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by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why today’s ‘magnificent folly’ will unwind in the 2020s
  • The return of Peak Oil
  • Why the pace of change will accelerate faster from here
  • Why time is of the essence for those with the courage to act

If you have not yet read Part 1: Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

 

This next decade will be a banquet of consequences.

Our misdeeds and mistakes will all be coming home to roost.

I certainly hope you are  taking steps to prepare yourself for them. I certainly am.

The subversion of our free and fair markets has resulted in the most radical, interventionist, large-scale social experiment ever run in the modern developed world.

The early returns, unless you’re a member of the 0.1%, are dismal across the board.

The 2020’s will see the unwinding of this magnificent folly. It’s collapse will be extremely painful for the vast majority of humanity.

You see, the extremely dangerous thing about credit bubbles is that they… (Enroll now to continue reading)

 

Hello Twenty Twenties!
PREVIEW by Chris Martenson

Executive Summary

  • Why today’s ‘magnificent folly’ will unwind in the 2020s
  • The return of Peak Oil
  • Why the pace of change will accelerate faster from here
  • Why time is of the essence for those with the courage to act

If you have not yet read Part 1: Good Riddance To The ‘Twenty-Teens’, available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

 

This next decade will be a banquet of consequences.

Our misdeeds and mistakes will all be coming home to roost.

I certainly hope you are  taking steps to prepare yourself for them. I certainly am.

The subversion of our free and fair markets has resulted in the most radical, interventionist, large-scale social experiment ever run in the modern developed world.

The early returns, unless you’re a member of the 0.1%, are dismal across the board.

The 2020’s will see the unwinding of this magnificent folly. It’s collapse will be extremely painful for the vast majority of humanity.

You see, the extremely dangerous thing about credit bubbles is that they… (Enroll now to continue reading)

 

by David Collum

The only thing nearly as enlightening as reading David Collum’s epic Year In Review is listening to him and Chris Martenson riff about its highlights.

Strap in, grab some eggnog, and listen to this year’s recap.

David Collum: Pandemonium
by David Collum

The only thing nearly as enlightening as reading David Collum’s epic Year In Review is listening to him and Chris Martenson riff about its highlights.

Strap in, grab some eggnog, and listen to this year’s recap.

by Chris Martenson

Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet.

In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and later published in 1972 under the title The Limits To Growth. The report concluded society would start experiencing serious declines in resources and population soon after 2030.

One of the original seventeen researchers involved in The Limits To Growth study, Dennis Meadows, joins us for the podcast this week. Fifty years later, what does he foresee ahead?

Dennis Meadows: The Limits To Growth
by Chris Martenson

Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet.

In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and later published in 1972 under the title The Limits To Growth. The report concluded society would start experiencing serious declines in resources and population soon after 2030.

One of the original seventeen researchers involved in The Limits To Growth study, Dennis Meadows, joins us for the podcast this week. Fifty years later, what does he foresee ahead?

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