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Off The Cuff: Re-Localization Is The Future
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • The sorry state of the US political system
  • From Covid to Epstein: can our “leaders” bungle even worse?
  • Why Re-localization is the answer, whether we want it or not
  • Why we’re never returning to “normal” as we knew it

Jim Kunstler returns to the program to report the latest view through is “Long Emergency” lens.

It’s a little scary: many of the trends he’s long been predicting have been suddenly accelerated by the events of 2020. Particularly his warnings that our urban & suburban lifestyle of mega-marts, McMansions and food deserts were going to start failing us, resulting in flight to rural areas.

As Jim explains here, re-localization of our economy and social networks is going to be the way of the future — whether we choose it, or reality forces it upon us.

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Off The Cuff: Re-Localization Is The Future
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • The sorry state of the US political system
  • From Covid to Epstein: can our “leaders” bungle even worse?
  • Why Re-localization is the answer, whether we want it or not
  • Why we’re never returning to “normal” as we knew it

Jim Kunstler returns to the program to report the latest view through is “Long Emergency” lens.

It’s a little scary: many of the trends he’s long been predicting have been suddenly accelerated by the events of 2020. Particularly his warnings that our urban & suburban lifestyle of mega-marts, McMansions and food deserts were going to start failing us, resulting in flight to rural areas.

As Jim explains here, re-localization of our economy and social networks is going to be the way of the future — whether we choose it, or reality forces it upon us.

Click here to listen to a sample of this Off The Cuff Podcast

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Off The Cuff: Descent Into Madness
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • America’s death-match style of politics
  • Corruption is everywhere these days
  • Society is dangerously close to violence as faith is lost
  • The shrinking Overton window

Strap in for an hour of angst. Acerbic commentator James Howard Kunstler addresses a litany of deficiencies in today’s system, most notably the many forces removing prosperity and freedom for the bottom 99%.

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Off The Cuff: Descent Into Madness
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • America’s death-match style of politics
  • Corruption is everywhere these days
  • Society is dangerously close to violence as faith is lost
  • The shrinking Overton window

Strap in for an hour of angst. Acerbic commentator James Howard Kunstler addresses a litany of deficiencies in today’s system, most notably the many forces removing prosperity and freedom for the bottom 99%.

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com’s other premium content.

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Off The Cuff: The Destruction Of Coherent Ideas
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • The Shale Oil Booby-Trap
    • Fake prosperity that will tank the markets when it ends
  • Could The US Government Nationalize The Oil Industry?
    • It very well could
  • The Destruction Of Coherent Ideas
    • To fail to plan is to plan to fail
  • What Are We Willing To Give Up?
    • A better future depends on abandoning some of our self-destructive luxuries

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Jim tackle a wide range of issues — from shale oil, to Jeffrey Epstein, wokesterdom, the financial bubble, social malaise, and the future of society. One deficit particularly concerning to Jim is our culture’s inability to have coherent discourse.

If we can’t engage in understanding and intelligently debating with one another, how will we ever devise effective solutions to the many challenges we face?

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Off The Cuff: The Destruction Of Coherent Ideas
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • The Shale Oil Booby-Trap
    • Fake prosperity that will tank the markets when it ends
  • Could The US Government Nationalize The Oil Industry?
    • It very well could
  • The Destruction Of Coherent Ideas
    • To fail to plan is to plan to fail
  • What Are We Willing To Give Up?
    • A better future depends on abandoning some of our self-destructive luxuries

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Jim tackle a wide range of issues — from shale oil, to Jeffrey Epstein, wokesterdom, the financial bubble, social malaise, and the future of society. One deficit particularly concerning to Jim is our culture’s inability to have coherent discourse.

If we can’t engage in understanding and intelligently debating with one another, how will we ever devise effective solutions to the many challenges we face?

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com’s other premium content.

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Off The Cuff: A Matter Of Desperation
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • Zig-Zag Markets
    • There's a war going to keep prices propped up
  • A Matter Of Desperation
    • The central planners are out of tricks
  • The Masses Are Getting Angry
    • And are turning their ire on those in control
  • Our Broken Political System
    • Furiously focusing on all the wrong issues

Jim Kunstler returns to share his views on what's ahead in 2019. Like Peak Prosperity, he sees the coming year as one when the forces of reality start to re-exert themselves after a decade of magical thinking.

Those in control of the system have juiced it as hard as they could for as long as they could, and now the limits to that 'extend-and-pretend' era are quickly becoming visible. And the bottom 99% is beginning to realize that not only was the “prosperity” of the post-GFC recovery largely fraudlent, but what there was of it went as spoils to the elites. Expect further social outrage like we're currently seeing in France to boil over into many other countries in the coming months.

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Off The Cuff: A Matter Of Desperation
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • Zig-Zag Markets
    • There's a war going to keep prices propped up
  • A Matter Of Desperation
    • The central planners are out of tricks
  • The Masses Are Getting Angry
    • And are turning their ire on those in control
  • Our Broken Political System
    • Furiously focusing on all the wrong issues

Jim Kunstler returns to share his views on what's ahead in 2019. Like Peak Prosperity, he sees the coming year as one when the forces of reality start to re-exert themselves after a decade of magical thinking.

Those in control of the system have juiced it as hard as they could for as long as they could, and now the limits to that 'extend-and-pretend' era are quickly becoming visible. And the bottom 99% is beginning to realize that not only was the “prosperity” of the post-GFC recovery largely fraudlent, but what there was of it went as spoils to the elites. Expect further social outrage like we're currently seeing in France to boil over into many other countries in the coming months.

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com's other premium content.

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Off The Cuff: Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

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

  • The Impact Of Natural Disasters
    • There are always surprise ramifications
  • Unequal Oversight
    • Corporations skate free while individuals get nailed
  • Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
    • There's just too much money in play
  • Where Is The Tipping Point?
    • When does the abused populace say "No more!"

The government is not famous for its efficiency, or for its fairness. In many cases, that's intentional — particularly when you look at the incentives in play. Charles explains why our crony capitalist system is allowed, and even protected from enforcement: it's simply too cheap for corporations to influence government policy, regulation and oversight.

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Off The Cuff: Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

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

  • The Impact Of Natural Disasters
    • There are always surprise ramifications
  • Unequal Oversight
    • Corporations skate free while individuals get nailed
  • Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
    • There's just too much money in play
  • Where Is The Tipping Point?
    • When does the abused populace say "No more!"

The government is not famous for its efficiency, or for its fairness. In many cases, that's intentional — particularly when you look at the incentives in play. Charles explains why our crony capitalist system is allowed, and even protected from enforcement: it's simply too cheap for corporations to influence government policy, regulation and oversight.

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio as well as all of PeakProsperity.com's other premium content.

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James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves
by Adam Taggart

The ever-eloquent James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the dangers of the 'comprehensive dishonesty' he observes in our culture today.

We occupy ourselves with distractions (e.g., the fear du jour that our media continually manufactures) and diversions (e.g., our empty social media addiction), while ignoring the erosion of the essential systems around us. Making matters worse, the leaders we assume are focusing on these issues aren't or are woefully out of their depth.

It's time for society to take a hard look in the mirror and be honest about the shortcoming it sees. Identifying them then opens the door to deciding what to do about them.

Without the courage to be honest, we condemn ourselves to a failing status quo that likely has little remaining time left.
James Howard Kunstler: It’s Time To Be Honest With Ourselves
 by Adam Taggart

The ever-eloquent James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the dangers of the 'comprehensive dishonesty' he observes in our culture today.

We occupy ourselves with distractions (e.g., the fear du jour that our media continually manufactures) and diversions (e.g., our empty social media addiction), while ignoring the erosion of the essential systems around us. Making matters worse, the leaders we assume are focusing on these issues aren't or are woefully out of their depth.

It's time for society to take a hard look in the mirror and be honest about the shortcoming it sees. Identifying them then opens the door to deciding what to do about them.

Without the courage to be honest, we condemn ourselves to a failing status quo that likely has little remaining time left.
Image | Off The Cuff: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
Off The Cuff: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
 PREVIEW
by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • Rate Hike!
    • The Fed just increased the interest rate by 0.25%
  • Scam-o-rama
    • The financial system is now a racketeering fraud
  • The Net Energy Predicament
    • The unseen cause of so many of the systemic breakdowns we're seeing
  • The Deep State In Turmoil
    • The Trump administration has set off an internal war

James Howard Kunstler returns to Off The Cuff this week for a wide ranging discussion. First on the docket is the recent Fed rate hike, and the baffling logic that markets are using to interpret is as another "bullish" signal for piling into stocks. 

No surprise, Jim thinks the markets have become one big roach motel for investment capital. 

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Off The Cuff: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
 PREVIEW by Adam Taggart

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

  • Rate Hike!
    • The Fed just increased the interest rate by 0.25%
  • Scam-o-rama
    • The financial system is now a racketeering fraud
  • The Net Energy Predicament
    • The unseen cause of so many of the systemic breakdowns we're seeing
  • The Deep State In Turmoil
    • The Trump administration has set off an internal war

James Howard Kunstler returns to Off The Cuff this week for a wide ranging discussion. First on the docket is the recent Fed rate hike, and the baffling logic that markets are using to interpret is as another "bullish" signal for piling into stocks. 

No surprise, Jim thinks the markets have become one big roach motel for investment capital. 

Click to listen to a sample of this Off the Cuff Podcast or Enroll today to access the full audio and other premium content today.

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James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources
by Adam Taggart

James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration is just as in denial of them as the old.

Kunstler adds fresh critique to his now decades-old warning that we are sleepwalking our way deep into the Long Emergency. The longer we delude ourselves and waste our energies in pursuit of reviving the failed "endless growth" model, the farther our journey back to a sustainable way of living will be when our current system collapses.
James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources
 by Adam Taggart

James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration is just as in denial of them as the old.

Kunstler adds fresh critique to his now decades-old warning that we are sleepwalking our way deep into the Long Emergency. The longer we delude ourselves and waste our energies in pursuit of reviving the failed "endless growth" model, the farther our journey back to a sustainable way of living will be when our current system collapses.
Image | James Howard Kunstler: Racketeering Is Ruining Us
James Howard Kunstler: Racketeering Is Ruining Us
by Adam Taggart

If you don't understand what's causing a particular problem, then it's pretty difficult to come up with an effective solution.

Author, commentator and longtime friend-of-the-site James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the importance of accurate diagnosis — in this case, of the scourge he sees as accelerating America's downslide into economic and social decline: Racketeering.
James Howard Kunstler: Racketeering Is Ruining Us
 by Adam Taggart

If you don't understand what's causing a particular problem, then it's pretty difficult to come up with an effective solution.

Author, commentator and longtime friend-of-the-site James Howard Kunstler returns to our podcast this week to discuss the importance of accurate diagnosis — in this case, of the scourge he sees as accelerating America's downslide into economic and social decline: Racketeering.
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Resilience As The Key To Crisis-Proof Wealth
by Adam Taggart

Given Friday's important swing low in the precious metals, we're hard at work this weekend finishing up a lengthy analysis of the fundamentals ahead for gold & silver.

But in the interim, we want to make sure that our podcast listeners don't go without their weekly fix.

 
Resilience As The Key To Crisis-Proof Wealth
 by Adam Taggart

Given Friday's important swing low in the precious metals, we're hard at work this weekend finishing up a lengthy analysis of the fundamentals ahead for gold & silver.

But in the interim, we want to make sure that our podcast listeners don't go without their weekly fix.

 
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