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Investigative journalist Bethany McLean is an expert on crisis.

She has written New York Times best-selling books on the collapse of Enron (The Smartest Guys In The Room) as well as the mortgage industry and Wall Street abuses that led to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (All The Devils Are Here and Shaky Ground).

So when she says she’s deeply worried about today’s macro environment, we’d better take notice.

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Want more money?

Who doesn’t, right?

Though that may not be truly what you really want.

What most of actually crave is financial freedom. To enjoy a lifestyle free from money worries and that funds our needs and wants.

Sam Dogen, famous online as the Financial Samurai, joins us to share the most effective wealth-building strategies that *anyone* can successfully pursue, regardless of current income or net worth.

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Hard working professionals often aren’t as financially successful as we think they are.

They find themselves much more of a slave to their paychecks than they want to be. While the financial freedom they dreamed of when starting out on their career continues to remain an elusive goal.

This week’s guest expert Tom Burns, surgeon-turned-entrepreneur and author of the new book Why Doctors Don’t Get Rich, offers hope to professionals of all stripes — not just doctors — that there is a better path to success.

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The Federal Reserve is now in “extreme easing” mode, having printed up nearly $3 trillion in thin-air money just this year alone. It’s not a stretch to expect the value of the dollar to decline even more precipitously from here than current estimates predict.

So, in a world where the Fed is considered by many to BE the market, backstopping investors and stepping in at a moments notice to prevent losses, what is the Fed most likely to do from here?

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Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception.

As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than our usual posts, but worth the time to read in full.

A downloadable pdf of the full article is also provided for those who prefer to do their power-reading offline.

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Having spent a career launching iconic products — including Apple’s first Mackintosh computer — Guy Kawasaki knows a thing or two about what leads to success in both business and life.

Giving the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, Guy offers his seasoned wisdom on how we can each chart a course through the uncertainty towards greater hope, happiness and fulfillment.

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If you’re concerned about the overreach of government in juicing asset prices to dangerous levels, picking economic winner and losers, and constraining our personal freedoms — you have very good right to be.

So says lifelong champion of free markets, sound money and civil liberty, former US Congressman Dr Ron Paul.

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Robert Kiyosaki believes that America is suffering from great social division largely caused by the unfair policies of the Federal Reserve which is picking who wins (the already rich and powerful) and who loses (everyone else) in today’s society.

As a former marine who fought for the American ideals of freedom and fairness, Robert is concerned that the US is fast losing both.

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The composition of the US dollar, including what it is backed by, has been replaced many times throughout America’s history.

And another replacement is currently underway, warns monetary expert Mike Maloney.

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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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