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Adam Taggart
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Adam Taggart
In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:
- Only An Elite Few Benefit From The ‘Wealth Effect’
- The System Is Purposely Insidious
- Only Revolution Will Change Things At This Point
- What The Heck Is The Fed Up To Next?
Get ready for ‘no punches pulled’ barnburner of a discussion. Both Chris and Wolf are hopping mad at the increasing squeeze our system is placing on the masses — the ‘wealth effect’ created by current Fed policy is only enjoyed by the already stinking rich, and everyone else is being left fewer and fewer crumbs.
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Off The Cuff: The System Is Purposely Insidious
PREVIEW by Adam TaggartIn this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Wolf Richter discuss:
- Only An Elite Few Benefit From The ‘Wealth Effect’
- The System Is Purposely Insidious
- Only Revolution Will Change Things At This Point
- What The Heck Is The Fed Up To Next?
Get ready for ‘no punches pulled’ barnburner of a discussion. Both Chris and Wolf are hopping mad at the increasing squeeze our system is placing on the masses — the ‘wealth effect’ created by current Fed policy is only enjoyed by the already stinking rich, and everyone else is being left fewer and fewer crumbs.
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Adam Taggart
In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- Cartel-driven Politics
- The debates reveal the agenda of the deep-pocket donors
- Our Broken Health Care & Education Systems
- They serve the cartels at the expense of their customers
- ‘Burnout’ Is Becoming An Epidemic
- And this is during the “good times”?
- We Need A Movement Focused On “Meaning”
- Isn’t that (and happiness) what really matters in life?
This week Chris and Charles take a close look at the platforms being promoted by the bevy of presidential hopefuls, and lament the lock-step commitment to the same “business as usual” that is destroying the prospects and well-being of everyday Americans.
Rather than looking critically at the “borrow and spend” addiction that is drowning us under an unserviceable mountain of debt and liabilities, the candidates are hustling to out-compete each other in spending $trillions more. All, of course, in service to the corporate cartels donating to their campaigns:
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Off The Cuff: Cartel-driven Politics
PREVIEW by Adam TaggartIn this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:
- Cartel-driven Politics
- The debates reveal the agenda of the deep-pocket donors
- Our Broken Health Care & Education Systems
- They serve the cartels at the expense of their customers
- ‘Burnout’ Is Becoming An Epidemic
- And this is during the “good times”?
- We Need A Movement Focused On “Meaning”
- Isn’t that (and happiness) what really matters in life?
This week Chris and Charles take a close look at the platforms being promoted by the bevy of presidential hopefuls, and lament the lock-step commitment to the same “business as usual” that is destroying the prospects and well-being of everyday Americans.
Rather than looking critically at the “borrow and spend” addiction that is drowning us under an unserviceable mountain of debt and liabilities, the candidates are hustling to out-compete each other in spending $trillions more. All, of course, in service to the corporate cartels donating to their campaigns:
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Adam Taggart
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
PREVIEW by Adam TaggartIn 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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Adam Taggart
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
PREVIEW by Adam TaggartIn 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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Adam Taggart
In our ongoing discussion of how our Health Care system (or more aptly-named "Sick Care" system) has been hijacked by those who profit most from it, we interview Dr. Dave Janda this week, who recently and very publicly announced he was walking away from his clinical practice in protest of how poorly the quality-to-cost ratio has dropped in his profession.
Dr. Janda's perspective is informed not just from his years as a practicing surgeon and researcher, but also through his involvement with health initiatives for the Reagan and Bush I administrations, as well as the National Institute of Health. His overall conclusion is that the health system now exists to serves its corporate and administrative owners, to the detriment of patients and practitioners.
Dave Janda: Bad Medicine
by Adam TaggartIn our ongoing discussion of how our Health Care system (or more aptly-named "Sick Care" system) has been hijacked by those who profit most from it, we interview Dr. Dave Janda this week, who recently and very publicly announced he was walking away from his clinical practice in protest of how poorly the quality-to-cost ratio has dropped in his profession.
Dr. Janda's perspective is informed not just from his years as a practicing surgeon and researcher, but also through his involvement with health initiatives for the Reagan and Bush I administrations, as well as the National Institute of Health. His overall conclusion is that the health system now exists to serves its corporate and administrative owners, to the detriment of patients and practitioners.
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charleshughsmith
I was fortunate to attend a permaculture conference, 'Better Soil, Better Food…A Better World' at Tara Firma Farms in Petaluma, California this past weekend that Adam Taggart (co-founder of Peak Prosperity) was responsible for producing. Joel Salatin (author of nine books, including Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front and head farmer at Polyface Farms, Virginia), Paul Kaiser (Singing Frogs Farm, Sonoma, California), Toby Hemenway (author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition), and Robb Wolf (author of The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet) were on hand to explain the connections between the way our food is grown, processed and distributed and our ill-health.
Though these connections are common sense—we all know about garbage in, garbage out—the linkage between our extractive, monoculture agriculture and all the other subsystems of food and health remains opaque to most Americans.
Why We’re So Unhealthy
by charleshughsmithI was fortunate to attend a permaculture conference, 'Better Soil, Better Food…A Better World' at Tara Firma Farms in Petaluma, California this past weekend that Adam Taggart (co-founder of Peak Prosperity) was responsible for producing. Joel Salatin (author of nine books, including Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front and head farmer at Polyface Farms, Virginia), Paul Kaiser (Singing Frogs Farm, Sonoma, California), Toby Hemenway (author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition), and Robb Wolf (author of The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet) were on hand to explain the connections between the way our food is grown, processed and distributed and our ill-health.
Though these connections are common sense—we all know about garbage in, garbage out—the linkage between our extractive, monoculture agriculture and all the other subsystems of food and health remains opaque to most Americans.
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