Chris Martenson Post Carbon Institute

Chris Martenson

Fellow, Economy & Preparedness

Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, and co-founder of PeakProsperity.com (with Adam Taggart). As one of the early bloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, Chris rose to prominence with the launch of his video seminar, The Crash Course, which has also been published in book form (Wiley, March 2011). He has given many public presentations and has appeared on various broadcast programs including The Street, PBS NewsHour, Yahoo!Finance Daily Ticker, and The Keiser Report. Prior to spending four years educating himself and developing the course and other materials to help individuals understand and take action, Chris was a Vice President at a Fortune 300 Company and spent over ten years in corporate finance and strategic consulting. He has a PhD in pathology from Duke University and an MBA from Cornell University.

Articles / Blogs

Michael Shuman: The Benefits of Deploying Investment Capital Locally Vs Wall Street
Michael Shuman, Chris Martenson
March 25, 2014
00000 Credit: Peak Prosperity | Download The Federal Reserve and other central planners have worked overtime to lead the world back to “recovery” from the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. Using one of their main signaling indicators, they’ve succeeded: stock market indices...

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The Oil ‘Revolution’ Story Is Dead Wrong: transcript
Chris Martenson, Richard Heinberg
March 20, 2014
00000This is a transcript of a conversation between Post Carbon Fellows Chris Martenson and Richard Heinberg, recorded for the Peak Prosperity podcast. Listen to the interview here. TRANSCRIPT Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host,...

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The Oil ‘Revolution’ Story Is Dead Wrong
Chris Martenson, Richard Heinberg
March 11, 2014
00300 Credit: Peak Prosperity | Download With all the grandiosity of the media headlines touting our destiny as the new “Saudi America”, many pundits have been quick to pronounce Peak Oil dead. Here at PeakProsperity.com, one of the most frequent questions we’ve...

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Why a conservative economist moved to the country
Chris Martenson
January 17, 2014
00000 This summer, Paul Solman and a film crew from PBS Newshour visited the Martenson homestead to capture the message behind the Peak Prosperity movement. 00000

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The Real Reason the Economy Is Broken (and Will Stay That Way)
Chris Martenson
February 15, 2013
00000We are far enough and deep enough into the most heroic monetary and fiscal efforts ever undertaken to finally ask, why aren’t these measures working? Or at least we should be. Oddly, many in DC, on Wall Street, and...

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The really, really big picture: There isn’t going to be enough net energy for the economic growth we want
Chris Martenson
January 18, 2013
00000[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest effort at...

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Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth
Chris Martenson, Bill Ryerson
January 2, 2013
00000Originally posted at PeakProsperity At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources. The global population is more than 7 billion now and...

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Reports

RESILIENCE: Personal Preparation
Chris Martenson
July 6, 2010
00100Missing Attachment My “standard of living” is a fraction of what it formerly was, but my quality of life has never been higher. We live in a house less than half the size of our former house, my beloved...

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Books

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises
John Kaufmann, Daniel Lerch, Bill Sheehan, Anthony Perl, William Rees, Tom Whipple, Stephanie Mills, Peter Whybrow, Michael Shuman, David Orr, Cindy Parker, Chris Martenson, Brian Schwartz, Richard Gilbert, Warren Karlenzig, Wes Jackson, David Hughes, Rob Hopkins, David Fridley, Gloria Flora, Joshua Farley, Hillary Brown, Michael Bomford, Asher Miller, Zenobia Barlow, Sandra Postel, Richard Heinberg, Erika Allen, Bill Ryerson
October 10, 2010
00100Missing Attachment How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most...

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Articles / Blogs

Michael Shuman: The Benefits of Deploying Investment Capital Locally Vs Wall Street

The Oil ‘Revolution’ Story Is Dead Wrong: transcript

The Oil ‘Revolution’ Story Is Dead Wrong

Why a conservative economist moved to the country

The Real Reason the Economy Is Broken (and Will Stay That Way)

The really, really big picture: There isn’t going to be enough net energy for the economic growth we want

Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth

Reports

RESILIENCE: Personal Preparation

Books

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises