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Ken McElroy: The Coming Real Estate Crash Of 2021
September 07, 2020

The crazy stock market rally since the March lows has received all the media headlines, but what about real estate? What impact is the coronavirus having on that market? One of the most successful real estate investors we know, Ken McElroy, says that cov

Joel Salatin: Better Food = A Better Future
August 12, 2020

Since covid-19 first emerged, one of our continued recommendations has been to start a garden. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food supply chains, as well as the shortcomings of our global and national health authorities. So having more sel

Peter Sandman: How Your Ability To Process Risk Can Save Your Life
July 07, 2020

How much do things around you need to change before you start changing your behavior? Dr. Peter Sandman has made a career out of analyzing people’s “adjustment reaction” process. And it turns out, people are wired differently. Some watch the world inten

James Howard Kunstler: Living In The Long Emergency
June 17, 2020

Unsustainable systems, by definition, eventually break down. That’s been a key warning we at Peak Prosperity have been delivering for over a decade regarding the over-indebted global economy, society’s addiction to depleting fossil fuels, and accelerating

Neil Howe: The Predictable Creative Destruction Of The Fourth Turning
May 24, 2020

Neil Howe, demographer and co-authour of the book The Fourth Turning, returns to the podcast this week. In our prior interviews with him, we've explored his study of generational cycles ("turnings") in America which reveal predictable social trends that r

Sergey Young: Will Technology Save Us?
May 13, 2020

Are the pessimists wrong to bet against human ingenuity? To explore that question head-on, Chris sits down this week with Sergey Young, founder of the Longevity Vision Fund and “right hand man” to Peter Diamandis of Singularity and XPRIZE fame.

Expert Virologist: Here’s Everything You Need To Understand About Coronavirus
April 04, 2020

In this video, Chris interviews expert virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen, of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Chris and Dr. Rasmussen dive deep into the science of the covid-19 virus, what it d

James Wesley Rawles: Practical Coronavirus Preparation
February 29, 2020

James Wesley Rawles is a former Army Intelligence officer who runs the popular disaster and emergency preparation website SurvivalBlog.com. As an expert who has spent over a decades advising people on how to plan for a wide array of crises — including pa

Sven Henrich: Did The Coronavirus Just Infect The Markets?
February 25, 2020

Is the coronavirus the pin that will end the 10 year-long Everything Bubble? Quite possibly, cautions Sven Henrick, technical analyst and lead market strategist for Northman Trader. For too many years now, the financial markets have been conditioned tha

What The 1918 Spanish Flu Can Tell Us About The Coronavirus
January 28, 2020

Given the continued spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, we urgently reached out to John Barry, author of the award-winning New York Times best-seller The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. Two years ago, we interviewed John