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Chris Answers Your Questions (Part 1)

It's the big man's turn in the hot seat today.

A few weeks ago, we asked you, the CM.com community, what questions you would most like to hear Chris address in an interview. You weren't shy!

I sat down with a stack of your questions – ranging from precious metals investing to global warming to what Chris does to blow off steam – and grilled Dr. M as best I could.

Chris Answers Your Questions (Part 1)

It's the big man's turn in the hot seat today.

A few weeks ago, we asked you, the CM.com community, what questions you would most like to hear Chris address in an interview. You weren't shy!

I sat down with a stack of your questions – ranging from precious metals investing to global warming to what Chris does to blow off steam – and grilled Dr. M as best I could.

Image | Charles Eisenstein: It’s Time for a Better Narrative
Charles Eisenstein: It’s Time for a Better Narrative

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 short answer is, we find ourselves engaging in actions that aren't aligned with our best interests.

Charles Eisenstein has made a profession out of studying the intersection of economics and philosophy. And he thinks that over the past several generations, enabled by an unprecedented subsidy of abundant cheap energy, our society has become so far decoupled from natural laws that it has adopted a paradigm of thinking (or "stories") dangerously irrelevant to the future we face.

As resource scarcity increasingly expresses the natural forces that applied to our grandparents' generation and those prior, we are still living under a mindset that assumes predictable, endless growth.
Charles Eisenstein: It’s Time for a Better Narrative

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 short answer is, we find ourselves engaging in actions that aren't aligned with our best interests.

Charles Eisenstein has made a profession out of studying the intersection of economics and philosophy. And he thinks that over the past several generations, enabled by an unprecedented subsidy of abundant cheap energy, our society has become so far decoupled from natural laws that it has adopted a paradigm of thinking (or "stories") dangerously irrelevant to the future we face.

As resource scarcity increasingly expresses the natural forces that applied to our grandparents' generation and those prior, we are still living under a mindset that assumes predictable, endless growth.
Image | Off the Cuff: Things Just Aren’t Adding Up
Off the Cuff: Things Just Aren’t Adding Up
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish zero in on:

  • align=Fuzzy Math
    • Why are we hearing a steady drumbeat of upbeat economic news, when looking beneath the surface into the hard data shows exactly the opposite?
  • Malincentives

    • The US is embracing policies that favor corporations over individuals and encourages them to send their jobs and cash overseas. How did we get here?
  • Greek drama

    • The increasingly farcical steps being taken to avoid calling this obvious default for what it is are turning the Greece rescue efforts into Kabuki theatre

Chris and Mish take out their calculators this week and try to make sense of increasingly nonsensical behavior by our governments. Warning: Regardless whether or not you’re a math person, this week’s podcast is sure to raise your blood pressure. So take an aspirin before listening.

Off the Cuff: Things Just Aren’t Adding Up
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish zero in on:

  • align=Fuzzy Math
    • Why are we hearing a steady drumbeat of upbeat economic news, when looking beneath the surface into the hard data shows exactly the opposite?
  • Malincentives

    • The US is embracing policies that favor corporations over individuals and encourages them to send their jobs and cash overseas. How did we get here?
  • Greek drama

    • The increasingly farcical steps being taken to avoid calling this obvious default for what it is are turning the Greece rescue efforts into Kabuki theatre

Chris and Mish take out their calculators this week and try to make sense of increasingly nonsensical behavior by our governments. Warning: Regardless whether or not you’re a math person, this week’s podcast is sure to raise your blood pressure. So take an aspirin before listening.

Image | Off The Cuff: Doesn’t Add Up
Off The Cuff: Doesn’t Add Up
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

  • B1
  • B2
  • B3

Click the play button below to listen to this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris (runtime 18m:35s):  
Off The Cuff: Doesn’t Add Up
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

  • B1
  • B2
  • B3

Click the play button below to listen to this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris (runtime 18m:35s):  
Image | James Dines: Owning ‘Wealth in the Ground’ Is Your Best Bet to Surviving the Coming ‘Supernova of Inflations’
James Dines: Owning ‘Wealth in the Ground’ Is Your Best Bet to Surviving the Coming ‘Supernova of Inflations’

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 U.S. economy – and the world at large – faces at this juncture.

Simply put, he sees the excessive credit in the financial system as having placed the global economy on a collision course with hyperinflation.

Unlike past periods of turmoil, there are no truly 'safe' places for investment capital to hide. Geographic markets and almost all asset classes are positively correlated these days. They share many of the same risks, and if a systemic crash occurs, they will crash together.
James Dines: Owning ‘Wealth in the Ground’ Is Your Best Bet to Surviving the Coming ‘Supernova of Inflations’

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 U.S. economy – and the world at large – faces at this juncture.

Simply put, he sees the excessive credit in the financial system as having placed the global economy on a collision course with hyperinflation.

Unlike past periods of turmoil, there are no truly 'safe' places for investment capital to hide. Geographic markets and almost all asset classes are positively correlated these days. They share many of the same risks, and if a systemic crash occurs, they will crash together.
Image | Off the Cuff: Some of Us (The Banks) Are More Equal Than Others (The Taxpayers)
Off the Cuff: Some of Us (The Banks) Are More Equal Than Others (The Taxpayers)
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

  • src=Rewarding Moral Hazard
    • The President’s announced Mortgage Relief Plan has little help for underwater homeowners, lots for the banks, and none for those who where prudent
  • Europe

    • France is weakening
  • 0% Interest Rates

    • We are bumping up against the limit of what additional liquidity can do. And it will almost undoubtedly result in a currency crisis.

Are you one of the responsible ones who didn’t overextend yourself economically during the boom, only to watch the risk-takers rewarded with bailouts? If so, there’s lots to be irritated by this week.

Off the Cuff: Some of Us (The Banks) Are More Equal Than Others (The Taxpayers)
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

  • src=Rewarding Moral Hazard
    • The President’s announced Mortgage Relief Plan has little help for underwater homeowners, lots for the banks, and none for those who where prudent
  • Europe

    • France is weakening
  • 0% Interest Rates

    • We are bumping up against the limit of what additional liquidity can do. And it will almost undoubtedly result in a currency crisis.

Are you one of the responsible ones who didn’t overextend yourself economically during the boom, only to watch the risk-takers rewarded with bailouts? If so, there’s lots to be irritated by this week.

Image | Understanding the Silver Market
Understanding the Silver Market
 PREVIEW

[We invited David Morgan, noted silver expert and proprietor of Silver-Investor.com, to provide our enrolled members with periodic updates on silver (which is up nearly 20% from the start of the year). He begins this week with an explanation of the mechanics of how it is bought and sold, and details how the dynamics of the physical and paper markets for the metal differ. — Adam]

Revisiting the Case for Silver

src=Silver is one of the most compelling commodities to own, solely based on the industrial component and supply-demand fundamentals. Yet this isn’t the most important reason to invest in the metal; the monetary aspect is what makes it imperative, given that the fiat money house of cards could come crumbling down, bringing the entire global system to its knees. Along with gold, silver has been the preferred money of choice for thousands of years, as chosen by the market. It is not the barbarous relic that many who fail to understand honest money proclaim; rather, it possesses characteristics that the market finds the most ideal.

Understanding the Silver Market
 PREVIEW

[We invited David Morgan, noted silver expert and proprietor of Silver-Investor.com, to provide our enrolled members with periodic updates on silver (which is up nearly 20% from the start of the year). He begins this week with an explanation of the mechanics of how it is bought and sold, and details how the dynamics of the physical and paper markets for the metal differ. — Adam]

Revisiting the Case for Silver

src=Silver is one of the most compelling commodities to own, solely based on the industrial component and supply-demand fundamentals. Yet this isn’t the most important reason to invest in the metal; the monetary aspect is what makes it imperative, given that the fiat money house of cards could come crumbling down, bringing the entire global system to its knees. Along with gold, silver has been the preferred money of choice for thousands of years, as chosen by the market. It is not the barbarous relic that many who fail to understand honest money proclaim; rather, it possesses characteristics that the market finds the most ideal.

Image | John Mauldin: It’s Time to Make the Hard Decisions
John Mauldin: It’s Time to Make the Hard Decisions

Back in the 1930s, 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, there reaches a point where there simply is no other available solution but to let it rewind.

We are at that point in our economy, as are most other major economies around the world, claims John Maudlin, author of the popular Thoughts from the Frontline newsletter and the recent bestselling book Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything.

For the past several decades, excessive and increasing amounts of credit in the system have allowed us to live above our means as both individuals and nations. We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Now that the supercycle has ended and the inevitable de-leveraging cycle is staring us in the face, we will be forced to set priorities in a way that has been foreign to our society for over a generation.

John Mauldin: It’s Time to Make the Hard Decisions

Back in the 1930s, 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, there reaches a point where there simply is no other available solution but to let it rewind.

We are at that point in our economy, as are most other major economies around the world, claims John Maudlin, author of the popular Thoughts from the Frontline newsletter and the recent bestselling book Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything.

For the past several decades, excessive and increasing amounts of credit in the system have allowed us to live above our means as both individuals and nations. We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Now that the supercycle has ended and the inevitable de-leveraging cycle is staring us in the face, we will be forced to set priorities in a way that has been foreign to our society for over a generation.

Image | Off the Cuff: It’s a Mad, Mad World
Off the Cuff: It’s a Mad, Mad World
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish set their sights on:

  • align=The Fed
    • 0% interest rates through 2014 (at least!). There’s not even a pretense left now about whom its policies are really directed at helping.
  • Europe

    • In the words of Shakespeare, the latest proposals are simply “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” At this point, a deep and prolonged recession is a certainty.
  • Japan

    • Decades of can-kicking are coming to their limit. 2012 could well be the year Japan topples into crisis.

Recorded on Wednesday, this podcast features Chris and Mish tackling the parade of head-scratching news announced by various governments and central banks this week. It’s almost as if these entities are competing with each other for the Darwin Award.

Off the Cuff: It’s a Mad, Mad World
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish set their sights on:

  • align=The Fed
    • 0% interest rates through 2014 (at least!). There’s not even a pretense left now about whom its policies are really directed at helping.
  • Europe

    • In the words of Shakespeare, the latest proposals are simply “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” At this point, a deep and prolonged recession is a certainty.
  • Japan

    • Decades of can-kicking are coming to their limit. 2012 could well be the year Japan topples into crisis.

Recorded on Wednesday, this podcast features Chris and Mish tackling the parade of head-scratching news announced by various governments and central banks this week. It’s almost as if these entities are competing with each other for the Darwin Award.

Image | Off the Cuff: The Sick Men of Europe
Off the Cuff: The Sick Men of Europe
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish get things back in gear to talk about:

  • align=Europe
    • Just went from ‘worse’ to ‘worser.’ To the tune of one trillion euros.
  • Derivative Risk

    • Why we should be extremely concerned by the $100+ trillion in outstanding derivative contracts
  • Market Exuberance

    • How can markets justify powering higher given such dire risks to the global economy?

It’s a new year, but Europe’s problems haven’t changed. In fact, they’re getting larger and more urgent. Greece is already in default, though no one is willing to call it that yet, and Portugal is almost certainly next. And while this should be of extreme concern to our European readers, it has a very good potential to trigger a cascading failure that could cause global markets to seize. So everyone has a stake in how this unfolds.

Off the Cuff: The Sick Men of Europe
 PREVIEW

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish get things back in gear to talk about:

  • align=Europe
    • Just went from ‘worse’ to ‘worser.’ To the tune of one trillion euros.
  • Derivative Risk

    • Why we should be extremely concerned by the $100+ trillion in outstanding derivative contracts
  • Market Exuberance

    • How can markets justify powering higher given such dire risks to the global economy?

It’s a new year, but Europe’s problems haven’t changed. In fact, they’re getting larger and more urgent. Greece is already in default, though no one is willing to call it that yet, and Portugal is almost certainly next. And while this should be of extreme concern to our European readers, it has a very good potential to trigger a cascading failure that could cause global markets to seize. So everyone has a stake in how this unfolds.

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