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Positioning For A Downturn
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by Adam Taggart

Executive Summary

  • The outlook from Peak Prosperity’s endorsed financial advisor
  • 6 strategies for positioning your portfolio for the next market downturn
  • Deciding which strategies are most appropriate for you

If you have not yet read Part 1: How Will The Coronavirus Impact The Markets?, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

This is an updated version of Peak Prosperity’s guide to protecting your portfolio from downside risk.

If you currently own stocks and/or mutual funds (privately, in a retirement account, or via a promised pension), this report is particularly relevant to you.

Whether you’re looking for good places to park cash safely, or you have limited (or no) experience dealing with  such solutions as stops, limit orders, puts, calls, futures and inverse funds, this guide explains each in layman’s terms, along with context as to when each may be relevant given your goals.

We feel that safety of your assets is paramount at this time. We highly advise prioritize focusing on “return OF capital” vs pursuing “return ON capital” given today’s dangerously vulnerable market conditions.

So, when getting started, it’s critical to focus first on… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Positioning For A Downturn
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

Executive Summary

  • The outlook from Peak Prosperity’s endorsed financial advisor
  • 6 strategies for positioning your portfolio for the next market downturn
  • Deciding which strategies are most appropriate for you

If you have not yet read Part 1: How Will The Coronavirus Impact The Markets?, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

This is an updated version of Peak Prosperity’s guide to protecting your portfolio from downside risk.

If you currently own stocks and/or mutual funds (privately, in a retirement account, or via a promised pension), this report is particularly relevant to you.

Whether you’re looking for good places to park cash safely, or you have limited (or no) experience dealing with  such solutions as stops, limit orders, puts, calls, futures and inverse funds, this guide explains each in layman’s terms, along with context as to when each may be relevant given your goals.

We feel that safety of your assets is paramount at this time. We highly advise prioritize focusing on “return OF capital” vs pursuing “return ON capital” given today’s dangerously vulnerable market conditions.

So, when getting started, it’s critical to focus first on… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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Our Recommended Pandemic Preparations
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by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why the coronavirus is much more dangerous than the standard flu
  • Why, if it accelerates, it can easily overwhelm our health & safety systems
  • A list of the most important preparations for a pandemic
  • Why you *really* want to put those in place now

If you have not yet read ALERT: Coronavirus Pandemic Event Now A Serious Risk, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Well, this is a report I really hoped never to write.  But we all need to get our head on straight around this fast-spreading viral outbreak.

A pandemic is #3 on my personal “oh shit” list (a prolonged grid-down event is #2, and a global world war with nukes is, by far, #1)

Once a pandemic spreads to my neck of the woods, I’m not going to be doing anything in the company of strangers.  No shopping, no going to restaurants, and especially no traveling in closed up metal tubes with recirculated air (i.e. planes and trains).

I won’t be alone in those behaviors.  How many airline pilots, train conductors, trash collectors, and medical personnel have to call in “sick” to disrupt the entire system?  Not that many.

So why is this Wuhan New Coronavirus (officially “2019-ncov”) a substantially more dangerous threat than the standard flu?

There are two reasons to be worried about this particular strain.

#1 is… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Our Recommended Pandemic Preparations
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why the coronavirus is much more dangerous than the standard flu
  • Why, if it accelerates, it can easily overwhelm our health & safety systems
  • A list of the most important preparations for a pandemic
  • Why you *really* want to put those in place now

If you have not yet read ALERT: Coronavirus Pandemic Event Now A Serious Risk, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Well, this is a report I really hoped never to write.  But we all need to get our head on straight around this fast-spreading viral outbreak.

A pandemic is #3 on my personal “oh shit” list (a prolonged grid-down event is #2, and a global world war with nukes is, by far, #1)

Once a pandemic spreads to my neck of the woods, I’m not going to be doing anything in the company of strangers.  No shopping, no going to restaurants, and especially no traveling in closed up metal tubes with recirculated air (i.e. planes and trains).

I won’t be alone in those behaviors.  How many airline pilots, train conductors, trash collectors, and medical personnel have to call in “sick” to disrupt the entire system?  Not that many.

So why is this Wuhan New Coronavirus (officially “2019-ncov”) a substantially more dangerous threat than the standard flu?

There are two reasons to be worried about this particular strain.

#1 is… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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The One Good Thing About The Fed
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by Chris Martenson

The Fed and the other major world central banks are pumping huge amounts of money into global markets while busy ‘easing’, which means ‘lowering interest rates’.

Their plan is for all this funny-money to boost further the stock markets, er ““markets,”” which is very popular with both the domestic politicians and the international Davos crowd that central bankers prefer to hang around with.

Thus, every social pressure the central bankers are exposed to is 100% in support of continuing to pump up financial asset prices.
The One Good Thing About The Fed
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

The Fed and the other major world central banks are pumping huge amounts of money into global markets while busy ‘easing’, which means ‘lowering interest rates’.

Their plan is for all this funny-money to boost further the stock markets, er ““markets,”” which is very popular with both the domestic politicians and the international Davos crowd that central bankers prefer to hang around with.

Thus, every social pressure the central bankers are exposed to is 100% in support of continuing to pump up financial asset prices.
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Taking The Leap Into The Unknown
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why the next 7 years will be so critical to preparing yourself
  • A realistic strategy for adopting a ‘back to the land’ lifestyle
  • Why the route to our salvation will look like a leap into the unknown
  • Why those who see what’s coming & take action will be those who prosper

If you have not yet read Part 1: Surf’s Up!, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Today there are 220,000 more humans on the planet than there were yesterday.  Each day a city’s worth of new humans all wanting food, warmth, cars, smartphones and internet.

Meanwhile, the most important resource of them all, oil, is set to begin waning right around 2030, give or take.

Once people catch onto the idea that infinite growth is not possible, and that oil is THE limiting resource for a global, just-in-time economic system, everything we think we know about money and politics changes.

As I am fond of asking, what are stocks worth in a world without growth?

How will government respond when faced with having to square off against each other for dwindling resources?

The answers I come up with make me extremely confident that big changes are coming in the near-term.

Now, what do I mean by near-term?

I mean that by the year… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Taking The Leap Into The Unknown
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why the next 7 years will be so critical to preparing yourself
  • A realistic strategy for adopting a ‘back to the land’ lifestyle
  • Why the route to our salvation will look like a leap into the unknown
  • Why those who see what’s coming & take action will be those who prosper

If you have not yet read Part 1: Surf’s Up!, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Today there are 220,000 more humans on the planet than there were yesterday.  Each day a city’s worth of new humans all wanting food, warmth, cars, smartphones and internet.

Meanwhile, the most important resource of them all, oil, is set to begin waning right around 2030, give or take.

Once people catch onto the idea that infinite growth is not possible, and that oil is THE limiting resource for a global, just-in-time economic system, everything we think we know about money and politics changes.

As I am fond of asking, what are stocks worth in a world without growth?

How will government respond when faced with having to square off against each other for dwindling resources?

The answers I come up with make me extremely confident that big changes are coming in the near-term.

Now, what do I mean by near-term?

I mean that by the year… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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World War III
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by Chris Martenson

Note:  Just like Fukushima, the assassination of Soleimani is a fast-breaking development.  This is a very fluid account of the situation — we’re updating this constantly and reacting as the news unfolds. 

There we were, just two days into the new decade of the 2020’s and the top trending hashtag on Twitter was #worldwarIII.

Awesome start to the decade there Team Elite!  So much to look forward to with the neocons in charge.

The US assassination of the most revered top military commander in Iran is simply mind-boggling in its brazenness and possible (probable?) implications.

And now we’ve struck additional targets as of Friday evening. The situation is escalating dangerously fast

The critical part being missed by the mainstream media outlets currently reporting on development is… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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World War III
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Note:  Just like Fukushima, the assassination of Soleimani is a fast-breaking development.  This is a very fluid account of the situation — we’re updating this constantly and reacting as the news unfolds. 

There we were, just two days into the new decade of the 2020’s and the top trending hashtag on Twitter was #worldwarIII.

Awesome start to the decade there Team Elite!  So much to look forward to with the neocons in charge.

The US assassination of the most revered top military commander in Iran is simply mind-boggling in its brazenness and possible (probable?) implications.

And now we’ve struck additional targets as of Friday evening. The situation is escalating dangerously fast

The critical part being missed by the mainstream media outlets currently reporting on development is… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Gold Price Ready To Explode
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by Chris Martenson

The open interest in gold is currently at an off-the-charts, record-breaking moment. You should be aware of that fact.

For those of you thinking of adding to your gold stack, this bears watching closely.

If things begin to break upwards, you’ll want to… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Gold Price Ready To Explode
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

The open interest in gold is currently at an off-the-charts, record-breaking moment. You should be aware of that fact.

For those of you thinking of adding to your gold stack, this bears watching closely.

If things begin to break upwards, you’ll want to… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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Hello Twenty Twenties!
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

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 by Chris Martenson

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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Take Action Locally To These Global Threats
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

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

 

Take Action Locally To These Global Threats
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

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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How Best To Use The Time Remaining
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

Executive Summary

  • Useful frameworks for time management
  • Building better health through functional fitness, mobility & sleep
  • Building stronger relationships through science
  • Building resilient/passive income streams (that you own & control)

If you have not yet read Part 1: Living On Borrowed Time , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

We often ends our articles on this site with “It’s time.”

By that, we mean there’s no wiggle room left.

If we want to avoid being collateral damage when the systems we depend on inevitably snap due to their inherent unsustainability, we’ve got to get going — now! — on transitioning to the models that will persist afterwards.

Society will not likely do this advance work. But you can.

Below is our guidance on the most important investments to start making now with your time. It includes a catalog of educational videos from recent live PP events and webinars, exclusive to our premium subscribers.

Getting started, when it comes to wisely prioritizing how to best spend your time, you want to be sure to focus on… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

How Best To Use The Time Remaining
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

Executive Summary

  • Useful frameworks for time management
  • Building better health through functional fitness, mobility & sleep
  • Building stronger relationships through science
  • Building resilient/passive income streams (that you own & control)

If you have not yet read Part 1: Living On Borrowed Time , available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

We often ends our articles on this site with “It’s time.”

By that, we mean there’s no wiggle room left.

If we want to avoid being collateral damage when the systems we depend on inevitably snap due to their inherent unsustainability, we’ve got to get going — now! — on transitioning to the models that will persist afterwards.

Society will not likely do this advance work. But you can.

Below is our guidance on the most important investments to start making now with your time. It includes a catalog of educational videos from recent live PP events and webinars, exclusive to our premium subscribers.

Getting started, when it comes to wisely prioritizing how to best spend your time, you want to be sure to focus on… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

 

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CSI: US Equity “Markets”
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by Chris Martenson

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”
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

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.
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