Chris Martenson's Blog

Economic Researcher & Futurist, Author

Dr. Chris Martenson is an independent economist and author of a popular website, PeakProsperity.com. His Crash Course video series explores the intertwining significance of the “three E’s”—the economy, energy, and environment and offers articulate, dynamic insight into the workings of our monetary system.

Chris earned a PhD in neurotoxicology from Duke University, and an MBA from Cornell University. A fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, Chris’s work has appeared on PBS and been cited by the Washington Post. He is a contributor to SeekingAlpha.com.

Chris is an accomplished presenter who has offered the Crash Course seminar all over the United States. The online course has been translated into several languages, and been viewed over 1.5 million times. His website offers both daily free content as well as a newsletter service for enrolled members. His goal is to help as many people understand that we are in the midst of a profound economic shift and that equally profound risks and opportunities lie in our future. For those that can see them coming, tremendous advantages exist.

The Breakdown Draws Near

We're less than a year from the next major financial disruption

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Either the living standards of over-indebted countries will be allowed to fall, or the global fiat regime will suffer a catastrophic failure

Insolvent and Going Deeper

Fiscal and currency crises lie ahead

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How long it will take the markets to wake up to this simple progression is anybody's guess. Here we must fall back on a simple maxim that has served us well: anything that is unsustainable will someday stop.

Tustain: Gold Says Monetary System In Grave Danger

Price Increases Mean Collapse Risk is Growing

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We're currently experiencing inflation & deflation at the same time: our monetary policy is pushing more and more money into short-term investments, driving up the price of the things we use today (food, fuel, etc) and and lowering prices of the things we finance over longer periods (like houses)

A Global Tsunami, Courtesy of the Fed

There Are Treacherous Waters Ahead

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Liquidity will leave of the system and then come crashing back in. The unwary will lose nearly everything in the process, and so will some of the wary. Beating this current period of financial disruption by preserving your wealth will not be an easy task

Straight Talk with Jesse: Concentration of Wealth and Power Is the Root Problem

This is a classic setup for systemic failure

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We now have an economy in which five banks control over 50 percent of the entire banking industry.

Straight Talk with John Rubino: The Damage Is Already Done

In a Sentence: Fiat Currencies Always Fail

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If you put a printing press in the hands of politicians and bankers, you guarantee that the power will be abused until the currency is destroyed.

Alert: Nuclear (and Economic) Meltdown In Progress

Japan Will Shift From Being an Exporter of Funding to a Consumer of it

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The substance of this alert centers on the unknown aftershocks that may result from the world's third largest economy, Japan, rapidly shifting from an exporter of funding to a consumer of it.

The Coming Rout

Prepare for Fed-induced turbulence in the markets

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The current inflationary trend is likely to be interrupted by a temporary - yet disruptive - period of violent deflation

John Williams: Why It's All Been Downhill Since 1973

Our economy is not only not in "recovery", it's on the precipice of crisis.

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Government statistics guru John Williams believes the most important economic indicators used by our political leaders in their decison-making - the Consumer Price Index, the unemployment rate, the Gross Domestic Product - are deeply flawed in how they're calculated.

Obama's Budget is a Fantastic Comedy

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Fantasy or comedy? I couldn't decide which way to label the Obama budget, so I went with both.

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