Our actions are determined by our beliefs. And our beliefs are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves.
So what happens when the stories we tell ourselves are inaccurate?
The ...
James Dines has been in the business of making bold calls for over 50 years. In this deep-diving interview, he minces no words about the dire risks the US economy - and the ...
Back in the 1930's, Irving Fisher introduced a concept called the 'debt supercycle'. Simply put, it posits that when there is a buildup of too much debt within an economy,...
Similar to oil and other key natural resources that are mined and consumed, water is subject to the same exponential trends. Both surface supply and underground fossil stores ...
This podcast was originally posted on December 9, 2011
Recently, we crossed the seven billion threshold for humans on the planet. Most of these people are desperately trying ...
This podcast was presented on November 26, 2011
So, assuming the Peak Oil camp is on to something, what's the likelihood for a disruption-free transition to another energy ...
This podcast was presented on November 18, 2011
The global dominant narrative about China is wrong, claims Gordon Chang. Don't expect it to be the 'pocketbook of last resort' ...
Podcast Published on November 10, 2011
Turd Ferguson is a funny guy.
But there's one thing this irreverent, acerbically goofball forecaster is stone-cold serious about: ...
This podcast was originally published on November 19, 2010.
2010 has been an exceptional year for silver. The price has increased over 50% to-date, and the CFTC (the US ...
This podcast was originally published on January 5, 2011
Looking back at the carnage created by the bursting of the credit bubble, it's natural to scratch your head and ...
This podcast was originally published on January 8, 2011
We spend a lot of time on this site discussing the risks posed by Peak Oil. It's important to us that you understand ...
This podcast was originally published on January 16, 2011
"If there's one institution in the US that consistently and repeatedly messes up everything, the Federal Reserve ...
This podcast was originally published on January 18, 2011
"This printing money is going to lead to huge trouble. It's going to lead to higher interest rates. It's going ...
"I see more inflation and more currency turmoil as we go forward. There are huge debt imbalances in the world. U.S. is the largest debtor nation in the world and all the ...
Joe Saluzzi, co-founder of Themis Trading LLC and outspoken exchange expert, is concerned with how high-frequency trading has brought the capital markets into uncharted - ...
In the course of his info-scouting, Chris has conversations with many different thinkers. Some are well-known to you; others perhaps less so. An important objective of our ...
"Well, I wish I had a more hopeful answer for you. You've nailed it. We really are very likely to face either a disruption violently [by terrorism] or a political decision ...
"If you look at the government's latest statistics - the poverty survey of 2009, which is the most recent release, with average and median household income adjusted for inflation ...
Bud Conrad, Casey Research's chief economist, believes that our historic paradigm of continuous economic growth has reached an end. In his view, we have been funding growth ...
In this detailed interview, Chris talks with longtime ChrisMartenson.com member Dogs_In_A_Pile, an expert on nuclear energy who has been posting frequent updates to this ...
"Locally there are lots of nice, tidy, quarter-of-a-million-dollar investments sitting there that the large companies will not do because their overhead is too high. So one ...
"When a country's public debt exceeds 90% of GDP, that is the magic number. You get to 90%, there is no way back, and that is the number that the U.S. is going through pretty ...
What do you get when the producer of the world's reserve currency takes on too much debt? Nothing less than the end of the US Treasury-based monetary system.
So says Eric ...
"The Fed can buy billions, even a trillion or so, but if and when the market is moving against the policymakers then there is no stopping. The Fed cannot stem that tide. ...