervention. Another survey found that over 40% of Germans now say they cannot maintain their previous standard of living because of rising costs tied to food, housing, electricity, transportation, and heating. The middle class is being steadily eroded.

This is precisely what I warned would happen once Europe embraced energy self-destruction under the climate agenda. Germany built its industrial dominance around cheap and reliable energy combined with export manufacturing. Once Berlin shut nuclear plants, restricted domestic energy production, and sanctioned Russian energy flows simultaneously, the entire economic structure became vulnerable. Energy-intensive industries like chemicals, steel, manufacturing, and automotive production immediately faced soaring costs that competitors in Asia and the United States simply do not carry to the same degree.

German manufacturing activity has contracted repeatedly over the past two years while industrial production remains well below pre-crisis levels. Major firms including BASF have openly reduced European operations because operating costs inside Germany no longer make economic sense long term. Volkswagen, Siemens, and countless mid-sized industrial firms are all confronting weakening competitiveness as energy prices remain structurally elevated.

Meanwhile ordinary Germans are absorbing the impact through declining purchasing power. Food prices surged dramatically following the Ukraine war and broader inflation crisis. Housing costs continue rising in major cities. Electricity prices became some of the highest in the industrialized world. Insurance costs, transportation expenses, and debt servicing all moved sharply higher after interest rates normalized from the artificial zero-rate era.

The political class still pretends these are temporary disruptions. They are not temporary. Germany is facing structural decline because policymakers dismantled the foundations supporting industrial prosperity itself. You cannot run a major export economy while intentionally making energy scarce and expensive. The mathematics simply do not work.

This is why the ECM projected Europe entering a depressionary phase into 2028. The sovereign debt crisis was never truly solved after the euro crisis years. Europe merely delayed the reckoning through ECB intervention, money printing, and artificial liquidity. Now the continent faces a second wave of pressure simultaneously involving war spending, migration costs, demographic decline, energy instability, and collapsing competitiveness.

Germany sits at the center of that crisis.

The irony is extraordinary because Germans were repeatedly told their sacrifices would create a stronger, greener, and more stable Europe. Instead, many now feel poorer despite working harder. The younger generation increasingly doubts they will achieve the same living standards as previous generations. Industrial workers fear layoffs while farmers protest rising costs and regulations. Consumers cut spending because household budgets are being consumed by necessities.

The media still points to headline employment numbers while ignoring the deeper deterioration underneath. People feel economic decline long before official statistics fully reflect it. Germans understand instinctively that the country is moving in the wrong direction because they see the pressure every single month through bills, taxes, shrinking savings, and weakening financial security. Germans are feeling the collapse of the European model in real-time.

The April employment report came in stronger than expected, at least on the surface. The US economy added 115,000 jobs while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%. Economists had been expecting closer to 55,000–67,000 jobs depending on the survey. Washington immediately celebrated the report as proof that the economy remains “resilient,” but the details tell a very different story.

The jobs that continue to grow are concentrated in healthcare, transportation, warehousing, retail, and social assistance. Healthcare added 37,000 jobs while transportation and warehousing rose by 30,000. Retail added another 22,000 positions. Meanwhile, federal government employment declined by another 9,000 jobs and the information sector lost 13,000 positions. Technology and information employment are now down 342,000 jobs from their peak in late 2022.

This is not the type of employment growth that creates a powerful long-term economic expansion. We are increasingly shifting toward a service and support economy while high-paying productive sectors weaken. Manufacturing showed virtually no growth while professional services remain sluggish. The information sector, which includes many technology and media-related positions, continues bleeding jobs as AI and automation begin replacing large sections of white-collar labor.

The government also quietly admitted that the number of people working part-time because they cannot find full-time work jumped by 445,000 in a single month to 4.9 million Americans. That is one of the most important numbers in the entire report because it reveals the true weakness underneath the headline payroll figure. People are increasingly piecing together income however they can.

The labor force participation rate remains stuck at just 61.8%, which means a massive percentage of working-age Americans are simply no longer participating in the labor market at all. During the late 1990s, participation rates were above 67%. That difference represents millions of people who have disappeared from productive economic activity.

Average hourly earnings rose 3.6% year-over-year to $37.41, but real inflation in food, insurance, housing, healthcare, and energy continues consuming those wage gains. Americans know perfectly well that their actual cost of living is rising much faster than the government statistics admit. Insurance premiums alone have exploded nationwide while energy costs continue climbing due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

What is becoming increasingly apparent is that the labor market is splitting into two Americas. One side consists of government-supported sectors, healthcare, logistics, and lower-paying service work. The other side, which once drove productivity growth, manufacturing, technology, engineering, and high-skilled private employment, is slowing dramatically.

This is precisely what emerges during the later stages of a sovereign debt cycle. Governments expand endlessly while productive sectors stagnate under taxation, regulation, and rising costs. Eventually, the economy survives on redistribution instead of production.

The revisions in the report were also revealing. February payrolls were revised lower from -133,000 to -156,000 jobs while March was revised slightly higher to 185,000. The three-month average remains weak compared to previous expansion cycles.

The Federal Reserve now finds itself trapped once again. Stronger-than-expected payroll numbers and rising wages reduce the likelihood of immediate rate cuts. Yet the economy itself remains fragile underneath the surface. Rising oil prices tied to the Iran conflict are beginning to spread through transportation, manufacturing, shipping, and consumer prices. Every geopolitical shock now feeds directly into inflation because modern economies are dependent on complex global supply chains.

What we are really witnessing is a transition period. The old economic model built on endless globalization, cheap energy, and cheap labor is breaking apart. AI is beginning to replace entire categories of employment while governments simultaneously attempt to maintain growth through debt expansion and public spending. That creates the illusion of stability for a time, but eventually productivity becomes too weak to support the debt structure itself.

The average American already feels the difference. Multiple jobs are becoming common again. Younger generations cannot afford homes. Families are carrying record debt balances while relying increasingly on part-time or gig-based work. The headlines may celebrate 115,000 jobs, but people experience the economy through purchasing power, not government press releases.

COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, we never met. I was introduced to Socrates at the insistence of a friend at another one of our divisions. There was no 80% Crash on April 29. The whole de-dollarization seems to be another hype, as we have witnessed ourselves. Your system allows you to plot anything in any currency. I just have to comment that you are obviously a highly experienced trader, for it takes someone who has thrown their hat in the ring to actually come up with something useful rather than theory. Plotting the S&P across various currencies confirms the bull market, as you have consistently said. A bull market requires advancement in all currencies.

I understand you will be doing a Next Generation conference to teach the next generation how the world really works. I know our company has used you for many years. I am a recent addition. I just wanted to say that you have opened my eyes and transformed my career into something exciting.

God bless you, Mr. Armstrong, and thank you.

Robert

REPLY: Thank you very much. I know what you mean. When things are always evolving, it keeps you on your toes. Lillian Smith put it this way:

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”

My father took the family to Europe for the summer back in 1964. That taught me currency, for we traveled all over Europe, and back then, you had to change currencies at every border. That trip taught me more than anything in school, for not only did they never talk about currency because everything was at a fixed rate, but economics was not even a science. It was all really Marxism and Keynes projecting that government was wonderful, our savior, who would eliminate recessions and depressions, creating the path to economic utopia.

It was currency that dragged me around the world and had companies and governments knocking on my door. It has been my clients who have taught me, not academia. I learned early on that a bull market is something that rises in all currencies – not just your local currency.  If your currency declines by 50%, your private assets will rise in proportion because everything has an international value.

Not only does classical economics completely fail to keep up with the times, still entrenched in theories from the fixed exchange rate period, where they NEVER considered currency, but everything is based entirely on domestic analysis, void of international capital flows. Here is a chart of the famous 1989 Crash in Japan. Everyone will act out of their own self-interest, and that is measured through the eyes of their domestic currency. Note that the high took place in yen and dollars simultaneously.

I quickly realized that what I was being taught in school was all lies and propaganda. I had to read Galbraith in school and came across Hoover’s Memoirs. It quickly surfaced that Galbraith was just a socialist who portrayed corporations as evil and the government as walking on water. He omitted everything about the Sovereign defaults of Europe, South America, and Asia. The LEFT rewrote history to support Marx. Nothing has changed. Formal education is a detriment. The Shah of Iran paid for the education of Iranians, sent them to the best universities in the US and UK, and they returned with a Marxist agenda mixed with Islam and staged the Revolution in 1979. It was that same LEFTIST hatred I saw in school that has led to the death of hundreds of millions and counting.

A real bull market is something rising in a broad basket of currencies. Then and only then do you see how markets truly respond. This 80% crash is nonsense. To achieve that, which is a repeat of 1929, so many things would have to be different. The US had a balanced budget in 1929. There was a cash shortage because the Fed feared inflation. Over 200 cities issued their own money due to the cash shortage, Milton Friedman pointed out.

The market went down because the dollar rose to record highs and other countries defaulted on their debt. The Fed was terrified that the dollar would be next on the list of currencies to default, and it tried to keep the supply tight, causing deflation.

I had a discussion about the business cycle with Paul Volcker back in 1999. He, too, saw Keynesian Economics fail during the 1970s. He also agreed with my Economic Confidence Model and said he believed that the business cycle was about 8 years.

It was Milton Friedman who came to listen to me speak, I believe it was a COMPUTRAC conference in Chicago. I was speaking about currency and capital flows, and when I was done, Milton came up, shook my hand, said that was the best speech he had ever heard, and that I was doing what he had just dreamed about. To say I was shocked is putting that mildly. I saw myself as just a trader.

What Milton meant was that I was doing what he had just dreamed about, as he had seen in his mind a floating exchange in 1953, almost 20 years before it materialized. In 1953, Milton Friedman published a seminal essay titled “The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates,” where he strongly advocated for a system of floating exchange rates. At the time, the global monetary system was dominated by the Bretton Woods framework of fixed exchange rates. Milton argued that such a “pegged but adjustable” system was inherently unstable. He proposed flexible exchange rates as a superior solution, mainly because they could automatically adjust to economic shocks, helping to maintain both internal (e.g., full employment) and external (e.g., balance of trade) balances for a country.

Milton’s case for flexible rates was so influential that it presaged nearly all the major arguments that later scholars would make in favor of floating exchange rates. It was Milton who encouraged me and said what I was doing was important not just for trading, but for economics and the political world.

I am trying to finish these four books as my final gift. That with the next couple of movies (1), documentary (1), Hollywood film, I can say mission accomplished. I have always believed we are sent here for a purpose, and if we do not stare that destiny square in the eyes, then what is the purpose of being here?

There is a pattern within the cost of living series based on a series of factors that directly contribute to the overall economic health of a population. What we are witnessing globally is not random. The same patterns continue to emerge regardless of the country, language, or political party in power. Nations that are expanding their middle class, attracting capital, building infrastructure, and maintaining affordable energy are experiencing economic growth in real time. Nations obsessed with debt expansion, climate extremism, endless war spending, uncontrolled migration, and taxation are watching their standard of living collapse before the public’s eyes.

The difference between success and decline is becoming visible on the streets. In the collapsing economies, people cannot afford homes, birth rates are imploding, young adults remain dependent on their parents well into their 30s, and governments continually invent new taxes to keep the system alive. In the rising economies, factories are being built, wages are climbing, infrastructure is expanding, and foreign capital is flowing inward.

This is ultimately a capital flow story. Capital always migrates to wherever it is treated best. Governments never seem to understand this because politicians assume wealth is trapped permanently inside their borders. It is not. Once governments begin punishing productivity while rewarding bureaucracy, capital quietly leaves.

Europe is the clearest example of economic self-destruction. Germany, once the industrial engine of Europe, has struggled with stagnant growth for years. Even the IMF now projects only modest recovery despite aggressive fiscal spending. The problem is structural. Germany built its industrial dominance on affordable energy, engineering, exports, and manufacturing. Then Europe declared war on fossil fuels while simultaneously sanctioning its largest source of cheap energy from Russia. You cannot run an industrial economy on ideology.

The same pattern is visible throughout Britain, Canada, and parts of Western Europe. Housing costs exploded while real wages failed to keep pace. Governments expanded bureaucracy while productivity slowed. Immigration surged far beyond infrastructure capacity, increasing pressure on housing, healthcare, transportation, and social services. The middle class was squeezed from every direction at once.

Japan demonstrates another side of the crisis. It is the demographic collapse model. An aging population, combined with decades of debt accumulation, has created an economy where the government survives largely through perpetual intervention. The Bank of Japan has distorted markets for decades simply trying to prevent the sovereign debt structure from imploding. Meanwhile, birth rates continue to collapse because younger generations no longer see financial security as achievable.

South Korea faces similar demographic pressures, but it also reveals another modern vulnerability: dependence on global supply chains and imported energy. Seoul recently introduced another major emergency budget package to offset rising oil prices and geopolitical instability tied to the Middle East conflict. Modern economies that lack domestic energy independence become extremely vulnerable during geopolitical crises.

Then we look at the nations that are rising.

India continues expanding because it still possesses a young workforce, rising industrialization, and enormous internal demand. Manufacturing is steadily relocating away from Europe and China toward regions with lower costs and growing labor forces. India is benefiting directly from that shift. Global forecasts continue placing India among the fastest-growing major economies in the world.

Vietnam has become one of the clearest examples of capital migration. Multinational corporations moved production there to escape rising geopolitical tensions and higher costs elsewhere. Vietnam combined infrastructure spending, export manufacturing, and relatively stable economic policy to become one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies. Reuters recently reported that Vietnam aims for growth rates near 10% through 2030 while pouring roughly $200 billion into infrastructure projects.

Singapore succeeded because it understood something most Western governments forgot decades ago: stability attracts money. Low corruption, efficient infrastructure, strong property rights, and a pro-business environment consistently attract international capital. The government did not wage ideological war against productivity. It created conditions where business could thrive.

Mexico also benefited from global realignment. As corporations attempt to reduce dependence on China, manufacturing is increasingly moving closer to the United States through nearshoring. Mexico has enormous long-term potential because geography matters. Yet even there, sovereign debt risks and fiscal instability remain threats if spending spirals out of control.

What ties all the successful economies together is surprisingly simple. They still reward production over speculation. They invest in infrastructure instead of endless bureaucracy. They maintain access to affordable energy. They attract capital instead of demonizing it. Most importantly, they still possess some degree of optimism about the future.

Collapsing economies share the opposite characteristics. Rising taxes, shrinking birth rates, exploding debt, unaffordable housing, ideological regulation, and declining productivity create a death spiral. Governments then attempt to solve these problems by borrowing even more money, which only accelerates inflation and capital flight.

The sovereign debt crisis remains the core issue behind everything. The OECD recently warned that sovereign borrowing continues hitting record levels globally while interest expenditures remain near historic highs. Governments are increasingly trapped in a cycle where they must borrow simply to service prior debt obligations. Once that occurs, policy becomes entirely focused on maintaining confidence in government debt markets.

This is why we are seeing the divide between rising and collapsing nations widen so dramatically. Productive capital is abandoning regions where governments have become hostile toward growth itself. The world economy is fragmenting into two camps: nations still building for the future, and nations desperately trying to preserve systems that are mathematically unsustainable.

The average person feels this long before economists admit it. They feel it at the grocery store, in housing costs, in declining opportunities, and in the inability to build wealth. That is why people increasingly describe economic decline as something they experience “in real time.” The collapse is no longer hidden inside statistics. It has become part of daily life.

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Mexico is increasingly benefiting from one of the largest supply chain realignments in modern economic history. Factories are expanding, industrial wages are rising, foreign investment is pouring in, and millions of Mexicans are experiencing growing economic opportunity in real time as capital shifts closer to the United States.

Mexico’s economy is being transformed by nearshoring. For decades corporations concentrated production heavily inside China to maximize cheap labor and globalization efficiencies. Now companies want manufacturing closer to the American market because of geopolitical tensions, shipping disruptions, rising Chinese labor costs, and growing concerns over supply chain security. Mexico sits directly at the center of that transition because it already possesses deep trade integration with the United States through the USMCA framework.

Mexico recently attracted more than $36 billion in foreign direct investment while exports surpassed $600 billion annually, making the country one of the largest manufacturing exporters in the world. Industrial hubs throughout northern Mexico are expanding rapidly as companies tied to automotive production, electronics, aerospace, semiconductors, logistics, and industrial manufacturing continue relocating operations closer to the United States.

Entire regions are being reshaped economically. Industrial construction across northern Mexico surged dramatically as warehouse space, factories, rail infrastructure, and logistics centers expand around Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Saltillo, and other manufacturing corridors. Demand became so strong in some industrial zones that vacancy rates reportedly fell below 1–2% while industrial rents climbed sharply due to limited available space.

This is real economic activity, not simply financial engineering. Automobile manufacturing remains one of the clearest examples. Mexico now produces more than 4 million vehicles annually and has become one of the world’s largest auto exporters. Companies including Tesla suppliers, BMW, Kia, Toyota, General Motors, and numerous parts manufacturers continue investing billions into Mexican production capacity as North American supply chains deepen further.

Industrial wages are rising alongside the expansion. Manufacturing pay in many regions increased materially over recent years while unemployment remains relatively low in major industrial corridors. Middle-class growth has accelerated in parts of northern and central Mexico as higher-paying industrial jobs expand outward into logistics, engineering, construction, technology, transportation, and consumer spending sectors.

The younger generation increasingly sees opportunity connected directly to this industrial expansion cycle. That psychological shift matters enormously because confidence drives consumption, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment behavior. In many Western countries younger generations increasingly feel locked out of housing, overwhelmed by debt, or trapped under declining purchasing power. In parts of Mexico, rising industrial activity is creating upward mobility tied directly to production growth and capital inflows.

The peso itself became one of the strongest-performing currencies globally recently, strengthening materially against the dollar while many developed-world currencies weakened. That stability helped contain imported inflation pressures relative to many Western economies struggling with currency deterioration and energy shocks.

Mexico also benefits from demographics at a time when much of the developed world faces aging population crises. The country maintains a younger labor force than Europe, Japan, South Korea, or even China, while remaining deeply connected to the largest consumer economy on earth.

Mexico is not rising because governments suddenly became brilliant. Mexico is rising because global capital is repositioning itself geographically. The United States remains the primary destination for international capital during periods of global instability, and Mexico increasingly benefits secondarily because corporations want production integrated directly with American markets.

None of this means Mexico lacks problems. Cartel violence remains a serious issue in portions of the country. Infrastructure bottlenecks still exist. Water shortages threaten some industrial regions. Wealth inequality remains significant and parts of southern Mexico continue lagging economically behind the industrial north.

While Europe increasingly deindustrializes itself through energy policy and overregulation, Mexico is industrializing further through manufacturing expansion and trade integration. That distinction is becoming increasingly important globally.

The world economy is fragmenting into regions attracting capital and regions repelling it. Mexico is increasingly landing on the receiving side of those flows because geography, labor costs, demographics, and industrial integration with the United States create advantages that corporations cannot ignore. That is why millions of Mexicans are increasingly feeling economic momentum build around them in real-time.

Advanced Trading Sold Out — ECM & Monetary Crisis Cycle Webinars Still Available This May

The response to our May Advanced Trading Webinar was extraordinary. Every available seat for the “Updated Advanced Techniques and Considerations for using Reversals and Arrays” workshop has officially sold out as traders and investors rushed to secure access to one of the most advanced educational events we offer.

Due to that demand, a second Advanced Trading Webinar has now been added for June 26–27 for those who were unable to secure a spot.

However, two critically important educational webinars taking place earlier that same week are still available and open for registration.

These sessions are designed to provide the foundation behind the very models that drive global forecasting, capital flow analysis, and cyclical market interpretation.

Understanding the Economic Confidence Model
May 12
https://armstronginternational.ticketspice.com/q2-26-understanding-the-economic-confidence-model

The Economic Confidence Model (ECM) remains one of the core pillars behind forecasting global booms, busts, and shifts in confidence. This webinar explains how the cycle functions, why timing matters, and how confidence drives everything from sovereign debt crises to equity market rallies.

Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of:

• ECM timing and turning points
• Capital concentration and global capital flows
• How confidence shifts impact economies and markets
• Historical examples of major cyclical turning points

This session is ideal for investors, analysts, business owners, and anyone looking to better understand the structure behind global economic trends.

Understanding the Monetary Crisis Cycle
May 13
https://armstronginternational.ticketspice.com/q2-2026-understanding-the-monetary-crisis-cycle

As sovereign debt reaches unprecedented levels globally, understanding the Monetary Crisis Cycle has never been more important.

This webinar explores the recurring patterns behind monetary instability, currency transitions, and government debt crises. Participants will learn how capital moves during periods of uncertainty and why monetary systems repeatedly enter phases of restructuring throughout history.

Topics include:

• Sovereign debt cycles
• Currency instability and confidence shifts
• Historical monetary transitions
• The relationship between monetary crises and global capital migration

Together, these two webinars provide the foundation behind many of the models discussed throughout our research and conferences. They are educational experiences designed to help participants better understand the mechanics driving the global economy rather than simply reacting to headlines after the fact.

While the May Advanced Trading Workshop has sold out, there is still time to participate in these highly important live sessions before availability becomes limited.

We look forward to seeing you there.