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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 26, 2021 22:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Dr Tim Morgan is a leading exponent of the view that the economy is an energy system, not a financial one. This was set out in the report Perfect Storm – when Tim was global head of research at leading international finance firm Tullett Prebon – and in the book Life After Growth.  Since that b...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 21, 2021 20:20 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
The Anonymous high school physics teacher has been corresponding with me for a while and I asked him to come on the podcast. He teaches in New England, and that is all I can reveal of his identity. Of course, we will chat about the current scene in secondary education. The KunstlerCast theme m...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 24, 2021 15:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Hobbs Magaret is a regenerative cattle rancher in Central Oregon. Raised on the ranches of the Texas Panhandle and further educated at The University of Oregon, he has experienced two extremes of the contemporary American Experiment. Hobbs, his wife, and his daughter live in Sisters, Oregon, whe...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 23, 2021 15:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Derrick Jensen is an author, teacher, activist, and small farmer. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, and Endgame. He was named “the Poet Philosopher of the Ecological Movement” by Democracy Now! and one of Utne Rea...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 07, 2021 22:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
John Michael Greer, an old friend of the podcast, blogs at Ecosophia --  subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of the Western world’s arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizard...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - January 05, 2021 22:02 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Adam Ellwanger is a professor of English at the University of Houston - Downtown, where he teaches rhetoric and writing. In addition to those topics, his varied research interests include popular culture, political philosophy, media studies, and the American Mess writ large. Check out his danger...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - December 11, 2020 20:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
#338 —Andres Duany is a key founder of the New Urbanist movement. His Miami-based firm, DPZ, with wife and partner Lizz Plater-Zyberk, designed the iconic new town, Seaside, Florida, and scores of other excellent projects in the USA and around the world. Andres continues to lead the way in urban...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - November 27, 2020 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - October 26, 2020 19:47 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
 Doug Casey is an American writer, financier, and the founder and chairman of Casey Research. He describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist influenced by the works of novelist Ayn Rand. Casey is known as a real estate investor as well as an advisor on how to profit from market distortions and pe...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - October 08, 2020 20:17 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
This podcast speaks to a subject I’ve written about a lot lately — the demographic movement of Americans leaving the big cities for small cities and small towns. New York City alone has lost over 300,000 residents since the onset of the corona virus. John Boone and Hunter Renfro are the young pr...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - September 24, 2020 18:42 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Charles A. S. Hall was born in Eastern Massachusetts in 1943, attended Colgate University, then Penn State University for a Masters in Ecology, then a PhD in Systems Ecology under Howard Odum at the University of North Carolina.  He was professor at Cornell University, University of Montana and ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - August 24, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Dr. Jack Rasmus is the author of the recently published book, ‘The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Policy from Reagan to Trump, Clarity Press, January 1, 2020.  Dr. Rasmus currently teaches economics at St. Marys College in Moraga, California, on subjects of US economic policy, US political chang...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - July 30, 2020 20:10 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - July 09, 2020 20:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
JHK chats with architect and neuroscientist Ann Sussman about our damaged everyday surroundings of buildings, streets, and cities in the USA — and how they got that way.      Ann Sussman, RA, is passionate about understanding the human experience of the built environment. Her book, Cognitive A...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - June 09, 2020 12:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
 JHK hunkers down with Simons Chase, a new voice on the financial scene.  Mr. Chase is the CIO and owner of independent investment firm, SC Capital Management LLC. He has over 20 years of media, finance and early-stage investing experience on the frontiers of emerging trends. He started his care...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 14, 2020 18:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Art Berman is an independent oil geologist and industry analyst. We go pretty deep into the recent alarming price crash of crude oil, the vagaries and destiny of the shale oil business, and the implications for the American economy. Art is based in Houston. He publishes his own blog at: https:...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 29, 2020 20:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of Two Minds has grown to thousands of posts that have logged tens of millions of page views on his site and many others such as Zero Hedge and Peak Prosperity. He is t...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 25, 2020 19:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Gail Tverberg is an analyst who has been researching the connection between oil limits and the economy for nearly 10 years.  She writes a widely-followed blog called Our Finite World. Her background is as an actuary, working as a consultant to insurance companies. She also has a foot in the acad...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 12, 2020 19:42 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, science, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 19, 2020 21:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
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; In...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - January 30, 2020 19:59 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Ben Hunt is the Chief Investment Officer at Second Foundation Partners, a consultant for large institutional investors, and the author of Epsilon Theory, a newsletter and website that examines markets through the lenses of game theory, history and nature. Over 100,000 professional investors and ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - December 18, 2019 16:38 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
     Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticizing neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. His books include Developing an Economics for the Post-crisis World (2015) and Can We Avoid Another Financia...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - November 27, 2019 21:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Larry Kummer. Are these the Crazy Years in America? Larry is The editor of the Fabius Maximus website. FabiusMaximus.com He has 37 years experience in the finance industry in a variety of roles, retiring as a VP and Senior Portfolio Manager at a global investment bank. He was a Boy Scout vol...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - November 27, 2019 21:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Larry Kummer. Are these the Crazy Years in America? Larry is The editor of the Fabius Maximus website. FabiusMaximus.com He has 37 years experience in the finance industry in a variety of roles, retiring as a VP and Senior Portfolio Manager at a global investment bank. He was a Boy Scout vol...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - October 24, 2019 19:14 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
#321 — 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.

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - September 20, 2019 14:41 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, an intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary. He covers all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. He tweets at @DavidBCo...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - August 12, 2019 21:03 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
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 in an...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - July 16, 2019 12:22 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Doug Hill is a journalist and independent scholar who has studied the history and philosophy of technology for more than twenty-five years. His work has appeared in numerous national publications, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, Salon and Esquire. He is coauthor of ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - June 18, 2019 16:06 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
#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 repeating waves of electri...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 10, 2019 20:39 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Jason Bradford has been affiliated with Post Carbon Institute since 2004, first as a Fellow and then as a Board Member. After earning his doctorate at Washington University in St Lous, he worked for the Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Missouri Botanical Garden, was a V...

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