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Off The Cuff: The End Of Privilege?
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Manipulating The Market To A New All-Time High
    • The case why we may see that soon
  • Falling Corporate Profits
    • Why a new high, if it happens, won't last for long
  • The Pension Time Bomb
    • Why all pension funds are dead men walking
  • The End Of The Protected Classes
    • Soon, we will all be in the same boat

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Off The Cuff: The End Of Privilege?
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Manipulating The Market To A New All-Time High
    • The case why we may see that soon
  • Falling Corporate Profits
    • Why a new high, if it happens, won't last for long
  • The Pension Time Bomb
    • Why all pension funds are dead men walking
  • The End Of The Protected Classes
    • Soon, we will all be in the same boat

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Image | Off The Cuff: We Need Money We Can Trust
Off The Cuff: We Need Money We Can Trust
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Death Of The Status Quo
    • The establishment is in a doomed fight to keep change at bay
  • The Importance Of Free Pricing
    • When we can't trust the signals prices are sending us, we're blind
  • The Need For Sound Money
    • When money is manipulated, mal-investment ensues
  • The CLIME Model
    • Charles walks us through his proposal for a labor-backed currency system

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Off The Cuff: We Need Money We Can Trust
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Death Of The Status Quo
    • The establishment is in a doomed fight to keep change at bay
  • The Importance Of Free Pricing
    • When we can't trust the signals prices are sending us, we're blind
  • The Need For Sound Money
    • When money is manipulated, mal-investment ensues
  • The CLIME Model
    • Charles walks us through his proposal for a labor-backed currency system

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Image | Off The Cuff: The Folly Of Financialization
Off The Cuff: The Folly Of Financialization
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Future Of Oil
    • Much more volatile prices lie ahead
  • The Folly Of Financialization
    • Central planners are creating cures worse than the diseases they're trying to fix
  • The Dollar Dilemma
    • The direction of dollar now hurts as many player as it helps
  • Return Of 'Race To The Bottom'
    • We risk a global currency war like that seen in the 1930's
Off The Cuff: The Folly Of Financialization
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Future Of Oil
    • Much more volatile prices lie ahead
  • The Folly Of Financialization
    • Central planners are creating cures worse than the diseases they're trying to fix
  • The Dollar Dilemma
    • The direction of dollar now hurts as many player as it helps
  • Return Of 'Race To The Bottom'
    • We risk a global currency war like that seen in the 1930's
Image | Off The Cuff: Trapped By TINA
Off The Cuff: Trapped By TINA
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Trapped By TINA
    • Central banks find themselves out of options
  • Under Pressure
    • Those higher up the wage curve are finding themselves struggling more
  • Fear As A Social Control Tool
    • We're being sold it much more than we realize
  • Taking Control
    • A better future will come from our own hands, not those of our leaders
Off The Cuff: Trapped By TINA
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Trapped By TINA
    • Central banks find themselves out of options
  • Under Pressure
    • Those higher up the wage curve are finding themselves struggling more
  • Fear As A Social Control Tool
    • We're being sold it much more than we realize
  • Taking Control
    • A better future will come from our own hands, not those of our leaders
Image | Off The Cuff: Time To Pay For Our Sins
Off The Cuff: Time To Pay For Our Sins
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Sins Of Over-Financialization
    • We're finally having to pay the price we've been deferring
  • The Energy Sector Is A Time-Bomb
    • One that has just detonated
  • GDP Is Going To Drop Hard From Here
    • Not an 'if'; but a 'when'. And a 'how much?'
  • A Crash Is In Our Future
    • And that good, believe it or not
Off The Cuff: Time To Pay For Our Sins
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • The Sins Of Over-Financialization
    • We're finally having to pay the price we've been deferring
  • The Energy Sector Is A Time-Bomb
    • One that has just detonated
  • GDP Is Going To Drop Hard From Here
    • Not an 'if'; but a 'when'. And a 'how much?'
  • A Crash Is In Our Future
    • And that good, believe it or not
Image | Off The Cuff: An Economy Of Bureaucracy
Off The Cuff: An Economy Of Bureaucracy
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Why We're Headed For A Systemic Reset
    • Too much bloat
  • An Economy Of Bureaucracy
    • No bureaucracy ever reduced itself by choice
  • Why We Need To Starve The System
    • Opt out with our energy and our dollars
  • Why We'll Need To Do More With Less
    • Much of "business as usual" won't be around for much longer
Off The Cuff: An Economy Of Bureaucracy
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Why We're Headed For A Systemic Reset
    • Too much bloat
  • An Economy Of Bureaucracy
    • No bureaucracy ever reduced itself by choice
  • Why We Need To Starve The System
    • Opt out with our energy and our dollars
  • Why We'll Need To Do More With Less
    • Much of "business as usual" won't be around for much longer
Image | Off The Cuff: Rate Hike!
Off The Cuff: Rate Hike!
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Rate Hike!
    • The Fed raises interest rates for the 1st time in a decade
  • Shock Wave
    • Even a small rate increase can disrupt today's highly-leveraged economy
  • The Beginning Of The End
    • The 'Debt Is Good' Era May Finally Be Ending
  • Modern Game Of Thrones
    • How The Power Structure Clings To Its Control

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Off The Cuff: Rate Hike!
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Rate Hike!
    • The Fed raises interest rates for the 1st time in a decade
  • Shock Wave
    • Even a small rate increase can disrupt today's highly-leveraged economy
  • The Beginning Of The End
    • The 'Debt Is Good' Era May Finally Be Ending
  • Modern Game Of Thrones
    • How The Power Structure Clings To Its Control

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Image | Off The Cuff: What The Rich Are Worrying About
Off The Cuff: What The Rich Are Worrying About
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • What The Rich Are Worrying About
    • Return 'of' capital, vs return 'on'
  • The Future Of The Dollar & Gold
    • Both are likely to rise materially over the next year
  • Why Should We Fear Deflation?
    • Most of us should welcome it
  • Market Psychology Is Reversing
    • Fear is starting to overwhelm greed

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Off The Cuff: What The Rich Are Worrying About
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • What The Rich Are Worrying About
    • Return 'of' capital, vs return 'on'
  • The Future Of The Dollar & Gold
    • Both are likely to rise materially over the next year
  • Why Should We Fear Deflation?
    • Most of us should welcome it
  • Market Psychology Is Reversing
    • Fear is starting to overwhelm greed

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Image | Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work
Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work
by Chris Martenson

Charles Hugh Smith returns to the podcast this week to discuss the theme of his new book A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All.

Automation and artificial intelligence are changing the landscape of work. Tens of millions of jobs are on track to be eliminated over the next decade or so by these advancing technological innovations in the US alone.

The way in which our current economy is constructed, the fruits of those cost savings are likely to go into a very small number of private pockets, while the millions of displaced workers will find themselves with no income and no work to do. It’s a huge looming problem that is not being address in national dialog right now.

But there’s opportunity to course-correct here. To use our new technologies to increase total productivity in a way that empowers rather than diminishes the individual worker.

Charles Hugh Smith: Fixing The Way We Work
 by Chris Martenson

Charles Hugh Smith returns to the podcast this week to discuss the theme of his new book A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All.

Automation and artificial intelligence are changing the landscape of work. Tens of millions of jobs are on track to be eliminated over the next decade or so by these advancing technological innovations in the US alone.

The way in which our current economy is constructed, the fruits of those cost savings are likely to go into a very small number of private pockets, while the millions of displaced workers will find themselves with no income and no work to do. It’s a huge looming problem that is not being address in national dialog right now.

But there’s opportunity to course-correct here. To use our new technologies to increase total productivity in a way that empowers rather than diminishes the individual worker.

Image | Off The Cuff: The Betrayal Of Capital
Off The Cuff: The Betrayal Of Capital
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Growing Weakness At The Periphery
    • A reminder that collapse happens from the outside in
  • The Betrayal Of Capital
    • We are watching the predictable result of too much mal-investment
  • Natural Limits Will Be The Ones That Matter
    • The ones that can't be addressed by printing up more money
  • TINA: There Is No Alternative
    • Those in charge of the system have run out of Plan Bs

Recorded last week, here's the latest Off The Cuff discussion recorded between Chris and Charles Hugh Smith.

Both note the deflationary forces that are fast-eroding the stability of periphery countries around the globe. As long repeated here at Peak Prosperity, we're of the opinion that collapse happens from "the outside in". Once the smaller dominoes start falling, watch the pace at which the next-largest drop, as it can tell you how quickly the core ("safest") counties will start being affected.

A theme delved into in this discussion is the…

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Off The Cuff: The Betrayal Of Capital
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

  • Growing Weakness At The Periphery
    • A reminder that collapse happens from the outside in
  • The Betrayal Of Capital
    • We are watching the predictable result of too much mal-investment
  • Natural Limits Will Be The Ones That Matter
    • The ones that can't be addressed by printing up more money
  • TINA: There Is No Alternative
    • Those in charge of the system have run out of Plan Bs

Recorded last week, here's the latest Off The Cuff discussion recorded between Chris and Charles Hugh Smith.

Both note the deflationary forces that are fast-eroding the stability of periphery countries around the globe. As long repeated here at Peak Prosperity, we're of the opinion that collapse happens from "the outside in". Once the smaller dominoes start falling, watch the pace at which the next-largest drop, as it can tell you how quickly the core ("safest") counties will start being affected.

A theme delved into in this discussion is the…

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