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#Post#: 527--------------------------------------------------
Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Eddie Date: July 2, 2021, 9:11 am
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I just read Marin Katusa’s book, The Rise of America. Katusa can
be sampled on YT....and after listening to him in a few
interviews, I was interested enough to read his book. It’s sort
of a doom antidote..at least in terms of rebutting the economic
collapse narrative.
You might find it interesting Buddy J....he is a resource guy
who’s put together a lot of financing deals for mining and
energy...and he seems to have a good handle on the way that is
changing. He is predicting that the politics of climate change
will change the calculus of corporate finance....with “green”
producers getting favored in the capital markets.
He is saying that the well-run “sustainable” energy companies,
primarily the wind guys, are going to eventually buy out the
major oil companies and benefit from their cash flow initially,
while changing the focus of them over time. He sees FF’s being
used less and less for producing electricity.....while they
remain important for all the other stuff, ag, plastics, all the
myriad of other uses for oil.
Katusa’s worldview is very similar to some other pundits I like.
George Friedman and Peter Zeihan (both formerly of Stratfor) are
both predicting that the US will continue to dominate the world,
because we are energy independent....and our economy is not
export dependent...As globalism fades, we will become more
self-sufficient and less beholden to China as strategic
industries re-shore. Plus we’re the only major player on the
world stage that still has decent demographics. China’s
population will drop by half by 2100.
A fairly contrarian outlook these days, but I expect they’re
right.
These guys are smart.
#Post#: 531--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: K-Dog Date: July 2, 2021, 12:09 pm
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WTF
[quote]America’s future has never been brighter. Forged in the
20th century, America’s leadership role will expand in the 21st
century, resulting in a substantial rise in the standard of
living, not just for Americans but also across the
world.[/quote]
So if this guy is so smart how can he say this bullshit knowing:
[move]Humans and Big Ag Livestock Now Account for 96 Percent of
Mammal Biomass[/move]
He can say it because Katusa is a sociopathic cheerleader for
capitalism and a man without a conscience. The fact that Katusa
Research provides investment advice should have tipped you off
that Katusa is nothing but a poser.
A fair question to you is why didn't it?
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Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Eddie Date: July 2, 2021, 1:03 pm
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[quote author=K-Dog link=topic=37.msg531#msg531 date=1625245751]
WTF
[quote]America’s future has never been brighter. Forged in the
20th century, America’s leadership role will expand in the 21st
century, resulting in a substantial rise in the standard of
living, not just for Americans but also across the
world.[/quote]
So if this guy is so smart how can he say this bullshit knowing:
[move]Humans and Big Ag Livestock Now Account for 96 Percent of
Mammal Biomass[/move]
He can say it because Katusa is a sociopathic cheerleader for
capitalism and a man without a conscience. The fact that Katusa
Research provides investment advice should have tipped you off
that Katusa is nothing but a poser.
A fair question to you is why didn't it?
[/quote]
Katusa is not a poser. And I’m a guy who looks past the
prevailing sentiment to try to understand what is real and what
is crap. Your shoot-from-the-hip style is flashy, but you miss a
lot that way. I’ve tried to show you that more than once.
As Katusa says over and over in his book, I’m not making a
judgment. I’m merely trying to deal with WHAT IS....not what
doomers think, not what a host of collapse believers say on
YouTube...but what is really most likely. I do that for my own
ends, which include surviving and thriving in the real world,
which I think I’m fairly good at.
There are plenty of things to worry about in this world, and you
and I both know what most of them are.....but the world is
probably not going to end in this century, no matter how hot it
is in Seattle or Vancouver today.
The US is not about to become a 3rd world country. China is not
going to become the world’s great power, superseding the West.
The US dollar is not going to zero. Gold and silver are going to
go up, but nobody is going to be buying groceries or anything
else with either one. Nobody is going to need their bug-out bag.
The world is changing, and in some ways it will get better, even
for poor people. Just like it is now, compared to 100 years ago
Poor people have a safety net now. We just proved it with COVID.
It’s not like the 1930’s when people in need got zilch from the
government.
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Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Nearings fault Date: July 2, 2021, 1:19 pm
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Thank you I'll have to look him up. I've been refining my own
view of what "collapse" looks like and that brief description
makes it worth searching him out. I don't see riots or food
shortages or human extinction in our future. Decreased buying
power,
devalued currency, increased taxes, reduced opportunities, a
more depleted biome sure but not extinction.
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Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Cam Date: July 2, 2021, 3:25 pm
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I'm gonna check this out too, thanks Eddie.
#Post#: 537--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Phil Potts Date: July 2, 2021, 4:52 pm
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[quote author=Eddie link=topic=37.msg532#msg532 date=1625248981]
[quote author=K-Dog link=topic=37.msg531#msg531 date=1625245751]
WTF
[quote]America’s future has never been brighter. Forged in the
20th century, America’s leadership role will expand in the 21st
century, resulting in a substantial rise in the standard of
living, not just for Americans but also across the
world.[/quote]
So if this guy is so smart how can he say this bullshit knowing:
[move]Humans and Big Ag Livestock Now Account for 96 Percent of
Mammal Biomass[/move]
He can say it because Katusa is a sociopathic cheerleader for
capitalism and a man without a conscience. The fact that Katusa
Research provides investment advice should have tipped you off
that Katusa is nothing but a poser.
A fair question to you is why didn't it?
[/quote]
Katusa is not a poser. And I’m a guy who looks past the
prevailing sentiment to try to understand what is real and what
is crap. Your shoot-from-the-hip style is flashy, but you miss a
lot that way. I’ve tried to show you that more than once.
As Katusa says over and over in his book, I’m not making a
judgment. I’m merely trying to deal with WHAT IS....not what
doomers think, not what a host of collapse believers say on
YouTube...but what is really most likely. I do that for my own
ends, which include surviving and thriving in the real world,
which I think I’m fairly good at.
There are plenty of things to worry about in this world, and you
and I both know what most of them are.....but the world is
probably not going to end in this century, no matter how hot it
is in Seattle or Vancouver today.
The US is not about to become a 3rd world country. China is not
going to become the world’s great power, superseding the West.
The US dollar is not going to zero. Gold and silver are going to
go up, but nobody is going to be buying groceries or anything
else with either one. Nobody is going to need their bug-out bag.
The world is changing, and in some ways it will get better, even
for poor people. Just like it is now, compared to 100 years ago
Poor people have a safety net now. We just proved it with COVID.
It’s not like the 1930’s when people in need got zilch from the
government.
[/quote]
When was the book published, because the Karl Rove doctrine
ambushed us 18 months ago with a teradactyl size black swan.
How does the energy independence work when the green energy is
mandated, coal is closed for carbon emissions, rare earth all
comes from elsewhere and fracking is not sustainable? How do you
resurrect domestic manufacturing with expensive electricity,
relative to India or Africa, even if the workers will compete
for wages?
The safety net is probably enough to just eat, but isn't there
still increasing homeless problem and longer food lines?
Lockdown pain applied to the economy and deficit until the
unvaccinated give in.
Does katusa talk about how dysfunctional and disunited the US is
politically and how that gets resolved?
China population needs to be halved. They want that, which is
why an expensive robot barista was on the street already instead
of a cheaper human. They don't have an experimental mRNA vaccine
though. Let's give it a while before the long term effects of
spike protein accumulating in the gonads is fully known. As far
as I can tell, great reset is meant to end the virtuous circle
of population growth+ GDP growth+debt+inflation+environmental
destruction+ population growth+
No covid passport for Chinese nationals with only sinovac
deactivated virus vax would do more for decoupling.
Most of all, why the all time high in military provocations and
pressure on the countries threatening hegemony and decoupling
from the dollar, if the plan is peaceful isolationism? His
vision is of course possible under a peace treaty and
reconstruction framework after a couple of carriers are sunk. I
don't see it being contained to that, resource wars will erupt
all over the globe. In fact, I think the most likely start to a
war is not Taiwan or Ukraine, but a blockade to enforce
sanctions, such as soybeans from South America instead of North
America to China.
#Post#: 539--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Eddie Date: July 2, 2021, 7:59 pm
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Came out last month. Went to press ln October 2020. You should
read it, he answers some of those questions.
So....the vaccine makes all the smart people sterile and only
people dumb enough to be anti-vaxxers will take over the world
and reproduce their Fox News/Facebook addled DN????....hmmmm.
Diabolically clever.
It’s already happened, really. Smart people are being diluted
out of the population rapidly by their lowered odds of
reproduction, and it’s by choice.
Most of the people I take care of are less likely to get
vaccinated, likely to reproduce fairly prodigiously, and likely
to be on some kind of public assistance already.
But populations are falling already in the developed world...and
although we haven’t peaked, it should happened soon, right?
I’ve been sterile since just after child number 4 arrived. I
hope to live to see one grandchild, but I’m not holding my
breath.
I don’t think the mRNA vaccines will do too much damage. So far
out of 156 million vaccinated here, we have three deaths from
blood clots and some rare cases of cardiac swelling that haven’t
killed anybody yet. Only 5200 people that got vaccinated have
died, period. Of anything . If they all died from being
vaccinated it would still only be a 0.0017% mortality rate.
#Post#: 555--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Eddie Date: July 4, 2021, 9:40 pm
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I’m just glad I kept saving and investing as the Apocalypse has
gotten closer and closer.....cuz it looks a lot like I might
have an old age after all, and need the money to live on.
It’s been about 9 years since I first posted on the Diner. Other
than one small pandemic, it’s mostly been BAU.
#Post#: 563--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: RE Date: July 6, 2021, 3:26 am
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When I look around Alaska, I don't see any signs at things are
improving for anyone. I do see signs that inflation is finally
occurring in some areas like food prices for instance. Deflation
still rules in disappearing jobs. Many people are living on
extended unemployment benefits rather than working in the
low-paid service economy. For rich people in the medical
professions business as usual still rolls for them. I certainly
do not see China taking over as ruler of the world, I never have
believed that particular piece of propaganda. That does not mean
however that America it's going to do so great either. It
remains true that renewable energy resources cannot possibly
substitute for the fossil fuels energy requirements. Therefore
they cannot support the monetary system either. America is not
Rising it is sinking by any rational measure. The only people
who buy this nonsense are rich people.
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Re: Book Review: The Rise of America
By: Nearings fault Date: July 6, 2021, 6:03 pm
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I still think you can't go wrong getting into the trades. My
definition of trades has broadened over the years to include a
whole range of doers. Live modestly, save, take care of
yourself, avoid the consumer traps, and you will do alright,
even today. Rich no but alright . I would try to counsel my own
kids away from the consumer driven service economy as a source
of employment as it seems low wage driven and fickle.
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