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The Rising Threats To Our Health
The Rising Threats To Our Health Around the world, general health is declining Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no means exhaustive—of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people […]
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner
David Collum: The Next Recession Will Be A Barn-Burner With very few places for capital to hide For those who enjoyed his encyclopedic 2015: Year In Review, this week we spend an hour with David Collum to ask: After processing through all of that information, what do you think the future is most likely to bring? Perhaps it […]
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike
Dan Amerman: Financial Repression & The New Interest Rate Hike You have to understand one to make sense of the other Financial repression authority Daniel Amerman returns this week to discuss the ramifications of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike in nearly a decade: The key to understand the situation here is that this is […]
2015 Year In Review
macbrianmun/Shutterstock 2015 Year In Review “To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious, but the stupid have an answer for everything.” ~Edward Abbey I am penning my seventh “Year in Review.” These summaries began exclusively for myself, evolved into a sort of holiday cheer for a couple hundred e-quaintances with whom I had […]
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road
Grant Williams: The End Of The Road The Fed is finally boxed in Grant Williams returns this week to set the context for this week’s FOMC meeting, where the Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. To say he is very skeptical of the Fed’s ability […]
Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East
TonelloPhotography/Shutterstock Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East Why it matters to those living in the West To understand what’s happening in Syria right now, you have to understand the tactics and motivations of the US and NATO — parties sharing interwoven aims and goals in the Middle East/North African (MENA) region. While the populations […]
What Money Means
What Money Means It’s important, but it’s not everything There’s no doubt that money is important. There’s good reason why most of us devote a huge percentage of our lives to pursuing it. But there’s much about money that is misunderstood. Many among the masses don’t realize the intense and coordinated efforts currently being waged […]
Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work
Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work Closing the wealth gap with meaningful work Charles Hugh Smith returns to the podcast this week to discuss the theme of his new book A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All. Automation and artificial intelligence are changing the landscape of work. Tens of millions […]
The Fatal Blindness of Unrealistic Expectations
The Fatal Blindness of Unrealistic Expectations We are damned to fail when we avoid hard truths My old employer, Yahoo!, has been in the news again of late. Its latest CEO (and former Googler), Marissa Meyer, is currently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she has just given her first televised interview detailing her strategy […]
Toby Hemenway: Scaling Permaculture Principles To Other Systems
Toby Hemenway: Scaling Permaculture Principles To Other Systems Offers promise for energy, social & economic systems When Chris was out for our event with Robb Wolf in northern California last month, we paid a visit to Singing Frogs Farm along with a group of Peak Prosperity members. Adding to the outing’s embarrassment of riches, permaculture expert Toby Hemenway joined […]
The Death Of Hopium
The Death Of Hopium Tech Bubble 3.0 is in the process of bursting As many readers know, I spent 13 years living and working in Silicon Valley before partnering up with Chris to start Peak Prosperity. I got my MBA at Stanford in 1999 when the dot-com bubble was at its zenith, and worked for […]
How Much Longer Can Our Unaffordable Housing Prices Last?
How Much Longer Can Our Unaffordable Housing Prices Last? Spoiler alert: not much Markets discover price via supply and demand: Big demand + limited supply = rising prices. Abundant supply + sagging demand = declining prices. Eventually, prices rise to a level that is unaffordable to the majority of potential buyers, with demand coming only […]
