KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century

Canadian economist Jeff Rubin discusses the impact of shale revolution, divestment from oil industry, ESG investing, and potential shift in global reserve currency. He also explores domestic manufacturing trends, Germany's response to Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, and the geopolitical chess game involving US, Russia, and China. The conversation touches on economic uncertainties post-pandemic, financial deregulation consequences, and asset confiscation concerns.

     Mike ter Maat is a candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. In 2021-22, he campaigned as the Libertarian candidate in the January special Congressional election in Florida’s District 20. Mike served as a police officer in Broward County from 2010 through 2021.  Mike had a prior career in finance and economics including work with commercial banks, the White House Office of Management and Budget and international & federal agencies.  He has a degree  in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and MS and PhD degrees in Economics from The George Washington University. He has one wife, two kids and two stepdaughters, two dogs and one truck. He can be found on social media at: Twitter: @terMaatMike https://twitter.com/terMaatMike Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.termaat.7311/ Instagram: @mike.termaat https://instagram.com/mike.termaat YouTube: https://youtube.com/@miketermaat53 Websites: www.MiketerMaat.com and www.GoldNewDeal.org The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report. Catherine served as managing director of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.; as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the  Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush Administration; and was the president of Hamilton Securities Group. She blogs for the Solari Report at solari.com.

Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, a renowned virologist, warns of a crisis of Covid-19 illness among highly-vaccinated populations due to immune escape. He criticizes the current pandemic response and discusses the risks of mass vaccination. The podcast explores the impact of T cells, potential cancer risks from vaccine components, and debunks conspiracy theories about vaccine ingredients. It also delves into the CDC's push for Covid shots and boosters, advocating for proactive measures and scientific activism.

Matt Bracken graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. Mr. Bracken left active duty after Lebanon, upon completion of his obligated military service, but he remained in an active reserve status through the remainder of the 1980s. Since then he has lived in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina, Guam and California. Matt is a self-described freedomista who loves ocean sailing for the pure freedom it permits. He is a constitutionalist who believes in the original intent of the founding fathers of our country. He lives with his family in North Florida and longs for the wide blue ocean. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

Jason Horsley produces the Children of Job Blog and Podcast. He is the author most recently of Big Mother: the Technological Body of Evil, and many other books. He was born in Britain and has lived in Morocco, British Columbia, and now Spain. Jasun’s work is an excursion into the uncanny valley of philosophy where good and evil battle on a landscape of linguistics, technology, demonology, crime, transgenderism, liquid modernity, identity politics, the surveillance state, virtual reality, transhumanism, Satanism, medical totalitarianism, and a new world religion of scientism. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

With 45 years in petroleum geology, Art Berman describes himself as an energy realist who integrates energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior into his view of the industry and society. He routinely gives keynote addresses for energy conferences, boards of directors and professional societies. Berman has published more than 100 articles on energy and the effect on earth systems including climate. He has more than 40,000 followers on Twitter (@aeberman12) and dozens of free posts on his website artberman.com.      This chat was more contentious than I figured on going into it, but that’s okay. I don’t like to filibuster my podcast guests. Let’s just say there were a few times when we disagreed about some things. Listeners can take what they will from that. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unge

     Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

Chatting with Jacob Dreizen, an independent expert on the Ukraine conflict, about the war's ramifications, shifting narratives, disparity in casualties, and Russia's strategic objectives. Also explores the complex relationship between Ukraine and Russia and the challenges faced by both countries.

"Eugyppius” is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He recently returned from observing the farmer protest in Berlin. Eugyppius spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes in English on Substack. He is very careful about revealing more of his identity given the extreme censorship and cancellation action in his country these days. You can find him at Eugyppius.com.