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‘Calm Before The Storm’ – How Will The Coronavirus Really Impact The Markets?
‘Calm Before The Storm’ – How Will The Coronavirus Really Impact The Markets? PeakProsperity’s Adam Taggart that, officials, the media, and globalist-driven organisations are downplaying Wuhan coronavirus risk, even as models suggest infections will soon soar. The sudden slowdown in new information coming out of China has Chris Martenson spooked. He walks us through the math here, […]
Ben Hunt: Prepare To Get Burned
Ben Hunt: Prepare To Get Burned Society is pretending its actions don’t have consequences. It’s badly mistaken. History teaches us that there is no free lunch, reminds Dr. Ben Hunt, publisher of EpsilonTheory.com. And science informs us that even the most simple systems become nearly impossible to predict or control with 100% precision as time […]
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown What do Keynesian Democrats think about the movement for post-growth and de-growth economics? Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, DC, has given us some insight into this question. In a recent blog post, republished by Counterpunch, he […]
Wasting the Lehman Crisis: What Was Not Saved Was the Economy
Wasting the Lehman Crisis: What Was Not Saved Was the Economy Photo Source futureatlas.com | CC BY 2.0 Today’s financial malaise for pension funds, state and local budgets and underemployment is largely a result of the 2008 bailout, not the crash. What was saved was not only the banks – or more to the point, […]
7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support?
7.5 billion and counting: How many humans can the Earth support? Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history. This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals. Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we […]
Where are We Going?
Where are We Going? Ed. note: Nate Hagens gave this talk on Earth Day on April 23, 2018 at The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. What follows is an edited transcript of the talk. The Human Predicament Around 11,000 years ago, as the last ice age ended, our ancestors – in no fewer than 5 locations […]
The unacceptable collateral damage of overconsumption
Source: The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme The unacceptable collateral damage of overconsumption The Great Acceleration, un-burnable carbon, and global impacts We are living in extraordinary times and transformation is already happening and accelerating all around us. Many technological, social, and environmental changes are racing up the steep end of the exponential curve. In almost every area of […]
The degenerative impacts of our money system
The degenerative impacts of our money system “The way that a national economy preys on its internal colonies is by the destruction of communities” — Wendell Berry The creation of money with interest has two main impacts on the operation of today’s economies. Our monetary system creates the need for economic growth by design One of the […]
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight It’s time to make the decision. Choose wisely. Most experienced investors know the four most dangerous words are: This time is different. It never is. And yet one of my key predictions here at Peak Prosperity is that The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last […]
The Exponent Problem
The Exponent Problem 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192… Most people find managing their own affairs sufficiently challenging. Earning a living, establishing a family, rearing children, saving for college and retirement, and dealing with illness and aging fill the days and leave little time, attention, or energy to […]
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth
Tim Jackson: The High Price Of Growth A finite planet cannot sustain infinite economic growth Modern society is addicted to and engineered for perpetual economic growth. Now, a fourth-grader can tell you that nothing can grow forever, especially if you have finite resources. But that simple realization is eluding today’s central planners, despite multiplying evidence […]
Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data For Obvious Reasons
Venezuela Stops Publishing Money Supply Data For Obvious Reasons More than a year after hyperinflating banana republic Venezuela stopped reporting official inflation data, Venezuela has stopped publishing money supply data, depriving the general public of the last, and best, available tool to ascertain soaring inflation in what has become the world’s worst-performing economy. Then again, […]
What is it like to live in a steady state economy? Miss Hokusai in Edo Japan
What is it like to live in a steady state economy? Miss Hokusai in Edo Japan “Miss Hokusai” is a delicate and beautiful movie set during the late Edo period in Japan. It may give us a feeling of what it is like to live in a steady-state economy. In the picture from the movie, […]
