There’s a big difference between being interesting and being infallible. Armstrong fans always point to his “cycles” and secret knowledge, but they skip over the parts that don’t fit the mythology.
First question: If Armstrong was operating on some higher plane of intelligence, with “True AI” decades ahead of the world, immune to error and capable of predicting world events down to the day…
why did he get caught, indicted, prosecuted, and sent to federal prison?
You can’t have it both ways.
Either he’s a superhuman oracle who sees everything coming—or he’s a clever marketer who didn’t see the FBI coming until they took his door off the hinges.
He wasn’t “hidden.”
He was in custody because prosecutors accused him of fraud, misappropriating funds, and running a classic scheme. He spent over a decade behind bars, including contempt charges when he refused to hand over assets. That’s not “too advanced for the world”—that’s someone who got pinned by the justice system like anyone else.
And if the CIA desperately “wanted his code,” it’s odd they didn’t just take it when he was sitting in a cell for years with no leverage.
Second: All these claims—cycles predicting Hitler to the exact day, 9/11, the 1987 crash, Russia 1998, a coming U.S. breakup, a 309-year wave—all rely on retrofitting events to numerology. Anyone can build a theory backward using cherry-picked dates. That’s astrology with spreadsheets.
“Everything is fractal,” “PI controls the universe,” “8.6 years explains everything”… that’s not economics.
That’s mysticism dressed up as math.
Third: He claims to have advised every central bank on Earth, predicted every major event, and solved climate cycles, disease cycles, wars, politics, and the rise and fall of civilizations.
Yet somehow:
- He couldn’t forecast his own criminal indictment.
- He couldn’t predict his own imprisonment.
- He couldn’t predict that his clients would sue him.
- He couldn’t predict that the government would seize his records.
A man who “predicted everything” failed to predict the one thing that should have mattered most to him personally: his own downfall.
Fourth: The constant name-dropping—NATO memos, CIA interest, global leaders calling him in—is the oldest trick in the grifter playbook. If you can’t verify it, claim it. And Armstrong repeats the same stories because repetition is how myths are built.
There’s a reason mainstream economists don’t cite him: not because he’s “hidden,” but because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and he offers none.
Bottom line: You can be intrigued by Armstrong’s ideas, but pretending the man is some persecuted supercomputer prophet doesn’t line up with reality. A guy who spent over a decade in prison for financial misconduct is not the one who unlocked the secrets of the universe; he’s someone who’s very good at telling dramatic stories that sound profound.
If “every forecast has come true,” his own life story says otherwise. |
