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Jim Rogers is not only one of the most successful investors of our era, he’s also an avid scholar of history.

He looks into the future and sees a terrible reckoning ahead; one he predicts will be “the worst economic crisis of my lifetime” — and Jim is 78 years old.

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Chris’ and my favorite event of the year is the annual Peak Prosperity seminar, where we get to gather in person with members of the PP tribe in beautiful northern California.

But of course, due to covid, that wasn’t possible this year. So, this past weekend, for the first time ever, we held the event digitally.

And from my perspective, the experience was a home run.

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Ben Hunt — highly respected fund manager, author, and former professor/entrepreneur/venture capitalist — says that to be successful in managing your wealth, there’s only one question that matters:

Are we entering a deflationary future, or an inflationary one?

The strategies and appropriate investment targets for each are extremely different, so you’d better answer correctly.

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The more we continue to pursue the status quo in hopes that things will magically turns themselves around, the more we waste valuable time and resources.

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With tens of millions of households having lost their income this year, personal savings becoming exhausted, government support programs on their way to drying up, and lots more company layoffs/bankruptcies/closures ahead — economist Steve Keen expects a punishing recession to arrive in full force in 2021.

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The social atmosphere in the US is increasing bitter and divided.  Tempers are fraying, and many are wondering what to do. Social media – which I am increasingly going to be calling anti-social media for a host of reasons – is a major cause of those divisions. Rightfully, social media has concluded that its own…

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What is the price of a good idea?

Think back on some of the most useful lessons learned over the course of your life. Maybe it was an insight into how to invest smarter. Or how to leverage a key ability of yours better at work. Or a technique for improving your relationships with the important people in your life. Or how to be more effective at managing your valuable time.

Now, if you could magically teach your past self that lesson a decade or two (or three!) sooner in life, how much would you pay for that chance, knowing how valuable that insight will be to the younger you?

Thousands of dollars? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?

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Whether you understand it or not, Bitcoin and other ‘distributed ledger’ technologies are spreading at an accelerating rate across the world.

Odds are very high they will disrupt and transform nearly every business model in today’s economy, much in the same way the advent of the Internet did.

But most people are still unfamiliar with this new technology, and concerned that their lack of understanding may leave them obsolete dinosaurs in the coming future should crypto indeed change the nature of money and commerce.

This is why we’ve brought on this week’s guest expert, Alex Saunders, respected Bitcoin/blockchain/crypto maven to demystify the topic and explain it all to us in plain layman’s English.

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The recent US presidential debates were nearly completely devoid of sense.  What were they even saying?  Was any of it important to our future?  How did any of their words get us closer to a vision for sustainable future?

Of course, the answer is that virtually nothing in the debates had anything to do with a future based on careful resource stewardship.

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