Commodity Culture: Western Empire Facing the Same Collapse as Rome in its Final Days

In a recent interview with Commodity Culture, market analyst and historian Martin Armstrong drew striking parallels between the current state of the modern world and the conditions that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire. With a keen eye for historical patterns and economic trends, Armstrong argues that a confluence of factors, including endless debt issuance, wars for profit, unchecked migration, and rampant political corruption, are setting the stage for a future where many Western countries could cease to exist as we know them. Armstrong began by discussing the issue of debt, which he believes is at the heart of…