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American self-taught economic forecaster

Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949) is an American self-taught^[1]economic forecaster and convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators.^[1]

Career

At age thirteen, Armstrong began working at a coin and stamp dealership in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

At age fifteen he bought a bag of rare Canadian pennies that for a brief period would have made him a millionaire, had he sold them before they crashed in value.^[2] After becoming the manager of his employer's store at the age of twenty-one, he and a partner opened a store for coin and stamp collectors.^[3] Armstrong prog