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John Butman: New World, Inc.

We all learned in grade school that the Pilgrims sailed to North America to escape religious persecution.

That's wasn't necessarily the case, explains author John Butman. At least, it certainly isn't the whole story.

In fact, the Pilgrim's voyage to the New World was a seventeenth-century entrepreneurial start-up.
John Butman: New World, Inc.

We all learned in grade school that the Pilgrims sailed to North America to escape religious persecution.

That's wasn't necessarily the case, explains author John Butman. At least, it certainly isn't the whole story.

In fact, the Pilgrim's voyage to the New World was a seventeenth-century entrepreneurial start-up.
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The War Drums Beat Louder
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Since publishing my recent critique Russia Did It!, with all of Europe now backing the new 'dodgy dossier' episode, and Russia's ambassadors and foreign minister unable to to even have a reasonable dialog, I observe that the possibility of war between the West and Russia sadly continues to increase.  

As in 1911, there are a lot of inexplicably dumb reasons for all of this, so let's pick them apart one by one.

The War Drums Beat Louder
 PREVIEW

Since publishing my recent critique Russia Did It!, with all of Europe now backing the new 'dodgy dossier' episode, and Russia's ambassadors and foreign minister unable to to even have a reasonable dialog, I observe that the possibility of war between the West and Russia sadly continues to increase.  

As in 1911, there are a lot of inexplicably dumb reasons for all of this, so let's pick them apart one by one.

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Steen Jakobsen: Now Is The Time To Be In Capital-Preservation Mode

Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of Saxo Bank, is sounding a clear warning of an arriving market correction.

Over-inflated asset prices, over-crowded trades, anemic market liquidity, and a continued decline in the credit impulse set the table for a banquet of consequences, in Steen's view.

Confident a market correction of at least 15% lies ahead, Jakobsen urges investors to exit leveraged positions and build cash. As for a longer view, he predicts commodities will be one of the best asset classes to own over the next five to ten years.
Steen Jakobsen: Now Is The Time To Be In Capital-Preservation Mode

Steen Jakobsen, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of Saxo Bank, is sounding a clear warning of an arriving market correction.

Over-inflated asset prices, over-crowded trades, anemic market liquidity, and a continued decline in the credit impulse set the table for a banquet of consequences, in Steen's view.

Confident a market correction of at least 15% lies ahead, Jakobsen urges investors to exit leveraged positions and build cash. As for a longer view, he predicts commodities will be one of the best asset classes to own over the next five to ten years.
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Russia Did It!

Our lives are now fraught with easily-disproved fantasies, frauds and fictions being pushed to us through the media by institutions with deliberate agendas trying to engineer specific outcomes.

Those of us with a pragmatic mindset and an ability to recall (even quite recent) history, often find ourselves with mouths literally agape at the obvious deceptions being foisted upon what appears to be a terminally-gullible public.

Why do so many continue to blindly trust the same government agencies that have brazenly and repeatedly lied to them over the past recent years?
Russia Did It!

Our lives are now fraught with easily-disproved fantasies, frauds and fictions being pushed to us through the media by institutions with deliberate agendas trying to engineer specific outcomes.

Those of us with a pragmatic mindset and an ability to recall (even quite recent) history, often find ourselves with mouths literally agape at the obvious deceptions being foisted upon what appears to be a terminally-gullible public.

Why do so many continue to blindly trust the same government agencies that have brazenly and repeatedly lied to them over the past recent years?
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James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less”

Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline.

In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today's media to the risk of nuclear war, Kunstler also re-news his warnings of a current secular economic slowdown.

After too many years of market interventions, magical thinking, racketeering, and bleeding the 99% dry, he warns that our culture and economic system will soon reach a snapping point.

James Howard Kunstler: The Coming Economy Of “Less”

Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline.

In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today's media to the risk of nuclear war, Kunstler also re-news his warnings of a current secular economic slowdown.

After too many years of market interventions, magical thinking, racketeering, and bleeding the 99% dry, he warns that our culture and economic system will soon reach a snapping point.

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Off The Cuff: Is Inflation Now In The Rear-View Mirror?
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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss: Are We On Our Way To Tipping Into Deflation? We will be if we have another credit crisis We're At Record Levels Of Indebtedness So deflation would be painfully brutal Trumps Trade Wars Will Hasten A Deflationary Bust Economic growth will be even…
Off The Cuff: Is Inflation Now In The Rear-View Mirror?
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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss: Are We On Our Way To Tipping Into Deflation? We will be if we have another credit crisis We're At Record Levels Of Indebtedness So deflation would be painfully brutal Trumps Trade Wars Will Hasten A Deflationary Bust Economic growth will be even…
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Trade Wars!
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President Trump wants American jobs and factories to return. He cites some pretty grueling and relatively accurate statistics in support of his position. And it's looking like we can safely bet that Trump is planning to increase tariffs on many more products than steel and aluminum. 

He has also tweeted previously that a trade war would be “good” and “easy to win.” 

But whether tariffs or a trade war could reverse those statistics, or possibly make them even worse, is another matter entirely.
Trade Wars!
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President Trump wants American jobs and factories to return. He cites some pretty grueling and relatively accurate statistics in support of his position. And it's looking like we can safely bet that Trump is planning to increase tariffs on many more products than steel and aluminum. 

He has also tweeted previously that a trade war would be “good” and “easy to win.” 

But whether tariffs or a trade war could reverse those statistics, or possibly make them even worse, is another matter entirely.
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Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics

Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be.

Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical economics — and was a critical early pioneer in developing the key resource metric of Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI).

After a life's career of looking at the world through the lens of EROEI, Hall is very concerned that, as a global society, we are hurtling towards an energy crisis that will forcefully (and likely painfully) downshift our standard of living within the lifetime of the current generation.
Dr. Charles Hall: The Laws Of Nature Trump Economics

Dr. Charles Hall may not be a name you instantly recognize, but it should be.

Now a Professor Emeritus of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Dr. Hall is a rigorous researcher of energy, oil, biophysical economics — and was a critical early pioneer in developing the key resource metric of Energy Returned On Energy Invested (EROEI).

After a life's career of looking at the world through the lens of EROEI, Hall is very concerned that, as a global society, we are hurtling towards an energy crisis that will forcefully (and likely painfully) downshift our standard of living within the lifetime of the current generation.
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Steps For Changing By Insight
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Executive Summary The twin perils of Confirmation Bias and The Backfire Effect Why the coming market crash is going to be a real face-ripper The coming resource crisis is going to be much harder for us than any financial crash Steps for responding today to tomorrow’s threats If you have not yet read Part 1: Make…
Steps For Changing By Insight
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Executive Summary The twin perils of Confirmation Bias and The Backfire Effect Why the coming market crash is going to be a real face-ripper The coming resource crisis is going to be much harder for us than any financial crash Steps for responding today to tomorrow’s threats If you have not yet read Part 1: Make…
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Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight

For those who prefer their conclusions right up front, the simplest summary I can provide is that everything we think we know about "how things work" is just plain wrong.

This explains why, among many other grotesque distortions, the stock and bond markets are spectacularly overpriced and overvalued right now. And why the time for critically-thinking individuals to invest in their resilience is now.
Make Your Choice: Change By Pain Or Insight

For those who prefer their conclusions right up front, the simplest summary I can provide is that everything we think we know about "how things work" is just plain wrong.

This explains why, among many other grotesque distortions, the stock and bond markets are spectacularly overpriced and overvalued right now. And why the time for critically-thinking individuals to invest in their resilience is now.
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