Tag Archives: James Howard Kunstler

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

• The sorry state of the US political system
• From Covid to Epstein: can our “leaders” bungle even worse?
• Why Re-localization is the answer, whether we want it or not
• Why we’re never returning to “normal” as we knew it

Jim Kunstler returns to the program to report the latest view through is “Long Emergency” lens.

It’s a little scary: many of the trends he’s long been predicting have been suddenly accelerated by the events of 2020. Particularly his warnings that our urban & suburban lifestyle of mega-marts, McMansions and food deserts were going to start failing us, resulting in flight to rural areas.

As Jim explains here, re-localization of our economy and social networks is going to be the way of the future — whether we choose it, or reality forces it upon us.

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

• America’s death-match style of politics
• Corruption is everywhere these days
• Society is dangerously close to violence as faith is lost
• The shrinking Overton window

Strap in for an hour of angst. Acerbic commentator James Howard Kunstler addresses a litany of deficiencies in today’s system, most notably the many forces removing prosperity and freedom for the bottom 99%.

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In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

• The Shale Oil Booby-Trap
  • Fake prosperity that will tank the markets when it ends
• Could The US Government Nationalize The Oil Industry?
  • It very well could
• The Destruction Of Coherent Ideas
  • To fail to plan is to plan to fail
• What Are We Willing To Give Up?
  • A better future depends on abandoning some of our self-destructive luxuries

In this week’s podcast, Chris and Jim tackle a wide range of issues — from shale oil, to Jeffrey Epstein, wokesterdom, the financial bubble, social malaise, and the future of society. One deficit particularly concerning to Jim is our culture’s inability to have coherent discourse.

If we can’t engage in understanding and intelligently debating with one another, how will we ever devise effective solutions to the many challenges we face?

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

• Zig-Zag Markets
  • There's a war going to keep prices propped up
• A Matter Of Desperation
  • The central planners are out of tricks
• The Masses Are Getting Angry
  • And are turning their ire on those in control
• Our Broken Political System
  • Furiously focusing on all the wrong issues

Jim Kunstler returns to share his views on what's ahead in 2019. Like Peak Prosperity, he sees the coming year as one when the forces of reality start to re-exert themselves after a decade of magical thinking.

Those in control of the system have juiced it as hard as they could for as long as they could, and now the limits to that 'extend-and-pretend' era are quickly becoming visible. And the bottom 99% is beginning to realize that not only was the “prosperity” of the post-GFC recovery largely fraudlent, but what there was of it went as spoils to the elites. Expect further social outrage like we're currently seeing in France to boil over into many other countries in the coming months.

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Charles Hugh Smith discuss:

• The Impact Of Natural Disasters
  • There are always surprise ramifications
• Unequal Oversight
  • Corporations skate free while individuals get nailed
• Why The Government Allows Corporate Rackets
  • There's just too much money in play
• Where Is The Tipping Point?
  • When does the abused populace say "No more!"

The government is not famous for its efficiency, or for its fairness. In many cases, that's intentional — particularly when you look at the incentives in play. Charles explains why our crony capitalist system is allowed, and even protected from enforcement: it's simply too cheap for corporations to influence government policy, regulation and oversight.

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• Conjuring Up the Next Depression
• Brexit: Beware The Ides Of March
• How Things Fall Apart: Extremes Aren't Stable
• Several Killed After Militants Storm Libya's National Oil HQ In Tripoli
• The future of food: what we’ll eat in 2028
• Leading U.S. Health Systems Announce Plans to Develop a Not-for-profit Generic Drug Company
• A decade after the financial crisis, this retirement dilemma still hasn't been solved
• Crypto-Mania Collapse Update: $638 Billion Gone
• Tesla’s stock stumble is a buying opportunity, analyst says
• Trump's trade war has forced one of Europe's most famous automakers to delay a $30 billion IPO
• More teens would rather text their friends than hang out IRL
• Hurricane Florence is heading toward the US and increasing in force
• Huge vegetation change could affect Earth

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and James Howard Kunstler discuss:

• Rate Hike!
  • The Fed just increased the interest rate by 0.25%
• Scam-o-rama
  • The financial system is now a racketeering fraud
• The Net Energy Predicament
  • The unseen cause of so many of the systemic breakdowns we're seeing
• The Deep State In Turmoil
  • The Trump administration has set off an internal war

James Howard Kunstler returns to Off The Cuff this week for a wide ranging discussion. First on the docket is the recent Fed rate hike, and the baffling logic that markets are using to interpret is as another "bullish" signal for piling into stocks. 

No surprise, Jim thinks the markets have become one big roach motel for investment capital. 

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