Chris Martenson
In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:
- Dow 20,000!!
- Everything's awesome….right?
- All Hail Our Banking Overlords!
- Manipulation and collusion abound in today's financial system
- The Elites Are Beginning To Worry
- Buying bunkers and retreats in a hurry
- Hypocrisy Of The Extortionist
- Our leaders are happy to berate the system once they leave it
The Dow Jones index just crossed the 20,000 milestone for the first time in history. The financial media is applauding, newly-elected President Trump is boasting — should we just stop worrying and concede that everything is going great now?
Chris and John Rubino certainly don't think so. They see the Dow's 20k milestone as stark evidence of the massive set of asset bubbles created by the world's central banking cartel. Print up trillions and trillions of thin-air money and it has to go somewhere.
They lament that our political, regulatory and corporate leaders remain ignorant (willfully or cluelessly) of this. And as long as that continues, the excesses and resultant unfairness (wealth gaps, cost of living unaffordability, etc) will grow unchecked — making the pain of the inevitable collapse that much more painful to society.
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Off The Cuff: Dow 20,000!!
PREVIEWIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:
- Dow 20,000!!
- Everything's awesome….right?
- All Hail Our Banking Overlords!
- Manipulation and collusion abound in today's financial system
- The Elites Are Beginning To Worry
- Buying bunkers and retreats in a hurry
- Hypocrisy Of The Extortionist
- Our leaders are happy to berate the system once they leave it
The Dow Jones index just crossed the 20,000 milestone for the first time in history. The financial media is applauding, newly-elected President Trump is boasting — should we just stop worrying and concede that everything is going great now?
Chris and John Rubino certainly don't think so. They see the Dow's 20k milestone as stark evidence of the massive set of asset bubbles created by the world's central banking cartel. Print up trillions and trillions of thin-air money and it has to go somewhere.
They lament that our political, regulatory and corporate leaders remain ignorant (willfully or cluelessly) of this. And as long as that continues, the excesses and resultant unfairness (wealth gaps, cost of living unaffordability, etc) will grow unchecked — making the pain of the inevitable collapse that much more painful to society.
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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Intelligence Wars
- When everyone is pointing fingers, whom are we to believe?
- The Need For Humility
- Our current hubris is destroying the systems we depend on
- The Enemy
- Is our our "neo'" agenda, whichever side of the aisle it's on
- Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
- Reform needs to start with our own behavior
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
~ Pogo (Walt Kelly)
This week Chris and Charles hold up a harsh mirror to American society. So many of the long-term predicaments we face are issues of our own making, pursuits that benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. The good news here is that we still have time to dramatically improve our odds of a better future by choosing to make different decisions going forward. The all-important question is: But will we?
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Off The Cuff: Meeting The Enemy
PREVIEWIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- The Intelligence Wars
- When everyone is pointing fingers, whom are we to believe?
- The Need For Humility
- Our current hubris is destroying the systems we depend on
- The Enemy
- Is our our "neo'" agenda, whichever side of the aisle it's on
- Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
- Reform needs to start with our own behavior
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
~ Pogo (Walt Kelly)
This week Chris and Charles hold up a harsh mirror to American society. So many of the long-term predicaments we face are issues of our own making, pursuits that benefit an elite few at the expense of the rest of us. The good news here is that we still have time to dramatically improve our odds of a better future by choosing to make different decisions going forward. The all-important question is: But will we?
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Executive Summary
- The gigantic predicament we all face
- What you should do, as a concerned individual
- What WE should do, as a society
- Contributing to the new narrative
If you have not yet read Part 1: Mad As Hell available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
It simply has to be said; there appears to be little to no public appetite for facing reality.
At least not without some sort of a calamity or forcing function to press the issue that will wake up enough people and call out what leadership actually exists to finally step up and begin to deliver.
The many predicaments and extreme complexity require astonishingly great leadership to address and there’s really none of that to be found anywhere at the moment.
So we must adopt a two prong approach in our lives to both deal with the coming calamities and lay the groundwork for the next stage of things.
As it stands right now, the central banks are mainly interested in propping up the asset markets which is only serving to enrich the already stupendously rich with a few minor scraps for enough upper and middle class people to keep them content to play along. While this is being done, enormous imbalances are being created even as the underlying structural issues remain unaddressed.
Some of these are even dead simple, single factor financial issues, which should be among the easiest to detect and address yet these to remain unexamined and unaddressed. Examples include exponentially increasing debt-per-capita in Japan (goosed by demographics) and pensions being utterly gutted by too-low interest rates.
If the simple math of these situations is still too difficult and complex to allow for any sort of proper response, we have to then conclude that the more subtle and intractable and larger issues we face are even further out of reach.
Here I am talking about needing to…
Fixing The Future
PREVIEWExecutive Summary
- The gigantic predicament we all face
- What you should do, as a concerned individual
- What WE should do, as a society
- Contributing to the new narrative
If you have not yet read Part 1: Mad As Hell available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
It simply has to be said; there appears to be little to no public appetite for facing reality.
At least not without some sort of a calamity or forcing function to press the issue that will wake up enough people and call out what leadership actually exists to finally step up and begin to deliver.
The many predicaments and extreme complexity require astonishingly great leadership to address and there’s really none of that to be found anywhere at the moment.
So we must adopt a two prong approach in our lives to both deal with the coming calamities and lay the groundwork for the next stage of things.
As it stands right now, the central banks are mainly interested in propping up the asset markets which is only serving to enrich the already stupendously rich with a few minor scraps for enough upper and middle class people to keep them content to play along. While this is being done, enormous imbalances are being created even as the underlying structural issues remain unaddressed.
Some of these are even dead simple, single factor financial issues, which should be among the easiest to detect and address yet these to remain unexamined and unaddressed. Examples include exponentially increasing debt-per-capita in Japan (goosed by demographics) and pensions being utterly gutted by too-low interest rates.
If the simple math of these situations is still too difficult and complex to allow for any sort of proper response, we have to then conclude that the more subtle and intractable and larger issues we face are even further out of reach.
Here I am talking about needing to…
In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:
- The Runaway Cost Of Health Care
- The premium for Chris' family went up 61%(!) this year
- A Failure Of Intelligence
- The lack of substance underlying the latest smear campaign
- Fake News
- When everyone is covered in mud, whom can you trust?
- What To Expect As The Presidential Torch Gets Passed
- How Trump's strategy is likely to depart from Obama's
Well, there's a lot of red meat tossed around in this latest podcast. There's something in it for nearly everyone to find righteous outrage with.
It begins with Chris railing about the year-over-year 61% increase just slapped onto his family's basic insurance plan. The ACA has quickly turned into a racketeering operation in many states like Massachusetts, where Chris lives. Mish joins in on the harsh criticism of the current system:
For some instances of some people, forty percent of their income going to health insurance.
And then look at the millennials. I mean, they've just decided to opt out. And who can blame them? They're not making enough money, but they just decided well, I’d rather keep it all. And they’ve decided that they will just rather pay the penalty if they get caught. But if they get sick, then they’ll join on the spot and get coverage. That’s the game everyone's being forced to play.
And nowhere along the line, as we’ve discussed many times, is there any impetus to control costs. And not only are there not any controls, there was nothing written into the legislation. And meanwhile, they call it the "Affordable" Care Act. As with any act of government, it has the exact opposite effect of its title.
From there, Chris and Mish tackle the recent intelligence debacle where our government and media are trumpeting "findings" that are backed by zero evidence and unverifiable innuendo. When all sides look incompetent, where do you turn for trustworthy information?
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Off The Cuff: Our Out-Of-Control Cost Of Living
PREVIEWIn this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:
- The Runaway Cost Of Health Care
- The premium for Chris' family went up 61%(!) this year
- A Failure Of Intelligence
- The lack of substance underlying the latest smear campaign
- Fake News
- When everyone is covered in mud, whom can you trust?
- What To Expect As The Presidential Torch Gets Passed
- How Trump's strategy is likely to depart from Obama's
Well, there's a lot of red meat tossed around in this latest podcast. There's something in it for nearly everyone to find righteous outrage with.
It begins with Chris railing about the year-over-year 61% increase just slapped onto his family's basic insurance plan. The ACA has quickly turned into a racketeering operation in many states like Massachusetts, where Chris lives. Mish joins in on the harsh criticism of the current system:
For some instances of some people, forty percent of their income going to health insurance.
And then look at the millennials. I mean, they've just decided to opt out. And who can blame them? They're not making enough money, but they just decided well, I’d rather keep it all. And they’ve decided that they will just rather pay the penalty if they get caught. But if they get sick, then they’ll join on the spot and get coverage. That’s the game everyone's being forced to play.
And nowhere along the line, as we’ve discussed many times, is there any impetus to control costs. And not only are there not any controls, there was nothing written into the legislation. And meanwhile, they call it the "Affordable" Care Act. As with any act of government, it has the exact opposite effect of its title.
From there, Chris and Mish tackle the recent intelligence debacle where our government and media are trumpeting "findings" that are backed by zero evidence and unverifiable innuendo. When all sides look incompetent, where do you turn for trustworthy information?
Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio and other premium content today.
Historian and economist David Fleming undertook the writing of Lean Logic a grand vision that projected out the likely path of collapse for our currently unsustainable way of life, as well as the key success factors society will need to cultivate to come out the other side.
Following his death, his writing partner Shaun Chamberlin distilled the book's prime conclusions into the more accessible Surviving The Future: Culture, carnival, and capital in the aftermath of the market economy. Shaun, who has also been deeply involved with Rob Hopkins in the Transition Movement since its inception, stresses that localized communities that pursue developing as much independence from the central economy as possible will be the foundations for entering a sustainable, enjoyable future.
Shaun Chamberlin: Surviving The Aftermath Of The Market Economy
Historian and economist David Fleming undertook the writing of Lean Logic a grand vision that projected out the likely path of collapse for our currently unsustainable way of life, as well as the key success factors society will need to cultivate to come out the other side.
Following his death, his writing partner Shaun Chamberlin distilled the book's prime conclusions into the more accessible Surviving The Future: Culture, carnival, and capital in the aftermath of the market economy. Shaun, who has also been deeply involved with Rob Hopkins in the Transition Movement since its inception, stresses that localized communities that pursue developing as much independence from the central economy as possible will be the foundations for entering a sustainable, enjoyable future.
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