Chris Martenson

Peak Prosperity

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Peak Prosperity provides answers to those who question the mainstream narrative on the critical issues of our day by providing context, clarity, and understanding around seemingly complex systems. Topics include economy, energy, environment, and geopolitics.

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Chris Martenson

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Business

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Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

Epstein Cover-Up: Worse Than the Crime Itself? 16.07.2025

This Signal Hour continues to explore the Epstein case cover-up, analyzing deceptive footage, political fallout, and societal trust erosion, alongside broader national decline and systemic accountability issues.

Silver Breaks Out! 12.07.2025

Silver surges past $39 per ounce, joined by oil, palladium, and copper gains, signaling inflation and a shifting global financial landscape favoring hard assets. I think they are signaling something larger…are you ready? Click Here for Part 2

How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of Financial Scammers. Long Bonds Say, “Creak! Pop!” 11.07.2025

Beware the scammers! They are picking up the pace and the sophistication of their techniques. And also beware the signals from the long bond markets. Creak! Pop! Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Epstein’s Empire, Elite Evasions, and Lost Trust 10.07.2025

When the DOJ says Epstein trafficked over a thousand victims but found no one to investigate, are we supposed to believe that’s just how justice works now? Is the Deep State gaslighting the nation? Click Here for the Peak Prosperity 2025 Annual Summit

Unexpected Rise in Disease Sinks U.S. Insurance Companies 05.07.2025

Unexpected rates of sickness (morbidity) has sunk the stock price of a major US health insurer (Centene or CNC). Maybe now we can finally have an open conversation about the causes? Click Here for Part 2

The Big Print: How to Survive the Coming Inflationary Times 04.07.2025

Printing money into existence cheats everybody who has to work for it. Nothing will change with the world until we fix the way that money functions.

Property Tax Scams, Big Pharma Schemes, and Political Clashes 03.07.2025

Chris and Evie discuss property taxes, financial mismanagement, national debt, and political discord, highlighting systemic issues and potential future disruptions. Click Here for the Peak Prosperity Annual Summit 2025

Mitch Vexler: “Real Estate Taxes Have Become a Ponzi Scheme of Biblical Proportions” 01.07.2025

Local taxing authorities have overdone it. Not content with merely feathering their own nests, they have done so fraudulently and deceitfully in open violation of both strict legal rules as well as moral boundaries. Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Are Names Slipping Your Mind? Here’s Why… 30.06.2025

Have you been unable to easily recall names or words? Do you have brain fog? If so, here’s what might be causing it and how to relieve the symptoms. Click Here for Part 2

When Everything Seems Nuts, It’s Time to Play Defense 27.06.2025

Do you trust these markets? There are so many signs that the headline market gains are not aligned with underlying fundamentals that it’s causing more people to answer “no” to that question. Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Iran, NYC, and the Descent into Chaos 26.06.2025

Chris and Evie discuss global events, political shifts, and societal issues, focusing on the Israel-Iran-U.S. tensions, New York City’s political landscape, and critiques of figures like Jacinda Ardern, emphasizing the erosion of freedoms and state control. Click Here for GoldCore

Can a Systemic Crisis Even Be Avoided at This Point? 25.06.2025

Michael Gayed, CFA, outlines the current economic landscape by tying credit cycles and market signals to systemic risks. Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Closing This Global Oil Chokepoint Crashes the World’s Economy 21.06.2025

Iran has the capacity to militarily shut down tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. If it does, and that lasts for more than a month, then the world economy will suffer a heart attack. Can they do it? Yes. Will they? That all depends on what Trump does next. Click Here for Part 2

Caution Is Advised (as Retail Piles In) 20.06.2025

Inflation! Oil! The Fed! Oh my! Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Red Wedding Diplomacy: Iran’s Strike and Trump’s Promises 19.06.2025

This week’s Signal Hour discusses escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, reminiscent of the Iraq War, with ethical and legal concerns over Israel’s strikes on Iranian civilians and scientists. The show critiques the shift from diplomacy to military action, likening it to the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones. It also covers unfulfilled political promises, the military-industrial complex’s rol...

Will The Sleeper Cells Be Activated This Weekend? 14.06.2025

Nationwide No Kings protests on Saturday June 14th, potentially funded by big players, with concerns about violence and possibly even false flag events. Please stay vigilant and safe and, as always, be prepared. Click Here for Part 2

Weak Employment and Housing, Yet a Massive Stock Market Advance + Volatility Crush. What Gives? 13.06.2025

Employment growth is very weak and there are plenty of worrying signs in both these numbers and housing. Yet the past nine-weeks have seen an absolutely monster of a stock market rally accompanied by a record-setting volatility crush (-63%!). Are central banks directly intervening to set market prices? Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

RFK Jr Terminates The Vaccine Panel, Media Freaks Out, LA Riots, And Europe’s Self-Destruction 12.06.2025

Today’s Signal Hour discusses ACIP vaccine panel termination, abominable ACIP practices and decisions, the LA riots, U.S. wealth inequality, democratic erosion, and Europe’s economic policies.

The Trump-Musk War and the Coming Economic Crisis 07.06.2025

Musk-Trump feud highlights that DC will never change on its own, even with people showing up with the best of intentions. Instead, it will continue pushing the country deeper into debt until something breaks. Click Here for Part 2

Finance U: China Has a Winning Hand While US Consumers Are Tapping Out 06.06.2025

The China trade wars are anything but over, US consumers are leveraged up, tapped out and rolling over, And Trump is fretting over the huge impact that loss of China’s imports represents. Click Here for Peak Financial Investing Click Here for the Peak Prosperity Annual Summit

Energy Shortfalls, AI Emergence, Vaccine Secrets 05.06.2025

AI exhibits alarming behaviors, vaccine harms gain recognition, UK focuses on military over domestic issues, and FBI’s misuse of power raises governance concerns. Resources mentioned: AI’s Dark Side, Economic Collapse, and Europe’s Plunge Investment Thesis: Natural Gas Doesn’t Pencil Out

Economic Collapse Approaches 31.05.2025

The US economy is on a collision course with geology and physics always wins. The reason is as old as recorded history; the humans in charge have the wrong story in their minds. Peak Oil is now a reality, but that hasn’t penetrated the decision-making halls of power, as evidenced by the headlong rush into power-gobbling data centers, and the passage of blow-out deficit spending bills. Click Here f...

Get Ready: High Inflation Is Coming 30.05.2025

How manipulated are our “markets?” What will the Big Beautiful Bill bring to our future? How should we think about A.I.’s demands on energy and the possibility of breaking current encryption? Tune in to find out… Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Trouble Afoot: Bonds and Gold Are Telling the Tale 27.05.2025

The long bonds are caving, Japan’s bonds are swan-diving, and the ECB warns that physical demand for gold could cause a systemic crisis for its member banks. By which they mean banks’ derivative exposures to synthetic gold shenanigans. Tune in with with GoldCore CEO David Russell. Click Here for GoldCore

I’ve Got That 2008 Feeling Again… 24.05.2025

Financial markets show distress signs like 2008; trust is breaking breakdown, we’ve got a rapidly weakening dollar, and long-bonds are breaking down all over the globe sending borrowing costs screaming higher. Time to plant a garden. Click Here for Part 2

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