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We Need A Social Revolution
wikimedia We Need A Social Revolution Our future depends on our willingness to fight for it In the conventional view, there are two kinds of revolutions: political and technological. Political revolutions may be peaceful or violent, and technological revolutions may transform civilizations gradually or rather abruptly—for example, revolutionary advances in the technology of warfare. In […]
Signs Of Distress
Signs Of Distress The need to change is becoming more obvious than ever The world is edging closer to the final moments after which everything will be forever changed. Grand delusions, perpetuated over decades, will finally hit the limits of reality and collapse in on themselves. We’re over-budget and have eaten deeply into the principal […]
The Looming Energy Shock
Carlos E. Santa Maria/Shutterstock The Looming Energy Shock The next oil crisis will arrive in 3 years or less There will be an extremely painful oil supply shortfall sometime between 2018 and 2020. It will be highly disruptive to our over-leveraged global financial system, given how saddled it is with record debts and unfunded IOUs. […]
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies
Joseph Tainter: The Collapse Of Complex Societies What history predicts about our future prospects By popular demand, we welcome Joseph Tainter, USU professor and author of The Collapse Of Complex Societies (free book download here). Dr. Tainter sees many of the same unsustainable risks the PeakProsperity.com audience focuses on — an overleveraged economy, declining net energy per […]
Surplus or Stimulus
Surplus or Stimulus René Magritte Le Cri du Coeur 1960 Austerity is over, proclaimed the IMF this week. And no doubt attributed that to the ‘successful’ period of ‘five years of belt tightening’ a.k.a. ‘gradual fiscal consolidation’ it has, along with its econo-religious ilk, imposed on many of the world’s people. Only, it’s not true […]
Where There’s Smoke…
Where There’s Smoke… …There’s central bank manipulation Central banks around the world have colluded, if not conspired, to elevate and prop up financial asset prices. Here we’ll present the data and evidence that they’ve not only done so, but gone too far. When wee discuss elevated financial asset prices we really are talking about everything. […]
Nafeez Ahmed: Our Systems Are Failing
Nafeez Ahmed: Our Systems Are Failing This is an evolutionary moment for our species Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is an award winning 15 year investigative journalist, noted international security scholar, best-selling author and film-maker. He authored The Guardian’s Earth Insight blog and has twice won the prestigious Project Censored Award for outstanding investigative journalism. In his new […]
James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources
James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources And why we appear poised to repeat it James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration […]
Get Ready… Change Is Upon Us
Get Ready… Change Is Upon Us The ‘economic peace’ we’ve enjoyed for decades is over “After four years of warfare that tore the world apart like never before, a peace was finally reached. But it was a peace which one man in particular vociferously condemned — and that man was John Maynard Keynes. In just two […]
Wolf Richter: The Economy Is Cracking Under Too Much Debt
Wolf Richter: The Economy Is Cracking Under Too Much Debt Housing, restaurants & retail are suffering Wolf Richter joins the podcast this week to discuss the deterioration of the global macro situation, and how he is seeing growing signs of recession breaking out across the economy: I think that was one of the biggest mistakes […]
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis
Cash Bans and the Next Crisis Criminalizing Cash Money sometimes goes “full politics”. Take poor Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard. He wants a dollar with a voter registration card, a U.S. flag on its windshield, and a handgun in its belt – the kind of money that supports the Establishment and votes for Hillary. Etatiste tool […]
If Everything’s Doing So Great, How Come I’m Not?÷
If Everything’s Doing So Great, How Come I’m Not? Are you better off than you were 10 years ago? We’re ceaselessly told/sold that the U.S. economy is doing phenomenally well in our current slow-growth world — generating record corporate profits, record highs in the S&P 500 stock index, and historically low unemployment (4.9% in July […]
Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two
Climate, Energy, Economy: Pick Two Dorothea Lange Miserable poverty. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, OK 1936We used to have this saying that if someone asks you to do a job good, fast and cheap, you’d say: pick two. You can have it good and cheap, but then it won’t be fast, etc. As our New Zealand correspondent Dr. […]
Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra
Murder, Lifeboats, an Iceberg and an Orchestra DPC White Star liner S.S. Olympic, sister ship of Titanic, NY 1911The reason the Brexit debate has gotten so out of hand is nobody understands what it’s about. The Brexit campaigns have started anew in the UK, and from what I’ve seen here from left field barely a thing has […]
