Chapter 16 (Fuzzy Numbers): Dr. Martenson explores how inflation and GDP are measured, how their measurement has changed over years, and what that means concerning the integrity of these government statistics. Substitution, Weighting, Imputations, and Hedonics and their effects on calculating inflation and GDP are each examined. Dr. Martenson traces the social impact of these [...]

Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver The campaign to buy silver and force JP Morgan into bankruptcy could work, because of the liabilities accrued by its short-selling Max Keiser guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 December 2010 12.30 GMT For decades, the world’s banking system has been on a fiat currency standard that has led to banks [...]

Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver The campaign to buy silver and force JP Morgan into bankruptcy could work, because of the liabilities accrued by its short-selling Max Keiser guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 December 2010 12.30 GMT For decades, the world’s banking system has been on a fiat currency standard that has led to banks [...]

Want JP Morgan to crash? Buy silver The campaign to buy silver and force JP Morgan into bankruptcy could work, because of the liabilities accrued by its short-selling Max Keiser guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 December 2010 12.30 GMT For decades, the world’s banking system has been on a fiat currency standard that has led to banks [...]

The financial memory only lasts about 30 years then analysts, bankers and regulators fall victim to greed and fear. No matter how much they fiddle with interest rates, Bob Marley said it best: “One day the bottom will drop out…”

The stock market is materially breaking down. Now is the time to raise cash and put together your buy list.

Chapter 13 (A National Failure To Save – Part 2 of 2): “The next twenty years are going to be completely unlike the last twenty years.” — Dr. Martenson. Chapter 13 begins his explanation for this deeply held belief. On every level of our society, there has been a failure to save. Individuals, cities, counties, [...]

Chapter 17c – Energy and the Economy: What if our exponentially-based economic and monetary systems are really just an artifact of oil? What if all of our rich societal complexity and all of our trillions of dollars of wealth and debt simply are the human expression of surplus energy pumped from the ground? In this [...]

Peak Moment 166: “The next twenty years will be totally unlike the last twenty… Well face the greatest economic and physical challenges ever seen by our country, if not humanity. So opens Chris Martenson’s much-viewed online Crash Course illuminating the relationship between economy, energy and the environment. Starting with the power of exponential growth, he [...]