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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 15, 2019 21:04 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Blake Pagenkopf is the author of The Great Conflation; Why Left Versus Right Isn’t Right Versus Wrong, which asserts that a simple spatial model can be used to explain the political misunderstanding that now rages across America. (See the chart below  in these show notes.) He is also an architec...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 23, 2019 15:59 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
#314 David Stockman is the Author of the new book, Peak Trump: the Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of Mega. David representing Michigan’s Fourth Congressional District for three terms and served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan — the youngest cabinet membe...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 23, 2019 14:56 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Brent Bednarik is a former Army Officer with two deployments in Afghanistan. After that he worked at one of the Big Four accounting firms in Manhattan, and is currently an entrepreneur in the tech start up space. Brent and I have been corresponding about what I like to call the new religion of W...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - January 17, 2019 16:37 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
#312 John Michael Greer, an old friend of the podcast, blogs at his Ecosophia Website, and is the author of a score of books ranging from the social and political commentary of The Wealth of Nature and Not the Future We Ordered, to a large body of science fiction and fantasy.

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - December 26, 2018 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Bill Holter writes and is partnered with Jim Sinclair at the newly formed Holter/Sinclair collaboration. Prior, he wrote for Miles Franklin from 2012-15. Bill worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. He left Wall Street in late 2006 to avoid ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - December 04, 2018 18:03 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Shaun Chamberlin is an author, activist and the editor of both Lean Logic and the paperback Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.  He has been involved with the Transition Network since its inception, cofounding Transition Town Kingston [UK] ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - November 13, 2018 16:38 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Raul Meijer runs The Automatic Earth Website. He puts out the Debt Rattle news aggregator there every day, and posts his own frequent commentaries on a broad range of current events, especially on subjects of finance and economy. He’s based in Europe,  dividing his time between Athens and the Ne...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - October 11, 2018 17:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Jasun Horsley is an English cultural critic, metapsychologist, conspiracy researcher, and podcaster, and the author of several books, including Seen and Not Seen, Prisoner of Infinity, and the upcoming The Vice of Kings: How Socialism, Occultism, and the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - September 18, 2018 18:14 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Doug Henwood is an American journalist, economic analyst, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective. His own excellent podcast, Behind the News is availa...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - August 14, 2018 17:40 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Independent researcher Steve St. Angelo started to invest in precious metals in 2002.  Later on in 2008, he began researching areas of the gold and silver market that, curiously, the majority of the precious metal analyst community have left unexplored. These areas include how energy and the fal...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - July 07, 2018 11:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
    Informal Q and A session with questions from listeners with Jim Kunstler, host of The Kunstlercast. I've enjoyed other people's AMA shows around the web so here we go. This is an experiment, of course,  and I understand now why I haven’t done it before. It’s not easy spouting off into a micr...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - June 19, 2018 18:58 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
DOUGLAS FARR (FAIA, F-CNU, LEED-AP) is an architect, urbanist, author, and passionate advocate for sustainable design thinking. Doug is the founding principal and president of Farr Associates, a Chicago-based firm that plans and designs lovable, aspirational buildings and places. Doug co-chaired...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 29, 2018 22:11 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Jack Alpert is director of Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab, a Lab which he started in 1978 at Stanford University. In 1992 the Lab left Stanford and became a non profit research foundation. The research focused on how people gather and process information to understand dynamic systems. Over t...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 16, 2018 15:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Chris Nelder is a Manager in the Mobility practice at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he heads the EV-grid Integration team. Chris has written about energy and investing for more than a decade. He is the author two books on energy and investing, as well as more than 200 ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 19, 2018 22:16 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Tom Whipple is a former US Intel analyst who has put out the PeakOilNews for more than a decade. His newsletter is now associated with the PostCarbon institute and can be found at Peak-oil.org. Tom is not a tin-foil hat guy, but we get into a discussion in the heart of the interview about exotic...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 19, 2018 21:29 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Hayes Martin is President of MarketExtremes. com., which  provides quantitative analysis of stock market psychology, and specifically of extremes of crowd behavior. He has a selective clientele of high net-worth individuals and money managers.   For more information, interested individuals can g...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - January 24, 2018 22:02 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Arthur Berman has been an independent oil analyst for 17 years after an earlier 20 years with the Amoco Oil Company. He’s a regular commentator at NBC, CNN, CBC, BNN, OilPrice.com, Bloomberg, Platt’s, Financial Times, and The New York Times. He is a Director of ASPO-USA (Association for the Stud...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - January 04, 2018 19:42 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Blittersdorf’s passion for renewable energy and earth-friendly technology started early. He built his first wind turbine at age 14 to light up the small shack where he boiled sap into maple syrup. After he got his driver's license in 1973, the year of the OPEC oil embargo, he vowed to help...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - November 29, 2017 19:33 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David Collum, an old friend of this podcast, is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University... but he may be better known these days as a wicked funny commentator on the financial scene. He writes an annual end-of-year wrap-up and forecast, which I interrupted him working on...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - October 25, 2017 20:54 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Richard Fossey is the author of Student Loan Catastrophe: Postcards from the Rubble, published in September, 2017. He’s the Paul Burdin Endowed Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and his doctorate in...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - September 13, 2017 19:43 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
     Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation’s leading authority on social generations—who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s future. Howe is the originator of the term “Millennial Generatio...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - August 30, 2017 15:48 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
 Richard Heinberg published his excellent and influential book, The Party’s Over, the same year as The Long Emergency and we met many times since then on the conference circuit. Richard is Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He’s the author of 13 award-winning books, including six on the...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - August 16, 2017 15:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He published the Archdruid Report blog for many years, focusing on many themes that overlapped my own in The Long Emergency and Too Much ...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 31, 2017 21:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College. He is a founding editor of the journal Solutions, and serves as the executive director of the Oberlin Project, a collaborative effort of the city of Ob...

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KunstlerCast Bonus Edition -- S-Town

KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 31, 2017 21:17 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
 In this bonus episode, James Howard Kunstler reunites with former KunstlerCast host/producer Duncan Crary for a behind-the-scenes discussion of JHK’s personal connection to the wildly popular S-Town podcast, a This American Life spinoff program. Back around 2010-2013, John B. McLemore, the trag...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - May 03, 2017 20:07 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
Our pal and frequent guest, Dave Collum, suggested we have a chat with his pal Tony Greer, an independent global market analyst with 25 years of trading experience in and around Wall Street. He graduated from Cornell University in 1990 and spent the first ten years of his career trading currenci...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - April 18, 2017 14:42 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
I’ll be chatting with Rocky Rawlins who is the man behind The SurvivorLibrary.com, a phenomenal website that contains scans in pdf-file form of hundreds of books on basic technology and the skills for applying them, mostly dating from the late 19th and early 20th century. It’s hard to overstate ...

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KunstlerCast 289 -- David Collum, Fun with Financial Markets

KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 28, 2017 23:32 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
[embed]http://traffic.libsyn.com/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_289.mp3[/embed]   Today I’m yakking with return guest David Collum, the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, who has become a popular presence on the internet commenting on the financial system and the related pre...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - March 09, 2017 20:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
This episode’s featured interview is with transportation expert and urbanist Taras Grescoe, author of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile. Taras writes: “In the 20th century, our greatest cities were almost ruined by the automobile. Only a global revolution in transp...

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KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy - February 14, 2017 20:52 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 394 ratings
    It’s a pleasure to welcome back Piero San Giorgio who came on the podcast some time ago to talk about his previous excellent book Survive the Economic Collapse, a Practical Guide.       Today I’m catching up with Piero on Skype at his home in Switzerland to talk about his new book, Women on ...

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