1. Paid shills there to promote Armstrong.
2. People who don't know any better.
3. Those who realize they are getting conned and never come back.
Martin Armstrong and his Socrates: The Conspiracy of the Cartel
Is a story of a person who was a True Believer who went to one of Martin's conferences and finally realized what was really going on.
Sorry, but for my long career I served as a mutual fund manager, hedge fund manager, and separate private accounts manager. I’ve been the president of an investment manager association and have known investment managers across the country for more than three decades.
You will not go to any other conference and sit next to central bank managers, family office leaders, etc. at the level of the armstrong economic conference. I’ve been to the other conferences in my former field. No where near the same. And the public can purchase access. In fact you can purchase the recordings if you wish.
Martin Armstrong makes money by selling his computer forecasts. publishing research, and putting on the economic conference. That’s it.
People subscribe, buy research and attend because they receive far more value than what they pay. Simple as that. No one forces them to do it. No one is up-selling them on anything. Most of it he gives away for free on his blog.
If it were not so, they wouldn’t subscribe, buy or attend. I simply can’t verify any of what you are painting from my own experience, nor have I ever had feedback like that from anyone in my network over many decades.
Is he right 100% of the time? Of course not. But his track record is outstanding.
Nor does any realistic advisor expect anything nor anyone to always be right. I don’t know anyone else that has been as accurate across such a large span of topic areas.
But continue on as you prefer. Martin’s long tenure - and his critics - testify to his value.
best.