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KunstlerCast 321 — Chatting with Charles Hugh Smith
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Charles Hugh Smith writes the popular Of Two Minds blog (at https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html) and is the author of many books, most recently Will You Be Richer or Poorer — Profit, Power, and A.I. in a Traumatized World.) He lives in the world capital of Wokesterdom: Berkeley, California. I’m more »
KunstlerCast 320 — Chatting with David Collum
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. He tweets at @DavidBCollum. Direct more »
KunstlerCast 319 — Chatting with Financier Richard Vague
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Richard Vague, from Texas originally, is a Philadelphia-based managing partner of the venture capital firm, Gabriel Investments. He’s the author of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises and The Next Economic Disaster: Why It’s Coming and How to Avoid It. He’s been more »
KunstlerCast 318 – Yakking with Doug Hill about the Fate of Technology
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Doug Hill is a journalist and independent scholar who has studied the history and philosophy of technology for more than twenty-five years. His book, Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology is the result of those studies. His work has appeared in numerous national publications, including the more »
Chatting with Rob Gourdie about Oil Price Waves and peak Oil
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page #317 Rob Gourdie is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. He is also Director of the Center for Heart and Reparative Medicine Research at the same university. He writes under the pen name of Tom Therramus. In his “day job,” he works on the more »
KunstlerCast 316 — Chatting Jason Bradford, author of The Future is Rural
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Jason Bradford has been affiliated with Post Carbon Institute since 2004, first as a Fellow and then as a Board Member. After earning his doctorate at Washington University in St Lous, he worked for the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Missouri Botanical Garden, was more »
KunstlerCast 315 — Chatting with Author and Architect Blake Pagenkopf
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Blake Pagenkopf is the author of The Great Conflation; Why Left Versus Right Isn’t Right Versus Wrong, which asserts that a simple spatial model can be used to explain the political misunderstanding that now rages across America. (See the chart below in these show notes.) He is more »
KunstlerCast 314 — Yakking with David Stockman about “Peak Trump”
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page #314 David Stockman is the author of the new book, Peak Trump: the Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of Mega. David represented Michigan’s Fourth Congressional District for three terms and served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan — the youngest cabinet more »
KunstlerCast 313 — Chatting with Brent Bednarik about Social Justice in the Corporate Workplace
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Brent Bednarik is a former Army Officer with two deployments in Afghanistan. After that he worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms in Manhattan, and is currently an entrepreneur in the tech start up space. Brent and I have been corresponding about what I like to more »
KunstlerCast 312 — Yakking with John Michael Greer
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page John Michael Greer, an old friend of the podcast, blogs at his Ecosophia Website, and is the author of a score of books ranging from the social and political commentary of The Wealth of Nature and Not the Future We Ordered, to a large body of science more »
KunstlerCast 311 — Yakking with Bill Holter About Financial and Political Turmoil
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Especially at Christmas Time! Bill Holter writes and is partnered with Jim Sinclair at the newly formed Holter/Sinclair collaboration. Prior, he wrote for Miles Franklin from 2012-15. Bill worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. He left more »
KunstlerCast 310 — With Shaun Chamberlain, Editor of the Late David Fleming’s Book “Lean Logic”
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_310.mp3 Please send questions and comments to jhkunstler@mac.com Shaun Chamberlin is an author, activist and the editor of both Lean Logic and the paperback Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy. He has been involved with the Transition Network since more »
KunstlerCast 309 — Chatting with Raul Meijer of The Automatic Earth
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Raul Meijer runs The Automatic Earth Website. He puts out the Debt Rattle news aggregator there every day, and posts his own frequent commentaries on a broad range of current events, especially on subjects of finance and economy. He’s based in Europe, dividing his time between Athens and more »
KunstlerCast 308 — Chatting with Jasun Horsley About the Sexual Hysteria of Our Time
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Jasun Horsley is an English cultural critic, metapsychologist, conspiracy researcher, and podcaster, and the author of several books, including Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity, and the upcoming The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse. To earn more »
KunstlerCast 307 — Yakking with Doug Henwood, a Man of the Left, About the Disorders of the Left
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Doug Henwood is an American journalist, economic analyst, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, The Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective. He is a contributing editor at The Nation and has a popular podcast more »
KunstlerCast 306 — Gold, Silver, and Oil with Steve St. Angelo
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Independent researcher Steve St. Angelo started to invest in precious metals in 2002. Later on in 2008, he began researching areas of the gold and silver market that, curiously, the majority of the precious metal analyst community have left unexplored. These areas include how energy and the more »
KunstlerCast 305 — Ask Me Anything
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Informal Q and A session with questions from listeners with Jim Kunstler, host of The Kunstlercast. This is an experiment, of course, and I understand now why I haven’t done it before. It’s not easy spouting off into a microphone and remaining coherent. I hope it works for more »
KunstlerCast 304 — Yakking with Architect and urbanist Douglas Farr
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Douglas Farr (FAIA, F-CNU, LEED-AP) is an architect, urbanist, author, and passionate advocate for sustainable design thinking. Doug is the founding principal and president of Farr Associates, a Chicago-based firm that plans and designs lovable, aspirational buildings and places. Doug co-chaired the development of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) and more »
KunstlerCast 303 — Jack Alpert on Unwinding the Human Predicament
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Jack Alpert is director of Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab, a Lab which he started in 1978 at Stanford University. In 1992 the Lab left Stanford and became a non profit research foundation. The research focused on how people gather and process information to understand dynamic systems. Over more »
KunstlerCast 302 — Yakking with Chris Nelder about Energy Transition
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Chris Nelder is a Manager in the Mobility practice at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he heads the EV-grid Integration team. Chris has written about energy and investing for more than a decade. He is the author two books on energy and investing, as well as more »
KunstlerCast 301 — Chatting with Tom Whipple of Peak Oil News
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Tom Whipple is a former US Intel analyst who has put out the PeakOilNews for more than a decade. His newsletter is now associated with the PostCarbon institute and can be found at Peak-oil.org. Tom is not a tin-foil hat guy, but we get into a discussion in the more »
KunstlerCast 300 — Markets, Markets, Markets! With Hayes Martin
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Hayes Martin is President of MarketExtremes. com., which provides quantitative analysis of stock market psychology, and specifically of extremes of crowd behavior. He has a selective clientele of high net-worth individuals and money managers. For more information, interested individuals can go to his website: marketextremes.com, or call him more »
KunstlerCast 299 — What Happened to Peak Oil? — a Chat with Art Berman
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Arthur Berman has been an independent oil analyst for 17 years after an earlier 20 year career with the Amoco Oil Company. He’s a regular commentator at NBC, CNN, CBC, BNN, OilPrice.com, Bloomberg, Platt’s, Financial Times, and New York Times. He is a Director of ASPO-USA (Association for more »
KunstlerCast 298 — Solar and Wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables
Support this podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page David Blittersdorf’s passion for renewable energy and earth-friendly technology started early. He built his first wind turbine at age 14 to light up the small shack where he boiled sap into maple syrup. After he got his driver’s license in 1973, the year of the OPEC oil embargo, he more »
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