Economic analysis, Martin Armstrong is a controversial figure, and no doubt his reputation will be fortified by his predictions made before the mid-term elections. There will be no 2024 election, he believes, as the country descends into chaos. By 2032, America will collapse totally, as the rot will be too great to hold the festering country together. His main concern is the erosion of the political system, which proved true in the mid-terms, but there are numerous other destructive forces, arising from geo-political conflict, powerful enough to bring down any country. Nuclear war, even if it is somehow restricted to limited exchanges would be the main destructive force, especially EMP attacks, which have been modelled to lead to collapse of the energy infrastructure, and the deaths of 90 percent of the population: