People We Should Know: Martin Armstrong

"We're in the midst of a coup. The neocons live for this."

Martin Armstrong has led a complex and tempestuous life — see this and this. But we’re not going there. His current work is what lands him on the list of People We Should Know.

Armstrong is a consultant and forecaster who uses a prediction model he calls Socrates to identify and extrapolate trends in politics, economics, and finance. And his latest resul…