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Hello Twenty Twenties!
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Executive Summary

  • Why today’s ‘magnificent folly’ will unwind in the 2020s
  • The return of Peak Oil
  • Why the pace of change will accelerate faster from here
  • Why time is of the essence for those with the courage to act

If you have not yet read Part 1: Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

 

This next decade will be a banquet of consequences.

Our misdeeds and mistakes will all be coming home to roost.

I certainly hope you are  taking steps to prepare yourself for them. I certainly am.

The subversion of our free and fair markets has resulted in the most radical, interventionist, large-scale social experiment ever run in the modern developed world.

The early returns, unless you’re a member of the 0.1%, are dismal across the board.

The 2020’s will see the unwinding of this magnificent folly. It’s collapse will be extremely painful for the vast majority of humanity.

You see, the extremely dangerous thing about credit bubbles is that they… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Hello Twenty Twenties!
 PREVIEW

Executive Summary

  • Why today’s ‘magnificent folly’ will unwind in the 2020s
  • The return of Peak Oil
  • Why the pace of change will accelerate faster from here
  • Why time is of the essence for those with the courage to act

If you have not yet read Part 1: Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

 

This next decade will be a banquet of consequences.

Our misdeeds and mistakes will all be coming home to roost.

I certainly hope you are  taking steps to prepare yourself for them. I certainly am.

The subversion of our free and fair markets has resulted in the most radical, interventionist, large-scale social experiment ever run in the modern developed world.

The early returns, unless you’re a member of the 0.1%, are dismal across the board.

The 2020’s will see the unwinding of this magnificent folly. It’s collapse will be extremely painful for the vast majority of humanity.

You see, the extremely dangerous thing about credit bubbles is that they… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’

This is my last report from the good old “twenty-teens”.

In some respects, they didn’t turn out at all like I thought they would. But in many others, exactly as predicted.

But, given today’s systemic distortions and deformations, predicting the events of the next ten years will be much easier than it was for the twenty-teens. Largely because there’s little room left down the road to kick the can further.
Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’

This is my last report from the good old “twenty-teens”.

In some respects, they didn’t turn out at all like I thought they would. But in many others, exactly as predicted.

But, given today’s systemic distortions and deformations, predicting the events of the next ten years will be much easier than it was for the twenty-teens. Largely because there’s little room left down the road to kick the can further.
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A Hot Mess

You wouldn’t know it from the ever-rising stock ““market””, but something is really wrong beneath the surface of the financial system.

The Fed is lying about it, too. So is the mainstream financial press, unable to perform its most basic function of asking obvious questions and following them up with additional inquiry.
A Hot Mess

You wouldn’t know it from the ever-rising stock ““market””, but something is really wrong beneath the surface of the financial system.

The Fed is lying about it, too. So is the mainstream financial press, unable to perform its most basic function of asking obvious questions and following them up with additional inquiry.
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Take Action Locally To These Global Threats
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Executive Summary

  • Despite attempts to distract us, the systemic rot is accelerating
  • Why an approaching painful reset is a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ at this point
  • The big step I’ve just taken in my own planning
  • An opportunity for a few interested others to join me

If you have not yet read Part 1: Bubbles Are Brutal , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

What sort of country lavishes unnecessary wealth on its already-rich citizens while cutting off access to food for its very poorest?  What kind of culture provides endless backstops and bailouts for the financial elites (socialism for the rich) no matter the cost to the rest of society?

Not a healthy one, that’s for sure.

Similar disheartening stories abound for rapacious drug pricing (insulin, inhalers, etc., ad nauseum), profoundly underfunded pensions, disappearing insects and other species, increasing weather oddities, oceans filled with plastic, and other such mega-predicaments.

None of this is remotely healthy.  It speaks of decay and rot, as seems to happen throughout history when empires teeter-totter ever closer to their expiration date.

Did you know that the only two rich societies in the world with falling life expectancies, incomes, savings, happiness, trust — every single social indicator you can imagine — are America and Britain?

How is any of this tolerable to anybody?  How much longer will people tolerate this sloppy mess? And what will they do when they awaken to its dangers and injustice?

I want you to become prepared and resilient for what’s coming next. Don’t just sit there hoping for the best.

Personally, I’m in full-blown action mode right now.

Specifically, I’ve just made the major investment to… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Take Action Locally To These Global Threats
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Executive Summary

  • Despite attempts to distract us, the systemic rot is accelerating
  • Why an approaching painful reset is a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ at this point
  • The big step I’ve just taken in my own planning
  • An opportunity for a few interested others to join me

If you have not yet read Part 1: Bubbles Are Brutal , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

What sort of country lavishes unnecessary wealth on its already-rich citizens while cutting off access to food for its very poorest?  What kind of culture provides endless backstops and bailouts for the financial elites (socialism for the rich) no matter the cost to the rest of society?

Not a healthy one, that’s for sure.

Similar disheartening stories abound for rapacious drug pricing (insulin, inhalers, etc., ad nauseum), profoundly underfunded pensions, disappearing insects and other species, increasing weather oddities, oceans filled with plastic, and other such mega-predicaments.

None of this is remotely healthy.  It speaks of decay and rot, as seems to happen throughout history when empires teeter-totter ever closer to their expiration date.

Did you know that the only two rich societies in the world with falling life expectancies, incomes, savings, happiness, trust — every single social indicator you can imagine — are America and Britain?

How is any of this tolerable to anybody?  How much longer will people tolerate this sloppy mess? And what will they do when they awaken to its dangers and injustice?

I want you to become prepared and resilient for what’s coming next. Don’t just sit there hoping for the best.

Personally, I’m in full-blown action mode right now.

Specifically, I’ve just made the major investment to… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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Bubbles Are Brutal

Asset bubbles are brutal.

The most difficult time to remain centered and focused is during their last stages as everyone around you is going nuts. Logic has been tossed out the window, sentiment is manic, and every narrative – the stories we hear and use to make sense of our world – is thoroughly ungrounded.
Bubbles Are Brutal

Asset bubbles are brutal.

The most difficult time to remain centered and focused is during their last stages as everyone around you is going nuts. Logic has been tossed out the window, sentiment is manic, and every narrative – the stories we hear and use to make sense of our world – is thoroughly ungrounded.
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Off The Cuff: The Fed’s ‘Complicated Mess’
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This week Chris sat down with Peak Prosperity’s favorite expert on the Federal Reserve, Axel Merk, to try to make sense of what’s going on with Fed policy. We’re rushing this podcast to you before the transcript is ready as the situation is so fluid this week. In the 48 hours since the recording of…
Off The Cuff: The Fed’s ‘Complicated Mess’
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This week Chris sat down with Peak Prosperity’s favorite expert on the Federal Reserve, Axel Merk, to try to make sense of what’s going on with Fed policy. We’re rushing this podcast to you before the transcript is ready as the situation is so fluid this week. In the 48 hours since the recording of…
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Dennis Meadows: The Limits To Growth

Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet.

In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and later published in 1972 under the title The Limits To Growth. The report concluded society would start experiencing serious declines in resources and population soon after 2030.

One of the original seventeen researchers involved in The Limits To Growth study, Dennis Meadows, joins us for the podcast this week. Fifty years later, what does he foresee ahead?

Dennis Meadows: The Limits To Growth

Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet.

In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and later published in 1972 under the title The Limits To Growth. The report concluded society would start experiencing serious declines in resources and population soon after 2030.

One of the original seventeen researchers involved in The Limits To Growth study, Dennis Meadows, joins us for the podcast this week. Fifty years later, what does he foresee ahead?

Image | CSI: US Equity “Markets”
CSI: US Equity “Markets”
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What happened last night — the Fed money hose connected to the Trump admin’s use of Bloomberg to pump out another China trade rumor — is really a crime scene.

I’m not sure which bothers me the most, that it happened again, or that it worked again. Neither speaks very highly for the integrity of the system.
CSI: US Equity “Markets”
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What happened last night — the Fed money hose connected to the Trump admin’s use of Bloomberg to pump out another China trade rumor — is really a crime scene.

I’m not sure which bothers me the most, that it happened again, or that it worked again. Neither speaks very highly for the integrity of the system.
Image | A Vision For Living Regeneratively
A Vision For Living Regeneratively
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Executive Summary

  • Requirements for
    • Regenerative Natural Systems
    • Regenerative Relationships
    • Regenerative Community
    • Regenerative Culture
  • Putting it all into action

If you have not yet read Part 1: What’s Possible? , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Vision Elements

As many Peak Prosperity readers are aware, I’m working closely with a few of you behind the scenes on wrestling a lot of ideas expressed on this site into a grand vision of a model for a new and better way of living — one that improves upon the many unsustainable and failing elements of the current status quo.

The idea to which I am now most keenly attracted, and which is drawing so much of my attention, concerns being in a community dedicated to regeneration.   For the land, for each of us as individuals, for each other, and especially for the all the generations to come.

There’s a bottomless amount of work to be done.  The task is relentless.  And it’s rewarding and meaningful.

I’m reading many excellent books and articles and doing what I do best, which is to sift through a lot of information, enough so that a coherent distillation can be created and then shared.

Here are the gleanings so far… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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A Vision For Living Regeneratively
 PREVIEW

Executive Summary

  • Requirements for
    • Regenerative Natural Systems
    • Regenerative Relationships
    • Regenerative Community
    • Regenerative Culture
  • Putting it all into action

If you have not yet read Part 1: What’s Possible? , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Vision Elements

As many Peak Prosperity readers are aware, I’m working closely with a few of you behind the scenes on wrestling a lot of ideas expressed on this site into a grand vision of a model for a new and better way of living — one that improves upon the many unsustainable and failing elements of the current status quo.

The idea to which I am now most keenly attracted, and which is drawing so much of my attention, concerns being in a community dedicated to regeneration.   For the land, for each of us as individuals, for each other, and especially for the all the generations to come.

There’s a bottomless amount of work to be done.  The task is relentless.  And it’s rewarding and meaningful.

I’m reading many excellent books and articles and doing what I do best, which is to sift through a lot of information, enough so that a coherent distillation can be created and then shared.

Here are the gleanings so far… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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What’s Possible?

As we look at the multiplying signs of failure across our economy and the environment, society is slowing realizing that we need to start doing things differently if we want a future to be proud of. Those awakening to this are asking: What should we do?

I think a better question to ask is: What’s possible?

That’s the question that has been waking me up early in the morning for the past few weeks.
What’s Possible?

As we look at the multiplying signs of failure across our economy and the environment, society is slowing realizing that we need to start doing things differently if we want a future to be proud of. Those awakening to this are asking: What should we do?

I think a better question to ask is: What’s possible?

That’s the question that has been waking me up early in the morning for the past few weeks.
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