Peak Prosperity

Anthony Fauci is on record in 2012 as saying that the value of knowledge gained from creating a pandemic virus that escapes from a lab would be worth the risk. Now that it seems highly probable that a lab escape did happen, the virologists who met with Fa

In this episode, I break down a very short window of time from Jan 31, 2020 to Feb 2 - 2020 when Fauci met with key representatives of the Welcome Trust, WHO, NIH and senior private virologists. They presumably discussed prior and ongoing gain of functio

States and sports teams alike are offering huge monetary incentives to get vaccinated. Cities too. In many cases, it borders on a theater for the absurd. Never before has a vaccine had or required such massive incentives. Click to discuss: https://

First again! Find out how more than a year ago Peak Prosperity followers were way ahead of the crowd on the Covid lab-leak story. Click to discuss: https://www.peakprosperity.com/lab-leak-deniers-exposed/

What’s the real truth about masks? What science, what data do we have to guide us about when to wear masks and when it’s nearly risk-free to take them off and not wear them? That’s what we cover here today as well as the four keys to *not* catching Covi

Effective strategies from the psychologist who published 'The Burnout Fix'. In this podcast, we learn effective strategies for coping with burnout — including ways to avoid it altogether — from Dr. Jacinta Jiménez, a Stanford trained, award winning, licen

Farmland is a “holy grail” asset class for many investors. It’s tangible, produces income, and has inherent underlying value — making it a great inflation hedge. It’s supply constrained. Mother Nature isn’t making any more of it –and in total, farm acr

For any problems they face, governments all over the world are now conditioned to simply deficit spend or issue new $trillions in ‘thin air’ currency. So how in danger are we of that recklessness leading to a breakdown of the entire system? Respected fi

Chapwood Index calculates the true cost of living is 5x what the government reports. Do you feel like no matter how hard you work, it’s harder and harder to get ahead? There’s a good explanation for that. And it’s maddening. The government intentional

Market researcher Luke Gromen is confident he has the answer. Highly-respected market researcher Luke Gromen concludes that we’re living in a unique period of history given that we currently facing three massive threats.

Whether or not you’ve already enjoyed reading David Collum’s encyclopedic Year In Review — a particularly impressive tour de force this year given the craziness of 2020 — you’re sure to love this live exposition of its highlights. Chris sits down here wi

Several factors are conspiring to weaken the reliability of our food production systems, warns Christian Westbrook, publisher of the website IceAgeFarmer.com We are seeing a shortening of the growing season for important crops due to weather trends and c

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, sou

If you feel you can’t trust the news anymore, you have good reason. Award-winning — and newly independent — journalist Matt Taibbi (of -vampire squid- fame) returns to Peak Prosperity to break down for us how the news media industry became corrupted by t

Writer, philosopher and long-time contributor to PeakProsperity.com, Charles Hugh Smith, returns to the podcast to explain the new socio-economic model he has just introduced to the world through his new book A Hacker’s Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Ou

The crazy stock market rally since the March lows has received all the media headlines, but what about real estate? What impact is the coronavirus having on that market? One of the most successful real estate investors we know, Ken McElroy, says that cov

Since covid-19 first emerged, one of our continued recommendations has been to start a garden. The pandemic has exposed the fragility of our food supply chains, as well as the shortcomings of our global and national health authorities. So having more sel

How much do things around you need to change before you start changing your behavior? Dr. Peter Sandman has made a career out of analyzing people’s “adjustment reaction” process. And it turns out, people are wired differently. Some watch the world inten

Unsustainable systems, by definition, eventually break down. That’s been a key warning we at Peak Prosperity have been delivering for over a decade regarding the over-indebted global economy, society’s addiction to depleting fossil fuels, and accelerating

Neil Howe, demographer and co-authour of the book The Fourth Turning, returns to the podcast this week. In our prior interviews with him, we've explored his study of generational cycles ("turnings") in America which reveal predictable social trends that r

Are the pessimists wrong to bet against human ingenuity? To explore that question head-on, Chris sits down this week with Sergey Young, founder of the Longevity Vision Fund and “right hand man” to Peter Diamandis of Singularity and XPRIZE fame.

In this video, Chris interviews expert virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen, of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Chris and Dr. Rasmussen dive deep into the science of the covid-19 virus, what it d

James Wesley Rawles is a former Army Intelligence officer who runs the popular disaster and emergency preparation website SurvivalBlog.com. As an expert who has spent over a decades advising people on how to plan for a wide array of crises — including pa

Is the coronavirus the pin that will end the 10 year-long Everything Bubble? Quite possibly, cautions Sven Henrick, technical analyst and lead market strategist for Northman Trader. For too many years now, the financial markets have been conditioned tha

Given the continued spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, we urgently reached out to John Barry, author of the award-winning New York Times best-seller The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. Two years ago, we interviewed John