Recent California Bills Up for Vote are Beyond Belief

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on 3/23/2022 (Run Time: 52 min, 22 sec) Paraphrased from Creator-Provided Description California is facing a rash of exceptionally dangerous and poor legislation that is truly beyond belief.  The only possible way to understand it compassionately is to see those elected officials proposing it as being swept up in Mass Psychosis. But compassion is not the same thing as condoning, let alone approving of, such recklessly indifferent ignorance.  In this video, Chris Martenson discusses the horrendous slate of California bills (on or about 3/30/2022) with Laura Sextro, CEO and COO of the Unity Project. If California passes these laws, other states could well be next. This is a battle for the future and soul of our country, individual rights, parental...

What the Fed (Round 2)

As  posted to Peak Prosperity.com   on 5/17/2020 Trailer (Run Time: 1 min, 47 sec) Creator-provided description: "Back in mid-January, Grant Williams, Mike Maloney, Charles Hugh Smith, Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart sat down for an in-depth discussion on the dangerous distortions to financial markets and the global economy that central bank intervention is causing. That video, titled WTF: What The Fed?! was released soon after the US Federal Reserve had added $200 billion dollars to its balance sheet in Q4 2019. At the time, we worried that so much liquidity being added to the system so quickly could recklessly exacerbate the extreme overvaluations in the markets, and further increase the instability of our over-indebted economy. Little could we have guessed that a global pandemic would soon ensue, one that...

The Arriving Great Depression 2.0

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on 4/3/2020 (Run Time: 25 min, 0 sec) When Starting Clip at Time Code 19:39 Author's Description of "The Arriving Great Depression 2.0" Segment of Clip "In the past two weeks (as of 4/3/20), 10 million Americans have already filed for unemployment. Moody's is now warning that 30% of all mortages could go into default this year. And the peak of the Coronavirus outbreak in the US still isn't projected to arrive for several more weeks. How bad will the economic fallout from covid-19 be? Truly epic. As in possibly "Great Depression 2.0" magnitude. Yes, the clown show in charge of dealing with this mess will likely just make things worse. But the reasons for the dismal economic outlook go far...

The Importance of Wearing a Mask

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on 4/2/2020 (Run Time: 7 min, 4 sec) Author's Description of Clip "The most effective step each of us can take right now to beat COVID-19 is to start wearing a mask. It's cheap. It's easy. And if we call do it, it will give us a HUGE advantage in the fight against this pandemic. You don't need a fancy mask. A simple DIY version will suffice. Wearing one does the following: greatly reduces the particles a sick person can spread, prevents you from touching your mouth and nose, by far the most common way we can get infected, and substantially increases your odds of having a mild case, should you get infected If we all wear masks: I protect...

The Financial System Just Broke

(Part 1) Posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on March 22, 2020 (Part 2) Posted to the GoldSilver.com YouTube Channel on March 22, 2020 Part 1 - Financial Armageddon (Run Time: 21 min, 04 sec) Part 2 - Is it Too Late for Gold & Silver? (Run Time: 19 min, 35 sec) Join Mike Maloney (GoldSilver.com) and Chris Martenson (Peak Prosperity) in this two-part discussion of the ‘financial armageddon’ taking place in markets, along with information on how they are investing and protecting themselves financially during this crisis. (This is Blog Post #770) Chris Martenson, is a former American biochemical scientist and Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation.  Currently he is an author and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and the environment at his site, www.peakprosperity.com. Michael Maloney, founder...

Preparing for a National Lockdown

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on March 15, 2020 (Run time: 45 min 07 sec) In today's update, on the Wuhan New Coronavirus (aka "Covid-19"), Chris Martenson reports: "As the number of Covid-19 infections outside China now exceed those within, the masses across the world are starting to panic. Empty grocery store shelves. Fights over toilet paper. Schools closing and sending students home en mass. Desperate pleas from health workers to stay home when sick unless in truly dire condition. And this with just 170,000 total worldwide cases (that we know of). Now, just imagine what the fear factor will be like when that number is 1.7 million. Or 17 million. Or 170 million. Or (and this is possible) 1.7 billion. Chris predicts that more national...

Unpacking the Economys Bubble Dynamics

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on 3/9/2020 (Run Time: 49 min, 14 sec) Author's Description of Clip "For years, Peak Prosperity has been raising a loud warning of the 'Everything Bubble' that the world's central banks have blown in global asset prices. Over that time, we've debated with hundreds of economic experts on what will be the trigger to "pop" this mania. Well, now we're finding out. The economic damage being wrought worldwide by the Coronavirus is the black swan the system never saw coming. Trade is being strangled, and the necessary productivity needed to support that massive increase in global debt that has been taken on over the past decade is just not there. Bankruptcies are set to ripple across industries like wildfire. Mass layoffs...

Unpacking the Economy's Bubble Dynamics

As  posted to the GoldSilver.com YouTube Channel on February 28, 2020 (Run Time: 16 min, 07 sec) "How serious could the pandemic get? Will it decimate world economies, or is this just a short term blip? Is it the virus to blame for the recent market action, or the fact that the world economies have been balanced on a razor’s edge for a decade?" Find the answers to all of the above in this 2/28/20 update with Mike Maloney (GoldSilver.com) and Chris Martenson (PeakProsperity.com) (This is Blog Post #756) Chris Martenson, is a former American biochemical scientist and Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation.  Currently he is an author and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and the environment at his site, www.peakprosperity.com. Michael Maloney, founder of www.GoldSilver.com is...

Ex-China Coronavirus Infections Growing Exponentially

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on February 19, 2020 (Run time: 35 min 32 sec) In Update #26, on the Wuhan New Coronavirus (now officially "Covid-19"), Chris Martenson reports: "The world is now watching closely to see if the Coronavirus is indeed poised to accelerate outside of China. In yesterday's video, we warned that the coming two weeks will be crucial in determining how bad the pandemic will be. The early results are not encouraging. New cases continue to climb in the rest of Asia -- Japan, Korea and Singapore are being hit hardest. And now we have the first two cases (and two deaths!) reported in Iran. That's on top of last week's confirmed case in Africa. So now the virus is on every continent...

Coronavirus: Next Two Weeks are Critical

As  posted to the Peak Prosperity YouTube Channel on February 18, 2020 (Run time 25 min 53 sec) In Update #25, on the Wuhan New Coronavirus (now officially "Covid-19"), Chris Martenson reports: "While China remains largely in lock down, Covid-19 cases in the rest of the world are at a key juncture. To-date, confirmed cases have been lower than feared. Though increasingly, we're suspecting that's due to inadequate testing & reporting. And the cases we *do* know of (now at ~1,000) appear to be growing at an exponential rate. So the next two weeks will be critical in telling the tale. We'll soon know whether the spread is indeed slower than initially feared, or we'll start to see huge increases in the number of infected ex-China. Meanwhile, the authorities around...