"Here’s Why I Took Cash Out of The Bank"

[vnatale]

Anyone else familiar with Chris Martenson / Peak Prosperity? He had been around for quite a while. I believe he lives only a few miles from me.


Here’s Why I Took Cash Out of The Bank

https://peakprosperity.com/heres-why-i- ... -the-bank/

[boglerdude]

He questions the covid response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDzXLYjjT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3koKVb8SEk

Flat earth stuff. you can dismiss everything he says

[vnatale]

He questions the covid response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDzXLYjjT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3koKVb8SEk

Flat earth stuff. you can dismiss everything he says

He seems to have some credentials.

https://peakprosperity.com/meet-the-team/

"I think it’s important that you understand who I am, how I have arrived at my conclusions and opinions, and why I’ve dedicated my life to communicating them to you.

First of all, I am not an ivory-tower economist. Instead, I’m a trained scientist, having completed both a PhD and a post-doctoral program at Duke University, where I specialized in neurotoxicology. I tell you this because my extensive training as a scientist informs and guides how I think. I gather data, I develop hypotheses, and I continually seek to accept or reject my hypotheses based on the evidence at hand. I let the data tell me the story.

It is also important for you to know that I entered the profession of science with the intention of teaching at the college level. I love teaching, and I especially enjoy the challenge of explaining difficult or complicated subjects to people with limited or no background in those subjects. Over the years I’ve gotten pretty good at it.

Once I figured out that most of the (so-called) better colleges place “effective teacher” pretty much near the bottom of their list of characteristics that factor into tenure review, I switched gears, obtained an MBA from Cornell (in Finance), and spent the next ten years working my way through positions in both corporate finance and strategic consulting. From these experiences, I gather my comfort with numbers and finance.

So much for the credentials."

[Kbg]

Looks like he is a prepper kind of person...which is completely ok in my view. There's a downside to that approach on life in terms of opportunity costs, but if what you assume comes true then the tradeoff was probably a good one.

[Maddy]

His podcasts regarding the CoVid "emergency" (which subject has dominated his podcasts since early 2020) revealed a significant evolution of thought over the course of three years. To the best that I can recall, he started out in early 2020 as a cheerleader for the public health establishment, but by mid-2020, he was raising questions about the official narrative. As time went on, he effectively did a 180 on the subject, identifying much earlier than most how the narrative was flatly antagonistic to anything resembling science. You have to respect somebody who's not too proud to come right out and say, "I got it wrong."

A decade or so back, Chris did a series called "The Economics Crash Course" that I recall being very good.