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The Forecaster

2014 · 1h 40m · PG Documentary
Directed by Karin Steinberger , Marcus Vetter

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MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning points with precision. When some big New York bankers asked him to join the club to help them to take over Russia, he refused to join the manipulation. A few days later the FBI stormed his offices accusing him of a 3 billion dollar Ponzi Scheme - an attempt to stop him talking about the real Ponzi Scheme of debts that the US has build up over the years and which he thinks starts to collapse after October 1, 2015, a mayor pi turning point he is predicting.

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Even after watching the movie, I have no idea how scared I should be.

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten

"The Forecaster" has the distinct hermetic feel of a documentary that employs an echo chamber of people too close to the material.

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Rotten

"The Forecaster," a documentary study of the rise and fall of commodities advisor Martin Armstrong, would have paid greater dividends by taking a more impartial approach to its subject.

Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

The story of espionage and duplicity that financial adviser Martin Armstrong relates in Marcus Vetter's documentary The Forecaster is as serpentine and fascinating as a John le Carre novel.

Chris Packham, Village Voice

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