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David Collum: We’re Now Stuck In A Global Game Of Tetris

Whether or not you've had time yet to plow your way through David Collum's excellent 2014 Year in Review, our annual podcast with Dave always brings additional color to light — and this year's is no exception.

David Collum: We’re Now Stuck In A Global Game Of Tetris

by David Collum

2014 Year in Review: Part 2

by David Collum

This year has been all about risk—existential risk. Some of it seemed to dissipate and some lingers. Market valuations remain risky—regression to the mean could easily provide a 50% haircut and more if we observe regression through the mean. This has not come to pass, but the risk is very real.

Those who seek risk in markets will eventually find it.

2014 Year in Review: Part 2

by David Collum

Those who seek risk in markets will eventually find it.

2014 Year in Review

by David Collum

I have not seen a year in which so many risks—some truly existential—piled up so quickly. Each risk has its own, often unknown, probability of morphing into a destructive force. Groping for a metaphor—I love metaphors and similes—I feel like we’re in the final throes of a geopolitical Game of Tetris as financial and political authorities race to place the pieces correctly. But the acceleration is palpable. The proximate trigger for pain and ultimately a collapse can be small, as anyone who’s ever stepped barefoot on a Lego knows.

Links

1. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue.html

2. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review

3. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/2013-year-review

4. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review

2014 Links – 1

by David Collum

Links

1. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue.html

2. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review

3. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/2013-year-review

4. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review

Who Will Be Tomorrow’s Superpower?

by charleshughsmith

There’s a popular geopolitical parlor game called Who will be the next superpower?

While the game excels at triggering a mind-fogging tsunami of nationalistic emotions, it doesn’t shed much light on the really consequential question: What is power?

These are important questions to ponder as, around the world, unsustainable policies from the 20th century are beginning to fail in earnest. What will the future geopolitical landscape look like in their aftermath?

Who Will Be Tomorrow’s Superpower?

by charleshughsmith

There’s a popular geopolitical parlor game called Who will be the next superpower?

While the game excels at triggering a mind-fogging tsunami of nationalistic emotions, it doesn’t shed much light on the really consequential question: What is power?

2014 Year In Review Reference LInks

by David Collum

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2014 Year in Review LInks

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Links 1. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue.html 2. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review 3. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-21/2013-year-review 4. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/84101/2013-year-in-review 5. https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/2011-year-review-david-collum/67586 6. https://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/david-b-collums-2010-year-review/50352? 7. http://bit.ly/1yryVce 8. http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703339304575240520051755794 9. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/16/elizabeth-warren-2016-race-white-house 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orrCeQ0RsG8 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCE515rTTZ8 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91k2ksQzpMg 13. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue_files/Trading%20Trannies.pdf 14. https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/84142/david-collum-broken-markets-state-capitalism-eroding-liberty 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGlUFSIjew 16. http://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-258-yakking-with-david-collum/ 17. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue_files/20140731DaveCollum_001.mp3 18. http://bbmglobalnetwork.com/red-pill-radio-show-9/ 19. http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/DBC_rogue_files/Collum_Stansberry_Audio.mp3 xx20. RT with Erin 2014 21. http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Story-Ever-Sold-Decline/dp/0143112341/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1418503736&sr=8-3&keywords=frank+rich 22. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-09/german-journalist-blows-whistle-how-cia-controls-media 23. http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/685/The%20Political%20Dominance%20of%20The%20Cabal%20(Mark%20Gorton).pdf 24. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/will-you-shut-up-fox-guest-goes-ballistic-on-moron-michelle-fields/ 25. http://libertyblitzkrieg.com 26….

2014 Year in Review LInks

by David Collum

The Shocking Data Proving Shale Oil Is Massively Over-hyped

by Chris Martenson

Hooray, oil is suddenly much cheaper than it used to be. That's great news, right?

Not so fast. For certain it's not good news for those counting on a continued rise in US oil production from the "shale miracle". Many drillers were challenged to operate profitably when oil was above $70 per barrel. Very few will remain solvent with oil in the $50s (as it is as of this writing).

So, expect US oil production to suffer from these lower prices if they persist. But even if oil prices rise and rise soon, there's new data that indicates the total amount of extractable oil from America's shale plays is less — much less — than what we're being told (or better put, "sold").