{"id":3351,"date":"2014-12-21T12:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2014-12-21T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T17:28:35","slug":"2014-year-in-review-david-collum-peak-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3351","title":{"rendered":"2014 Year in Review – David Collum | Peak Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014 Year in Review – David Collum | Peak Prosperity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Every year, friend-of-the-site\u00a0David\u00a0Collum<\/a>\u00a0writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full. A downloadable\u00a0pdf\u00a0of the full article is\u00a0available here<\/a>, for those who prefer to do their power-reading offline. — cheers, Adam<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Background<\/h2>\n
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\u201cI don’t write about what I know: I write to find out what I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Patricia Hampl<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Every December, I write a Year in Reviewref<\/sup>\u00a01\u20137<\/sup>\u00a0first posted on Chris Martenson\u2019s website Peak Prosperityref<\/sup>\u00a02<\/sup>with a secondary posting at Zero Hedge.ref 3<\/sup>\u00a0What started as a brief introspective shared with a handful of e-quaintances has mutated into a detailed account that has accrued as many as 100,000 clicks. Each year I try to identify themes in events that evolve. As the title suggests, I have not seen a year in which so many risks\u2014some truly existential\u2014piled up so quickly. Each risk has its own, often unknown, probability of morphing into a destructive force. Groping for a metaphor\u2014I love metaphors and similes\u2014I feel like we\u2019re in the final throes of a geopolitical Game of Tetris as financial and political authorities race to place the pieces correctly. But the acceleration is palpable. The proximate trigger for pain and ultimately a collapse can be small, as anyone who\u2019s ever stepped barefoot on a Lego knows.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the world seems to be turning \u2019round faster than ever, you\u2019re not alone. Grab hold of something, it shows no sign of abating.\u201d<\/p>\n

~Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2014 Year in Review – David Collum | Peak Prosperity. Every year, friend-of-the-site\u00a0David\u00a0Collum\u00a0writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[2062,63,195,202,263,412,426,588],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-2062","tag-banks","tag-debt","tag-deflation","tag-energy","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-inflation","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}