Quote from: dibley8899 on December 22, 2019, 04:04:48 AM

Hello,

His website is still getting a lot of hits but it is on the slide more so ask socrates as it seems people are giving up with the nonsense.

Interesting that the best book ever written which has sold out..... uses a 20$ shutterstock photo as the cover.

lol

If you check SimilarWeb, both armstrongeconomics.com and ask-socrates.com have been declining past 6 months:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/armstrongeconomics.com

https://www.similarweb.com/website/ask-socrates.com

Keep in mind any tool like the above or Alexa is often inaccurate, but what it does do is indicate the trend (like "Socrates"?!). So it is safe to assume MA has been losing site traffic through 2019. Perhaps that is why he suddenly pulled the "repo crisis" out of nowhere, where he knows another doomsday prophecy will have the tin foil-hat lemmings running back to him?

Also really interesting is Google Trends:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F02prybq,%2Fg%2F11gfk5l23l

I've plotted this against bitcointalk.org for comparison, where around April this year, the forum began heating up with posts and visits.

You can see some of the sub-region areas that are most popular for MA are also the most popular for bitcointalk. Perhaps there is some correlation there and people are beginning to find out MA is playing a big game of fact, fact, BS? It does after all afford him a very nice income while all his wealth was confiscated after jail time.

If his readership are beginning to work him out and realise how often his AI predictions are wrong, that might explain the declining site traffic. I have noticed the quality of blog posts has declined in recent months, and it is generally just a big repeat of the same dross he has been posting past five years. There just isn't much of value any more and if you want to understand what might happen in the markets, there are better, more informed and credible people to listen to in the short amount of time we all have to consume content each day.

Trends also confirms somewhat a decline in volume.

Also interesting is related searches for "martin armstrong":
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=martin%20armstrong

Zerohedge is in there, which I find a weird propaganda site that has similar content to MA's blog: doom and gloom, where the enlightened "insiders" of the group (ZH members) await some future financial Armageddon. They may well be correct, but then even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What is curious is when I attended the 2018 WEC, I got talking to many people there, and someone was waxing lyrical about ZeroHedge - as if it in some way was their guiding light in a news media full of lies... Where ZH is equally as bad and their readership likely border on a demographic that are conspiracy theory nuts.

Hence, much of MA's audience probably are your typical ZH demographic - where Google more or less confirms it - and it is those types of people he targets as he knows they LOVE a good financial doomsday prophecy and are wealthy enough to afford his report/WEC fees.

I've said it before: MA does not excel in trading nor even economics. He excels in understanding the human psyche and salesmanship. If I use an analogy, he identifies the hungry lions, then sells them a big, juicy steak that is actually tofu.

Works. Every. Time.

And he once went to jail for it.