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THE ARMSTRONGEconomic Code

The 5 Truths Investors Must Never Forget.

The Armstrong Economic Code hardcover book cover, red with a white crash-line chart
8.6
Years per turn
3,141 days · π × 1000
The Economic Confidence Model

A cycle you can set a clock to.

Martin Armstrong's Economic Confidence Model treats capital, confidence, and panic as a single measurable rhythm — a turning point every 8.6 years, derived from pi, repeating since before Rome minted its first denarius.

The book compiled by Kerry Lutz decodes that rhythm for a general reader: where the cycle has already called the turn, and where it points next.

  • Rising Confidence — capital concentrates, optimism compounds
  • The Turn — the model's signature panic point
  • Unwind — confidence breaks, capital flees to safety
  • Reset — capital resettles, the next cycle begins
Inside The Code

Five things the book asks you to never forget.

Compiled and expanded by Kerry Lutz from decades of Armstrong's own forecasting record, connecting history, markets, and the rhythm of human behavior.

I

The 8.6-year cycle marks the turns.

The Economic Confidence Model's core rhythm has, the authors argue, lined up with major turning points in global capital for more than forty years.

II

Capital migrates on a schedule.

Money doesn't vanish in a crisis — it moves. The book traces how capital flows between nations and asset classes reveal where wealth and power are headed next.

III

Governments fall on cue, not by accident.

Confidence in institutions rises and breaks in the same predictable rhythm as markets do — and the book argues that's rarely a coincidence.

IV

The post-2020 chart keeps writing itself.

New commentary and charts extend Armstrong's earlier work into the pandemic era and beyond, updating the model against what's already happened.

V

A forecast is only useful if you act on it.

The closing chapters translate the model into practical terms — how a reader might interpret the next turn to protect, and grow, what they hold.

“What if the economy wasn't chaotic at all—but followed a hidden code?”
— The Armstrong Economic Code
Who Wrote It

A forecaster and the man who wouldn't stop asking him questions.

Author

Kerry Lutz

A recovering New York attorney turned financial broadcaster, Kerry Lutz founded and hosts the Financial Survival Network, publishing thousands of interviews with economists, investors, and forecasters over more than a decade. The Armstrong Economic Code compiles his years studying Martin Armstrong's work into a single volume for the general reader.

Foreword

Martin A. Armstrong

Martin Armstrong is the creator of the Economic Confidence Model, an 8.6-year cyclical framework he has applied to forecasting booms, busts, and geopolitical turning points for over four decades. His work forms the backbone of the book's central thesis.

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