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The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, as promised last week, we have Dr. Joseph Tainter on today, talking about The Collapse of Complex Societies. David: That is the title of his book written in 1988. We gave a brief summary of it by referencing the poem Ozymandias last week. […]
About this week’s show: Complexity is insidious in its increasing costs Maintaining the status quo is too expensive Crises are solvable with sufficient reserves Order Joseph Tainter’s book: The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology)“ About the guest: Tainter’s best-known work is The Collapse of Complex Societies. Tainter argues that sustainability or collapse of […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Dave, we live in a complex society, and there is a book that you turned me on to a couple of years ago by Joseph Tainter. It is called, The Collapse of Complex Societies. In that book he was looking at the Roman Empire, […]
About this week’s show: Collapse of complexity is a recurrent pattern Governments will sacrifice all to maintain norm The FED’s 4 trillion dollar liquidity trap The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Dave, we live in a complex society, and there is a book that you turned me on to a […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David there are three Vs that I think we need to pay attention to when we are looking at history. With the stock market, we need to look at; what is the expected volatility? That would be the first V. The second V would […]
About this week’s show: Volatility index signaling stock market crash Higher prices, lower volume = DANGER Gold up in Euro, Pound, and soon the Dollar The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David there are three Vs that I think we need to pay attention to when we are looking at […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, let’s just face it. A lot of people right now are demoralized because gold hasn’t done what they thought it would do in the time that they thought it would do it. And I understand what they are saying, because the signals that […]
About this week’s show: Inflation dormant but VERY MUCH ALIVE Putin’s next move: Armenia, Belarus…? Investors: most bullish since pre-crash 1987 The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, let’s just face it. A lot of people right now are demoralized because gold hasn’t done what they thought it would do […]
