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Conversations With Chris Martenson
Zero Hedge had the pleasure of sharing some perspectives with Chris Martenson, for his latest Straight Talk installment. For some recent views on media, the economy, commodities, and sundry other topics, we invite readers to check out the Q&A at the following link.
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Chris is fantastic.
I suspect this "straight Talk" installment will be the closest we get to a bonafide Zero Hedge editorial for a while. Thanks Tyler for letting us know your thoughts.
BTW, based upon the excerpt below it appears Tyler was a boy scout when he was younger because he's telling us to be prepared for anything.
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CD, going to link/rant off of your comment.
FEMA has proved itself incapable of providing disaster aid beyond a simple river flooding.
The majority of the country lives in areas subject to catastrophic disaster by earth quakes, hurricanes, floods, snowstorms etc.
You are an irresponsible A-hole if you do not have at least two weeks supplies for you & your family. I'm talking to YOU pea brain.
As long as you have two week's supplies, and are worried about a hyperinflationary bout, then, you should increase this number to four - eight weeks.
If you are worried about a Mad Max scenario, you should buy a farm & some Akitas & get out.
If years down the road, you decide all of this prepration is not necessary, then give your extra food to the poor
rant off
uneffing believable....+trillion
I liked the Q and A session, even tho the interviewer kept lobbing easy, stupid Lamestream Media type questions to Tyler. (Where do you expect ZH to be in three years? Do you see yourself as an exposé journalist? Sheesh.) Excellent job of staying on the message, which no doubt contributes to the explosive growth that ZH has had over the last couple years. Keep that truthy, relevant news coming, please!
Not just any interviewer, Chris Martenson - like Tyler Durden - is a journalistic icon. Together, they're kindred spirits. Although easy, Chris's questions were not stupid. By holding a mirror up to Tyler, they revealed the man behind the mission. I enjoyed the interview.
A treat, thanks.
Tyler, actually I feel being part of a "personality cult" and I would love to know what are the reasons that make you work for this blog in such a fascinating way and what must have happened to make you behave the way you do.
It seems like you gave up everything to be the Robin Hood that steals from the secret elite that knows the game and gives it to the uninformed.
On the other hand, I understand your worries on this matter and just thank you a million times (inflation adjusted) because I even feel somehow chosen, as one of the few who starts knowing as well. It's like when you find the force is very strong in you...
Thxalot =)
Buy the fucking dip.
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wow...let me ask you one thing, have any of u tried their wings at politics??
I hope Ben reads it and borrows a good idea or two.
May God bless him woth wisdom and get him out of his madness and obsession.
Dollar is rocketing.
EUR and AUD getting smoked.
Gold and silver grinding down towards the LOD.
Chain-selling in PM stocks.
Meanwhile, the SPY in foreign currencies is making new highs today.
http://stockcharts.com/scripts/php/candleglance.php?$spx:FXE,$spx:FXY,$spx:FXC,$spx:FXS,$spx:FXA,$spx:FXM,$spx:FXB,$spx:FXF|D
"Meanwhile, the SPY in foreign currencies is making new highs today."
Fucking pathetic lol.
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I think Tyler Durden should run for election as Prime minister of Italy - it can't be that expensive.
Good interview, TD.
TD, the following is one of the most concise and comprehensive summaries I've ever read. It's tough to truly explain my views to others around me at times, but I think you just solved that problem:
Those three paragraphs should be kept on file for anyone who is uncertain of the purpose of this site. Thank you, as always.
Exellent interview . Great questions and candid , informative and fluent responses .
whenever anyone starts quoting Robert Frost, you know he's a thoughtful realist. Thanks for the truth.
...and Robo, smae price action following from yesterday in the futures; almost as if even the Dark Lords don't which way things may unfold... I reckon it's the equity fund outflow that's driving bonds down., or is it the other way round?
Great fucking interview. I passed it along to all appropriate homies...
Tyler got it when it comes peak oil. Conventional crude oil peaked in 2006 and EROEI is the key to understand the concept.
The fact that the oil market has a short-term view, it's already too late for alternatives and rethink the infrastructure. 8-9 years ago, people talking about alternatives (solar&wind) as something that will comes more or less naturally. But shortages are coming before 2015.
Everything is linked and as to what happens after the reset, [pick a late year in this decade, if you're optimistic], we'll see.
Good stuff
Good stuff, keep up the good work Tyler!
He never did answer Q#2 ... LOL
Great read tho. Keep up the great work TD.
Good interview. I followed Tyler from Seeking Alpha a year ago after noticing he had buggered off from there, and haven't left since.
With the readership increasing the way it is, Tyler is going to find it increasingly difficult to maintain his goal of presenting the objective and verifiable truth by seeking to ridicule, disparage, and ultimately discredit the overwhelming candy floss of propaganda that is the staple diet of most Americans. He has far more faith in them than I do, and already I regularly encounter calls for censorship when some view or other gives a newbie-piece-of-shit indigestion.
It's getting so you can hardly read the comments without encountering some fat fuck using caps to spell "SOCIALISM" or equally worse, "CAPITALISM", as if, in their infantile tiny little cretinous experiences they are words of derision and insult, instead of merely economic/political philosophies penned by the greatest minds of the last century and worth consideration in all its ugly/beautiful forms.
Welcome to the world of the lowest common denominator. As soon as people latch on to a beautiful idea, it's not long before they fuck it up. But I hope ZH lasts forever uninhibited and unhindered by popularity. All the best.
Nice TD!
Thanks, esp. liked ZH's stated position on peak oil. Chris is more alarmist on this point.
I appreciate the nice straight interview. Thanks.
Keep up the stunning work!!
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Thanks to the zerohedge staff for all you do.
happy holidays!!!!
"makes the reader think and reevaluate existing preconceptions"
done and done. and for that I am eternally grateful.
zerohedge, bitchez†
Great interview. You can't be an informed citizen/investor unless you read Zero Hedge every day.
It was a great interview.
A+. email blast #6 to all concerned
It's one thing to lambast an anchor, it's something else to be part of a discussion.. further, blog-reading is also more voluntary, there are more than a few expert responses, so it's a little more of a learning thing, and if things do get out hand, the moderator doesn't get sued for gatekeeping.
Great piece, TD - just sent you another $20 - wish I could send 20 times that much, but still wouldn't begin to repay all the education I've received here.
Thanks! to everyone on the ZH team.
Interesting comment about the low chance we are headed for something truly dire was probably my least favorite. Not that I want us to head for something dire, but that I simply think it is inevitable that we are.
Otherwise, great interview.
Hey, that was a good union, Chris and "Tyler". I've been following both of them for quite some time. Keep up the good work!
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I agree it seems very unlikely TPTB plan to lay waste to the west via deflationary collapse. Hyperinflate then issue another currency, possibly a regional one, seems more likely, as a one-world currency/govt. seems to be their ultimate goal. Then there's the question or perhaps the certainly of world war. A good plan would be to buy a piece of arable land with water sources, hunting, remoteness, preferably off-grid... perhaps outside the US.
Martenson's crash course is highly recommended.
>>All the Fed does through money printing is dilute the claims on both sides of the ledger. The best the Fed could then hope for to counteract the deflationary outcome is to generate hyperinflation through a collapse in the reserve currency (i.e., the Zimbabwe outcome). And since this is far more palatable to the Fed<<
Why do you think this is true? I think the private banking community thinks they can do better than cause bank runs and bust their banks and their debt slave dollar.
Private banks control the fed, not the government.
So, why do the uber private bankers benefit more from hyper-inflation than a severe looting (going on now - cash outright, guarantees, off loading bad assets), severe deflation and then buy up the planet for pennies on the dollar?
If I were the bankers and missing a soul and any concept of morality, I'd inflate (done), I'd loot (going on), I'd bust 'em (like they did in the late 1800s) and then I'd take all my Ponzi debt money and buy up all the real assets and put myself into the position of feudal lord.