LA Weekly Review the FORECASTER
By Chris Packham
The story of espionage and duplicity that financial adviser Martin Armstrong relates in Marcus Vetter’s documentaryThe Forecaster is as serpentine and fascinating as a John le Carré novel. Its narrative thread convincingly weaves multiple financial collapses, the ouster of Boris Yeltsin and the rise of the Putin oligarchy around Armstrong’s life’s work — a mathematical model that predicts market peaks and collapses and, allegedly, the wars that accompany both.
Martin’s Economic Confidence Model tracks 26 market panics over 224 years, applies some arithmetic and extrudes a market cycle based on pi. Apparently! His published work from the 1980s to the present is uncanny in its accurate predictions of the market crash of 1987, the Soviet collapse, the first Gulf War and the housing collapse of 2007.
Director Vetter’s film, which includes Armstrong’s preposterous 11-year incarceration on contempt charges for refusing to turn over his source code, includes a lot of Ken Burns–style pans across scary-looking graphs of money apocalypses past and future, as well as interviews with Armstrong’s many supporters, all set to a pensive soundtrack of ominous tones.
With his interpretation of global events, Armstrong tells one hell of a good story. Is any of it true? All of it, including his computer model, is built on the tectonically immovable bedrock of human corruption, so it’s certainly plausible. Spoiler: The world economy is going to experience a “sovereign-debt big bang” sometime in October 2015, according to Armstrong’s model, so this will provide another validating data point if it happens.
Karin Steinberger Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger Marcus Vetter, Ulli Pfau, Michael Heiks
Monarchy Making a Come-Back
Monarchy is making a come-back. Yep. Can it really be any worse that politicians for sale to the highest bidder? One person v 400 corrupt lawyers may not be such a hard choice to make. Boy, it would be nice to take a step forward just once. This is reflective of just how fed-up people are becoming with government. They are corrupt and in your face assuming they are just above the law and we are fools who let them do as they like. Guess you can’t blame them.
Press Hard At Work To Eliminate Your Freedom
Well the Press is fully in bed with government and are advocating eliminating cashbecause someone broke into an ATM. Using this logic, we should all walk around naked as well and then we do not need the TSA to search us for obviously we could not hide a weapon.
This is how it works. The media sells ideas and try to get the public all ready to accept the coming cashless society so we have no privacy and make sure everyone pays 120% of an taxes the government will raise to line their own pockets.
Thank you for defending the people.
DEA Sex Parties – Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work & Then Some
The latest scandal is the DEA sex parties. Let me state this right now. EVERY drug dealer who had serious cash in NYC federal prison stated bluntly the amount of money reported as confiscated was about 50% of the real number. When they told their court-appointed lawyers, as corrupt as anyone can be, they said be quiet for money money meant more time. The DEA agents get rich off of all the cash confiscated that never gets reported and everyone seems to share behind the curtain.