Podcast

Resilient Relocation

Executive Summary

When relocation makes sense (and when it doesn’t)
Developing the vision & plan for your relocation destination
Creating community
Which incentives will drive success

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Importance Of A Resilient Life, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Two weeks ago, I publicly revealed my plans to create a resilient living community. One that will offer me and other like-minded folks a beautiful place to live and positive cash flows.

In good times, it can be used as a home, as a vacation destination, or simply a passive real estate investment. And if times get bad, it’s a fully-resilient retreat, ready to shelter you and your loved ones.

The response to my announcement overwhelmed me. It clearly touched a nerve with thousands of people looking for a solution like this, hundreds of which have contacted me. In a week, dozens who want to participate will be meeting at my home in northern Massachusetts.

Below, I’m sharing the process I’ve designed for this movement. The detailed vision. The requirements for the property we’re hunting for. The skills, attitudes and expertise I’m looking for when (very carefully) choosing who to accept into this community. The incentives for fostering the right group dynamics and discouraging the wrong ones. The financial realities.

Read on if you’d like to learn more about this specific resilient relocation project, or if you’d like to integrate its insights into one of your own.

Because if you wait to long to act, you’ll find that… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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Resilient Relocation

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

When relocation makes sense (and when it doesn’t)
Developing the vision & plan for your relocation destination
Creating community
Which incentives will drive success

If you have not yet read Part 1: The Importance Of A Resilient Life, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Two weeks ago, I publicly revealed my plans to create a resilient living community. One that will offer me and other like-minded folks a beautiful place to live and positive cash flows.

Read on if you’d like to learn more about this specific resilient relocation project, or if you’d like to integrate its insights into one of your own.

Because if you wait to long to act, you’ll find that… (Enroll now to continue reading)

ENROLL NOW TO ACCESS PART 2 IN FULL

Ben Hunt: Prepare To Get Burned

by Chris Martenson

History teaches us that there is no free lunch, reminds Dr. Ben Hunt, publisher of EpsilonTheory.com.

And science informs us that even simple systems become nearly impossible to predict or control with 100% precision as time and variables change.

But our society today is ignoring these lessons. It’s betting that the increasingly excessive distortions required to keep the status quo continuing will succeed, and come at no cost.

That’s a losing bet, warns Hunt.

Ben Hunt: Prepare To Get Burned

by Chris Martenson

History teaches us that there is no free lunch, reminds Dr. Ben Hunt, publisher of EpsilonTheory.com.

And science informs us that even simple systems become nearly impossible to predict or control with 100% precision as time and variables change.

But our society today is ignoring these lessons. It’s betting that the increasingly excessive distortions required to keep the status quo continuing will succeed, and come at no cost.

That’s a losing bet, warns Hunt.

The Importance Of A Resilient Life

by Chris Martenson

My business partner Adam and I recently met with a successful business owner whose career began on Wall Street. The kind of guy who should be rooting for the system, because it has treated him well.

Instead, he was quite nervous about the sustainability of the status quo. “Starting in August,” he said, “Maybe it was the Amazon catching fire, maybe it was the negative interest rates – I don’t know for certain what the trigger was – but something has snapped.”

I agree. Because I feel it, too.

The Importance Of A Resilient Life

by Chris Martenson

My business partner Adam and I recently met with a successful business owner whose career began on Wall Street. The kind of guy who should be rooting for the system, because it has treated him well.

I agree. Because I feel it, too.

Home Prices: Downhill From Here

by Chris Martenson

As we look into the future, we see a high risk of the world money supply increasing further. Or put in layman’s terms, your money being devalued by rampant inflation.

But odds are high we won’t simply ride up the inflation curve in a straight line from here.

Deflationary corrections, perhaps severe ones, will punctuate the process. And when they do, windows of very attractive investment opportunities will open.

Take real estate; which appears to entering the start of a correction now.

Home Prices: Downhill From Here

by Chris Martenson

As we look into the future, we see a high risk of the world money supply increasing further. Or put in layman’s terms, your money being devalued by rampant inflation.

But odds are high we won’t simply ride up the inflation curve in a straight line from here.

Deflationary corrections, perhaps severe ones, will punctuate the process. And when they do, windows of very attractive investment opportunities will open.

Take real estate; which appears to entering the start of a correction now.

Binyamin Appelbaum: The Problem With Modern Economics

by Chris Martenson

Why do we have the economic policies we do today?

These policies drive decision-making on Capitol Hill, corporate boardrooms, and on Wall Street. But who made them, why, and how did they come about? And how well are they serving us?

Binyamin Appelbaum has made these questions the focus of his new book The Economists Hour, which shines a bright light on the rise of modern Economics and its dominating influence on society.

From anti-trust law to central banking, Appelbaum explains how Economics has evolved (metastasized?) into its current form, where the solutions it now offers may be no better (and possibly substantially worse) than the problems it’s designed to address.

Binyamin Appelbaum: The Problem With Modern Economics

by Chris Martenson

Why do we have the economic policies we do today?

These policies drive decision-making on Capitol Hill, corporate boardrooms, and on Wall Street. But who made them, why, and how did they come about? And how well are they serving us?

Binyamin Appelbaum has made these questions the focus of his new book The Economists Hour, which shines a bright light on the rise of modern Economics and its dominating influence on society.

Off The Cuff: Declining Energy Consumption Shows Recession Is At The Doorstep

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by Chris Martenson

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Art Berman discuss: Understanding The Importance Of Crack Spreads Diesel Consumption Is Down 500,000 Barrels/Day Since January The Shale Oil Reckoning Is Approaching Key Slides From Art Petroleum expert Art Berman explains how crack spreads (the difference between what refiners pay for crude oil and the…

Off The Cuff: Declining Energy Consumption Shows Recession Is At The Doorstep

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

ALERT: Time To Relocate

PREVIEW

by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

Why it’s far better to be a year early than a date late when preparing for crisis
Why I’m issuing a rare Alert
What’s causing me to release this Alert now
My relocation criteria

If you have not yet read Part 1: It’s The Pace Of Change That Kills You, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

As we say often here at Peak Prosperity: When it comes to preparing for crisis, it’s far better to be a year early than a day late.

I’m perfectly willing to be early on timing, as long as I get the direction right.

For example, I invested heavily in gold and silver beginning in 2001. My first purchases of gold were at $300/oz. Silver at $4.53/oz.

I was early. Prices didn’t really start taking off until 2006.

The bulk of these purchases happened after the sale of my house in 2003 when I had ~$250,000 of gains I had to do something with. I rolled all of it into bullion.

I was early on selling my house, too. The housing market didn’t roll over until 2007.

Was I early on calling a housing bubble? Yep. Was I correct? Again, yes. Looking back does it matter that I was early to both the housing correction and precious metals rallies? Not at all.

Here again I can state with equal conviction that we each need to be prepared for massive changes coming. If that sounds vague it’s because they are going to impact virtually everything and every system we hold dear.

Political. Ecological. Financial. Cultural. Social. Our lives. People we know. Our communities. All of them. Every. Single. One.

Massive debts, insufficient resources, rising pollution, collapsing food webs, and a near incomplete ability to have a proper national or global dialog about any of these things. That’s what is setting the trajectory.

Now, I very rarely send out Alerts. An Alert is triggered if and only if I come across information that causes me to personally take action.

Which I why I’m now issuing an Alert that after nearly 20 years of living in the same geography, I’m relocating. Recent events have accelerated to the point that I’m no longer comfortable in my current location.

My top priorities: more land, a more robust local community that shares my passion for resilience, and state government that has greater respect for the individual and personal liberty.

Specifically, I’m placing the greatest value on… (Enroll now to continue reading)

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ALERT: Time To Relocate

PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

Why it’s far better to be a year early than a date late when preparing for crisis
Why I’m issuing a rare Alert
What’s causing me to release this Alert now
My relocation criteria