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Joel Salatin: The Promise Of Regenerative Farming
Joel Salatin: The Promise Of Regenerative Farming It may well be our only long-term food solution Front man for the sustainable/regenerative farming movement, Joel Salatin, returns to the podcast this week. Next month on April 23rd, he’ll be joining Adam, the folks from Singing Frogs Farm, permaculturalist Toby Hemenway, and Robb Wolf at a speaking event […]
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman
John Perkins: The Shadow World Of The Economic Hitman An exposé of the ugly global battle for control of resources If you’re hoping to have a ‘feel good’ day today, we’re about to owe you an apology. John Perkins, author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is someone we’ve been trying to get […]
How The Seeds Of Revolution Take Root
Seita/Shutterstock How The Seeds Of Revolution Take Root What motivates a populace to rebel against a regime? That the dramatic upheavals of war, pestilence and environmental collapse can trigger social disorder and revolution is well-established. Indeed, this dynamic can be viewed as the standard model of social disorder/revolution: a large-scale crisis—often a bolt-from-the-blue externality—upends the […]
Steen Jakobsen: The End Of The Debt Cycle
Steen Jakobsen: The End Of The Debt Cycle As transformational as the fall of the Berlin Wall As we’ve been watching closely, something is wrong with the big banks. Their shares have lost 25-33% of their market value since the beginning of the year. What’s going on? The turmoil seems greatest in Europe, where bank […]
The Return Of Crisis
The Return Of Crisis Suddenly banks everywhere are in deep, deep trouble Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future — one that has possibly started now. Our reason for expecting a market crash is simple: Bubbles always burst. […]
Sandra Postel: Repairing The Water Cycle
Sandra Postel: Repairing The Water Cycle It’s now a top priority for our species Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot – Oh Christ! That ever this should be. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge El Niño has been dropping much-needed […]
Mass Layoffs To Return With A Vengeance
Eric Von Seggern/Shutterstock Mass Layoffs To Return With A Vengeance How safe is your job? Remember the mass layoffs of 2008-2009? The US economy shed millions of jobs quickly and relentlessly, as companies died and the rest fought for survival. Then the Fed and the US government flooded the banks and the corporate sector with bailouts and […]
How to Build a Compost Tea Brewer and Brew Tea
Compost Tea Brewing How to Build a Compost Tea Brewer and Brew Tea I had a free 55 gallon barrel that I decided to turn into a compost tea brewer. Compost tea is a great way to magnify your compost by breeding the beneficial microorganisms and spraying them on your plants. Plants sprayed with high […]
Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience
Jack Spirko: The Road To Resilience Requires a good map. Got one? Continuing our focus on solutions, this week we’re joined on the podcast by Jack Spirko. His daily podcast focuses on practical, actionable steps each of us can take to “live a better life, if times get tough or even if they don’t” — a mission […]
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way Preserving your financial capital Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past […]
David Morgan: We Are On The Precipice
David Morgan: We Are On The Precipice Derivatives threaten to topple the global financial system Precious metals guru David Morgan returns to address the great threat to the global financial/monetary system from derivative risk. He sees the world at an unprecedented moment in history where the interconnected nature of the global economy makes all players […]
The Deflation Monster Has Arrived
Lukiyanova Natalia / frenta/Shutterstock The Deflation Monster Has Arrived And it sure looks angry As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world’s grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it’s now unraveling. Just in the two weeks since the start of 2016, the US equity markets are […]
Arthur Berman: Why The Price Of Oil Must Rise
Arthur Berman: Why The Price Of Oil Must Rise Why a supply shock is inevitable Geologist Arthur Berman explains why today’s low oil prices are not here to stay, something investors and consumers alike should be very aware of. The crazy-low prices we’re currently experiencing are due to an oversupply created by geopolitics and (historic) […]
Markets Are Correcting Hard
Markets Are Correcting Hard An assessment of the risks of things getting worse from here The long-awaited global financial market correction has arrived. We are seeing collapses in all major markets and across all major categories. As usual, the pain has started at the edges, in the weaker elements (emerging markets, junk bonds, weak companies, etc.) […]
Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break
Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break Growing debt faster than your energy supply has hard limits Actuary Gail Tverberg explains the tight correlation between the rates of GDP growth and growth in energy supply. For decades, energy has been becoming more costly to obtain, and instead of accepting lower GDP growth, we have been […]
