Interview: Mapping The Fugly Future with David Collum

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Mapping The Fugly Future with David Collum
Thursday, February 17, 2011, 9:17 pm, by Adam


In the course of his info-scouting, Chris has conversations with many different thinkers. Some are well-known to you; others perhaps less so. An important objective of our podcast interview series is to expose our listeners to the variety of voices and points of view that Chris considers when developing the perspective that he brings to his reporting.

David Collum may be a new voice to many of you. Like Chris, David came to the field of macroeconomic study from a scientific background. Again like Chris, his published observations and predictions have begun to amass a readership built on respect for his emprical approach to projecting the future. For those of you unfamilar with David's work, we think you'll enjoy having this insider's ear to his recent recorded discussion with Chris, which covers a wide range of topics.

In short, David sees a world where market risk has been removed (through misguided government intervention), leading to perverse behavior. In many ways, we are repeating the sins of past empires - and he warns us that history has a much higher incident rate of soverign insolvency than we may want to believe.

http://media.chrismartenson.com/audio/d ... -final.mp3