As  posted on the Peak Prosperity.com and the Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel Background The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the massive changes now underway, as economic growth as we've known it is ending due to depleting resources.  But it also offers real hope. Those individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can lower their exposure to these coming trends -- and even discover a better way of life in the process. In this Blog, I am presenting the 27 (inclusive of the introduction) installments of The Crash Course, one per week. Previous installments of "The Crash Course" can be found here: Blog (#311) Introducing "The Crash Course" Blog (#314) Chapter 1: Three Beliefs Blog (#319) Chapter 2: "The Three 'Es'" Blog...

As  posted on the Peak Prosperity.com and the Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel Background The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the massive changes now underway, as economic growth as we've known it is ending due to depleting resources.  But it also offers real hope. Those individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can lower their exposure to these coming trends -- and even discover a better way of life in the process. In this Blog, I am presenting the 27 (inclusive of the introduction) installments of The Crash Course, one per week. Previous installments of "The Crash Course" can be found here: Blog (#311) Introducing "The Crash Course" Blog (#314) Chapter 1: Three Beliefs Blog (#319) Chapter 2: "The Three 'Es'"  Chapter 3...

As  posted on the Peak Prosperity.com and the Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel Background The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the massive changes now underway, as economic growth as we've known it is ending due to depleting resources.  But it also offers real hope. Those individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can lower their exposure to these coming trends -- and even discover a better way of life in the process. In this Blog, I am presenting the 27 (inclusive of the introduction) installments of The Crash Course, one per week. Previous installments of "The Crash Course" can be found here: Blog (#311) Introducing "The Crash Course" Blog (#314) Chapter 1: Three Beliefs Chapter 2 of 26: The Three "E"s Transcript So, what do...

As  posted on the Peak Prosperity.com and the Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel Background The Crash Course has provided millions of viewers with the context for the massive changes now underway, as economic growth as we've known it is ending due to depleting resources.  But it also offers real hope. Those individuals who take informed action today, while we still have time, can lower their exposure to these coming trends -- and even discover a better way of life in the process. In this Blog, I am presenting the 27 (inclusive of the introduction) installments of The Crash Course, one per week. Previous installments of "The Crash Course" can be found here: Blog (#311) Introducing "The Crash Course" Chapter 1 of 26: Three Beliefs Transcript Welcome to Chapter 1 of the Crash Course. It’s very important...

As  posted on the Peak Prosperity.com and the Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time-the "Twenty-Teens." "The Crash Course" presents our predicament and illuminates the path ahead, so you can face the coming disruptions and thrive--without fearing the future or retreating into denial. In this video series (and associated book) you will find solid facts and grounded reasoning presented in a calm, positive, non-partisan manner. Our money system places impossible demands upon a finite world.  Exponentially rising levels...

As  posted on the PBS NewsHour YouTube Channel on 5/23/14 PBS NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman speaks with former pharmaceutical executive Chris Martenson, who now lives in rural Massachusetts, about exponential growth and the danger of rising debt. “We have an economy that’s based on growth.  We want it to grow all the time.  Not a lot . . . 3% real, maybe 5% nominal growth.  We’d like jobs to grow . . . we’d like to see more auto sales next year . . . more houses sold . . . and it’s always on a percentage basis.  Whenever anything is growing by some percent amount over a unit of time, it takes a characteristic curve shape.  It’s not a straight line.  It takes off so-to-say,...

Dow Jones Just Had the Best Month of Returns in It’s History

How is This Possible?  Chris Martenson Explains. As posted on the Peak Prosperity You Tube Channel on 3/19/16\   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cGf0Kov8wc How do you explain this?  Well, you can’t do it on the basis of fundamentals. You can’t do it on the basis of things like corporate earnings, revenues, or some dramatic shift in the world economic status.  What you can do is note that the World’s Central Bankers got together a while ago . . . the G20 got together . . . what is now being known as the Shanghai Accord, where the Central Banks looked at the worst start to 2016 . . . the worst start in a quite a while . . . and said “gosh, we have to do something” . . . and...