From the comment section “The Club & Why the Majority Must be Always Wrong” https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/training-tools/the-club-why-the-majority-must-be-always-wrong/ long version at link condensed: QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I did my own research on the 1998 Russian collapse. All the big names lost billions. Even the New York Times reported that George Soros lost $2 billion. You were the only one who made money so it made sense that you were named hedge fund manager of the year in 1998. My question is this. Since all the big names were involved in the Russia trade which took down Long-Term Capital Management, is this why you call them the “club” for they all do seem to be involved in the same trade? DU ANSWER: Correct. This is also why they try to prevent people from listening to me. They are convinced that the reason they lost was that I was too influential and had too many institutions listening to me. That absurdity is what they ran to the government with, so I was then accused of “manipulating” the world economy. They all lost after I warned them and refused to join in their takeover of Russia I believe I was given the nod by the Clintons. They told me they had the IMF in their back pocket and they would continue to fund Russia. I warned them that the IMF got their funding from governments and they were not going to back it. The Russian financial crisis hit Russia on the 17th of August 1998. Our World Economic Conference was held in London that June. Our forecast was then published by the London Financial Times on the front page of the second section. They did not give up. After they got the Federal Reserve to bail them out, they then focused on setting up Yeltsin and got him to divert $7 billion in IMF loans. Even CNN reported the money was stolen from the IMF. CNN Theft of IMF Money – Sep. 1, 1999 Edmond Safra’s Republic National Bank ran to the Department of Justice and then reported that a $7 billion money laundering scheme just went through Bank of New York. They attempted to blackmail Yeltsin to step down and appoint their guy; Yeltsin then turned to Putin. It was the US bankers, with the support of the Clintons, who first tried to interfere into Russian elections. This is why Putin was not friendly to Clinton and said Mueller could come to question anyone in Russia he liked, provided Russia could question Americans including Bill Browder who was Safra’s partner in Hermitage Capital. While “The Forecaster” was shown even on TV throughout Europe, Canada, and Asia, the question is WHY was it banned in the United States? If it was just a conspiracy theory, they could care less. When something strikes closer to home, they ban it. “So Who Really Tried to Blackmail Yeltsin & Takeover Russia – NSA-CIA-or Investment Bankers?” https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/so-who-really-tried-to-blackmail-yeltsin-takeover-russia-nsa-cia-or-investment-bankers/ Perhaps the number one question I always get about the ordeal I went through and the sheer chaos that surrounded everything, was just who really was behind the plot to blackmail the former head of Russia Boris Yeltsin to stop him from running for reelection in 2000 and hand-pick Boris Abramovich Berezovsky? It is true I even had a meeting with the US Attorney Office on the subject when they realized that Republic National Bank and Edmond Safra had set up even Bank of New York as the center piece in the plot. As the players that surrounded me have mysteriously died, hanged themselves, been imprisoned, released, just saying they were denied a fair trial without explanation as with the nurse that supposedly killed Safra, this wild plot is still the classic who-done-it that may not be solved …........... “New Evidence that World Trade Center was Not s Surprise – More lies?” Videos of missing $2 trillion from Pentagon now $35 Video of Building 7 with explosions going off where all the data was kept of missing money audio court docs https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/new-evidence-that-world-trade-center-was-not-s-surprise-more-lies/ Recently, a tape has emerged from a private camera that was there during 911 filming the collapse of World Trade Center #7 – the only one that no plane ever hit. I have stated that the coincidence with WTC7 collapse was a wipeout of evidence as was the Pentagon which conveniently hit the room with all the evidence about the missing $2.3 trillion from the defense budget. These two very convenient buildings that were attacked were most likely a major cover-up. That is where they took our computer system and when I asked for my legal discovery, the SEC responded that everything was destroyed in 911. No government employees in that WTC7 building were in there when it collapsed. They were evacuated. The motto seems to be – we do not kill your own, only civilians........ continued play_arrow 7 play_arrow 3 hours ago (Edited) remove What people do not realize is that BECAUSE of 911 hitting the very room where all the documents were concerning the Pentagon budget, the audit never took place. Worse still, it seems to have endorsed a continual problem of missing money from the Pentagon. That $2.3 trillion in 2001 has grown now to $35 trillion. Clearly, the benefit of 911 has been the ability to keep hiding missing money that nobody seems to care about........... The collapse of WTC #7 was clearly a demolition to hide evidence. The government’s claim was it collapsed from fire. The problem was the fire would have to have been 800 degrees celsius to do that and the building would not have collapsed straight down. There was also no source of fuel to burn that hot........... I know what I had which was lost in that collapse which would have taken down all 5 of the leading investment banks in a real justice system. That includes the evidence against all the bank manipulations that the Department of Justice, SEC & CFTC do their best to hide and NEVER charge any bankers personally. The banks pay huge fines at shareholder expense to protect the bankers personally and nobody ever goes to jail. This really amounts to shareholder fraud in that they pay huge fines and those who make huge bonuses from the fraud keep their illegal gains. My battle with the “Club” was one where they wanted just the perfect trades from inside trading and bribing officials. I also hired Barclay Lieb who did his due diligence on me before joining my firm. He confirmed that Goldman Sachs had thought they could take me down, but I usually won................ There is absolutely NOTHING governments say which can be trusted anymore. They lie about absolutely everything. Russia is starting to fight back with leaking the evidence that the USA has worked with terrorists and knew about 911 if not help the terrorists organize the attack. The Saudi’s have controlled the terrorists and threatened Russia that their Olympic Games would be safe only if they agreed to the Saudi terms. It was the very terrorists being armed by the USA to take down the Syrian government. The Saudi connection and the USA were exposed with the Syria attempted invasion. I reported that on the Benghazi Connection. The reliable story I got from behind the curtain was that John Christopher Stevens was supplying arms to the Syrian Rebels – terrorists we hated so much. That is why he was killed and the US had to step back and cover that up because the truth would expose the terrorist connection and how they used them for political purposes. I have stated all along there was an admixture here for it did not make sense. I even reported that the two World Trade Center Attacks were curiously about 8.6 years apart. Not sure if that is significant but it does seem to fit the government cycle. The timing itself is very curious. It even took place precisely on the day of Pi from the peak of the 8.6-year wave at that time. It seems even conspiracies are on time. I have maintained that WTC7 was destroyed to protect the bankers and the courts. Decades of phone tapes would have exposed the “guaranteed trades” and the Fed bailouts for what they were. My case was just way too critical to allow that to happen. Who knows what else was in WTC7. No plane ever hit that building and every specialist always said it was a controlled demolition. To do that meant that they also KNEW about 911 and when it would take place. They had everything ready both in New York and in the Pentagon and they got more power out of it with Home Land Security. That is why the press is not allowed to ever report on my case – FAKE NEWS. 9-11 served two purposes: one is to start the totalitarian takeover of the US with the Patriot Act and two destroy all the evidence of the missing $2 trillion AND now mushroomed to $35 trillion and to destroy the evidence at the SEC offices in Building 7 that could have brought down the 5 leading wall street investment banks. The US is rotten to the core with a brainwashed population lining up for their next jab just like sheep to slaughter! By the way about a month before 9-11 there was first a paper that moved around the Kremlin and then a press conference stating that there was going to be an attack in the US against its own people by certain people from government, intel, small group of civilians with wall street.