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Image | Off The Cuff: The Coming Capital Controls
Off The Cuff: The Coming Capital Controls
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Daniel Amerman discuss:

  • The Wide Extent Of Central Bank Intervention
    • And the resulting Franken""markets""
  • The Coming Era Of Capital Controls
    • The war on our money is just getting started
  • Don't Underestimate The Incompetence Of Our Leaders
    • Central banks are more stupid than evil
  • Political Risk To The Markets Is Greater Than We Realize
    • It's the trigger everyone is discounting
Off The Cuff: The Coming Capital Controls
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Daniel Amerman discuss:

  • The Wide Extent Of Central Bank Intervention
    • And the resulting Franken""markets""
  • The Coming Era Of Capital Controls
    • The war on our money is just getting started
  • Don't Underestimate The Incompetence Of Our Leaders
    • Central banks are more stupid than evil
  • Political Risk To The Markets Is Greater Than We Realize
    • It's the trigger everyone is discounting
Image | New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
by Chris Martenson

Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past years as the market churned to ever new highs, and have always appreciated their skepticism of these liquidity-driven ""markets"" as well as their unwavering commitment to risk management should the party in stocks end suddenly.

So, how is their risk-managed approach faring now that the S&P 500 has suddenly dropped 8% since Christmas? Quite well. Their general portfolio is flat for the year so far — evidence that caution, prudence and hedging can indeed preserve capital during market downdrafts.

We've invited the New Harbor team back on this week to hear their latest assessment on the markets, as well as how they're approaching their portfolio positioning moving forward.

New Harbor: A Time For Staying Out Of Harms Way
 by Chris Martenson

Given the brutal start to the markets in the first three weeks of 2016, we thought it a good time to check in with the team at New Harbor Financial. We have had them on our podcast periodically over the past years as the market churned to ever new highs, and have always appreciated their skepticism of these liquidity-driven ""markets"" as well as their unwavering commitment to risk management should the party in stocks end suddenly.

So, how is their risk-managed approach faring now that the S&P 500 has suddenly dropped 8% since Christmas? Quite well. Their general portfolio is flat for the year so far — evidence that caution, prudence and hedging can indeed preserve capital during market downdrafts.

We've invited the New Harbor team back on this week to hear their latest assessment on the markets, as well as how they're approaching their portfolio positioning moving forward.

Image | The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold
The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold
by Chris Martenson

Every year or two we update this report, which lays out the investment thesis for gold. Here is this year’s version.

Silver is touched upon only as necessary; as a separate report of equal scope is required for that precious metal.

Gold is one of the few investments that every investor should have in their portfolio. We are now at the dangerous end-game period of a very bold but very reckless & disappointing experiment with the world’s fiat (unbacked) currencies. If this experiment fails — and we observe it’s in the process of failing — gold will provide one of the best forms of wealth insurance. But like all insurance products, it only works if you buy it before you need to rely on it.
The Screaming Fundamentals For Owning Gold
 by Chris Martenson

Every year or two we update this report, which lays out the investment thesis for gold. Here is this year’s version.

Silver is touched upon only as necessary; as a separate report of equal scope is required for that precious metal.

Gold is one of the few investments that every investor should have in their portfolio. We are now at the dangerous end-game period of a very bold but very reckless & disappointing experiment with the world’s fiat (unbacked) currencies. If this experiment fails — and we observe it’s in the process of failing — gold will provide one of the best forms of wealth insurance. But like all insurance products, it only works if you buy it before you need to rely on it.
Image | Mike Maloney: The Rollercoaster Crash
Mike Maloney: The Rollercoaster Crash
by Chris Martenson

Precious metals sank to 5-year lows during this past week. The long painful price decline that began at the end of 2011 still continues unabated. Holders of gold & silver are understandably wondering if their faith in precious metals has been misplaced.
Mike Maloney: The Rollercoaster Crash
 by Chris Martenson

Precious metals sank to 5-year lows during this past week. The long painful price decline that began at the end of 2011 still continues unabated. Holders of gold & silver are understandably wondering if their faith in precious metals has been misplaced.
Image | Protecting & Growing Your Money
Protecting & Growing Your Money
by Chris Martenson

There’s no doubt that money is important. There’s good reason why most of us devote a huge percentage of our lives to pursuing it.

But there’s much about money that is misunderstood.
Protecting & Growing Your Money
 by Chris Martenson

There’s no doubt that money is important. There’s good reason why most of us devote a huge percentage of our lives to pursuing it.

But there’s much about money that is misunderstood.
Image | Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth?
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth?
by Chris Martenson

Recently, author and "de-growth activist" Charles Eisenstein stopped by the Martenson homestead while traveling on business. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chris sat him down to record an impromptu discussion on the nature of wealth.

As should come as little surprise to Peak Prosperity readers, financial wealth ("money") is just one component — and given society's current over-fixation with it, its pursuit oftentimes limits our ability to be truly wealthy.
Charles Eisenstein: What Is Wealth?
 by Chris Martenson

Recently, author and "de-growth activist" Charles Eisenstein stopped by the Martenson homestead while traveling on business. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Chris sat him down to record an impromptu discussion on the nature of wealth.

As should come as little surprise to Peak Prosperity readers, financial wealth ("money") is just one component — and given society's current over-fixation with it, its pursuit oftentimes limits our ability to be truly wealthy.
Image | The War On Cash Intensifies
The War On Cash Intensifies
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

The central planners are setting the stage for the next round of officially sanctioned theft and this time they mean to assure that you have no way(s) of escaping.

They’re coming for your cash. This is a risk that Charles Hughes Smith explored for us back in June in a very well-received analysis.

Once a fringe idea, this concept is now being openly discussed and debated at the highest levels publicly. Which means it is being hotly discussed behind closed doors, and likely has been for a long time.

The War On Cash Intensifies
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

The central planners are setting the stage for the next round of officially sanctioned theft and this time they mean to assure that you have no way(s) of escaping.

They’re coming for your cash. This is a risk that Charles Hughes Smith explored for us back in June in a very well-received analysis.

Once a fringe idea, this concept is now being openly discussed and debated at the highest levels publicly. Which means it is being hotly discussed behind closed doors, and likely has been for a long time.

Image | Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
by Chris Martenson

Deflation is back on the front burner and it's going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years.

Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. Tanking commodity prices are confirming that idea. 
Deflation Is Winning – Beware!
 by Chris Martenson

Deflation is back on the front burner and it's going to destroy all of the careful central planning and related market manipulation of the past 6 years.

Clear signs from the periphery indicate that a destructive deflationary pulse has been unleashed. Tanking commodity prices are confirming that idea. 
Image | Off The Cuff: Why Commodities Are Getting Crushed
Off The Cuff: Why Commodities Are Getting Crushed
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: The Commodity Beat-Down Why are gold, oil, etc so weak? Fluffed-Up Fakery Official economic reports are just pure fiction these days The End Of The Long Cycle The devastation when this bubble pops will be epic Stock market roll-over? It's increasingly looking like…
Off The Cuff: Why Commodities Are Getting Crushed
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss: The Commodity Beat-Down Why are gold, oil, etc so weak? Fluffed-Up Fakery Official economic reports are just pure fiction these days The End Of The Long Cycle The devastation when this bubble pops will be epic Stock market roll-over? It's increasingly looking like…
Image | Off The Cuff: We Pledge Allegiance, To The Banks…
Off The Cuff: We Pledge Allegiance, To The Banks…
 PREVIEW
by Chris Martenson

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

  • We Live To Serve The Banks
    • Greece is now a nation of slaves for the banking system
  • Instability Risk Is Sky-High These Days
    • When central planners lose control, it's going to be bedlam
  • As Ever, Access To Resources Will Determine Everything
    • We're seeing the resource-poor countries now faltering first
  • Debt-based Money
    • As long as we have it, we'll never be free

 
Off The Cuff: We Pledge Allegiance, To The Banks…
 PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

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

  • We Live To Serve The Banks
    • Greece is now a nation of slaves for the banking system
  • Instability Risk Is Sky-High These Days
    • When central planners lose control, it's going to be bedlam
  • As Ever, Access To Resources Will Determine Everything
    • We're seeing the resource-poor countries now faltering first
  • Debt-based Money
    • As long as we have it, we'll never be free

 
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