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Support this Podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page   Nir Buras is a PhD architect and planner with over 30 years of in-depth experience in strategic planning, architecture, and transportation design, as well as teaching and lecturing. His planning, design and construction experience includes East Side Access at Grand Central Terminal, New York; International Terminal D, more »

Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Steve Keen says of himself: “I’ve been a rebel economist since long before it was fashionable: I led a student revolt against the teaching of economics at Sydney University in 1973. I became an academic in 1987 with the intention of helping to reform economics, and I’ve helped more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »