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The Forecaster
20141 h 33 min 23 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Marcus VetterKarin Steinberger
Production: Ulli PfauMarcus VetterMichael Heiks
Produced by Filmperspektive in co-production with Eikon, TV Plus, SWR, ARTE and NDR.
This title is an acquisition.
Martin Armstrong, once a US based trillion dollar financial advisor, developed a computer model based on the number pi and other cyclical theories to predict economic turning points with eerie accuracy. In the early 80s he established his financial forecasting and advising company Princeton Economics. His forecasts were in great demand worldwide. As Armstrong's recognition grew, prominent New York bankers invited him to join "The Club" to aid them in market manipulation. Martin repeatedly refused. Later that same year (1999) the FBI stormed his offices, confiscating his computer model and accusing him of a 3 billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Was it an attempt to silence him and prevent him from initiating a public discourse on the real Ponzi scheme of debts that the world has been building up for decades? Armstrong predicts that a sovereign debt crisis will start to unfold on a global level after October 1, 2015 - a major pi turning point that his computer model forecasted many years ago.
Subject categories
- Economics > Banks and FinanceGreat Depression
Credits
- director
- Marcus Vetter
- Karin Steinberger
- producer
- Ulli Pfau
- Marcus Vetter
- Michael Heiks