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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.
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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.
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  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!

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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.

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“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.

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EU Not Included in New G5

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COMMENT: Your peace proposal has become a must-read here. It is said that you set the ball in motion that the EU is the enemy, not Russia. Trump is backing away from the EU, even forming a new G5 with the EU omitted. You have far more influence than you let on.

Anonymous

Zelensky Pushing EU Over the Edge

REPLY: Of course, I am use to being blamed for everything. The EU is the enemy because it is imploding economically. They reject peace because they need war as a distraction. Kill the messenger as always. Zelensky is pushing the EU off a cliff – not me. This is why the EU is becoming so authoritarian. The migration policy is a disaster. But they will never admit a mistake. In the UK, they equate Islamophobia with Antisemitism. But they are different. Islam is a religion, not a race. Antisemitism is not about religion, it is a race. That’s why Soros and Zelensky both pretended to be Christian to escape the Nazis.

 

 

Kallas is Lyndsey Graham in drag. She should not be allowed anywhere close to power. She personally hates the Russian people blaming them for Stalin but nobody blames the German people for Hitler’s actions. Kallas has openly stabbed Trump in the back every chance she gets. She has openly called for the break up of Russia and has vowed that Russia will never be allowed to return to the G8.

Sun Tsu Know your Enemy

If you do not talk to an enemy, there will never be peace. NATO has convinced all the EU leaders not to talk with Putin. They constantly claim Putin wants to invade Europe. They are applying the Khrushchev days to Putin. Every word out of Kallas’ mouth is so biased and full of hatred there is no point of even pretending to negotiate with here – IMPOSSIBLE! She pretends to care about civilians but rejects any possible peace deal because of her deep seated bias.

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Once upon a time, we had leaders who were not just honest, but rational. Winston Churchill insisted that he should accompany the Allied invasion fleet across the English Channel on D-Day (June 6, 1944). I would love to see Kallas handed a gun and sent to the front lines in Ukraine that she refuses to seek peace. Churchill only backed down when King George VI personally intervened. He told Churchill that if the Prime Minister, as a commoner, had the right to go, then the King, as head of the armed forces, had an even greater right and would join him. Knowing this was an untenable risk for the monarch, Churchill finally relented and agreed to stay ashore. There is no such courage amount the leaders of Europe.

 

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According to an article published in the British newspaper, The Guardian, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a $1 million dollars the year he left office from a man who had a strong financial incentive to keep the war going in Ukraine.

The Trump administration has identified Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland as priority partners and that Washington should pull away from the European Union. There is talk of now forming a new five-power forum with China and Russia, according to Defense One and other outlets. The EU is self-destructing. If the people demand that Brussels reverse its policies, then perhaps the EU can be saved. But that seems unlikely. The EU will break up and perhaps that will unfold because of war. The various member states need economic reform badly. The same Marxist policies that took down Russia and China are alive in the EU and has undermined their economy dramatically.

Youth Unemployment in the EU is outrageous and they have ignored that and allowed a wholesale migration that is indeed turning into a cultural erasure.

Spain: 27.5%

Greece: 25.6% (Q4 2023 data) (recent data may be as high as 55%)

Sweden: 22.2%

Italy: 20.3%

Lowest Rates (March 2024):

Germany: 5.6%

Czechia: 7.6%

Netherlands: 8.6%

Bulgaria: 9.2%

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Market Talk – December 12, 2025

Market Talk 2017

ASIA:
The major Asian stock markets had a green day today:
• NIKKEI 225 increased 687.73 points or 1.37% to 50,836.55
• Shanghai increased 16.028 points or 0.41% to 3,889.346
• Hang Seng increased 446.28 points or 1.75% to 25,976.79
• ASX 200 increased 105.30 points or 1.23% to 8,697.30
• SENSEX increased 449.53 points or 0.53% to 85,267.66
• Nifty50 increased 148.40 points or 0.57% to 26,046.95
The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:
• AUDUSD decreased 0.00072 or -0.11% to 0.66575
• NZDUSD decreased 0.00011 or -0.02% to 0.58069
• USDJPY increased 0.172 or 0.11% to 155.774
• USDCNY increased 0.00024 or 0.00% to 7.05243
The above data was collected around 13:15 EST.
Precious Metals:
• Gold increased 22.83 USD/t oz. or 0.53% to 4,302.86
• Silver decreased 1.593 USD/t. oz. or -2.51% to 61.947
The above data was collected around 13:18 EST.
EUROPE/EMEA:
The major Europe stock markets had a negative day today:
• CAC 40 decreased 17.14 points or -0.21% to 8,068.62
• FTSE 100 decreased 54.13 points or -0.56% to 9,649.03
• DAX 30 decreased 108.12 points or -0.45% to 24,186.49
The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:
• EURUSD increased 0.00086 or 0.07% to 1.17466
• GBPUSD decreased 0.00154 or -0.12% to 1.33732
• USDCHF decreased 0.00011 or -0.01% to 0.79540
The above data was collected around 13:23 EST.
NORTH AMERICA:

US/AMERICAS:

  • DJIA declined by 245.96 points (-0.51%) to 48,458.05

  • S&P 500 declined by 73.59 points (-1.07%) to 6,827.41

  • NASDAQ declined by 398.69 points (-1.69%) to 23,195.169

  • Russell 2000 declined by 39.15 points (-1.51%) to 2,551.457

Canada Market Closings:

  • TSX Composite declined by 133.34 points (-0.42%) to 31,527.39

  • TSX 60 declined by 4.40 points (-0.24%) to 1,850.43

Brazil Market Closing:

  • Bovespa advanced by 1,313.29 points (0.82%) to 160,502.39

ENERGY:
The oil markets had a negative day today:
• Crude Oil decreased 0.003 USD/BBL or -0.01% to 57.597
• Brent decreased 0.067 USD/BBL or -0.11% to 61.214
• Natural gas decreased 0.0867 USD/MMBtu or -2.05% to 4.1443
• Gasoline decreased 0.0104 USD/GAL or -0.59% to 1.7572
• Heating oil decreased 0.0181 USD/GAL or -0.81% to 2.2108
The above data was collected around 13:25 EST.
• Top commodity gainers: Platinum (3.12%), Orange Juice (6.52%), Silicon (1.81%) and Bitumen (2.03%)
• Top commodity losers: Zinc (-2.51%), Oat (-2.46%), Silver (-2.51%) and Methanol (-2.27%)
The above data was collected around 13:30 EST.
BONDS:
Japan 1.9550% (+2.44bp), US 2’s 3.54% (-0.014%), US 10’s 4.1920% (+3.1bps); US 30’s 4.86 (+0.056%), Bunds 2.8596% (+1.4bp), France 3.5780% (+2.04bp), Italy 3.5460% (+1.36bp), Turkey 28.53% (-12bp), Greece 3.494% (+2.3bp), Portugal 3.217% (+2.3bp); Spain 3.325% (+2.3bp) and UK Gilts 4.525% (+3.32bp)
The above data was collected around 13:34 EST.

A Word of Warning Dealing with the EU

EU Break up

QUESTION #1: Marty.

I just read your post on Europe being broke.  You say get out of all EU assets and they will screw Americans just like they are the Russians.
I have an apartment in downtown Athens that my aunt left to me.  I would guess value is around 250-300K euros.  I’m reluctant to sell in because taxes total 320 euros and utilities/fees another 400 euros yearly.
You’ve been writing about exiting European assets and I looked into selling but being a foreigner I feel realtors are trying to get me to sell for less than it was worth.
I know you have written that hard assets endure against changing currencies and governments.
A quick response would be greatly appreciated.
Alex
ANSWER: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot wrote on X that the EU decision means that “no one will decide in place of the Europeans the use of these funds.” Trump’s NSS document made the point clear that many EU governments are agreeing with that the EU is facing ‘civilisational erasure’ because of its immigration policies and ‘censorship of free speech.’ If you read the NSS carefully, you will see that it focus US relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded over these issues. This includes Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland were listed by the NSS as countries America should “work more with”, for the ultimate goal of “pulling them away from” the EU.
Belgium holds $183 billion at Euroclear. Its Prime Minister calls the competing EU plan “fundamentally wrong” and warns Russian litigation could “mean bankruptcy for Belgium.”
I am not concerned about property, but liquid assets that capital control can prevent from being wired. The EU will by no means survive. The actions of the EU and NATO are clearly about their own existence. Neither cares about Europe, the people, or the political member states. NATO is an expired cold war entity that should have been shut down. It’s ONLY purpose is war and to keep the money flowing they need to justify their existence by constantly claiming Russia wants to invade as if this is the days of Khrushchev when communism would defeat capitalism.
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QUESTION #2: Larry Fink, Kushner and Bessent are all directly involved in Ukraine negotiations. Who is the 4th Horseman? Steve Witkoff?
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ANSWER #2: Yes. I would not invest 10 cents of my worst enemy in anything that they concoct. I warned them not to invest in Russia back in 1998. They did not listen. Soros lost $2 billion. Bessent the left. It’s always the same game. They think that they can control government for the perfect trade. I fear this is another huge loss in the making.
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QUESTION #3:

“I hear you, but it’s hard to comprehend how anyone could want war. I guess they think they and their posterity will be exempt from going to fight and the effects of war. They are willing to sacrifice other people’s lives. After dinner you pointed to my son and said that they would want to send him to fight. I have been looking for ways to avoid that from happening. I won’t allow it. Not for an unjust war.

There should be a law put in place that if you vote for war, that you and your posterity have to be the first to fight on the front lines.”
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REPLY: This is problem. This is about retaining power. War is the only answer for the EU to retain the money and NATO to keep getting 5% of everyone’s GDP to line their pockets for salaries and pensions. The people should have the final say about war. NOT those who profit from war!

Get your liquid assets out of the EU.

They will impose capital controls and they view Trump as the enemy along side Putin.

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I have been getting emails asking if the EU robbing Russia is the prelude to the Great Taking. Let’s make this very clear – there is NO GREAT TAKING – that is sophistry. You might as well add that they will default on all pensions, medicare, and Social Security while at it. Not even the army would defend such actions.

 

 

Without the army, the government fails just as the 1991 coup in Russia collapsed when the army did not fire on the people. They know that such a “Great Taking” would be revolution. We will all be singing the Revolution song from Les Misérables.

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The EU is on the verge of absolute collapse. Not only economically are they still in love with Marxism, but they are floundering and they are losing the support of member states all thanks to their stupid migrant policies, excessively high taxation, over-regulation, and now their desperate attempt to shut down free speech in a cynical effort to retain power. As I warned, the EU will sabotage any effort by Trump to end the war Ukraine. This is about the conquest of Russia for money.

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Write a letter to your Representative in Congress to support Massie NOW!!!! It is vital that we exit NATO ASAP, they will stage a false flag perhaps during the first or second quarter to justify invoking Article 5 to draft Americans to go fight and die for a failed EU that refused to end their Marxist ways. This is NOT our war. Europe will lose and Ukraine will cease to be a nation as it was briefly known. NATO is sacrificing the Ukrainian people for its own retention of power.

 

 

We started this war against Russia on the orders of the American Neocons, John McCain and Victoria Nuland. The American Neocon installed the unelected government, told the Ukrainian people this revolution was about them and peace and then they instructed Kiev’s unelected government to start the civil war and attack Russians in the Donbas.

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This has never been about peace and Zelensky will NEVER accept peace for then he has to hold an election. Between Zelensky, UK, and the EU, they will reject peace and the EU is desperate to take all the Russian assets of which there are $50 billion in private assets like homes and yachts that belong to Russian citizens – this is not even state assets they are robbing.

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Get out of the EU and UK. Sell any investments especially those claiming to rebuild Ukraine. You assets in Europe are subject to massive CAPITAL CONTROLS!!!!! Get out while you can. The EU is by no means to be trusted – they are broke and desperate governments do desperate things to retain power. What they are doing to Russians, they will do to Americans. They cannot be trusted! A poll of nine countries, conducted by French debate platform Le Grand Continent last week, that almost half of all citizens regard the US President as an “enemy” of Europe, and consider Trumpism to be “a hostile force”. The EU is cleverly turned the people against both Russia and America. Nearly half of EU expect war with Russia.

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The Propaganda of Interest Rates – Fed & Real Market Movements

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QUESTION: You have said you disagree with Trump about lower interest rates because he has been a borrower and not a lender. There was dissent at the Fed about Powell’s third cut. You have also said that the ECB has been trying to support the euro because of the pending war and that interest rates rise in times of war. This is getting very confusing. Can you shed any light on this chaos? The rate cut come with the market at a record high. This is all starting to appear reckless.

PK

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REPLY: Look, Trump is following what he was taught in school and what the talking heads have been saying for decades about interest rates and the economy. Neither Trump not anyone on Capital Hill understands economic history and mainstream media would NEVER put me on the air because I would contradict every talking head that they rely on.  Nobody correlates interest rates with the economy. It is always clinging to Marxist theories employed by Keynes from the Great Depression era. The Fed raised rates throughout Trump’s first term and the market rallied.

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There is no EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE whatsoever that rates down the and you get a bull market. Rates ALWAYS fall during depressions and recessions. This is always the same BS when the answer is simply confidence. You will pay 20% if you believe that market will rally 100% but you will not borrow at 1% if you do not expect the market to rally 1%.

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In 1927, there was the first G4 where the European Central Banks pleaded with the Fed to cut rates convinced that the money was flowing to the US simply because of higher interest rates when the smart money was smelling sovereign default which did come in 1931.

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The Fed cut rates under pressure from Europe and that confirmed that there were problems in Europe. The capital flows then intensified into the US buying the auto-stocks which was the hot sector (bubble) back then. The market began to take off and the Fed abandoned that policy and began to raise rates chasing the market to its all time high in September 1929. Will history repeat but this time the coercion is coming from Trump?

 

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I’m sorry, but the press keeps putting out this BS that lower rates are bullish when they are indicative of depression or recession – not bull markets. This is what they teach in school that lower interest rates will smooth out the economy according to Keynesian Economics – a total lie! I do not know of one school that teaches the truth. This stupid theory has NEVER worked and there isn’t a school or any of the media willing to ever tell the truth. This is why you have people like Trump who scream at Powell without just cause because he has been taught the classic propaganda.

Volcker Rediscovery

Even Paul Volcker had the courage to warn that the Keynesian economics failed. He even told me that the Economic Confidence Model was correct that the business cycle was about 8 year. We do not stand a chance that society will ever get this right because the media insists on reporting fake news to keep these stupid theories in play.

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Back in 2009 when I said the low was in place and the market would rally to new highs, Barron’s report that as a joke. They thought that was really funny.

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The EU and Canada Collaborate on Digital IDs

EU and Canada agree to collaborate on digital ID mutual recognition, pilots

The latest agreement between the European Union and Canada to collaborate on mutually recognized digital IDs is simply another step in what I have been warning about for years. Whenever government confidence collapses, the political class tightens control. Digital ID is not about convenience; it is about tracking capital and controlling movement as the global sovereign-debt crisis accelerates.

The danger here is obvious. Mutual recognition means a unified framework. They’re building a foundation to establish a GLOBAL digital ID. Once these systems talk to one another, you have created the architecture for a worldwide database controlled by the political elite. This is precisely what the EU has been pushing with its Digital Services Act and the infamous “digital wallet” proposal. Now they are exporting it, just as they exported their disastrous ideas on Net Zero and financial regulation. Canada, collapsing economically and politically, is following Brussels into the abyss.

The EU and Canada will jointly test a pilot for digital identity wallets. Why do two separate continents need their systems to integrate? You cannot have a cross-border digital ID without a central authority. And once the state has the ability to monitor every transaction, every movement, every piece of identification, they will inevitably link this to taxation, travel permissions, banking access, and even political compliance. This is how governments always respond in the final stage of their fiscal life cycle. Rome imposed travel permits. The Soviet Union created the internal passport. Now the West is doing the same with better technology.

Capital will flee regions that move toward centralized digital identification. This is why we are seeing the migration of capital away from Europe and increasingly away from Canada. Both are moving toward a Marxist model where the citizen exists solely to fund the state. The push for digital ID aligns perfectly with the rising authoritarian wave into 2032 as governments fight to retain power in the face of systemic collapse.